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The FBI’s Seattle Division is investigating seven Steam games that installed information-stealing malware between May 2024 and January 2026, targeting cryptocurrency wallets and browser credentials. A threat actor identified as EncryptHub deployed multiple malware strains including Vidar, HijackLoader, and a custom tool called Fickle Stealer across titles such as PirateFi, Chemia, and BlockBlasters. One victim, a Twitch streamer, lost US$32,000 (AU$45,760) during a live cancer fundraising stream when BlockBlasters malware activated on his system. The FBI’s Seattle field office is investigating a malware campaign that used seven games on Steam to steal cryptocurrency wallets, browser data and saved credentials from…

The SEC and CFTC signed a memorandum of understanding on March 11 to coordinate oversight of digital assets across six priority areas. A Joint Harmonization Initiative will align product definitions, clearing frameworks, and enforcement actions between the two agencies. The agreement comes as Congress stalls on the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, with agencies opting to act independently rather than wait for legislation. The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have officially signed a memorandum of understanding to coordinate oversight of digital assets, aiming to resolve long-standing jurisdictional disputes between the two regulators. The now-signed…

Vitalik Buterin has proposed merging Ethereum’s consensus and execution node software to simplify validator operations and lower technical barriers. The change aims to make it easier for individuals to run nodes, reducing reliance on specialised operators and third-party infrastructure providers. The proposal complements earlier ideas such as partially stateless nodes, which could lower storage requirements and expand participation in network validation. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has suggested a structural change to the network’s node software that would combine the systems responsible for consensus and transaction execution. The proposal is designed to simplify node setup and encourage broader participation in Ethereum…

Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden confirmed the central bank is “genuinely open” to revising proposed stablecoin holding limits of £20,000 per individual and £10 million (AU$18.9 million) per business. The BoE’s November 2025 consultation on systemic stablecoins would require issuers to hold 40% of reserves as unremunerated deposits at the central bank, with up to 60% in short-term UK government debt. Industry representatives criticised the caps as unworkable and difficult to enforce in secondary markets. Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said the central bank is open to revising proposed limits on stablecoin holdings after the plans…

Polymarket and Kalshi are trying to raise money at valuations that put them in the top tier of consumer-fintech names, even as Washington moves closer to writing new rules for the product they sell. Both companies are reportedly in early fundraising talks that could value each at around $20 billion.That fundraising chatter is taking place in the middle of a political storm.Iran-related contracts turned prediction markets from a quirky forecasting niche into a question about insider information and incentives around war. Reuters reviewed Polymarket markets tied to the timing of attacks and Khamenei’s removal and found about $529 million wagered…

Some of Bitcoin’s most trusted bottom signals rest on the simple assumption that when old coins move, something meaningful has changed.Traders and analysts often interpret that as renewed selling, fresh distribution, or signs that the market hasn’t bottomed. That logic helped turn HODL Waves, Coin Days Destroyed, and long-term holder supply into some of the most widely used metrics in Bitcoin cycle analysis.The problem with that is that Bitcoin’s blockchain records movements and has no way of showing the motive behind them.On Nov. 22, 2025, Coinbase said it was transferring BTC and ETH from its legacy wallets to new internal…

Washington has spent years talking about a US CBDC as a distant possibility. It was an abstract policy idea, safely contained inside white papers and partisan messaging. But then the Senate put a number on it and made it very real.On March 2, senators voted 84-6 to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 6644, a broad housing and banking package that would bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC until the end of 2030.Only six senators voted no. Cory Booker voted present, and nine senators did not vote.That margin meant that a CBDC stopped being a…

Bitcoin entered the weekend hovering near $71,000, well off the previous week’s spike above $74,000, but far below the highs it touched at the beginning of the year. On price alone, the market looks pretty composed.However, underneath, its structure looks much less comfortable.Data shows spot activity fading while derivatives keep doing more of the work. Almost every day this month saw derivatives trading at roughly nine times the spot volume, and that’s not the profile of a market pushed forward by spot demand. What we’re seeing now is a market propped up almost exclusively by leverage.Chart showing the aggregated trading…

On Mar. 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a staff advisory telling exchanges to tighten surveillance on event contracts.Simultaneously, the regulator opened a 45-day rulemaking process that asks pointed questions about inside information, manipulation, and whether some markets serve the public interest at all.Two weeks earlier, the agency had spotlighted two Kalshi disciplinary cases involving traders who appeared to hold decisive informational edges.One is a California gubernatorial candidate who bet on his own race, the other a YouTube editor who traded contracts tied to “Mr. Beast” while likely holding material nonpublic information.The Mar. 12 move treats prediction markets…

February’s CPI report gave markets a reason to relax. Inflation looked soft enough to keep hopes for rate cuts alive, with consumer prices up 0.3% on the month and 2.4% from a year earlier, while core CPI rose 0.2% in the month and 2.5% annually. Shelter kept cooling, and the overall picture looked manageable for the Fed.But the relief came with a catch.By the time the report arrived on March 11, the picture had already changed. The labor market weakened, last year’s payroll data was revised lower, and the conflict in Iran pushed oil to record highs.That’s the real issue…