Offchain Bank Announces a Swiss IBAN Crypto in June 2026: What the Official Communication Doesn't Say
Offchainpayment announces a Swiss IBAN linked to the wallet, a debit card, "fully offline" operation, and a beta reserved for holders. Reading the site, the cla...
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Yoti vs GrapheneOS: 72 Hours of a Contested Drama, and Why We're Taking the Signal
On June 6, 2026, a GrapheneOS user posts a Yoti support response claiming the OS got him reported to authorities. Yoti denies it. GrapheneOS calls it fearmonger...
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Sumsub, IDMerit, Yoti: the arc showing that KYC centralization is the worst vector of 2025-2026
Three separate incidents, seven months, three major KYC vendors. The thesis is no longer defensible: the centralization of identity proofs has become the primar...
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Bit.com, Leap, Arkham: The Q1-Q2 2026 Closure Wave and Its Real Driver
More than twenty crypto projects shut down between January and May 2026. The easy explanation is the bear market. The reading that holds up lies elsewhere: comp...
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MiCA Countdown: Unauthorized CASPs Face July 1, 2026 Deadline
With 22 days to go until the end of the MiCA transitional period, roughly 40 CASP licenses have been issued according to public reporting. A look at who's getti...
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GENIUS Act NPRM: The SAR Exemption on the Secondary Market That Nobody Reads
FinCEN and OFAC close the comment window on the GENIUS Act stablecoin NPRM on June 9, 2026. At the heart of the text, a secondary transaction reporting exemptio...
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Four no-KYC prepaid cards still alive on June 9, 2026, and three we don't recommend
Crypto no-KYC prepaid card market snapshot for June 2026, with 'why we keep' and 'why we reject' columns for evaluated services.
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Cryptomus: 2,593 violations, CAD 176.9M, and why a full-KYC payment processor solves nothing
FINTRAC issued the largest AML fine ever imposed in Canada in October 2025 to Xeltox Enterprises Ltd, operator of Cryptomus. A detailed review of the 2,593 viol...
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Haveno, Bisq, BasicSwap: What the arxiv 2505.02392 Paper Actually Demonstrates
A TU Berlin and TRM Labs team publishes the first empirical study of P2P DEXs in the Monero ecosystem in 2025. The verdict is less flattering than the marketing...
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Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM Labs: Three Tracing Fronts, and What Monero Can Still Oppose in 2026
Three platforms dominate the chain analysis market. Methodological breakdown: what each one can do, what it cannot do, and where Monero, Lightning blinded paths...
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Crypto investigative journalist in June 2026: revised threat model after Sumsub, IDMerit and Yoti
Seven months after Sumsub, six months after IDMerit, three days after Yoti. An operational walkthrough for rebuilding a defensible stack in June 2026, with no i...
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