Author: Jeremy Ryan

Tech giants have deployed emergency blocks against eight vulnerable digital certificates that could allow attackers to impersonate legitimate websites.By Tuesday, browser developers and other major technology companies had deployed protections against eight intermediate certificates issued by India-based certificate authority eMudhra Limited after discovering that their private keys were insufficiently secure. Mozilla cryptography engineer Dennis Jackson wrote in an incident report that Mozilla independently recovered the private keys when it first received notice of the flaw on Saturday, confirming that the key-generation process was “flawed” and “trivial to exploit.” An attacker who intercepts a user’s connection could use fraudulent certificates to impersonate a…

Crypto users could also be affected, though mainly outside the browser. Exchange bots, trading scripts and wallet backends often run on Python, Node or Go, and a forged certificate for an exchange’s API could in theory let an attacker on the same network read or alter a bot’s traffic. No crypto attacks have been reported so far.But according to Mudit Gupta, chief technology officer at Polygon Labs, the bigger concern is not crypto itself, it is outdated software.“This is not a crypto-specific issue,” Gupta told CoinDesk. “It is a generic issue that can be exploited for man-in-the-middle attacks, particularly against…

DekaBank, the securities provider for Germany’s Sparkassen savings banks, launched crypto trading on Oct. 19, giving adult customers of participating banks a way to buy Bitcoin through the Sparkasse app after opening a Deka crypto account.The service, called “Krypto – powered by Deka,” also offers Ethereum, Solana, XRP and Polygon’s POL. Customers need a current account at a participating Sparkasse and open the crypto account through the app’s “Anlegen,” or investing, section.As checked on Oct. 20, Deka’s participating-bank list names Frankfurter Sparkasse, Sparkasse Rottal-Inn, Niederrheinische Sparkasse RheinLippe, Taunus Sparkasse and Sparkasse Karlsruhe. Each Sparkasse decides independently whether to offer the…

Deputies passed the stablecoin swap tax at exactly the absolute majority of 38, then rejected a 10-year loss carryforward 75 to 18 in the same sitting. France’s National Assembly voted 38 to 37 on Friday to end the tax deferral on swaps from crypto into stablecoins, starting January 1, 2027. That vote adopted amendment I-3898 to the 2027 budget bill, with 25 abstentions among 100 votes cast. The amendment targets the deferral that lets a crypto-to-crypto trade postpone any gain until the investor sells for euros or spends the coins. It removes that deferral when the investor receives an e-money…

“Solana’s transaction count is going to look a lot lower this week, and people will ask if something’s wrong. It isn’t,” shared Robin Nordnes, CEO and founder of Raiku, which builds trading infrastructure on Solana, in an email.. “Most of what got counted before was validators voting, and that’s off-chain now. The trading’s all still there.”“For desks, faster finality is nice, but it was never the bottleneck. Being close to where the block is built still is,” he added.Read More: Solana is about to halve its block times as final 200-millisecond upgrade nearsValidators also get a cheaper bill. They currently…

The swaps track perpetual futures listed by Trade.xyz, a platform for stock and commodity contracts on Hyperliquid, a crypto derivatives exchange. Perpetuals have no expiry date and trade around the clock, letting a fund take a position on gold on Sunday while conventional markets are closed.Clients deal with Ripple Prime, which manages their collateral and risk across positions, and can use Ripple’s dollar-pegged RLUSD stablecoin to back their trades. Ripple had already connected its brokerage to Hyperliquid in February.But a fund looking to trade millions of dollars still needs someone willing to take the other side at an acceptable price,…

In brief Switzerland’s financial regulator FINMA announced Oct. 20 that it approved the country’s first retail exchange-traded fund that invests directly in Bitcoin. The fund received an exemption from risk diversification rules, which FINMA justified by Bitcoin’s long trading history and high trading volume. FINMA did not name the fund or its issuer, and said other providers have submitted or announced applications for Bitcoin ETFs. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, or FINMA, announced Tuesday that it approved the country’s first retail fund that invests directly in Bitcoin.It’s an exchange-traded fund or ETF, so its shares trade on an exchange…

I’ve been reading the postmortems on Clarity, and some of the criticism is fair. Clarity is the industry’s biggest legislative priority. We worked hard on it. And it hasn’t passed the Senate. That’s a setback, and it deserves serious accounting. But much of the commentary describes an industry that made a huge effort in Washington and came away empty-handed. You have to leave out a lot of the story to tell it that way. Less than three years ago, a founder building a crypto company in America faced a basic question: am I going to be allowed to do this?…

Reason to trust Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Created by industry experts and meticulously reviewed The highest standards in reporting and publishing Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. TL;DR: The Hyperliquid Policy Center supports the SEC’s proposed crypto framework but says five changes are needed to make the rules workable for token developers and markets. The Hyperliquid Policy Center has welcomed the US Securities and Exchange Commission‘s attempt to clarify how securities law applies…

The durable fix uses properties bitcoin already has. Multiple signatures are native to the protocol, which means keys can be generated and held by independent regulated institutions, with no single institution able to move or lose the asset, the company holding legal title, named users with defined roles, approval policies on every withdrawal, and an audit trail a board can actually read.Institutions are already moving in this direction. When Morgan Stanley designed custody for its proposed bitcoin ETF, it named two custodians rather than one, a sign that relying on a single custodian is now a live concern at the…