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Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez is seeking donations after saying he has over $2 million in legal debt and a $250,000 fine following his conviction. He is serving a five-year prison sentence and says he now expects to serve it fully, despite ongoing debate over developer responsibility in crypto privacy tools.

The FCA has opened an investigation into Visa, Mastercard and PayPal over whether their digital wallet agreements may be limiting competition in the UK. At the same time, Mastercard is also involved in a separate pilot with banks and crypto firms to test faster cross-border settlement using tokenised US Treasuries.

Visa has partnered with WeFi to test stablecoin payments that let users spend crypto while keeping control of their own funds. The rollout will begin in parts of Europe, Asia and Latin America, with plans to expand as rules and approvals allow.

KuCoin has launched its KuCard in Australia, letting users spend crypto directly at Mastercard merchants with automatic conversion to fiat at checkout. The service, built with Immersve, supports USDC and 37 trading pairs and works with Apple Pay and Google Pay for everyday payments.

Dan Finlay, co-founder of MetaMask, has stepped down from Consensys after nearly a decade, marking a notable leadership shift for one of the most widely used gateways into Web3.

Revolut has pushed its IPO timeline to around 2028 as it focuses on becoming a fully licensed bank in the UK and expanding in the US. The company is growing strongly with rising revenue, profit and customer numbers, and is using private share sales to stay private while it builds scale and trust.

A Brazilian cybersecurity researcher has raised alarm bells, warning others about counterfeit ledger devices that has been planted by scammers in the Chinese market in the attempt to steal users' crypto.

A fake Ledger wallet app on the App Store tricked users into entering seed phrases, leading to losses of about $9.5 million across more than 50 victims before it was removed. The scam was exposed by ZachXBT, while Apple said it had taken down the app and the developer after confirming it used bait-and-switch tactics to impersonate the real wallet service.

Tether has launched Tether.Wallet, a self-custodial app that lets users send USDT, USAT, Bitcoin and XAUT using simple names instead of wallet addresses.

X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, sparked speculation after posting that crypto has had a rough year and hinting that X could launch something to “fix it,” drawing major attention across the industry.