Coinbase, which says it custodies about 5% of all bitcoin, warned on October 13 that a quantum-resistant upgrade could take years. It backs BIP-360, P2TRv2 and hybrid wallets now and wants dormant and lost coins settled separately.
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buildOne report1 publisher Importing a Tonkeeper recovery phrase into Keeper can show a TON address the user has never seen
Tonkeeper is now Keeper and supports seven networks, according to a dev.to post that treats key derivation as the main migration risk. The post argues a wallet UI can simplify steps but cannot remove blockchain boundaries.
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Justin Sun says Tron is ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet at any time, now that post-quantum signatures run on its Nile testnet. Mainnet still needs separate governance approval, Crypto Briefing reported, and the opt-in design reaches only holders who adopt it.
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Tether froze about 1.45 million USDT in four THORChain vaults on Tron, taking the protocol's Tron swaps offline. That is about 3% of THORChain's liquidity, and it left Tron-side liquidity providers holding tokens that cannot move.
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Scott Bessent said the US could seize up to $1 billion in Iran-linked crypto this week, nearly twice the $550 million Tether says it helped freeze this year. How much work falls on issuers and exchanges depends on whether that figure is new money or USDT already frozen at blocked addresses.
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USDC drives a 33% jump in crypto card spending to $4.31 billion
Crypto card spending rose 33% to $4.31 billion in the third quarter, Cryptopolitan reported. The outlet credits USDC with the growth, though its own September figures suggest the two big stablecoins paid for under half of that spending.
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Kyrgyzstan has ordered the issuer of its $50 million gold-backed USDKG stablecoin into liquidation, less than a year after launch. Holders of the 50 million tokens still circulating now depend on an email inbox and a ministry-run liquidation to get their money back.
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Solana's stablecoin holder addresses passed a record 14 million while supply stayed above $15 billion and card spending topped $1 billion. Spread across those wallets, the card total is about $71 each, too little so far to show the new holders are paying for things.
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Polygon Labs linked its Open Money Stack to TRON, where over $94 billion of USDT circulates, giving payment firms one vendor for ramps and transfers. Firms keep their licensing obligations, so the saving is vendor work, while Polygon sits in flows that need not touch its own chain.
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Conduit sued Tether in New York federal court over $2.76 million in USDT it says Tether's own crime unit froze 376 days before filing. Until a judge rules on whether Tether may do that, firms keeping working capital in USDT have to plan for a lock lasting more than a year.
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Unit 42 finds supply-chain malware fetching its C2 addresses from blockchain smart contracts
Unit 42 says supply-chain attackers have moved command-and-control into blockchain smart contracts, so one transaction can re-point an entire botnet or worm. Defenders' useful choke points are now developer machines, CI runners and the chain lookup itself.
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OFAC sanctioned two French charities and three individuals on Oct. 2, alleging hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto went to a Hamas commander in Gaza. Exchanges and payment firms under US rules must now screen for the five and block any of their assets that reach them.
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Gemini allegedly vouched for Tronify.rent months after a threat feed flagged it as phishing
Investigator JP says Tronify.rent took $69,651 from about 80 crypto users in September and that Google Gemini told one victim the site appeared safe. PhishDestroy had already scored the domain a critical 90/100 threat before that money went to the site.
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NEAR Intents, Tether and Circle froze about 0.2% of the $387.5 million taken from Bitget
Bitget has recovered an estimated 0.2% of the $387.5 million hackers drained on September 24, through freezes by NEAR Intents, Tether and Circle. Its own User Protection Fund is covering the rest, so the protocols that cooperated cut Bitget's bill by less than $1 million.
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443 blockchains together collected less than $440 in fees on October 3
DefiLlama's October 3 snapshot shows 399 of the 558 blockchains it tracks earned zero fees in 24 hours, while only seven cleared $100,000. For most of the field, user fees are too small to support a token price.
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Treasury's OFAC sanctioned 10 people over Ploutus ATM jackpotting, a scheme US officials tie to at least 1,500 attacks and $40.7 million in losses. Treasury calls the thefts a key revenue source for the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua.
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HIFI, Atum and MeshWallet raised $60.5 million for stablecoin payments in the week to Sep. 25, most of crypto's disclosed private funding. The week's one direct bet on a token price came from Forward Industries selling $25 million of stock to buy more Solana.
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HTX dust or not, the sanctions tag makes inbound USDT the recipient's problem
Justin Sun says the reports are fabricated. Either way, the screening cost of a 7.5 USDT deposit from an HTX-tagged wallet lands on whoever receives it.
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Justin Sun says he won a California hearing; World Liberty Financial says nothing was decided. The public docket settles neither, and the freeze power is what matters.
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The Southern District of New York filed on September 14 to take roughly $61 million in crypto from two China-based firms that used Binance trading accounts, under a standard of proof that stops at more likely than not.
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