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Here’s a sentence that should stop anyone with a hardware wallet in their tracks: as of this week, typing “Ledger Wallet” into Google doesn’t reliably take you to Ledger. Instead, the top result in some searches is a paid, sponsored ad labeled “Ledger Official” that leads straight to a phishing page, hosted, ironically, in a way that borrows Google’s own credibility to make the scam look real. I’ve seen plenty of crypto phishing attempts dressed up to look convincing, but this one is different, because the platform doing the vouching isn’t some sketchy ad network. It’s Google itself.The alarm was…

Key TakeawaysStrategy gained about 5% as bitcoin held above $63,000 during Monday’s Wall Street decline.MARA and Circle rose about 4% as crypto equities separated from weaker U.S. indexes.Investors await Oman and Iran responses as Aug. 17 tensions keep markets focused on Hormuz. Near midday Aug. 17, the Nasdaq Composite was down about 56 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had shed roughly 189 points and the S&P 500 was lower by about 23 points. The leading crypto asset bitcoin (BTC), meanwhile, was up roughly 1% to 1.5% over 24 hours, trading around $64,000 by 1:30 p.m. EDT. The top four…

NAVI Protocol has launched NAVI Prime, a Sui-based lending framework designed for funds seeking more clarity, transparency, and control over capital management. Summary NAVI Prime provides lending infrastructure for institutional and professional capital on Sui. NAVI Protocol says the framework focuses on transparent and controllable fund management. DefiLlama tracks about $124.6 million in total value locked across NAVI Protocol. U.S. investors can gain regulated SUI exposure through CME futures contracts. NAVI Protocol said NAVI Prime was built for funds with more demanding requirements around clarity, transparency, and control. Deployed on the Sui blockchain, the framework provides lending infrastructure for institutions…

There’s a specific kind of anger that comes from watching Apple leave a blatant scam live in its App Store for months while you do everything right and still lose your money. Reporting a scam through official channels. Waiting patiently for the platform responsible to act. Watching that platform do nothing while the fraud sits there, live, in a store carrying Apple’s own name. That’s not a hypothetical. It’s exactly what happened to the team behind one of DeFi’s most trusted analytics platforms, and it’s a pattern I’ve now traced across multiple major crypto brands with the same maddening shape…

Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its MiFID authorization. The rollout is not for UK retail users. Eligibility is limited to users classified as Professional Clients, which means they must meet criteria tied to trading activity, portfolio size, or relevant professional experience. That is the most important detail. Crypto derivatives can offer hedging, leverage, and more sophisticated trading strategies, but regulators draw a clear line between professional and retail access. Coinbase’s UK expansion gives qualifying clients more tools, while keeping retail users outside the product set. For…

Having tested a fair number of exchange-linked options like KuCoin’s Web3 Wallet over the past year, I’ve noticed most follow the same script: store your tokens, connect to a few DApps, maybe bolt on a swap function, and call it a day.So when I sat down to actually use KuCoin’s Web3 Wallet properly, rather than just skim the marketing page, I expected more of the same. I did not expect to end up placing a prediction market trade on a World Cup match from inside what is technically a crypto wallet. That single moment told me more about where exchange…

Ask most people when Bitcoin was “cheap” and they’ll point to some vague memory of buying it for pizza money.I went back and pulled the actual yearly low for Bitcoin, year by year, since 2012, and honestly, the pattern surprised me more than I expected. It’s not a straight climb. It’s not even a clean staircase. It’s a currency that spent 2015 falling below its 2014 floor, then spent 2026 falling below its 2025 floor too, and understanding why tells you almost everything about how this asset actually behaves.The Full Yearly Low ComparisonHere’s the complete picture, year by year:Laid out…

0xngmi, the pseudonymous founder of DeFi analytics site DeFiLlama, said he downloaded a fake DeFiLlama app from the App Store, funded a small wallet, and let the app steal the money as proof it was a scam.  Apple removed the app just days after his download, after ignoring months of trademark and impersonation complaints.  How did the founder of DeFiLlama get Apple to remove a fake app?  In a series of posts on X on August 15, 2026, 0xngmi said DeFiLlama had spent months flagging a fake DeFiLlama app on the App Store to Apple through its abuse and trademark…

TLDR: Ethereum price prediction hinges on a daily close above $1,918 to $1,920, which could unlock $1,960 and the $2,000 level. Spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a $2.26 million weekly outflow after five inflow weeks had drawn a combined $566.12 million in total. ETH exchange netflow reached negative $3.48 million, while lower open interest suggests traders are reducing directional exposure. BitMine holds 5.81 million ETH, or 4.8% of supply, as Tom Lee maintains a $22,000 forecast despite current macroeconomic pressure. Ethereum price prediction discussions are intensifying as ETH trades near $1,878.72 after its narrowest weekly range of 2026. Buyers repeatedly defended…

One month ago, ZachXBT said something that got him buried in backlash: that hardware wallets, the devices the entire crypto industry tells people to trust with their life savings, were “complete garbage.” He wasn’t vague about it either, singling out Ledger by name. The community pushed back hard. Then, in the span of a few weeks, two of the industry’s most respected hardware wallet makers each had a genuinely bad month, and the backlash started looking a lot less justified.The Warning Nobody Wanted To HearOn July 15, 2026, ZachXBT posted in a Telegram message that he doesn’t consider current hardware…