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Decrypt is developing internal AI agents to support our editorial team in research, trend analysis, and journalism. These agents help gather information, monitor emerging topics, and surface insights that assist reporters and editors in their work.

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  • Athens, Greece. Image: Rafael Hoyos Weht/Unsplash/Decrypt

    Greece Plans 10% Crypto Capital Gains Tax, Down From 15% Floated in June

    Greece plans to impose a 10% capital gains tax on cryptocurrencies, according to a draft bill published for public consultation, Reuters reported Thursday. Crypto gains of up to €500 (about $560) a year would be exempt. Greece currently has no comprehensive legal framework for taxing crypto, according to the report. The proposed rate is lower than the 15% that two government officials told Reuters was planned in June. One official said at the time that individual crypto mining would not be taxed...

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    Samsung Wallet Taps Solana for USDC Transfers on 82M US Galaxy Devices

    Samsung Wallet will let U.S. users send Circle's USDC stablecoin across borders on Solana starting in the last week of October, the Solana Foundation announced Wednesday. The feature, which also extends to Samsung Pay, will be available on 82 million U.S. Galaxy devices at launch. Built-in fiat on- and off-ramps will convert to and from local currency, with Solana's infrastructure operating "behind the scenes," according to the release. BREAKING: Samsung partners with Solana to bring stablecoin...

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    3 min read
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  • Handcuffs and Bitcoin logo. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Engineer Gets 32 Months for Bitcoin Extortion Plot Against His Own Employer

    A former engineer at a New Jersey industrial company has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for attacking his employer's computer network and demanding a ransom in Bitcoin, federal prosecutors said Monday. Daniel Rhyne, 59, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced on September 28 by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton. He pleaded guilty in April to extortion in relation to a threat to damage a protected computer, and to intentional damage to a protected computer. Former Employee o...

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    Europol Warns Crypto Wallets Are 'Primary Risk' for Quantum Attacks

    EU law enforcement agency Europol published two reports Wednesday urging organizations, policymakers and the cryptocurrency industry to begin preparing now for quantum computers capable of breaking widely used encryption. The first, Quantum Computing and Cryptocurrencies, produced by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, identifies cryptocurrency wallets as "the primary point of exposure to quantum threats." Wallets rely on a pair of keys: a private key that authorizes transactions and a public...

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    4 min read
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  • Tornado Cash. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Prosecutors Cite Bitcoin Fog Ruling Against Roman Storm's Venue Challenge

    Federal prosecutors have told the judge overseeing Roman Storm's Tornado Cash case that an appeals court's decision upholding the conviction of Bitcoin Fog founder Roman Sterlingov supports their position that Storm was properly tried in New York. Tornado Cash and Bitcoin Fog are coin mixers, software that pools users' crypto to break the on-chain link between where funds come from and where they go. The letter, filed Monday with Judge Katherine Polk Failla in the Southern District of New York,...

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    Pudgy Penguins' Ethereum Layer-2 Abstract Is Shutting Down

    Abstract, the Ethereum layer-2 network built by Pudgy Penguins parent company Igloo Inc., is shutting down after struggling to scale beyond its consumer crypto niche. The team announced on X that the chain will go dark on Dec. 15. Users must move their assets off the network before then through Abstract's Migration Hub or its native bridge, which carries a three-hour delay. Funds left behind after the deadline will be inaccessible, the team warned. Abstract's engineers will also help projects bu...

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    2 min read
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    Flash Loan Attacks Drained $1.2B From DeFi Between 2020 and 2024: Study

    Flash loan attacks drained $1.211 billion from decentralized finance platforms between February 2020 and July 2024, according to newly published research in the Journal of Financial Crime. The study, by Professor Tim Hall of the University of Winchester and Remo Stieger, a former partner at Swiss risk intelligence firm SyntiFi, identified 72 flash loan attacks among 254 successful attacks on DeFi over the period. Those 254 attacks caused $6.568 billion in losses, 18.44% of which came from flash...

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  • OKX. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Circle, Ripple and Standard Chartered Back OKX at Flat $25B Valuation

    Crypto exchange OKX has raised new funding at a $25 billion valuation from a group that spans a stablecoin issuer, a British bank and a London quantitative hedge fund, Bloomberg reported. Circle Internet Group, Ripple and Standard Chartered's investment arm SC Ventures all took part, alongside Qube Research & Technologies, which is new to the cap table. The exchange declined to say how much it raised. The round extends one closed in March, when Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the New Yor...

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    Don Davis Bill Would Fine Candidates $10K for Trading on Their Own Elections

    Candidates for federal office, their spouses and their campaign committees would be barred from trading prediction market contracts on their own elections under a bill introduced in the House on Monday. The No Betting on Your Own Race Act, from Representative Don Davis (D-NC), would amend federal election law to make the trade a civil offense carrying a $10,000 fine per violation, or three times the net financial gain, whichever is greater. We don't want our athletes to bet on their games. Cand...

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    Crypto 'Godfather' Gets Six Years for Hiring Sheriff's Deputies, $37M Meta Fraud

    Adam Iza, the 26-year-old who styled himself "The Godfather" and is already serving 15 years over an attempted Bitcoin robbery, has been sentenced to a further 78 months for hiring off-duty Los Angeles sheriff's deputies to harass people he was in dispute with, stealing more than $37 million from Meta, and hiding the proceeds with cryptocurrency custodians to evade tax. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson also ordered him to pay $23,402,766 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Centr...

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  • BitMine Chairman Tom Lee. Image: Fundstrat/Decrypt

    Bitmine Buys $41M More Ethereum, Reaching 99% of Its 'Alchemy of 5%' Target

    Bitmine Immersion Technologies extended its unbroken buying streak this week, scooping up another 15,112 Ethereum, worth about $41 million, as chairman Tom Lee insisted a crypto bull market is "underway." The NYSE-listed company said Monday its holdings now total 6,016,414 ETH, valued at roughly $16.4 billion at a reference price of $2,726 per coin. (Disclosure: Tom Lee is one of several investors in Dastan, Decrypt's parent company.) Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your predi...

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    2 min read
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    Strategy Posts $21B Q3 Gain, Buys $29M in BTC, Repurchases $176M in STRC

    Strategy bought 334 BTC last week and spent more than six times as much buying back its own preferred stock, according to a filing that also put the company's third-quarter gain on digital assets at $20.91 billion. The Bitcoin was bought between October 1 and 4 at an aggregate $28.7 million, an average of $85,838.80 a coin, taking Strategy's holdings to 848,000 BTC. That marks a fresh record for the Bitcoin treasury company, a week after the company passed its June high. It bought nothing in the...

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  • Bitcoin and Japanese Yen. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Metaplanet Sold 10,000 Bitcoin and Bought Back 11,000 to Prove a Point

    Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC and bought back 11,000 during the third quarter, the Tokyo-listed treasury company disclosed, in a round trip staged to prove to credit rating agencies that it is both able and willing to turn its Bitcoin into cash. The net effect was an increase of 1,000 BTC, taking the group's holdings to 44,000 BTC as of September 30, per BitcoinTresauries. "Rating agencies and credit investors ask one question of a Bitcoin company: can that Bitcoin be turned into cash to meet oblig...

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    Greek Soldiers Among Alleged Leaders of $8M Crypto Pyramid Scheme

    Two Greek servicemen are among nine suspects accused of running a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that took in about $8 million from roughly 10,000 investors, the Athens daily To Vima reported. The nine were due to give statements to an investigating magistrate on Monday. Police have arrested 17 people over the alleged organization, which prosecutors say operated as a pyramid scheme and pushed investors into cryptocurrencies through a platform it controlled. None of the allegations has been tested...

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    2 min read
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  • NYSE Trading floor. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    OKX and NYSE Owner ICE Plan 24/7 Tokenized Stock Trading Under SEC Exemption

    OKXICE, the joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has notified the SEC that it plans to launch a round-the-clock trading venue for tokenized U.S. stocks, co-chair Andrew Cuomo said in a tweet Monday. The venture published a notice dated October 4 under the SEC's "Innovation Exemption," which since September 17 has allowed qualifying venues to trade tokenized stocks without registering as exchanges. OKXICE will operate 24 hour...

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    3 min read
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  • Bank sign. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Banking Group Sues to Block Crypto's 'Side Door' Into the Banking System

    America's community banks are taking the nation's top banking regulator to court over its practice of handing bank charters to cryptocurrency companies, arguing the agency has blown past the limits Congress set. The Independent Community Bankers of America filed suit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, challenging its authority to charter national trust banks for crypto firms. The complaint, brought under the Admin...

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    2 min read
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    'Uptober' Starts Green as Bitcoin ETFs Draw $134 Million

    Bitcoin ETFs are living up to the "Uptober" meme, so far at least. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $102.7 million on Thursday and another $31.7 million on Friday, according to Decrypt's Bitcoin ETF tracker. That's $134.4 million in net inflows to start October. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. The green start followed a red finish. The funds shed $148.7 million on Sept. 30, snapping a nine-session inflow streak that began Sept. 17. Even so, September was their second-...

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  • Circle is the issuer behind USDC. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Circle Pushes Back on MiCA's Bank-Deposit Mandate for Stablecoins

    Circle is pushing the European Union to rework parts of its crypto rulebook, arguing that the current rules governing stablecoins are keeping the world's biggest tokens outside Europe's regulatory perimeter. The stablecoin issuer said Thursday it had submitted a response to the European Commission's consultation on reviewing the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, or MiCA, the bloc's comprehensive framework for digital assets. Myriad: Where does Solana go next? Click to make your prediction. Ci...

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    2 min read
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  • Bitcoin is the biggest crypto asset by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    'Uptober' Off With a Bang as Bitcoin Surges to $86K

    Bitcoin was trading at $86,757 on Friday, up 3% over 24 hours and 2% on the week, according to CoinGecko data, after a September that broke the month's losing reputation. It remains about 31% below the record it set a year ago. The move follows Wednesday's inflation reading. August core PCE came in at 3.0% against expectations of 3.3%, and the repricing that followed has swung the odds toward the Federal Reserve holding rates at its October 28 meeting. Futures put a hold at 74%, according to CME...

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    5 min read
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  • Exterior view of the Department of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    US Designates Russia's A7 Network as Transnational Criminal Organization

    The U.S. Treasury has moved against the A7 Network, a Russian shadow banking operation it says Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have used to evade sanctions, with a proposed rule that would cut its front companies off from American finance, including in crypto. The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated the network a significant transnational criminal organization on Thursday, listing it with addresses in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. The Financial Crimes Enforceme...

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    4 min read
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