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Trezor is cutting authorized resellers after a hardware-implant attack against rival Ledger exposed vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency wallet distribution.In an Oct. 13 letter, Trezor Chief Commercial Officer Danny Sanders said selected partners would lose their authorization on Jan. 1, 2027, as the company tightens oversight of its supply chain.The decision marks an escalation in the commercial fallout from the Ledger investigation, which has raised questions about how attackers can introduce malicious components into hardware wallets before they reach customers.Trezor said it found no evidence of compromised devices within its network, describing the restructuring as a preventive measure.Trezor sacrifices retail reach for…

Bitcoin rebounded above $83,000 on Tuesday despite a sharp Asian stock selloff, as cryptocurrency liquidations exceeded $800 million.BTC recovered after briefly slipping below $81,000, while semiconductor shares continued a deepening rout that sent South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI index down 6%.South Korea’s AI stock collapse exposes concentrated market risksReports noted that South Korea’s KOSPI plunged up to 7.4% before recovering some losses to close at 6,035.35. The decline briefly pushed the index below 6,000 and triggered a sell-side trading curb as the country’s largest semiconductor manufacturers extended their losses.Samsung Electronics fell 7.39%, while SK Hynix declined 10.09%, marking a fifth consecutive…

Ethereum Name Service has proposed activating ENSv2 without requiring existing .eth domain holders to migrate to the new system.The Oct. 11 proposal would let users keep their current names indefinitely, as long as they keep renewing them, while offering a permanent migration option for those who want access to upgraded features.Once activated, ENSv2 would handle all new .eth registrations, replacing the existing registration infrastructure. Holders who migrate would permanently transfer management of their domains to the new system, with no mechanism for returning their original tokens.The proposal remains subject to approval by the ENS decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), whose Oct.…

Australia’s markets regulator proposed extending retail leverage restrictions to crypto-settled derivatives amid mounting losses among investors trading risky financial products.On Oct. 12, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced it wants to expand its existing contracts-for-difference (CFD) rules to cover qualifying derivatives settled through digital assets, closing a regulatory gap that lets economically similar products face different restrictions.The proposal follows ASIC’s finding that 68% of retail CFD clients lost money during the 2023–24 financial year, with combined losses exceeding A$458 million ($325 million), including A$73 million in fees. The figures cover CFD trading across asset classes, rather than cryptocurrency…

A London judge rejected Chinese fraud victims’ bid to use English law to claim more than 61,000 seized Bitcoin.In an Oct. 12 ruling, High Court Justice Mark Turner sided with British prosecutors, determining that Chinese law must govern ownership claims over the cryptocurrency, currently worth approximately $5 billion.“The applicable law is Chinese law,” Turner wrote in the judgment, rejecting arguments that English property and trust principles should determine the investors’ entitlement.The decision leaves thousands of victims facing a potentially difficult recovery battle, as proving they lost money to the fraud does not automatically establish ownership of the Bitcoin acquired with…

Researchers have cut the estimated computing cost of a specialized quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction by 82% to $59.Data from the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Optimization Challenge showed that improvements in graphics processing software reduced the projected expense from approximately $320 during StarkWare’s first mainnet demonstration in August to $67 in September and $59 as of Oct. 13.The breakthrough could make a specialized Bitcoin protection method more affordable as developers seek ways to safeguard cryptocurrency holdings against future quantum computers without waiting for changes to the network’s underlying protocol.The public competition, organized by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs, used AI-assisted coding tools to…

Sky.money reported more than $4.4 billion of stablecoin liquidity in its Peg Stability Module in an Oct. 9 explanation of the conversion mechanism. The PSM gives holders a direct route between USDS, Sky Protocol’s dollar-linked token, and USDC at a one-for-one rate.Those measures answer different questions. Token circulation describes the stock of holdings. Conversion inventory describes what a holder can receive on a particular exit route. Fresh external dollar demand concerns money entering from outside the token system. Borrowing against collateral and upgrading an existing token can change individual token counts without establishing a matching inflow of bank dollars. A…

KuCoin Nigeria wins conditional SEC approval to enter regulatory incubation. Approval does not allow KuCoin Nigeria to launch services or onboard users. KuCoin says Nigeria move forms part of its wider global compliance strategy. KuCoin Nigeria has received conditional Approval-in-Principle from Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission for admission into the regulator’s Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme, marking another step in the crypto exchange’s wider compliance push. The approval, announced on October 13, remains conditional and does not amount to a final registration, licence, endorsement or recommendation from SEC Nigeria. It also does not allow KuCoin Nigeria to begin operations, onboard customers…

Ethena’s USDe, a synthetic dollar targeting $1, has 51.2% of its backing allocated to DeFi and institutional lending, according to risk assessor LlamaRisk’s October 12 assessment. The allocation figure does not measure actual borrower drawdowns or cash available for immediate withdrawal. For holders, usable reserve assets and access to an exit near the peg are separate tests.Eligible counterparties can redeem USDe directly with Ethena, subject to its conditions. Other holders rely on secondary markets for an exit. Withdrawing USDe from sUSDe, its staking vault share, requires a separate unstaking process. A lending position can have excess collateral while supplied stablecoins…

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) bought 250 Bitcoin for $21.5 million last week while spending $192.4 million to repurchase its STRC preferred shares.On Oct. 12, the Michael Saylor-founded company disclosed that it acquired just 250 Bitcoin for about $21.5 million between Oct. 5 and Oct. 11, extending a slowdown that saw purchases fall to 334 BTC the previous week.Meanwhile, Strategy repurchased 1,932,145 shares of its variable-rate STRC preferred stock for $192.4 million, nearly nine times its Bitcoin spending, as the company continued its STRC buybacks.The spending gap highlights the competing demands on Strategy’s capital: Bitcoin accumulation and support for its preferred securities.STRC…