Bitquery estimates $102 million was drained from 324 Ledger-linked wallets on six chains, up from about $86 million earlier. Ledger says its chips, software and servers were not breached and calls it a distribution-channel attack.
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Bank of Russia clears Sberbank for crypto exchange the same day it bars withdrawals to private wallets
Bank of Russia told individuals on October 15, 2026 that they cannot move digital currency from regulated accounts into self-custody wallets. Sberbank won approval to run crypto exchange services the same day, so coins bought on licensed venues now stay in licensed custody.
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Ledger confirmed on Oct. 10 that one affected customer's wallet held an unauthorized implant, after drains that trackers put near $93 million. That proves tampered hardware reached a victim, but investigators have not tied comparable equipment to the rest of the losses.
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On-chain analyst Specter traced more than $86 million drained from hundreds of Ledger hardware-wallet users across Ethereum, TRON and Bitcoin. With the cause unconfirmed, holders cannot yet tell whether moving coins to a new device would help at all.
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France's National Assembly finance committee backed a fine of up to €10,000 on undeclared self-custody crypto worth €100,000 or more. It then voted 31 to 3 against the 2027 revenue section, so Cointelegraph, citing Clubic, reports the clause must be resubmitted.
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buildOne report1 publisher Importing a Tonkeeper recovery phrase into Keeper can show a TON address the user has never seen
Tonkeeper is now Keeper and supports seven networks, according to a dev.to post that treats key derivation as the main migration risk. The post argues a wallet UI can simplify steps but cannot remove blockchain boundaries.
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Fake Ledger pages near the top of Google search go after wallet recovery phrases
Fake Ledger sites in Google results are asking for recovery phrases while Ledger probes losses researchers put above $86 million. Nothing yet ties that sum to the pages, but the way the campaigns were built makes a top search result a working route into self-custody wallets.
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Abstract's withdrawal cutoffs can arrive before the Ethereum layer-2's Dec. 15 shutdown
Abstract will shut its Ethereum layer-2 network on Dec. 15, 70 days after its Oct. 6 notice telling users to migrate or lose access to their funds. Under the terms of service provider Cube, Inc., the deadlines to start, finish or claim an exit can each fall before that date.
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Ledger now offers USDC and USDT loans against cbBTC or wBTC through Morpho to a wallet base it says secures almost 30% of retail bitcoin. Borrowers keep their keys but pay a rate set by pool demand and carry the liquidation risk themselves.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives75
- Confidence60
Chainalysis counts $104.1 billion of self-custodied stablecoin transfers in China in the year to June 2026, with holdings turning over 33.2 times. At that speed a coin changes hands about every 11 days, against 39 days globally, the pace of a business's operating cash.
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Bitget's wallet breach accounts for about four-fifths of September's crypto theft after returns
Bitget lost about $387.5 million to forged withdrawals from its wallet system, more than half of September's $742 million in crypto thefts. Most of Liquid Network's loss was handed back, so what stayed stolen sits mainly with one exchange's withdrawal infrastructure.
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SlowMist puts 14 iOS versions inside one Safari key-theft chain
Blockchain security firm SlowMist says an active exploit chain walks from a Safari page to kernel access and the iOS Keychain on everything from iOS 13 to 26.5, while Apple's patches, by the same account, reach 26.3.
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Binance Wallet pushes tokenized pre-IPO exposure into self-custody through PancakeSwap
Pre-Access campaigns let eligible users subscribe to tokenized exposure to private companies, with third-party providers holding the assets, PancakeSwap running the portal, and quotas boosted by Alpha points and bStocks activity.
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- Hype gap+45
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World Money went live in more than 150 countries on Thursday, holding balances in eight currencies, funded through Stripe and paying yield through Morpho, where World warns depositors could lose some or all of their money.
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Coinbase routes its new 50x perps feed through Hyperliquid's order book
Coinbase Wallet's pulse mode puts up to 50x leverage on more than 290 markets in a feed-style interface for eligible non-US users, and Hyperliquid's order book matches every trade. The Base App name was retired the day before.
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