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The Malaysian hardware wallet distributor CryptoBilis has been revealed to have changed ownership during the investigation into a suspected supply chain attack on Ledger devices. Newly disclosed company records show that an individual named Jiaming, with a registered address in Heilongjiang Province, China, has held 100% of the company's shares since August 3.The former co-founder of CryptoBilis confirmed that the company was acquired in March of this year, and the original shareholders subsequently withdrew from all operational, management, and administrative positions. The founding team has been unable to understand the actual operations of the company after the handover, only continuing to assist with some activity coordination, and stated that they are no longer part of the company, urging the current management to handle the matter transparently.As the change in ownership was exposed, CryptoBilis has come under scrutiny for its alleged involvement in the supply chain attack on Ledger hardware wallets, with related devices reportedly implanted with hidden modules capable of stealing recovery phrases. There is currently no conclusive evidence linking the change in ownership to the wallet theft incident. CryptoBilis has temporarily suspended sales and shipments of all brand hardware wallets at its stores and online channels in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, and has closed offline stores until further notice.

Michael Saylor, the founder of Bitcoin Treasury Company Strategy, posted on the X platform stating that Bitcoin can serve different types of investors. BTC provides direct ownership, MSTR offers leveraged Bitcoin exposure, while STRC provides income opportunities, and its 30-day price volatility is lower than all "Seven Giants" stocks.Michael Saylor added that digital capital is the foundation of digital equity and digital credit.

F2Pool co-founder and stakefish founder Wang Chun tweeted that Oleksii Trofimchuk filed a lawsuit against Lido Finance and stakefish on September 8 in the Santa Clara County Superior Court, accusing them of allowing competing MEV bots to submit high-priority fee transactions to claim the ETH after his wallet was hacked.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new rule last week to comprehensively revise the transfer agent rules that have been in place for decades, explicitly allowing electronic databases, including blockchain ledgers, to serve as the official record of securities ownership for the first time. If approved, blockchain is expected to become the "master security document," replacing the off-chain parallel ownership records that tokenized securities currently rely on.Currently, many tokenized securities operate on two sets of records: on-chain token ledgers and official shareholder registers. Once the proposal is passed, issuers and transfer agents may no longer need to maintain duplicate records and reconcile them after each transfer, thereby reducing operational friction and the risk of inconsistencies between on-chain records and legally recognized records. Eli Cohen, Chief Legal Officer of the tokenized fund platform Centrifuge, stated that this proposal could transform the current "two-step" process into a "one-step" process, allowing the blockchain itself to act as the master security document.However, the proposal does not mean that tokenized securities are completely "permissionless." Joris Delanoue, CEO of the registered on-chain transfer agent Fairmint, pointed out that while the blockchain can remain open, assets must still comply with ownership and transfer rules, and regulatory controls such as identity verification and transfer restrictions are still embedded in the tokens. Transfer agents will still need to handle administrative matters such as shareholder death, inheritance, and legal notifications, with processing times potentially reduced from 3-5 days to 1 day. The 60-day public comment period for the proposal will end in early November.

Lily Liu, the chair of the Solana Foundation, stated that funds, assets, and ownership are migrating to an all-weather internet infrastructure, forming a long-term token supercycle.Tokenization is not only about moving assets onto the chain but also about changing the assets themselves, allowing value to be issued, held, financed, and traded in a market that never closes.She believes that stablecoins have proven that funds can flow onto the chain globally, financial institutions are pushing for asset tokenization, and blockchain infrastructure is beginning to meet the demands of real economic activities for speed and cost, while AI economic agents require programmable money.With these factors converging, any value with clear ownership could be tokenized and gain broader distribution, financing, and trading channels.In the past year, the trading volume of RWA on Solana reached hundreds of billions of dollars, covering tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds, stocks, and private credit; during the same period, stablecoin transfer volume exceeded $4.7 trillion.Liu stated that tokenization can also allow more investors to break through geographic, minimum investment, and qualification restrictions, and enable the assets held to be used for collateral or to generate returns. Although the current on-chain market size is still far below that of traditional markets, the relevant infrastructure could potentially reach 5.5 billion internet users globally in the future.

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC) has officially approved the travel rule for crypto assets, requiring digital asset operators to verify the ownership or control of wallets when customers send or receive crypto assets to self-custody wallets, and to retain transaction-related information for at least five years for regulatory review. Pornanong Budsaratragoon, Secretary-General of the Thai SEC, stated that the rule aims to reduce the risk of digital asset operators being used for money laundering and terrorist financing.The new regulations were finalized after two rounds of public consultations this year, with the first round presenting a draft in March and a notification draft released in June. The Thai SEC stated that most stakeholders expressed support. As the travel rule is implemented, Thailand is considering expanding the access to regulated crypto products. On Monday, the Thai SEC proposed allowing intermediaries to offer specific crypto derivatives traded on regulated overseas exchanges to retail investors.In the days prior, regulators also advanced the draft rules for spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and simultaneously sought opinions on the foreign digital asset custodians used by funds investing in crypto assets. Thailand's move aligns with global regulatory trends, as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) estimates that by 2026, 83% of surveyed jurisdictions will have enacted travel rule legislation.

According to Morningstar, the AI platform Owner, aimed at local businesses, announced the completion of a $240 million financing round, with the company valuation reaching $2.3 billion. This round of financing was led by Growth Equity under Goldman Sachs Alternative Asset Management, with participation from existing investors Meritech, Redpoint, Headline, and Jack Altman.The company uses AI Agents to automatically complete marketing promotion, customer communication, and operational optimization services for local businesses. The new funds are intended to expand international operations and develop local business scenarios.

Tron founder Justin Sun stated that his lawsuit against World Liberty Financial (@worldlibertyfi) superficially involves a commercial dispute of $45 million and 4 billion tokens, but fundamentally concerns the founding principles of blockchain. He pointed out that the industry is built on the principle of "your keys, your coins," meaning that everyone can truly own their assets without permission.Justin Sun indicated that the case exposes the other party's secret embedding of the power to arbitrarily freeze user assets in the contract, which was not disclosed, lacked governance, and lacked procedures, and was exercised within days of unlocking their tokens. He believes this contradicts the name of "freedom"; if the issuer can confiscate holders' assets at any time, blockchain will be no different from the old world. He will pursue the lawsuit to the end, not only to recover assets but also to establish a precedent in court that "your assets must truly belong to you."

In the second quarter 13F holdings report for 2026 (reporting period ended June 30, 2026), Bridgewater Associates, founded by Ray Dalio, disclosed a reduction of 1,359,038 shares of Micron Technology, still holding approximately 116,700 shares, with a reduction ratio of about 92%.

According to CoinDesk citing informed sources, the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX spent two years discussing potential sales with multiple buyers, including competitor exchanges and payment platform Exodus, before announcing its shutdown, but ultimately failed to reach a deal. Informed sources indicated that potential acquirers were deterred mainly by the holding structure led by the company's founder, the ongoing shrinking of the business, and lingering reputation issues.Reports state that the company had hired investment bank Broadhaven to manage the sale process in early 2025. Informed sources said that although co-founders Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, and Samuel Reed had already exited the business after facing U.S. criminal charges in 2020, the three still controlled the vast majority of the company's equity, which made some buyers uneasy and complicated negotiations, as buyers typically hope to secure management's retention post-transaction through partial acquisition consideration.Additionally, during the sale process, BitMEX continued to lose market share as trading activity flowed to larger centralized exchanges and decentralized perpetual contract platforms, making potential acquirers reluctant to pay the revenue multiples typically offered to growth companies.

According to Cointelegraph, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) investigation shows that the cryptocurrency ownership rate in Canada has risen from 10% in 2023 to 25% in 2026. The survey was conducted from December 2025 to January 2026 with 2,360 respondents aged 18 and older, finding that 59% of respondents are aware of crypto assets, and 25% own crypto assets.The survey also indicated that investors' risk awareness has increased, but industry awareness remains limited—about 50% of holders check whether a platform is registered before using it, but many investors have misunderstandings about regulation, insurance protection, and trading capabilities. The Canadian federal government proposed a bill in April to ban political donations in crypto assets and crypto ATMs.

Doge prototype Shiba Inu Kabosu's owner Atsuko Sato clarified in a post that a series of CATE tokens circulating in the market recently have no connection to her. She stated that she had only posted a dynamic on Instagram previously, but that content was subsequently used by others without authorization to issue false tokens, creating the illusion of a connection with her. She expressed regret about this and pointed out that some accounts involved in spreading related information even include users with significant influence on the X platform.She emphasized that the only project currently authorized by her and responsible for managing her intellectual property is Own The Doge. She introduced that Own The Doge acquired Doge NFT in 2021 and launched the DOG token, while also being responsible for hosting Doge Day events, supporting charitable causes, and managing her intellectual property. In 2025, both parties collaborated to launch the COCORO token on the Base network.She stated that the profits obtained from the aforementioned projects will be used to care for her pet family members and support animal protection public welfare activities carried out by withkabosu. She urged the public to rely on officially released information and to remain vigilant about any unauthorized projects or tokens issued in her name, to avoid being misled by unrelated cryptocurrency projects.

The South Korean blockchain gaming platform WEMIX has updated the situation regarding abnormal transactions and response measures. The investigation results show that the contract ownership related to WEMIX was compromised, and the attacker unauthorizedly issued approximately 5,225,525 WEMIX, which was subsequently exchanged for about 30,736 WEMIX and 724,198.27 USDC.e.The stolen USDC.e was transferred to Ethereum and BSC via a bridge, exchanged for assets such as ETH and USDT, and partially deposited into centralized exchanges. The attacker's wallet and fund flow have been tracked, and applications for freezing are being made to exchanges and stablecoin issuers. The exact cause is still under investigation, and the team is conducting a comprehensive review with external experts while examining related and similar contracts. Market data shows that the price of WEMIX tokens has dropped by 16.65% in the last 24 hours.

The security company Project Eleven has launched a post-quantum proof technology aimed at helping users prove ownership of Bitcoin wallets after quantum computers can derive private keys and generate valid signatures. Project Eleven CEO Alex Pruden stated that the technology uses wallet key derivation paths, allowing users to prove their control without disclosing the parent key, which is used to distinguish legitimate owners from attackers.The solution was developed in collaboration with Jim Posen, the main maintainer of the open-source Binius zero-knowledge proof system, based on the "signature amplification" technique proposed by Alon Sattath and Robert Wyborski. Project Eleven indicated that the prototype has not yet been audited and requires blockchain protocol support before being put into use, primarily targeting users who missed the migration to quantum-resistant addresses in the future.

A five-day public debate between ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze and KAST CEO Raagulan Pathy has brought KAST's user deposit terms into the spotlight. Silagadze publicly shared screenshots showing that KAST's terms treat users' deposited stablecoins as sold to KAST, with ownership immediately transferred to the company, and the original terms did not mention that users could request redemption.According to The Defiant, verified through the Wayback Machine, these terms have been in place at least since June 25. As of July 7, KAST updated its terms to include users' right to redeem unspent balances, but the legal structure remains unchanged—deposits are still defined as sales, with the company's total liability capped at $500, registered in Comoros, Anjouan Island, and governed by Seychelles law.Additionally, KAST previously promised that points would be exchanged for tokens on a one-to-one basis, but on July 2, this was changed to conversion into tokenized equity, causing dissatisfaction among users. Research account Decentralisedco pointed out that KAST can earn about 4-5% annualized returns from idle balances by counting users' stablecoins as company assets, a structure that differs from competitors like ether.fi, which settle through user-controlled smart contracts.

According to Cointelegraph, the New York State Supreme Court faced a key defense in the lawsuit regarding the ownership of 39,069 long-unused Bitcoin addresses. An anonymous defendant controlling the dormant wallet involved in the case formally submitted a request to the court to dismiss the lawsuit outright. This anonymous holder presented a core legal argument: Bitcoin addresses are merely a string of data characters on the blockchain, do not belong to a legal entity, and are not eligible to be sued.In addition, industry perspectives highlighted a critical technical shortcoming of the case: even if the court ultimately rules in favor of the plaintiff's claim for rights, without possessing the corresponding private keys, the plaintiff would be unable to transfer or control this batch of Bitcoin assets on-chain, rendering the judgment practically unenforceable.The plaintiff in this lawsuit attempted to apply New York's lost property regulations, claiming that tens of thousands of long-sleeping BTC belong to unclaimed abandoned assets, intending to obtain full ownership of the assets through judicial means.

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According to The Block, New York Supreme Court Judge Kathy J. King signed an order to suspend the litigation seeking to claim ownership of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets, with a hearing scheduled for July 14 on a key amicus brief.The plaintiffs in the case are known as "Noah Doe" and two shell companies, seeking to claim these wallets under New York State's lost property law. Attorney Ian R. Cohen submitted an amicus brief opposing the plaintiffs' claims. He argues that the lost property law pertains to tangible items, while blockchain addresses are always visible to the world; if the original owner cannot access their assets due to a security breach, it constitutes a passive loss of access rather than a voluntary relinquishment.Cohen emphasized that the plaintiffs do not have the private keys, and the blockchain network "structurally disregards" judicial rulings; the court's declaration cannot truly transfer ownership of the assets and may instead be used by the plaintiffs to mislead exchanges and custodians.Previously, on May 26, it was reported that a U.S. man and two companies filed a lawsuit seeking ownership of over 39,000 dormant Bitcoin addresses.

According to CoinDesk, an address from the "Satoshi era" that has never been used since March 2011, holding 35.55 bitcoins (approximately $2.54 million), made a transfer this week, which is seen as one of the first publicly visible responses from defendants in a lawsuit involving approximately 3.8 million bitcoins (valued at about $285 billion) in New York.On-chain data shows that the address transferred 15 BTC to a new address on June 2, keeping the remaining 20.55 BTC as change. The address initially received bitcoins on March 27, 2011, when the price of BTC was less than $1.In March of this year, a plaintiff using the pseudonym "Noah Doe" filed a lawsuit in New York state court alongside two LLCs from Wyoming, attempting to claim ownership of approximately 3.8 million long-dormant bitcoin wallets under New York's lost property law, positioning themselves as the "discoverer." The court approved sending on-chain notifications to the relevant wallets via the bitcoin OP_RETURN field.In July 2025, the advisory firm Salomon Brothers Strategic Advisors sent dust transactions with links to legal notices to 39,000 wallets, including the aforementioned address, requesting holders to prove ownership within 90 days.Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Research, pointed out that the address corresponds to defendant number 38215 in the case, stating, "Clearly, these bitcoins have not actually been abandoned."Additionally, another address that had been dormant for 15 years, 1CDSyXAQxro4FPUoqAQb81642ruqDsUiNp, also transferred 20 BTC (approximately $1.48 million) on the same day, but this address did not appear on Noah Doe's list of lawsuits.Analysis suggests that the on-chain movements mentioned above indicate that some bitcoins from the Satoshi era, considered "abandoned assets," are actually still under the control of the original holders.