From January 1st to mid August 2026, France recorded 90 cases of cryptocurrency related kidnapping, extortion, threats, and violent theft, with 223 arrests and 126 people imprisoned by the police. Chainalysis counted 30 violent attacks in France during the year, with Gart.io tracking 73, higher than the 66 in the United States and 27 in the United Kingdom. Eric Jardine believes that the surge in attacks is related to data breaches, with French tax data breaches and Waltio user data breaches allowing attackers to obtain holder information. More than 40% of attacks in France involve relatives or acquaintances of victims, and criminals target them through social media, on chain data, and leaked information.

Base founder Jesse Pollak stated that the tokenization super cycle will be led by US and global stocks, with the US dollar already tokenized and non US dollar stablecoins undervalued. Coinbase launched tokenized stocks on Base six weeks ago, with a current daily trading volume of approximately $70 million to $100 million. 50 stocks have been launched and are expected to increase to 250 by the end of the month. (Source: The Block)

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin discusses hardware security issues at OKX event.

The Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission stated that opposing new cryptocurrency regulatory regulations is dangerously inviting the next Sam Bankman Fried incident. （Watcher.Guru）

Two addresses belonging to the same whale have accumulated approximately $50.3 million in BTC and ETH long positions on Hyperliquid. Among them, diamondbull.Eth opened 11500 ETH long positions with a value of approximately $28.72 million, ranking among the top seven Hyperliquid ETH long positions with a floating loss of approximately $109000. Samurai-eth holds multiple orders of 200 BTC and 2000 ETH, with a position value of approximately $21.58 million and a floating profit of approximately $753000.