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France is facing a growing wave of violent crimes against the crypto community.

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France is facing a rise in crypto-related kidnappings, as so-called “key attacks” become more frequent, brazen and violent. This change was visible this week during the organization of an annual international conference on blockchain and cryptography. A procession of police escorted VIP guests to a dinner at the Palace of Versailles. And security was also […]

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Nomura Survey Shows Growing Institutional Crypto Adoption Driven by Regulation and Diversification

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Institutional investors are turning to digital assets, with improving sentiment and broader use cases emerging as key drivers of adoption, according to a new survey from Tokyo-based bank Nomura and its crypto unit Laser Digital. The study, based on responses from more than 500 investment professionals in Japan, found that 31% of respondents now have

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One person holds the keys to a project’s $200 million worth of crypto. Its co-founder says this needs to stop

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For years, NEO’s treasury was held in a configuration unusual for most financial institutions: hundreds of millions of dollars of crypto assets were controlled through personal wallets, without multisig protections and with little formal oversight. That person, according to co-founder Da Hongfei, is Erik Zhang, NEO’s other co-founder and the architect of its core protocol.

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Alcoa will benefit from the thirst for energy of cryptocurrencies

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The largest U.S. aluminum producer Alcoa is set to sell its Massena East smelter in upstate New York to bitcoin firm New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) as it offloads dormant assets and taps demand for energy-ready industrial sites. Company CEO Bill Oplinger said the company is in advanced talks and expects the deal to

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Kelp DAO mined for $292 million with wrapped ether locked on 20 chains

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A cross-chain bridge containing nearly a fifth of the circulating supply of a reinvested ether token has just been exhausted, and the fallout is spreading across DeFi faster than Kelp DAO can suspend contracts. An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH (restaked ether) from Kelp DAO’s LayerZero-powered bridge at 5:35 p.m. UTC on Saturday, worth approximately $292

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Why Michael Saylor’s strategy decided to make the STRC dividend bi-monthly

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Strategy (MSTR), the leading Bitcoin treasury company, has proposed moving the dividend payment schedule on its perpetual preferred stock, Stretch (STRC), from monthly to bimonthly. The amendment, outlined in Strategy’s investor presentation, would keep the annualized dividend rate at 11.5% and total annual obligations unchanged (currently $1.2 billion). Holders would receive payments approximately every two

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Here’s how crypto companies are adapting as AI increasingly eats into venture capital funding.

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Forty cents of every venture capital dollar invested in crypto companies in 2025 went to companies creating products combining artificial intelligence and cryptography, more than double the 18 cents a year earlier. “AI is increasingly entering crypto, not as a side narrative, but as part of its own products and infrastructure,” Binance Research said, citing

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Stripe doubles down on blockchain and stablecoins to become ‘AWS for money,’ says crypto head

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Global payments giant Stripe is building what it calls “AWS for money,” and crypto technology is at the center of that plan. Speaking at the RWA Summit in Cannes, France, Adrien Duchâteau, head of cryptocurrency marketing at Stripe, said the company is now integrating stablecoins and blockchain into its core payments stack, with the aim

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This Bitcoin mining pool allows users to hold an entire BTC. He just found his second block

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A bitcoin mining pool built to reject both the industrial pay-per-share model and the pure lottery approach has now proven its effectiveness. Twice. Upstart mining pool Parasite Pool mined block 945,601 Friday morning, its second block since its launch in April 2025 and approximately 48 days after the pool’s first block at No. 938,713 in

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