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Israel announces seizure of $1.5 million from crypto wallets tied to Iran

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Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that it was ordering the seizure of 187 crypto wallets that allegedly belong to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC.  In a document detailing the seizure order, the ministry’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) said it was “convinced that the cryptocurrency wallets” in the list […]

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PayPal adds new one-to-one payment links that will soon support crypto

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PayPal is introducing a new way for people to send money to one another through peer-to-peer (p2p) payments made via personalized, one-time links. The system, called PayPal Links, complements the company’s existing feature called PayPal Me, which will continue to exist as a way to share your profile information and make it easier to get

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Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain

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Stripe is funding a new blockchain company called Tempo, co-founder CEO Patrick Collison announced on Thursday. Tempo is aimed at high-volume processing of stablecoins — coins that help reduce crypto’s notorious volatility because they are pegged to a stable asset like the U.S. dollar. That’s not surprising given that Stripe acquired stablecoin company Bridge. What

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Figure’s IPO filing marks Mike Cagney’s return to public markets

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Figure Technology, a seven-year-old blockchain-based lending company, has filed for an IPO of its Class A common stock on Nasdaq, with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and BofA Securities serving as its lead bookrunners. The number of shares on offer and price range have not yet been determined. Figure says in its IPO paperwork that its revenue

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North Korean spies posing as remote workers have infiltrated hundreds of companies, says CrowdStrike

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Researchers at security giant CrowdStrike say they have seen hundreds of cases where North Koreans posing as remote IT workers have infiltrated companies to generate money for the regime, marking a sharp increase over previous years. Per CrowdStrike’s latest threat hunting report, the company has identified over 320 incidents over the past 12 months, up

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North Korean hackers blamed for record spike in crypto thefts in 2025

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Hackers have stolen more than $2 billion in crypto during the first half of 2025, according to new data from crypto analysis firm Chainalysis, marking the worst year-to-date on record for crypto thefts. The blockchain analysis company said Thursday in a new report that the $2.17 billion stolen during the first half of 2025 has

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US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation 

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had taken several enforcement actions against North Korea’s money-making operations, which rely on undercover remote IT workers inside American tech companies to raise funds for the regime’s nuclear weapons program, as well as to steal data and cryptocurrency.   As part of the DOJ’s multi-state effort,

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Katie Haun on the GENIUS Act and what it may mean for the future of crypto

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This week on StrictlyVC Download, we’re bringing you to our recent event in Menlo Park. TechCrunch’s editor in chief, Connie Loizos, was joined by Katie Haun, founder and CEO of Haun Ventures, who shared an inside look at her contrarian “harpoon strategy” that targeted distressed crypto assets during the depths of crypto winter. They explored everything from

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