Please be aware that the email named Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability is not coming from us, and its a phishing attempt. Do not click on any link, Trezor wrote on X. Trezor said it took down the domain used in the attack and is investigating how hackers gained access to its legitimate domain. The fake Trezor email claims the company's engineers discovered a critical hardware-level vulnerability in STM32 microcontrollers used in its devices.
It then falsely claims the defect affects an estimated one in four devices and could leave recovery phrases with insufficient randomness, or entropy, likely playing on fears related to the recent Coldcard exploit that cost users over $130 million in Bitcoin. Trezor issued a statement calling the email fraudulent and warning its users just after 4:30 p.m. Easter Time, but it came hours after several users reported receiving the phishing scam from what appeared to be a legitimate Trezor email address. Casa co-founder and CEO Nick Neuman said the campaign may extend beyond Trezor, adding hed heard the same from Bitbox users as well.
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🔥 Secret Service Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto Tied to Telegram Bazaar Behind Global Scams.
Secret Service froze $52.8 million in USDT held across 52 wallets tied to Xinbi Guarantee on September 8, using intelligence from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. Treasury's OFAC designated Xinbi a significant transnational criminal organization the same day, and the DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force says it has now seized $938 million since launching in November 2025. Xinbi called the freeze arbitrary and moved $2.8 million into USDD, a stablecoin that lacks USDT's built-in freeze switchthough its reserves are partly backed by USDT anyway. Secret Service froze $52.8 million in cryptocurrency linked to Xinbi Guarantee on September 8, a Chinese-language marketplace that runs on Telegram and sells the tools scammers need to defraud people worldwide.
The government agents worked with Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic to identify and freeze the funds. Elliptic has been tracking Xinbi and its wallet infrastructure for several years, and our intelligence directly enabled the freezing action, as well as the sanctions imposed on Xinbi today by the United States, the company said today in a statement. Fifty-two wallets were frozen beginning at 8am UTC on Sept 8, all holding USDT, Tether's dollar-pegged stablecoin. Two of those wallets, containing roughly $12 million, were seized outright under a warrant unsealed today by the Department of Justice.
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🔥 While Bitcoin Devs Debate Next Moves, IonQ Unveils Superion 256 Quantum Computer.
The Maryland-based company builds quantum computers and offers access through cloud services. It also develops quantum networking, sensing, and security technology. Superion is the result of two strategic acquisitions coming together to deliver this historic milestone, IonQ Chairman and CEO Niccolo de Masi said in a statement. Oxford Ionics enabled IonQ to control natural, trapped-ion qubits using standard electronics, and SkyWater unlocked the ability to manufacture at semiconductor costs and scale. IonQ says its chipmaking subsidiary, SkyWater, has fabricated the first 256-qubit processors, and teams have trapped the first ions in prototypes at several U.S. A qubit is a quantum computers basic unit of information.
An ordinary computer bit holds either a zero or a one. A qubit can be prepared in a combination of those states before measurement, a property that quantum computers use to approach certain calculations differently. More qubits can support more complex calculations, but they are sensitive to disturbances that cause errors. A 256-qubit computers usefulness depends on how reliably those qubits work together. IonQ aims to manufacture these systems using established chipmaking methods, with electronics built into the chip to control the atoms.
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🔥 Mexican Musician and Family Killed Over Bitcoin Cold Wallet Believed to Hold Millions.
According to a report by IBTimes UK, Melndez, his pregnant wife Ana Paula Barragn, their three-year-old daughter Sofa, and 21-year-old domestic worker Aleyda Romero were found dead at the familys home in Atizapn de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, on September 1. The couples six-year-old son survived. State prosecutors said the suspects allegedly entered the home searching for a cold wallet they believed contained million-dollar amounts in Bitcoin. Authorities identified the suspects as Diego Sebastin and Gerardo, using N in place of their surnames in accordance with Mexican privacy rules for criminal proceedings. Diego Sebastin, a business associate of Melndez, allegedly used their relationship to gain access and offered Gerardo 2 million pesos, about $118,000, to help obtain the crypto.
Both were arrested on September 2. Cold wallets dont store Bitcoin itself; instead, they are typically devices also known as hardware wallets, like the popular Ledger, Trezor, or the air-gapped Coldcard, that store the private keys that control access to the funds. While cold wallets protect against many online attacks, they do not eliminate physical threats, as criminals can target holders directly to gain access to their wallets. The killings are the latest in an increase in physical attacks targeting crypto holders.
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🔥 Consensys Is Splitting in Two as MetaMask Goes Its Own Way.
will become MetaMask, while a newly formed Consensys will take over the firm's Ethereum protocols and institutional blockchain infrastructure business.By Jason NelsonEdited by Guillermo JimenezSep 9, 2026Sep 9, 20263 min readMetaMask. MetaMask will be led by Consensys co-founder Joe Lubin as chairman and CEO. The new Consensys will be led by CEO Mike Kriak and President David Cunningham, with Lubin serving as executive chairman. (Disclosure: Consensys is one of several investors in Dastan, Decrypts parent company.) The companies will operate independently, separating MetaMasks consumer finance business from Consensys Ethereum protocols and institutional blockchain infrastructure, with the split expected to be completed by the end of 2026. MetaMask grew out of that work into the world's most widely used self-custodial wallet, and today it's becoming something larger: a platform where people don't just hold their assets, but manage their money in its many diverse forms and aspects, Lubin said in a statement.
Stepping into this role full-time is a recognition that consumer finance deserves the same focus and ambition that we've brought to building Ethereum itself. Today, MetaMask begins its next chapter as an independent company. Consensys Software Inc., the company behind MetaMask, is rebranding as MetaMask, fully focused on the consumer platform. The protocols and institutional infrastructure businesses, including Linea, are becoming a MetaMask (@MetaMask) September 9, 2026 MetaMask boasts more than 100 million downloads across roughly 190 countries and has facilitated trillions of dollars in cumulative transaction volume, according to the company. The wallet has expanded beyond storing and trading crypto.
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🔥 UK Crime Agency Warns of 'Innovative Use' of Crypto by Launderers.
The line sits in a threat assessment describing laundering networks proliferating across borders and combining novel and traditional methods, moving money through the licit and illicit systems at once. Many organized crime groups no longer launder their own proceeds, the agency says, outsourcing it to dedicated networks for a fee. The same passage puts AI beside crypto, citing synthetic identities and process automation used against banks. Cryptoassets now rank third among nine economic crime priorities the NECC agreed with the Financial Conduct Authority, the Home Office and the Treasury and published in July 2025.
The list steers where regulated firms point their compliance effort, placing crypto above criminal cash and money mules. The agency says it is developing a more proactive and intelligence-led crypto capability to inform our response to cross-cutting priorities, language pointing away from working referrals and toward generating its own targets. It gives no detail on what that means in practice. Operation Atlantic, a week-long sprint at NCA headquarters with the U.S.
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🔥 Mexico Seizes 300 Crypto Mining Rigs Wired Into a Hydroelectric Dam.
Alongside the rigs, officers took transformers, medium-voltage terminals and working satellite internet antennas from the site in Tlaola, a municipality of roughly 20,000 people. El Pas and Mexico News Daily describe the seized machines as GPUs, which would point away from Bitcoin and toward coins still mined on graphics cards. En Tlaola, un inmueble presuntamente utilizado para minera de criptomonedas fue asegurado por @FGRMexico, @SEMAR_mx y Seguridad Pblica Estatal del @Gob_Puebla. Se localiz infraestructura elctrica, internet satelital y equipos especializados en generacin de activos Secretara de Seguridad Pblica (@SSPGobPue) September 6, 2026 While mining is legal in Mexico, prosecutors are preparing a charge of electricity theft.
Mining consumes a great deal of energy and generates a lot of noise, which is why operators seek out isolated and very remote locations. That is what alerted us, state security minister Francisco Snchez told reporters. Investigators had tracked reports of illegal mining in the region because of its proximity to the Nuevo Necaxa dam, he said, adding that, There was a very large power connection. Snchez described the site as part of a network exploiting the Sierra Norte's hydroelectric infrastructure, and said the same activity is happening in neighboring states, with searches extending to nearby municipalities.
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🔥 Jack Dorsey's Block Applies for Bank Charter to Custody Bitcoin.
Builders Bank Trust would be uninsured and non-depository, taking no deposits and making no loans. Its business would be custody of Bitcoin and other digital assets, executing customer buy and sell orders on a riskless principal basis, and stablecoin settlement. Block has run digital asset services for about eight years under more than 50 state money transmitter and virtual currency licenses, the application says, handling around $10.7 billion in Bitcoin transaction volume in 2025 and serving about two million monthly crypto users through Cash App by the second quarter. A federal charter, Block says, would let it support those activities through a consistent national framework as the business scales.
Builders Bank would be headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with no branches. All five proposed directors live elsewhere, and Block has asked the OCC to waive the rule requiring one to live within 100 miles. Lee Woolley, Block's digital asset strategy lead and a former Northern Trust and BNY Mellon executive, would chair it and serve as chief executive. Dorsey himself is not among the organizers, directors or senior executives, and appears in the filing only as Block's co-founder.
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🔥 Cronos Erased Two Hours of Transactions to Reverse $111 Million DeFi Exploit.
According to the developers behind Cronos, validators reversed completed transactions to protect roughly 92% of affected funds still on the network, overriding the expectation that blockchain transactions are permanent. It was a hard decision, taken together with the validators, weighing the finality users expect from a chain against the funds at risk, Cronos devs wrote. Restoring state meant discarding 1 hour 54 minutes of settled transactions. The alternative, restarting without restoring state, would have left the borrowed assets in the attacker's control. Adding to the hard decision was the fact that the rollback also reversed every legitimate transaction processed during that period. On August 30, hackers targeted the Tectonic network, which lets users borrow crypto against deposited collateral.
According to the report, the attacker drove up TONICs price in decentralized exchange markets with little liquidity, then borrowed approximately $120.4 million across nine markets against the inflated collateral. According to Cronos, validators halted the network at 9:32 a.m. EST, then rolled back 10,961 blocks, erasing 1 hour 54 minutes of transactions. Every transaction in that window was reversed, whether or not it touched the exploit, and open positions on live apps repriced when trading resumed, Cronos wrote. Despite the rollback, approximately $9.19 million had already left Cronos before the halt.
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🔥 Bitcoin Holds, Wall Street Stalls as Oil Shock Revives Fed Hike Bets.
Bitcoins hot summer has come up against Red September once again, today down close to another 1% after a monster 20% rally. Its not alone, as macro forces weigh on markets across the board. Bitcoin today was trading for around $78,524, down 0.72% on the day, while the S P 500 is currently trading at around 7,689.80, off 0.37%. Both moves came as oil prices pushed toward $100 a barrel on fresh U.S.-Iran hostilities in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that ships roughly a fifth of the world's oil. Rising oil prices tend to feed straight into inflation, since energy costs ripple through shipping and manufacturing alike, which makes the Federal Reserves upcoming decision on interest rates even harder to call.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 614.88 points, or 1.15%, to 52,799.37. The Nasdaq Composite held up better, slipping 0.19% to 26,457.73, according to Tuesday's session. Markets are now pricing roughly a 57% chance the Federal Reserve raises interest rates a quarter of a percentage point at its September 15-16 meeting. An interest rate hike would be bearish for markets, risk assets like crypto in particular, because as lending gets more expensive, traders prefer safer assets over more volatile ones. The S P 500 opened Tuesday at 7,717.81 and briefly dipped to is current 7,689.80 points, a far narrower range than Bitcoin's.
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🔥 Visa Taps Onchain Lending to Finance Stablecoin Card Programs.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Visa is using settlement data to help lenders evaluate financing for stablecoin-linked card programs. Its stablecoin settlement volume has exceeded a $20 billion annualized rate, according to the company. Visa says an early financing model involving Credit Coop has supported more than $2.5 billion in settlement volume since 2023. Global payment processing giant Visa is combining payment network data with blockchain lending tools to help stablecoin-linked card programs and fintechs borrow working capital.
Announced on Tuesday, Visa said lenders can use VisaNet settlement data alongside blockchain transaction records to assess a payment businesss performance and determine financing terms. We're seeing how trusted payment data and onchain technologies can work together to unlock new forms of liquidity, helping businesses access capital in ways that are more transparent, programmable and aligned to the speed of modern commerce, Rubail Birwadker, Visas global head of growth products and partnerships, said in a statement. According to Birwadker, stablecoins are changing how money moves and creating opportunities to redesign the infrastructure behind payments. Visa said onchain lending protocols have processed more than $694 billion in stablecoin loans since 2020, citing its analytics dashboard.
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🔥 Strive Buys $109 Million in Bitcoin, Pushes Preferred Stock Toward $1 Billion.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Strive bought 1,375 BTC for about $109 million between Aug. 4 at an average price of $79,281 per coin, according to CEO Matt Cole, lifting its total stack to 24,531 BTC. Cole said 70% of the capital raised last week came from SATA, Strive's preferred stock, which now has $999 million in notional value outstanding. Chief Risk Officer Jeff Walton said it's Strive's third straight week of 5%-plus Bitcoin growth, with holdings up 21.1% over the past three weeks. Strive bought another 1,375 Bitcoin last week, paying $109 million and pushing the fundraising machine behind the purchase to the edge of a ten-figure milestone.
The Nasdaq-listed asset manager picked up the coins between Aug. 4 at an average price of $79,281 per Bitcoin, its CEO Matt Cole said in a post on X. That lifts Strive's total holdings to 24,531 BTC, worth roughly $1.9 billion at current prices. Strive is one of a growing club of public companies that raise money specifically to buy and hold Bitcoin, betting the cryptocurrency's price climbs faster than a normal business could grow. Michael Saylor's Strategy pioneered the playbook in 2020; Strive, Twenty One Capital, and dozens of smaller firms have since copied it with varying degrees of aggression.
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🔥 What Is LAPTOP? Hunter Biden's Meme Coin Targeting TRUMP Holders.
Hunter Biden's Meme Coin Targeting TRUMP Holders Price data by DecryptUniversityExplainersThe CoinsWhat Is LAPTOP? Hunter Biden's Meme Coin Targeting TRUMP HoldersThe LAPTOP token launches in September on Base, with a fifth of the supply earmarked for traders who lost money on TRUMP.By Decrypt AgentEdited by Stephen GravesSep 8, 2026Sep 8, 20265 min readCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief LAPTOP is a meme coin created by Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, launching September 9, 2026 on Base. Founders hold 30% of the one billion tokens, locked for six months and vesting fully over two years, according to the Wall Street Journal. A further 20% is reserved for airdrops, with one tranche going to wallets that lost money on TRUMP, President Donald Trump's own meme coin. LAPTOP is a meme coin named after the personal computer that has trailed Hunter Biden through American politics since 2020.
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🔥 Polish Court Detains Fifth Suspect in Zondacrypto Exchange Probe.
Source: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief A Katowice court approved pretrial detention for Roman ., charged with computer fraud and organized crime membership. Three others were held in pretrial detention last week over an alleged plan to take control of Zondacrypto founder Sylwester Suszek's assets. One charge alleges nearly 8 million left the exchange operator's account to buy property in France. A Polish court has approved pretrial detention for a fifth suspect in the investigation into crypto exchange Zondacrypto, Prosecutor General Waldemar urek said late on Monday. Roman ., named under the Polish convention of abbreviating suspects' surnames, was charged earlier that day with membership of an organized criminal group and, within it, misappropriating clients' funds by means of computer fraud.
Sd uwzgldni wniosek prokuratury i wyrazi zgod na tymczasowe aresztowanie Romana . Waldemar urek (@w_zurek) September 7, 2026 Prosecutors allege the group took no less than 7.8 million zoty, (around $2 million), from users of the exchange by making unauthorized changes, deletions and additions to its data, and by interfering with how the exchange processed and transmitted it. Police detained him in Silesia on Saturday and seized exchange documents. He denied the charges and gave a statement. The exchange launched in Katowice in 2014 as BitBay, founded by Suszek, and took the Zondacrypto name after shifting its registration to Estonia in 2020 under a parent company, BB Trade Estonia.
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🔥 Brazilian Banks Expand Crypto Offerings as Regulation Takes Hold.
Image: Decrypt/ShutterstockCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Brazil's crypto market hit a record R$505.5 billion ($98.7 billion) in 2025, up more than fivefold from R$94.9 billion in 2020, according to Receita Federal data. Ita now offers 15 cryptoassets and Nubank lists 28, while Banco do Brasil says its bitcoin and Ethereum service has moved more than R$11 million ($2.1 million) since January. Central Bank filings reviewed by Folha show zero proprietary crypto holdings at Brazilian banks as of March 2026, even as client-facing crypto shelves keep growing. Ita, Brazils largest bank by assets under management, now sells clients 15 different crypto assets through its investment app, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the dollar-pegged stablecoin USDC.
Nubank, Brazils largest fintech, lists 28. Banco do Brasil, Brazils most lucrative public bank, which started letting customers buy Bitcoin and Ethereum directly in January, told Folha de S.Paulo the service has already moved more than $11 million reals ($2.1 million) in transactions. None of that money touches the banks' own balance sheets. Central Bank filings dated March 2026 and reviewed by Folha show zero holdings of virtual assets on the books of Brazilian banks, even though institutions can custody and process crypto on clients' behalf.
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🔥 Will the Crypto Trenches Show Up for Hunter Biden's Meme Coin?
Price data by DecryptNewsCoinsWill the Crypto Trenches Show Up for Hunter Biden's Meme Coin?Biden's LAPTOP meme coin drops this week. Most crypto traders out there so far don't seem too enthused.By Jose Antonio LanzEdited by Guillermo JimenezSep 7, 2026Sep 7, 20267 min readHunter Biden. Image: WikimediaCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Hunter Biden confirmed today he is releasing his own meme coin called LAPTOP on Wednesday. Biden drew loads of attention within crypto circles, but much of it was not positive. Will traders show up for the LAPTOP meme coin, and how will the coin perform? That might depend on your time horizon.
Hunter Biden officially made his first foray into crypto today, posting the LAPTOP ticker today on X alongside a 31-second Fox News clip about the computer, just minutes after a Wall Street Journal report on the meme coin landed Monday. Bidens post pulled more than 250,000 views within the hour, and has since racked up more than 1.7 million. So, Hunter Biden has proved his crypto venture will get the attention hes after. But will crypto traders actually show up when LAPTOP launches on Sept. The crypto communitys reaction today was fast, and it was not as kind as it has been in the past towards other celebrity meme coin launches. Replies to the news skewed toward mockery, with some criticizing Biden as a hypocrite.
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🔥 Liquid Hackers Return $270M in Bitcoin After Swiping $320 Million.
Image: Shuttertock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief The actors behind Liquids 4,000 BTC security incident returned 3,400 BTC to the federation wallet. The transfer followed a signed message from Blockstream saying Liquids bridge nodes had been patched. Nearly 600 BTC remains outstanding, and Liquid has not announced when normal operations will resume. The self-proclaimed white hat hackers behind the withdrawal of roughly 4,000 BTC from Liquid Network returned 3,400 BTC, worth around $269.2 million, to the sidechains federation wallet Monday, recovering about 85% of the funds.
Despite the return, approximately 598.5 BTC, worth about $47 million, remains in the address linked to the withdrawal. The incident began Sunday when a customer sent 4,000 L-BTC to SideSwaps peg-out service. The actors later called themselves whitehatsethical hackers who identify security flaws to help organizations fix themin a Bitcoin transaction message. Ledger Chief Technology Officer Charles Guillemet remained skeptical of the actors white-hat claim after most of the funds were returned.
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🔥 Middle East Crypto Activity Triples to $350 Billion Amid Ongoing Conflict, Report Finds.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Annual MENA blockchain transactions reached an estimated $350 billion by 20252026, up from about $100 billion in 2022. The institute says the Iran conflict pushed a growing share of regional capital into digital assets. Investors shifted toward Bitcoin after an initial sell-off, while Gulf crypto firms continued operating during the fighting.
The Iran conflict is pushing a growing share of regional capital into digital assets as investors seek to preserve wealth and move money during disruption, according to the Bitcoin Policy Institute. In a report published Friday, the group estimates that annual blockchain transaction value across the Middle East and North Africa reached $350 billion by 20252026, more than triple the approximately $100 billion recorded in 2022. Regional conflicts tend to accelerate capital outflows, researchers for the institute wrote.
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🔥 Harmony Cites AI Threats in Proposed Blockchain Shutdown.
Image: ShutterstockCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Harmony says threats from AI agents and state actors have become too great to keep its blockchain running. The team proposes moving ONE to Ethereum and redirecting token emissions toward AI video. The plan is non-binding, with users urged to exit smart contracts before September 10. Harmony, once a prominent competitor to Ethereum, has proposed shutting down its blockchain on Sunday, saying threats from AI agents and state actors had become too great.
The announcement comes as the cryptocurrency industry attempts to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks enabled by frontier AI models, including Anthropics Claude Mythos and OpenAIs GPT-6 Astra. The threats posed by state actors and AI agents are too great, the Harmony Team wrote on X. Since our mainnet launch in 2019, our community has been resilient through attacks and changesbut it is time to fully sunset the Harmony network. To mitigate the threat, Harmony is proposing to move Harmonys ONE token to Ethereum and use newly issued tokens to fund the ecosystem's new The Remix Economy for AI Video initiative. Validators, who verify network transactions, could take governance roles or join the AI-video business.
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