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Crypto Wallet Provider SafePal Invests in Swiss Bank to Enable Banking Services for Crypto Users
7.3.2024
SafePal has made a strategic investment in Swiss bank Fiat24, aiming to provide users with a banking gateway to pay for expenses using digital assets and transfer funds to compliant banks.
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Crypto Wallet SafePal Ventures Into Banking With New USDC Visa Card
7.3.2024
Users can create individually owned and compliant bank accounts and use USDC stablecoins as the default deposit currency
Institutional Crypto Wallet Provider Utila Raises $11.5M, Aims to Facilitate Tokenization Boom
5.3.2024
Utila's self-custodial wallet offers a simplified user interface, fast onboarding process and recently added enhanced tokenization capabilities to better serve token issuers, co-founder and CEO Bentzi Rabi said in an interview
Over 70% of Crypto Users Have Never Lost Assets to Phishing or Hacks: Survey
29.2.2024
A WalletConnect survey published Thursday found that more than 72% of crypto wallet owners in the US and UK said they've never experienced losses from phishing or hacks.
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Solana Veterans Raise $17M For 'Backpack' Crypto Wallet, Exchange
28.2.2024
Armani Ferrante's and Tristan Yver's startup raised the funds at a $120 million valuation
Concerns Raised as Scam-as-a-Service Provider Registers as UK Business Entity
23.2.2024
The team behind a crypto wallet draining scam-as-a-service has registered as a private business in the UK, according to a tweet yesterday by blockchain security company Certik. #CertiKSkynetAlert ???? CryptoGrab – provider of the Nova wallet drainer – recently registered as a private company in...
Kraken Starts Requiring Info on Self-Custody Crypto Wallet Ownership in the UK
16.2.2024
Kraken, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, has started requiring additional information in the U.K. regarding transactions of self-custody wallets made to and from its accounts. Kraken sent an email to some of its U.K. customers, stating that if the information required was not provided,...
RockWallet Absorbs Crypto Payments Firm Wyre’s User Base in Post-Shutdown Move
15.2.2024
Following last year’s closure of crypto checkout gateway Wyre, non-custodial wallet RockWallet is stepping in to acquire its user base. The self-managed crypto wallet acquired the entirety of Wyre’s customer base on Thursday, around eight months after the latter’s shutdown in June 2023....
Over 1 Million Telegram Users Sign Up on NEAR Protocol’s Self-Custodial Wallet in 10 Days
15.2.2024
Over 1 million Telegram users have created wallets using HERE, the self-custodial wallet designed for the NEAR Protocol (NEAR), within a span of just 10 days. In a recent note shared with Cryptonews.com, NEAR said users had already created 300,000 wallets within the first 48 hours of its launch...
Fordefi Raises $10 Million from Electric Capital, Paxos to Make Retail Wallets Safer
13.2.2024
Crypto wallet provider Fordefi announced today via press release that it has raised $10 million in funding to help bring its institutional-grade crypto wallet to retail platforms. In other words, the company wants to develop its user-owned self custody wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) solution...
Joe Rogan Has HODL’d Over 5 Bitcoin For Almost A Decade
6.2.2024
Famous podcaster Joe Rogan has held onto his Bitcoin (BTC) stash without selling any, as revealed by on-chain data dating back nearly a decade. Back in 2014, the mixed martial arts (MMA) commentator shared a QR code version of his public Bitcoin address over social media. Revisiting that same...
Meme Token TRUMP Sent to Donald Trump-Branded Crypto Wallet Now Worth Over $1.1 Million
24.1.2024
Memecoins in a crypto wallet purportedly linked to former U.S. President Donald Trump have risen to over $1 million in just six months. According to data from blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, the TRUMP meme coins sent to Trump’s alleged crypto wallet were originally worth several...
Spaceship Carrying Physical Bitcoin to the Moon Launches, Quickly Runs Into Issues
9.1.2024
Source: Pixabay Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX has announced the launch of Vulcan Centaur, a lunar rocket carrying a crypto wallet containing one physical Bitcoin. The spaceship launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at approximately 2:18am Eastern Time on Monday and...
Singapore’s MAS Adds Crypto Wallet imToken to its Investor Alert List
9.1.2024
Source: iStock The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has recently added the non-custodial crypto wallet imToken to its Investor Alert List. The list provides a record of unregulated persons who “may have been wrongly perceived as being licensed or regulated by MAS.” The inclusion of imToken...
Zengo Sets a Hacker Trap: Breach Our Wallet for a $420K Bitcoin Reward
8.1.2024
Source: zengo / Twitter The keyless crypto wallet maker Zengo will put 10 BTC and a pricy NFT into a Zengo wallet, challenging the hackers to take it – if they can. According to the blog post, the “#ZengoWalletChallenge” will launch on January 9 and last for 15 days. It stated...
South Korean Tax Accountant: Digital Assets Held in Non-Custodial Wallets Not Subject to Overseas Reporting Requirement
5.1.2024
South Koreans with digital assets held in non-custodial or decentralized crypto wallets like Metamask or Ledger are reportedly not subject to the country’s overseas financial account reporting requirement. According to a South Korean tax accountant, only virtual assets held on overseas centralized...
The SEC Is ‘out of Their Mind and a Change of Regime Is Required’ — Former US Ambassador
1.1.2024
Trevor Traina, the founder and CEO of Kresus, has said he foresees non-custodial mobile wallets “transforming into something more comprehensive than just tools for storing digital assets.” According to Traina, such a transformation is needed if non-custodial wallets are to become apps...
Crypto Wallet Linked to Donald Trump Sent $2.4M in Ether to Coinbase
28.12.2023
A wallet flagged as owned by Trump sent ETH to Coinbase in the past three weeks, where it was presumably sold
Donald Trump Sells $2.4 Million Ethereum: Arkham Intelligence
28.12.2023
Source: Pixabay / heblo (Edited by Hongji Feng) Former U.S. President Donald Trump has sold a substantial amount of Ethereum, amounting to $2.4 million, according to Arkham Intelligence. In a recent post, the blockchain intelligence firm Arkham Intelligence shared a screenshot of a crypto wallet’s...
Fake Rabby Wallet Discovered on Apple App Store
26.12.2023
Source: Pixabay A fraudulent version of open source crypto wallet Rabby Wallet has appeared on the Apple App Store. According to an X post from the official Rabby Wallet account, it’s not the first time scammers have tried to impersonate its wallet. “A FAKE mobile app has surfaced again. We want...