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Trezor Breach Worse Than Reported: Another 67,000 US Customers Exposed

Summary: Trezor said that its third party shipping partner, ShipMonk, had not erased customer data. Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor has said that a data breach first announced last month is worse than originally reported. The Prague, Czech Republic-based company sa

FinCEN ties $13B in crypto scams to non-US operations

Summary: An analysis from the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) identified $12.7 billion in crypto transactions “perpetrated by overseas scam centers.” According to a FinCEN report released on Thursday, an analysis of more th

Pineapple Financial puts $1B in mortgage records on Injective

Summary: Pineapple Financial has moved more than $1 billion in residential mortgage records onto Injective, a layer-1 blockchain focused on financial applications, as part of a broader effort to migrate its historical loan portfolio onchain. Pineapple plans to eventual

El Salvador Isn’t Buying Bitcoin With Public Money, Says IMF

Summary: El Salvador apparently received bitcoin from private donors rather than using government funds, according to the International Monetary Fund. El Salvador has not used public funds to accumulate bitcoin since the International Monetary Fund’s last review

Crypto Biz: AI took a back seat when Bitcoin started climbing

Summary: Crypto’s August rally put corporate conviction to the test. Bitcoin (BTC) miners that spent much of the crypto downturn courting AI investors are once again trading like leveraged bets on BTC, while Strategy and Strive are adding thousands more Bitcoin to thei

Bitcoin Dips Below $80,000 on Strong US Jobs Report

Summary: Bitcoin dipped on news that the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates this month. Bitcoin slid Friday after a better-than-expected labor report showed that the U.S. job market accelerated in August. The leading cryptocurrency was recently trading for close t

National Sheriffs’ Association Drops Opposition to Clarity Act

Summary: The law enforcement organization previously opposed the bill. The National Sheriffs’ Association this week dropped its opposition to the crypto Clarity Act, after having previously warned that the proposed bill could help criminals. Writing Thursday to S

Token buybacks are booming. But are they good for crypto projects?

Summary: As the industry matures and borrows more pages out of TradiFi’s playbook, crypto projects are starting to adopt some of the behaviors of public companies. The latest craze rocking cryptoville is token buybacks: using revenue to buy back your own token. So far