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Mandy Williams

Mandy Williams is a full-time cryptocurrency reporter. Having entered the blockchain space in early 2017, she leverages a diverse background in multi-niche writing and content strategy to cover the evolving digital asset market. Mandy is dedicated to breaking down complex Web3 concepts and spreading mainstream awareness of blockchain technology.

Crypto Incidents

Trezor Breach Expands by 67,000 Customers as Old ShipMonk Records Surface

Trezor says another approximately 67,000 U.S. customers had their personal information exposed in the breach at shipping provider ShipMonk, pushing the known number of affected customers from 13,689 to about 80,700. The newly identified records belong to customers who ordered between November 2019 and August 2021. They include names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses […]

Crypto Incidents

Notional Finance V1 Exploited for $1.7M Through Integer-Overflow Bug

An attacker drained roughly $1.7 million from a legacy Notional Finance V1 contract on September 4 after exploiting a flaw in how the protocol calculated account balances. The stolen funds included about 69,000 DAI and 1.66 million USDC. According to on-chain security researchers, the assets were later converted into ether and sent through Tornado Cash. […]

Crypto News

South Korea Sets 2027 Start for Tokenizing Stocks, Bonds and Funds

South Korea will begin moving conventional securities onto blockchain infrastructure in February 2027, starting with private funds and bonds before potentially expanding the system to publicly offered stocks, bonds and investment funds. The Financial Services Commission outlined the three-stage plan on Friday as it prepares for amended securities laws to take effect on February 4. […]

Markets

Mystery Ethereum Whale Completes $408M ETH Sell-Off After Five Days

An unidentified Ethereum whale has completed a five-day disposal of 167,855 ETH valued at roughly $408 million, clearing the remaining balance after steadily moving Ether to exchanges this week. On-chain tracker Lookonchain said the whale had sold off the full 167,855 ETH position over five days. The identity of the holder and the reason for […]

Crypto News

OCC Gives OpenReserve Preliminary Approval for Full National Bank

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted OpenReserve preliminary conditional approval to establish a full-service national bank in Salt Lake City, moving the crypto-native startup closer to operating inside the U.S. banking system. The OCC decision, dated September 2, allows OpenReserve to proceed with plans for an insured national bank offering traditional […]

Markets

Bitcoin Hits $82,000 as Fed Relief, ETF Buying Fuel Crypto Rally

Bitcoin briefly climbed to $82,108 early Friday, extending a broad crypto rally that lifted Ether above $2,500 and sent XRP, Solana and other major tokens higher. BTC later traded near $81,000, up roughly 4.5% over 24 hours. XRP gained more than 6% during the advance, while Ether and Solana rose around 4% to 5%. Fed […]

Markets

ProCap Sells 50 Bitcoin to Buy Back Shares at 40% NAV Discount

ProCap Financial sold approximately 50 Bitcoin to fund a new round of share repurchases, retiring more than 2% of its common stock while the shares traded at roughly a 40% discount to net asset value. The company said in its September 3 announcement that the latest transaction brings total repurchases since the program began to […]

Crypto News

ASIC Sets Sept. 30 Crypto Licensing Deadline

Australian crypto firms relying on temporary regulatory relief have until September 30 to take required licensing steps or risk breaching financial-services law from the following day, with potential penalties reaching 10% of annual turnover. The deadline applies to businesses covered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s sector-wide no-action position that provide digital-asset products or […]

Crypto News

Standard Chartered Launches Institutional Bitcoin and Ether Trading in UAE

Standard Chartered has launched Bitcoin and Ether spot trading for institutional clients in the UAE through its Dubai International Financial Centre entity, becoming the first global systemically important bank to offer deliverable crypto spot trading in the country. Eligible clients can trade BTC/USD and ETH/USD through the bank’s electronic trading channels, using the same types […]

Crypto Incidents

Authorities Disrupt 23-Year Sality Botnet Behind Crypto Clipboard Theft

U.S. and European authorities have disrupted Sality, a peer-to-peer botnet that spent more than two decades infecting computers and, in recent years, redirecting cryptocurrency payments to attacker-controlled wallets. The coordinated action on August 31 involved the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and Defense Criminal Investigative Service alongside authorities in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. The Justice […]