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Today’s highlights
- Binance ‘red teams’ its own staff every month to keep hackers out — 2026-07-26
- Binance regularly tests its employees for security hygiene, with social engineering becoming a major source of industry breaches.
- Robinhood in talks with Crypto.com over prediction markets: WSJ — 2026-07-25
- While prediction market companies in the US continue to face legal battles between state and federal authorities, Robinhood is reportedly considering expanding its services.
- Bitcoin advocacy group to join US State Department’s ‘digital freedom’ program — 2026-07-25
- The Bitcoin Policy Institute and three partner organizations will be able to send employees to work alongside State Department officials to address issues including digital freedom.
- Russia’s largest bank Sberbank plans crypto trading infrastructure by December — 2026-07-25
- New regulations for crypto trading, custody, and settlement in Russia take effect Sept. 1, with requirements for licensed intermediaries applying from July 2027.
- Wise to resubmit US charter application under GENIUS Act — 2026-07-25
- The OCC denied the UK company’s application this week citing AML/CFT risks, despite approving similar charters for digital asset companies in the last year.
- North Korea arrests hackers accused of laundering stolen funds from country’s bank via crypto — 2026-07-25
- The group allegedly breached Central Bank systems, converted crypto to cash via Chinese brokers, and used small transfers to evade detection.
- North Korea arrests bank hacking ring tied to crypto laundering: Report — 2026-07-25
- Daily NK reported that North Korea arrested former state cyber operators accused of hacking two state banks and laundering funds through crypto.
- Democratizing weather derivatives through tokenization could be crypto’s most important real-world use case — 2026-07-25
- Main Street, which faces the most significant climate-related financial risk, currently lacks an avenue to hedge weather-related risks, argues CoinDesk’s Omkar Godbole.