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Sony Bank received conditional approval to set up Connectia Trust as a US subsidiary capitalized at $40 million. I think their plan is to issue and manage dollar-denominated stablecoins, with early signals pointing toward payments in games and anime-related services. Full operations still require final regulatory clearance. I believe it could draw in users already comfortable with Sony’s entertainment and gaming products, since a familiar name might lower the barrier compared to standalone crypto apps. If the stablecoins integrate directly into those services, some spending that currently happens off-chain could move on-chain in those verticals. One path forward is that other consumer-facing brands watch the process and decide the regulatory route looks workable, leading to more similar setups over the next year or two. What else do you guys think would need to happen for wider adoption in actual spending? submitted by /u/Toriunderhill [link] [Kommentare]

Hello guys I built a free tool that explains crypto projects in plain English for beginners. It pulls public market/project data and turns it into a simple score, strengths, red flags and risk summary. I’d love some feedback please. The tool is in the comments because the post is being flagered as spam Thanks you so much submitted by /u/monferre [link] [Kommentare]

Now I'm thinking of doing it too, but I'm dizzy thinking people will lose money over this, it feels like stealing them, immagine if someone invests all his life savings in your coin... Would you do it? submitted by /u/mannythomson [link] [Kommentare]

As recommended somewhere I've swapped through deBridge; 5 figures worth and I'm furious, UX was showing not even 0.1% slippage, I actually had 3%??!! it's not from gas or typo, from a spread buried in the exchange rate that is nowhere near clearly displayed before you confirm the transaction. On small amounts you'd never catch it. On anything serious it becomes a significant loss. Checked the same route on other platforms after and the difference was embarrassing. submitted by /u/FrostingBig1895 [link] [Kommentare]

Hi, I live in Russia and want to move out of here, I don't have any education, I can save up and move to some Russian speaking countries, but I'll probably get stuck, while I am in Russia I have support network so I am self-studying for a few hours every day osint, programming and crypto, because AI(I know stupid, but I don't where else to ask) said that companies in crypto are more willing to hire juniors, plus while in Russia I can only receive payments in crypto, before I move if everything is playing right. Here's what I would like to ask about(I wrote following text as a message to another person, so I am sorry if I missed some details and something doesn't make sense): 1) How hard is to get junior position on this role? I want work that is remote and will give me enough funds to relocate(I do not expect some golden mountains, AI told me that 1500-2000 usd is reasonable expectations for junior role in this position) 2) Do employers usually expect relevant education, beside self-study knowledge? 3) Can you rate my plan of action? - at the same time I am currently learning progromming(python, data analytics), crypto(honestly somewhat lost for now I am reading up to 2nd chapter of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency and after I will be studying etherscan, arkham and other tools) and osint(for now I have finished cybermentor half of osint course and now I try to practice by doing some small exercises to develop osint mindset, but as soon as crypto knowledge will catch up I will mix crypto and osint practice and later when programming will catch up I will mix all three to build my portfolio in relevant to position aspect) and also AI advised to learn in the later half when I will learn solidly all topics to also learn regulatorics of crypto submitted by /u/Mental_Budget_5085 [link] [Kommentare]

I received a promotional email from robinhood offering 3% bonus on crypto deposit. In the email they said the transferred assets only need to be kept on Robinhood for 2.5 months. However, when I clicked the link and got to the App, the fine print says that you must maintain the crypto assets for 2.5 YEARS. What a convenient mistake to make in the promotional email… submitted by /u/Lala-dc [link] [Kommentare]

I've been wondering why cryptocurrency wallet payment issues seem so much harder to deal with than regular payment problems. One small mistake can turn into payment processing errors or even blockchain transaction issues, and there's often no easy way to undo it. I've also run into daily payment failures from time to time, so I'm trying to get better at crypto wallet troubleshooting and understand the digital wallet limitations before they become expensive mistakes. Has anyone found a routine or habit that helps prevent these kinds of issues? submitted by /u/Organic_Horse88 [link] [Kommentare]

Over the past few years, stablecoins seem to have quietly become one of the most widely used parts of crypto. Many people who would never touch volatile assets are now using stablecoins for transfers, payments, and crossborder transactions Do you think stablecoins will become the first truly mainstream crypto product? Why or why not? submitted by /u/North-Exchange5899 [link] [Kommentare]

I've been thinking about BTC’s opportunity cost. People can still be long-term bullish, but when AI stocks, gold, oil, or other trades are moving faster, it becomes harder to decide the portion to allocate to BTC. Holding can still make sense, especially as a core position, but there is a trade-off when other assets have clearer momentum. That is what I keep going back and forth on. I look at BTC on bydfi these days and realized I was comparing it against others with the same capital. How are you guys here reading BTC now? Still holding as a core position, selling a bit, or rotating into stronger momentum? submitted by /u/Choice_Employee_7739 [link] [Kommentare]

A bank reports your annual balance and the interest you earned, that's it. DAC8, the EU's crypto reporting directive, forces crypto platforms to report your identity, including your home address and date of birth, your tax residence, and your full transaction history: every acquisition, disposal, transfer, deposit and withdrawal, including transactions that have no relevance whatsoever to any tax event. Not even a bank is subject to this level of detail. Here's why that matters beyond principle. Government databases holding this kind of data do not have a clean track record: A DGFiP tax agent in Bobigny was jailed in January 2026 for selling home addresses and tax profiles to criminals, specifically targeting cryptocurrency investors In Italy, corrupt police officers accessed tax, police and bank databases and exfiltrated over a million records, resold or used for blackmail (the Equalize case, 2024-2026) Bulgaria's tax authority had the data of 5 to 7 million citizens, nearly its entire adult population, exfiltrated through what investigators called basic techniques In 18 months, more than 100 million records of French citizens were compromised from databases run by the French state or its contractors France's own privacy regulator logged 8,613 breach notifications in the last 12 months, roughly one every hour And when crypto-specific data leaks, it doesn't stay abstract: the Waltio breach (a French crypto tax platform) directly served at least three kidnappings, according to French authorities. That is the exact same category of database DAC8 now creates, at a scale French authorities themselves describe as up to 1000x larger, shared across 27 tax administrations instead of one platform. https://preview.redd.it/6rlkjrcl64ch1.jpg?width=2752&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4f06cc6e02214a928237e6d84ef9d94e6bef150 The physical-risk numbers are trending the wrong way at the same time this rollout is happening: Wrench attacks (physical coercion to extract crypto) rose 75% in 2025, then another 41% in Q1 2026 versus Q1 2025. Europe now accounts for 82% of global crypto-related physical attacks, France alone for 70%. Over half of 2026 victims held no crypto at all, they were spouses, children or elderly parents of holders. $101M was extorted in just the first four months of 2026. https://preview.redd.it/calhsqk074ch1.png?width=1672&format=png&auto=webp&s=aad9a409ab2271bf1b362704325fdfe303ccd7e8 This is the proportionality argument we're now making in court. We've filed a legal challenge before France's Conseil d'État to annul the French decree implementing DAC8, arguing the scale of data collection exceeds what fighting tax fraud actually requires, and that concentrating this much identity-linked financial data in a database already proven leakable creates a security risk that outweighs whatever fraud it prevents. Full case, sources and figures on STOP DAC8: DAC8.COM Given this track record, is a shared 27-country database actually more secure than the status quo, or just a bigger target? submitted by /u/BullBitcoin_ [link] [Kommentare]