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Ledger customers woke up on Jan. 5 to an email no one wants to see: their names and contact information had been exposed through a breach at Global-e, a third-party payment processor.The company clarified what hadn’t been compromised: no payment cards, no passwords, and critically, no 24-word recovery phrases. The hardware remained untouched, the firmware secure, the seed storage intact.For a data breach, this is the best-case scenario. Except in crypto, a leaked shipping label can be the first step in a phishing funnel or, in rare worst-case scenarios, a knock at the door.The real vulnerability isn’t the walletBleepingComputer reported…

Maelstrom, the investment fund founded by Arthur Hayes, is starting 2026 with what Hayes calls “almost maximum risk” exposure, extending an aggressive stance adopted in the second half of last year and pointing to minimal stablecoin exposure.Hayes said Maelstrom remains deep in risk assets, but with a refined focus on privacy coins like zcash ZEC$504.69 and emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens now leading the portfolio, in an essay published on Tuesday.“Maelstrom entered 2026 with almost maximum risk,” Hayes wrote. “While we will continue to invest spare cash generated from various financing trades into Bitcoin, our dollar stables position is very…

If you’re launching a business in 2025 and a sustainable business model isn’t built in from day one, you’re already behind. Today’s customers demand more than great products. They want values-aligned brands they can believe in. Investors are pouring capital into climate-positive ventures. And the most forward-thinking founders are proving you don’t have to sacrifice profit for purpose. But here’s the kicker: building a sustainable business isn’t about slapping a green label on your packaging or offsetting your carbon footprint after the fact.  In this guide, we’ll break down how to design a business that is both profitable and future-proof,…

Thanks to Arantxa Zapico, Benedikt Wagner, and Dmitry Khovratovich from the EF cryptography team for their contributions, and to Ladislaus, Kev, Alex, and Marius for the careful review and feedback. The zkEVM ecosystem has been sprinting for a year. And it worked! We crossed the finish line for real-time proving! Now comes the next phase: building something mainnet-grade. From speed to security In July, we published a north-star definition for realtime proving. Nine months later, the ecosystem crushed it: proving latency dropped from 16 minutes to 16 seconds, costs collapsed 45×, and zkVMs now prove 99% of all Ethereum blocks…

Solflare, one of the largest non-custodial wallets on the Solana blockchain, has launched the alpha version of a native, in-wallet AI assistant designed to automate complex decentralized finance (DeFi) workflows through natural language.Announced on stage at Solana Breakpoint 2025, the new tool—Solflare AI—aims to replace rigid, traditional wallet interfaces with an LLM-powered assistant. The feature allows users to execute on-chain actions, set price alerts, and analyse social sentiment directly within the wallet, removing the need to switch between disparate tools to manage a portfolio.Bridging the gap between intent and executionVidor Gencel, co-founder and co-CEO of SolflareCrypto markets are notoriously fast-paced,…

Is your trading account hurting? Do you feel overwhelmed, frustrated and ready to throw in the towel on the whole “trading thing”? Well, today’s lesson, if properly understood and implemented, can quite possibly provide you with the knowledge that you need to literally save your trading account and start building it back up. You’ve probably heard that something like 90 to 95% of people who trade money in the markets or “speculate” in the markets, end up failing over the long-run. Whilst there can be a multitude of reasons for this mass failure, the primary one that underlies all the…

U.S. crypto giant Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) is officially expanding its services to bring multiple asset classes onto a single platform in a bid to become an “everything exchange”. This marks one of the most aggressive expansions in the exchange’s 13-year history. In an announcement made during its year-end ‘System Upgrade’ conference in San Francisco, the publicly listed firm said that it will be introducing a broad range of new products, including stock trading, prediction markets, decentralized trading for Solana tokens, custom-branded stablecoins, perpetual futures, and payments infrastructure, among others. Coinbase to Launch Spot and Futures Stock Trading Feature in 2026…

Over the Summer break, Startup Daily is republishing key stories from 2025. This opinion piece from editor Simon Thomsen first appeared in March as news emerged of Meta’s use of Library Genesis, an online warehouse of stolen intellectual property, to train its AI, emerged.  This year marks 20 years since Mark Zuckberg launched Facebook, having kicked it off as The Facebook in 2004. He was already notorious for Facemash, the “hot or not” site that ranked Harvard students by their attractiveness, which he created in late 2003. Zuckerberg hacked into house face book websites at the university to get the…

Think you can’t make money investing in stocks everyone’s heard of? Think again. Here are three (admittedly boring) Canadian blue chips everyone should consider owning in 2026. Prefer to read? There’s a transcript below. Canadian Stocks to Own in 2026 Nick Sciple: I’m Motley Fool Canada Senior Analyst Nick Sciple, and this is The 5-Minute Major, here to make you a smarter investor in about five minutes. Today, we’re discussing “The Unsexy Portfolio for 2026.” My guest today is Motley Fool Canada Chief Investment Officer Iain Butler. Iain, thanks for joining me. Iain Butler: Great to be here, as always,…

Use CoinPayments in your Business Now that you have finished setting up your CoinPayments account and adjusting the settings to your liking, it’s time to move on to the next step. This is where the details you recorded in STEP 1 will be used (Merchant ID, IPN Secret, API Public Key, API Private Key), in order to link your eCommerce store to your CoinPayments account. Depending on how much automation you’re looking for and what type of platform you use to conduct your business activity, CoinPayments can be integrated via different tools available to businesses: Pre-Built eCommerce Plugins Custom APIs…