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Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M ; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/25/paxos-fordefi-acquisition-crypto-wallet-defi/

Stablecoin issuer Paxos to acquire wallet startup Fordefi for more than $100 million
Paxos provides crypto infrastructure for major institutions like PayPal and Mastercard.

Apple Wallet: Diese Airlines machen bei Apples verbesserten Bordkarten mit
Werden Flighty & Co. überflüssig? Apple macht Flugtickets in seiner Wallet-App schlauer. Nun stehen erste Teilnehmer auf Airline-Seite fest.

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M accounts, for ~$90M (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1zemqprel

Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, a16z-backed wallet platform, for $90 million
The Israeli digital asset firm, valued at $8 billion, broadens its platform amid industry-wide stablecoin momentum. 

Heading out the door? Remember: wallet, keys, phone, whistle.

Found a cool tool to create Apple Wallet passes.
https://walletwallet.alen.ro/

NFL Announces Punishment for Raiders Player in Loss to Chiefs https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-punishment-chiefs-loss/?adt_ei=[email]

Samourai Wallet crypto mixer’s co-founders sentenced to prison https://therecord.media/samourai-wallet-crypto-mixer-founders-sentenced

The cyber news machine never stops cranking away, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting providers,
--Alice Guo sentenced to life for running scam compound,
--Samourai Wallet operator sentenced to four years,
--SK Telecom rejects breach mediation proposal,
--USBP is massively surveilling Americans,
--Trump to preempt state AI …

The US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting providers
Alice Guo sentenced to life for running scam compound, Samourai Wallet operator sentenced to four years, SK Telecom rejects breach mediation proposal, USBP is massively surveilling Americans, Trump to preempt state AI safety laws, Eternidade Stealer gets more aggressive in Brazil, much more

Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/19/deblock-secures-eur30m-series…

Deblock secures €30M Series A to expand on-chain banking in Europe
French crypto-banking startup Deblock has secured €30 million in Series A funding led by Speedinvest, alongside CommerzVentures and Latitude. Existing investors 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures, and Kraken Ventures also participated in the round. Deblock offers a fully on-chain banking solution in Europe that combines features of a traditional bank account with on-chain self-custody. By linking a euro current account with a personal, self-owned crypto wallet, the platform allows users t…

NFL Announces Punishment for Chiefs Star in Win Over Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-punishment-chiefs-star/?adt_ei=[email]

He who has but four and spends five has no need for a wallet.

Richterin erkennt keine Reue: 5 Jahre Haft für Krypto-Mixer
Milliardenprofite aus Verbrechen wurden über das Samourai Wallet verschleiert. Einer der beiden Gründer kennt nun sein Urteil.
https://www.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSbtXuCCe9Y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "Marty Friedman, an American musician based in Japan, visited a junior high school in Chiba at an event organized by local police to promote coexistence with foreigners. Speaking to first-year students, he said that 99.9% of foreigners who come to Japan are not dangerous and are often eager to communicate with Japanese people. He encouraged students to learn foreign languages and approach others without fear. Friedman also shared a personal story about forgetting his wallet in Japan, highlighting the country’s honesty. The event aimed to help young people understand cultural differences as foreign visitors and workers increase. Learning with empathy can reduce tension and improve everyday interactions. Source:TOKYO NP"
2,062 likes, 113 comments - japandaily_jp on December 18, 2025: "Marty Friedman, an American musician based in Japan, visited a junior high school in Chiba at an event organized by local police to promote coexistence with foreigners. Speaking to first-year students, he said that 99.9% of foreigners who come to Japan are not dangerous and are often eager to communicate with Japanese people. He encouraged students to learn foreign languages and approach others without fear. Friedman also shar…

Bestellungstracking: Apple Wallet ist dank KI künftig viel besser darin
Mit iOS 26 kann Apple Order aus E-Mails herausfinden und mittels KI automatisch in der Wallet-App tracken. Derzeit geht das aber noch nicht bei uns.

Kalshi integrates its event trading platform into the popular crypto wallet Phantom; Dune: in November, Kalshi's trading volume hit $5.8B vs. Polymarket's $3.7B (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.co…

Kalshi Challenges Polymarket’s Crypto Connections, Launching Tokenized Event Trading Via Phantom Wallet
As Kalshi’s trading volume surpasses Polymarket’s, it will now offer prediction market access to Phantom’s 15 million users on Solana.

OH MY GOD DOES PHILLY HAVE PHYSICAL TRANSIT CARDS??
bc I collect them
I don't have my transit card wallet on me but I also have the new Lisbon one
still mad my Istanbulkart disappeared 💔🥀
#lore

ahhhh fuck, my wallet

Kann ja sein, das die Menschen, die keinen Computer haben, aber ein Smartphone, die mobile #EID begrüßen, oder gar als notwendig erachten.
Ich für meinen Teil will nicht davon abhängig sein, dass mein Smartphone funktioniert und der Webservice antwortet. Lt. Vertragsbedingungen der DB-App z. B.liegt die Schuld beim Kunden, wenn etwas nicht geht - jedenfalls hat der Kunde dann eine Bringschuld und…

Digital-Gipfel: Wirtschaft will die digitale Brieftasche vorantreiben
Digitale Ausweise, Führerschein und Krankenkassenkarte im Handy? Die EUDI-Wallet könnte das bald für Millionen Bürger möglich machen – und die Wirtschaft drückt aufs Tempo.

Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US-based SMBs to convert up to 50% of daily sales into BTC now and accept BTC payments starting November 10 (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/343470/jack-dorseys-square-unveils-bitcoin-payments…

Jack Dorsey's Square Unveils Bitcoin Payments, Wallet for Retailers
Block's Square has debuted a new product allowing merchants to accept Bitcoin and convert sales into the cryptocurrency.

I used the new Iphone feature to load my US passport into the wallet.
It worked. But I discovered that my passport was about to expire.
So I discovered that I can renew the passport (and card) online - so I sent for it.
It is rather picky about photographs, but after taking about 30 shots I got one that it would take.
So, in a mere month and $160 expended I'll get my new US passport. I hope.

Ab dem 2. Januar 2027 sollen Bürger den Personalausweis zu Hause lassen und sich mit dem Smartphone ausweisen können. In der "digitalen Brieftasche" (gemeint ist die Wallet) sollen nach Angaben von Wildberger zunächst der Personalausweis, der Führerschein, der Fahrzeugschein und Versicherungskarten enthalten sein. - #Golem

Es hilft nicht, die monopolistischen Giganten als Individuum zu boykottieren, es hilft aber, selbst alternative Strukturen zu unterstützen. So schreibt @… sehr prägnant:
> Make consumption choices that improve your life and the lives of people you love. Support your local bookstore, buy online from libro.fm and bookshop.org – not because this will brea…

My dentist did a really great job of relocating the pain from my mouth to my wallet.

Kann mir jemand, der schon #wero nutzt, einen QR Code schicken, mit dem Mal Geld anfordern kann? Gerne mit irgendwelchen Beträgen voreingestellt.
Url dahinter würde mir auch ausreichen.
Ich möchte gerne analysieren, wie die qr codes aufgebaut sind.

There's something cruel in how our culture treats in-between times.
We have words for achievement
and words for burnout,
but we lack vocabulary for the necessary pauses that precede new growth.
If you say you're
"between projects," people assume you've been cast aside.
The idea that you might be in a natural winter,
that you might be dormant in a way that's preparatory rather than pathological,
doesn't compute …

The Harvest Will Come
I spent most of my twenties believing that purpose was something you found once and then held onto. A winning lottery ticket you kept in your wallet forever. The self-help industry reinforced this: find your passion. Discover your why. Land on the thing that makes you leap out of bed

Headhunter: forget about amnesia
When Headhunter came out on the Dreamcast, it was when the format was dying and games were being reduced to silly prices in HMV. This was good news for my collection and my wallet, with many £5 games filling up my shelves. It was not good for the games themselves, since I had such an abundance of choice that I would not commit more than an hour or so to anything in particular.

Het lijkt alsof de belgische verschijningsvorm van de EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) al live is?
https://bosa.belgium.be/nl/news/mygovbe-app-beschikbaar-als-digitale-sleutel-voor-online-overheidsdiensten

MyGov.be-app beschikbaar als digitale sleutel voor online overheidsdiensten | BOSA
Sinds 14 oktober 2025 kunnen burgers zich aanmelden bij online overheidsdiensten met de MyGov.be-app. De app is nu officieel geactiveerd als nieuwe digitale sleutel binnen de  Federal Authentication Service (FAS).

Digitalministerium testet europäische digitale Identität zusammen mit der BundID
Um den Einsatz der EUDI-Wallet für Verwaltungsprozesse zu erproben, hat das Digitalressort mit Sachsen einen Praxistest für den neuen Online-Ausweis gestartet.

Last bit of car maintenance for the year: the Boxster is back from it's 4yr major service. Along with that, we have new front discs and pads and new hardlines from brake junction to calipers, and to top it all off, the original dealer plates are back in place.
Driving home, it definitely felt faster - though that could be a result of my now much lighter-weight wallet 🙂

Predicting Module-Lattice Reduction
L\'eo Ducas, Lynn Engelberts, Paola de Perthuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10540…

Predicting Module-Lattice Reduction
Is module-lattice reduction better than unstructured lattice reduction? This question was highlighted as 'Q8' in the Kyber NIST standardization submission (Avanzi et al., 2021), as potentially affecting the concrete security of Kyber and other module-lattice-based schemes. Foundational works on module-lattice reduction (Lee, Pellet-Mary, Stehlé, and Wallet, ASIACRYPT 2019; Mukherjee and Stephens-Davidowitz, CRYPTO 2020) confirmed the existence of such module variants of LLL and block-reduction…

Metropolitana III🔶
城 III🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M in illegal transactions (Miles J. Herszenhorn/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… You lost me at "To use most dweb apps you will need a wallet with funds in ANT and Arb ETH […]".

NFL Announces Cowboys Trevon Diggs Punishment For Actions in Win Over Jets https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trevon-diggs-fine-punishment/?adt_ei=[email]

I've got a monero wallet, I've never actually received any funds on it. I'd like to recevied a few things to see how it feels/work. Anyone willing to share some small bits as an experiment?
42LrZz5HykaA7VEpLXeRVYLEbNRtfxqrZXA5zrPucPkARaPDx5pTBCbZya6vKapPkx1my1TcKjpUPLASFchtrtKQRbWqNjj
#xmr #monero

Made some billfold wallets (4 1/4”x3 5/8”) using my stash of lenticular sheets which I’ve been hoarding because many of these are no longer available (except the Stars and Stripes, very Evel Knievel!) and have more on my workbench, some solids too. They take me a while with all the pockets, laminating the lenticular material to make it more durable, and all the edge grinding and edge painting. Lots of steps. But they last years! Blue Genie Art Bazaar starts November 14 bluegenieartbazaar.com…

@… @… Of course nobody’s wallet is infinite, not even nation states. Granted.
But the cost/benefit analysis is different, is all I’m saying.
Hanging your hat on us-east-1 and saying “Eh, if that goes down the web h…

[OT] So now even when you try to avoid using #AI, #AI hits your wallet nonetheless https://www.<…

Concern That Skyrocketing RAM Prices Driven by AI Needs Will Cause Problems for High-End Gaming for 'Several Years' - IGN
There is increasing concern that skyrocketing RAM prices will impact high-end gaming not just in the short term, but the long term.

Cybersecurity firm Blockaid has just revealed the presence of particularly dangerous malicious code on the official Pepe website. This software, known as Inferno Drainer, represents a serious threat to all PEPE holders who visit the platform.
https://investx.fr/en/crypto…

PEPE site hacked by malware: Crash next?
Stay informed on PEPE's official site malware attack. Learn about wallet-draining malware, technical analysis, and price forecast post hack.

North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-hacking-stolen-funds-2026/

2025 Crypto Theft Reaches $3.4 Billion
North Korean hackers stole $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, a 51% year-over-year increase, pushing their all-time total to $6.75 billion.

A Brief Note on Cryptographic Pseudonyms for Anonymous Credentials
Ren\'e Mayrhofer, Anja Lehmann, abhi shelat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05419 https://

A Brief Note on Cryptographic Pseudonyms for Anonymous Credentials
This paper describes pseudonyms for the upcoming European Identity Wallet (EUDIW) architecture from both a cryptographic and an implementation perspective. Its main goal is to provide technical insights into the achievable properties and cryptographic realizations. In particular, we (1) outline the security and privacy requirements of EUDI pseudonyms as the basis for building consensus on the cross-country decision maker level; (2) sketch an abstract cryptographic protocol that fulfills these r…

@… You lost me at "To use most dweb apps you will need a wallet with funds in ANT and Arb ETH […]".

Cowboys Safety Hit With Costly NFL Punishment After Thanksgiving Penalty https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/markquese-bell-fine-punishment-facemask-penalty/?adt_ei=[email]

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/0…

Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.

There are no weekends in cybersecurity so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed since Friday, including
--Over 60 nations signed a controversial cybercrime convention,
--House Democrat service exposed details of government employees with top-secret clearances,
--AI chatbots push Russian propaganda,
--A third-party contractor exposed details on Dublin and Cork airport passengers,
--Philippines' GCash u…

Over 60 nations signed a controversial cybercrime convention
House Democrat service exposed details of government employees with top-secret clearances, AI chatbots push Russian propaganda, A third-party contractor exposed details on Dublin and Cork airport passengers, Philippines' GCash under probe for leak of 8m e-wallet users' data, much more

NFL Hands Down Significant Punishment to Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-significant-punishment-obscene-gesture/?adt_ei=[email]

PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says the company signed a deal with OpenAI to let shoppers use PayPal's digital wallet in ChatGPT to pay for items, starting in 2026 (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/paypal-openai-chatgpt-payments-deal.html

PayPal shares surge 14% after OpenAI deal to become the first payments wallet in ChatGPT
The move makes PayPal an early part of OpenAI's efforts to broaden ChatGPT's use for e-commerce.

NFL Announces Punishment for Raiders Star in Loss to Jaguars https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/devin-white-nfl-fine-jaguars/?adt_ei=[email]

The demand for cold-storage crypto wallets is soaring, as hardware wallet maker Ledger reports its best year, with "triple-digit millions" in 2025 YTD revenue (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Made some billfold wallets (4 1/4”x3 5/8”) using my stash of lenticular sheets which I’ve been hoarding because many of these are no longer available (except the Stars and Stripes, very Evel Knievel!) and have more on my workbench, some solids too. They take me a while with all the pockets, laminating the lenticular material to make it more durable, and all the edge grinding and edge painting. Lots of steps. But they last years! These will be at the Blue Genie Art Bazaar which starts November 14 bluegenieartbazaar.com #handmade #vinylwallets #lenticular #3D #billfold #wallet #bluegenieartbazaar #austintexas #austintx #nakatsubyjna

A US judge sentences Keonne Rodriguez, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to five years in prison for helping to launder hundreds of millions (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

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1️⃣ Livestream EN DE FR:
#EUDI Wallet #EuWallet
14h30: Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister #DigitalAffairs🇩🇰
14h45: #DigitalCommons #EDIC #DCEDIC
15h15: Fairer Markets #DigitalSovereignty #AI #Cloud #DMA
15h45: Friedrich #Merz, Chancellor 🇩🇪
16h00: Emmanuel #Macron, President 🇫🇷
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IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, governments, and companies (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-2…

South Korean crypto exchange Upbit suspended deposits and withdrawals after saying $37M worth of Solana tokens were moved to an unauthorized external wallet (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…