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Ripple is escalating its defenses against a surge of XRP fraud as deepfake-driven scams intensify, spotlighting rising holiday-season risks and the company’s expanding threat-mitigation network that is sharply reducing successful crypto impersonation attacks. Ripple Ramps Crypto Fraud Shields as XRP Thieves Deploy Deepfakes Ripple issued an insight this week highlighting heightened holiday-season fraud and urging … Read more
Federal authorities recovered more than $1.7 million in stablecoins linked to a crypto scam, marking a pivotal move that clears the way for victims to recoup losses and underscores how traceable digital assets can help unravel complex fraud schemes. US Recovers Millions From Crypto Fraud Scheme U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia … Read more
A recent study by MATS and Anthropic Fellows confirms that AI agents can profitably exploit smart contract vulnerabilities, establishing a “concrete lower bound” for economic harm. Novel Exploits and Alarming Cost Reduction The accelerating push to automate human tasks with Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents now confronts a significant, quantifiable downside: these agents can profitably exploit … Read more
The Australian Bitcoin Industry Body (ABIB) has formally filed a complaint with the national broadcaster ABC regarding a Dec. 1 article concerning bitcoin. Allegations of Misrepresentation and Bias An Australian lobbying group, the Australian Bitcoin Industry Body (ABIB), has filed a complaint with the national public media service, ABC, over an article containing inaccuracies and … Read more
The XRP Ledger is increasingly framed as purpose-built infrastructure for high-volume financial settlement, signaling its expanding role in supporting tokenized activity and real-world value flows across institutional environments. XRPL Positioning for Scaled Tokenized Finance Reece Merrick, Senior Executive Officer and Managing Director for Middle East and Africa at Ripple, shared on social media platform X … Read more
European authorities shut down a vast crypto-fraud engine responsible for hundreds of millions in illicit flows, marking a major blow to criminal networks exploiting digital assets and exposing how deeply coordinated scams infiltrated the continent. EUR 700M Crypto Spiral Breaks in Europe With Raids Triggering Next Phase Europol announced on Dec. 4 that authorities across … Read more
Kraken and Deutsche Börse Group unveiled a sweeping collaboration designed to fuse traditional finance with digital asset markets, signaling accelerating institutional demand and a new phase of tokenized market expansion. Kraken–Deutsche Börse Strategic Market Link Takes Shape Kraken, a global crypto exchange, and market operator Deutsche Börse Group announced on Dec. 4 that they formed … Read more
Ripple’s expanded push into unified digital asset infrastructure signals a bid to anchor real-time global finance by fusing treasury intelligence, custody, liquidity and settlement into a single enterprise platform. Ripple Broadens Its Institutional Finance Ambitions Growing institutional demand for real-time financial infrastructure is reshaping how companies design digital asset systems. Ripple published on Dec. 4, … Read more
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade went live, driving ETH to $3,222 and marking a major step in scalability. The update raised the block gas limit to 60M and introduced a per-transaction cap of 16.78M gas, sparking debate among developers but praised for enabling parallelization and preventing resource overload. Technical Triumph: Scalability and Fee Reduction The Ethereum blockchain’s … Read more
Webacy is a digital asset security firm launched in 2021 that provides AI-powered risk intelligence to wallets and exchanges. Webacy’s Trillion-Dollar Mission San Francisco-based crypto security firm Webacy has a knack for attracting famous investors. In 2023, Internet personality Gary Vaynerchuk participated in the startup’s $4 million seed round, alongside firms like Mozilla. On Monday, … Read more
