A wave of hijacked or fake livestreams on YouTube and other platforms uses AI deepfakes of public figures and on-screen QR codes or links to funnel viewers to phishing pages. Those pages trigger “wallet drainer” kits that request malicious approvals or signatures and then siphon assets almost instantly. Security firms and media have documented both the livestream tactic and the…
U.S. regulators and private plaintiffs are still bringing cases tied to early token sales and new “ICO-like” offerings. In 2025, the SEC sued Unicoin over an alleged $100M offering and secured a final judgment against Opporty’s founder for an unregistered and misleading ICO. In 2024, a federal court allowed the SEC’s claims about Binance’s BNB ICO and certain post-ICO sales…
Bitcoin set a fresh all-time high of about $124k on August 14, 2025, then cooled alongside broader risk assets as traders eye this week’s macro catalysts. Even with the pullback, crypto remains up strongly year-to-date, helped by record spot-ETF adoption and renewed fund inflows.
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Regulators should put crypto on notice—but with precision, not blanket crackdowns. The case is strongest around stablecoin resilience and reserves, market-abuse controls, truthful marketing, custody and operational risk, and AML/CTF enforcement where global gaps persist. Meanwhile, mainstream adoption via spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs, plus comprehensive regimes like the EU’s MiCA and Dubai’s updated rulebooks, show how clear guardrails can…