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View More NewsIn brief Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority is seeking to buy a blockchain analytics platform to police the country’s virtual assets market. The tool would monitor Bitcoin, Ethereum, and at least 20 other networks to flag fraud, money laundering, terrorism financing, and sanctions evasion. The move follows the Virtual Assets Service Providers Act of 2025, which brought Kenya’s crypto sector under formal regulation for the first time. Kenya’s securities regulator wants to buy a blockchain surveillance system to help police the country’s fast-growing crypto market, as it prepares to license and supervise virtual asset firms under a new law.The Capital Markets…
Non-custodial multichain cryptocurrency wallet Ctrl Wallet will shut down its services, weeks after a security exploit, and told users on Tuesday to withdraw their assets within the next month.Ctrl Wallet reported a security issue on June 23 effecting some Cardano wallets on the platform and said it entered a temporary “maintenance mode” to protect user assets until its engineering team restores full functionality. Earlier today, the wallet’s operators announced that starting Aug. 3, 2026, sending, receiving, swapping funds and all other actions within the app will be unavailable, except for exporting users’ recovery phrases.The app will be removed from both app…
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