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SocGen-FORGE Brings MiCA-compliant USD Stablecoin to MetaMask

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Societe Generale-FORGE said MetaMask will add its MiCA-compliant USDCV stablecoin, extending distribution for one of Europe’s bank-backed digital dollars. Societe Generale-FORGE, the digital asset arm of French banking giant Societe Generale, has integrated its Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA)-compliant USD CoinVertible (USDCV) stablecoin into MetaMask, giving the wallet’s millions of users access to a regulated dollar token issued by a major European bank. The company said in a release on Wednesday that under the partnership with Consensys, USDCV will be surfaced in MetaMask on mobile and web and made…

USDT, USDC Activity Drops To Lowest Level Of 2026 On Ethereum

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Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to. In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started…

North Korea Used AI to Hack Zerion in Second Crypto Attack

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Crypto wallet Zerion revealed that North Korean-affiliated hackers used AI in a long-term social engineering attack to steal about $100,000 from the company’s hot wallets last week.  The Zerion team released a post-mortem on Wednesday, where it confirmed that no user funds, Zerion apps or infrastructure were affected and that it had proactively disabled the web app as a precaution.  While the amount was relatively small in crypto hacking terms, it is another incident of a crypto worker being targeted for an “AI-enabled social engineering attack linked to a DPRK…

This Week in Crypto Law (Apr. 5, 2026) – Law and Ledger Bitcoin News

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This Week in Crypto Law The opinion editorial below was written by Alex Forehand and Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. The first week of April underscored a clear trend: crypto is continuing its integration into the traditional financial system, even as regulators and policymakers race to catch up. From federal trust charters to institutional expansion and mounting pressure for U.S. legislation, the legal framework around digital assets is rapidly evolving. Coinbase Moves Closer to Federal Banking Status Coinbase has reportedly received conditional approval for a U.S. national trust charter, a development…

Apple Removes Fake Ledger App That Stole $9.5M From Users

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Apple has confirmed it took down a malicious app that impersonated the Ledger self-custody crypto wallet after an onchain analysis found that more than 50 victims fell for the scam, losing a combined $9.5 million. Apple told Cointelegraph on Tuesday that the fake Ledger Live app was removed and that the developer, “SAS Software Company,” was terminated from the Apple App Store. Apple said the developer used a “bait-and-switch strategy” to trick users into installing a fake Ledger Live app and sharing their seed phrases. Bait-and-switch violations on the Apple…

Threat Timeline And Next Steps

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Non-profit group Presidio Bitcoin has released a technical report examining the growing quantum computing risk to the Bitcoin network.  The document looks at where quantum capabilities stand today, how much of BTC’s value could be exposed, what mitigations are already feasible, and how the wider ecosystem might coordinate a software update and migration.  Why Upgrades Are Harder In A Decentralized System Presidio Bitcoin begins from a simple point: Bitcoin is software, and that is both its power and its weakness. Because it is built as a system of code, Bitcoin…

Ripple Combines Swell and Apex to Unite Finance Leaders, Developers, and Innovators – Featured Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Ripple merged Swell and Apex into one event, expanding reach across finance and blockchain. XRP Ledger gains momentum as three tracks target institutions, developers, and researchers. Swell could strengthen XRP adoption if longer sessions drive enterprise partnerships. Ripple Opens Swell 2026 Speaker Applications The blockchain sector is intensifying efforts to unify institutional finance and decentralized innovation through large-scale industry events. Enterprise blockchain company Ripple opened speaker applications for Swell 2026 on April 14, outlining a major conference in New York City scheduled for Oct. 27-29. The event combines…

Bitget Launches CFD Copy Trading as Demand for Cross-Market Exposure Accelerates – Press release Bitcoin News

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PRESS RELEASE. Victoria, Seychelles, April 14, 2026 — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), today launched CFD Copy Trading, expanding access to traditional financial markets and allowing users to automatically follow professional traders across forex, commodities, and indices directly from the Bitget platform. The launch follows strong growth in Bitget’s CFD business, which recently surpassed $6 billion in single-day trading volume as users responded to heightened volatility across global markets. Recent price movements in gold, oil, major currency pairs, and equity indices have drawn increased participation from crypto-native traders…

Bitcoin BIP-361 Targets Quantum Security Threat

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Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp and five co-authors from the Bitcoin quantum security space have proposed freezing quantum-vulnerable coins on the Bitcoin network, including Satoshi’s $74 billion stash, to prevent them from being stolen once quantum computers become available. The move is the second part of a three-stage proposal under BIP-361 called the “Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset,” which was posted as a draft to GitHub on Tuesday. It addresses a major risk to Bitcoin — the potential use of quantum computers to steal roughly 1.7 million BTC locked in…

Wisdomtree Suggests Stablecoin Market Faces Structural Repricing as Institutions Shift Toward Yield – Featured Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways: Wisdomtree says a regulated money market fund can match stablecoin liquidity while generating income. Stablecoins drive the yield debate as idle balances generate no direct returns for users. Capital splits into distinct paths as movement stays liquid while idle funds shift to yield. Tokenized Funds Challenge Stablecoin Yield Limits The convergence of liquidity and yield in digital finance is signaling a shift in how on-chain capital is deployed. Asset manager Wisdomtree Digital Assets published an article on social media platform X on April 13 analyzing this evolution. The…