Rokarolla is a nasty Android banking trojan hitting 217 crypto and finance apps, stealing PINs, passwords, SMS codes, and card data via fake app sites and overlay attacks. For crypto users, one compromised phone can mean total account takeover.
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Michael Saylor says Strategy’s brutal 2022 Bitcoin crash wasn’t a failure — it was the stress test that forged its giant BTC treasury. The company survived debt pressure, kept buying, and built the biggest corporate Bitcoin stack on the market.
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Morpho just landed $175 million in what it calls the biggest DeFi funding round ever, a loud vote of confidence in decentralized lending — but the real test is whether this money turns into liquidity, integrations, and users, not just a fatter pitch deck.
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Ireland has launched a 30-point financial crime plan that puts illicit crypto transfers squarely in the crosshairs, boosting tracing, freezing, and confiscation powers while tightening pressure on exchanges and investigators.
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Bitcoin is testing a major long-term support level as Binance expands into stocks and ETFs, while Pepeto leans hard on familiar presale hype. Real market shifts are happening — but so are the usual crypto smoke-and-mirrors.
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India’s ED raided Bengaluru crypto firms in a ₹2,500 crore FEMA probe, with USDT-driven cross-border transfers, OTC trades, and shell entities now under the microscope. Stablecoins are useful, but sloppy compliance can turn “innovation” into a regulatory beatdown.
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India’s Enforcement Directorate is probing crypto on-ramp and off-ramp firms in a cross-border case, zeroing in on the money bridges where laundering, fraud, and evasion often hide.
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Japan’s push for a flat 20% crypto tax could ease the pain for retail traders, boost Bitcoin demand in Asia, and make crypto participation far less of a bureaucratic nightmare. Big catalyst? Maybe. Magic bull-run button? Not a chance.
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AIMCo’s $25M bet on Circle shows institutions still want stablecoin exposure, but the market is cooling fast. USDC remains a key crypto rail, yet Circle faces harsh valuation resets, regulatory risk, and growing competition.
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Stablecoins are being pushed into bank-style compliance under the GENIUS Act AML rules, trading some privacy and permissionless appeal for legitimacy, institutional adoption, and tighter anti-money-laundering controls. The big question: can crypto rails stay open without becoming a surveillance machine?
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