Bitcoin seizure reaches 1,000 BTC in Irish drug case

Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau and Europol have secured another 500 BTC tied to Clifton Collins, bringing recovered funds from the dormant wallet cluster to 1,000 BTC. Summary Bitcoin seizure grew after Ireland and Europol secured another 500 BTC from Clifton Collins-linked wallets. Arkham data shows 1,000 BTC have moved from the dormant entity since March…

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Rwanda’s CMA Moves to License Crypto Exchanges as Unapproved Platforms Face Penalties

Key Takeaways Parliament passed a law granting Rwanda’s CMA explicit power to license and regulate virtual asset providers. Jerome Ndayambaje noted bitcoin faces high scrutiny, while some of the world’s 9,000 cryptos will be blocked. The CMA is currently drafting secondary regulations to formally launch its licensing regime for crypto firms. Mandatory Licensing for Crypto…

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Zama acquires TokenOps to bring encrypted token distributions to institutional issuers

Zama, the company that has spent years quietly building fully homomorphic encryption tools for blockchains, just bought TokenOps, a token distribution platform. The goal: let institutions run vesting schedules, airdrops, and payroll entirely encrypted, without giving up the transparency guarantees that make blockchains useful in the first place. Every time a project distributes tokens today,…

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Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds

EPIC’s researchers were unable to locate an opt-out process at all on Meta, X, OpenAI, and Tinder without first logging in. And HireVue and the surveillance vendor DataTrust frame their opt-out instructions as available only to California residents, even though 20 other states have passed laws granting opt-out rights. Palantir, the defense and intelligence contractor,…

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