Wallet


Finance

Fordefi Raises $10M to Make Crypto Safer With Institutional-Grade Wallet to Retail-Facing Platforms

The company has onboarded institutional investors such as Pantera Capital, DeFiance Capital, Keyrock and Flare Network to its MPC wallet, and secured over $3 billion in blockchain transaction volume.

Founders of Fordefi (clockwise): Michael Volfman, Dima Kogan and Josh Schwartz (Fordefi)

Tech

Ledger, Coinbase Pay Integrate to Give Users Direct Access to Buy, Sell Crypto

Bringing Coinbase Pay into the Ledger Live app is supposed to benefit Ledger users, making it easier to receive their crypto purchases from Coinbase directly on their Ledger hardware wallet, without any additional fees.

Ledger Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers (Ledger)

Policy

Thailand's SEC Breaks New Ground in 2024 With Crypto-Friendly Rules

Retail investors can now invest without limits in digital tokens backed by real estate or infrastructure.

Thailand's securities regulator has updated its crypto rules to ease path for asset-backed tokens. (Geoff Greenwood/Unsplash)

Tech

MetaMask's Secret Project Could Shake Up How Ethereum Works

MetaMask is quietly testing new tech that uses third parties to route user transactions. It will eventually be made available outside of MetaMask and will be closely scrutinized for how it manages to avoid centralization concerns.

MetaMask has quietly rolled out a limited version of its new routing tech into the new Smart Swaps feature (MetaMask, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

OKX Wallet Users Warned to Update App to Avoid Code Vulnerability

It is unclear whether any funds have been stolen from OKX wallet users.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Tech

Jack Dorsey's Block Bitkey Bitcoin Wallet Comes to Market in More Than 95 Countries

The company's new self-custody wallet consists of an app, hardware device and recovery tools

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

A16z Backs Web3 Consumer App Setter in $5M Seed Round

Setter aims to address "the complexity and unfriendliness of current wallet technologies," making entry into Web3 a more seamless experience for more users.

Setter app (Setter)

Finance

Ethereum Wallet Drainer Steals $60M in Six Months

Hackers are using a piece of code called Create2 to bypass security alerts when users sign malicious signatures.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Policy

India's Central Bureau of Investigation Appoints Liminal to Manage Seized Digital Assets

Liminal has already supported the CBI in an operation by assembling a specialized team to safely store seized assets.

New Delhi, India (Unsplash)

Finance

Founder of Estonia's LHV Bank Lost Access to $472M of Ether

"It's no secret that I have a wallet with 250,000 Ethereum units," Rain Lõhmus said in an interview with Estonian national radio channel Vikerraadio in late October.

(Beth Macdonald/Unsplash)