Wallet

Tangem, a Switzerland-based hardware wallet provider, reported $61.3 million in revenue for 2025, representing a 102% year-over-year increase driven by its "active self-custody" approach. The company said recurring in-app activity, including DeFi access, has become a bigger growth driver than one-off device sales as monthly active users rose by 50%.

On 1 March 2026, Bitrefill reported a cyber incident in which attackers drained funds from its hot wallets and accessed parts of its infrastructure. The breach involved misuse of its gift card supply system and exposed around 18,500 purchase records, including email and crypto payment addresses. Bitrefill said it has restored most services, will cover the losses from operational capital, and has tightened security controls after the attack.

On March 17, 2026, non-custodial exchange ChangeNOW introduced Private Send, a NOW Wallet feature that breaks direct links between sender and recipient addresses on public blockchains. The service reroutes funds through ChangeNOW's infrastructure, keeping the final transaction record intact while obscuring the original sending address. It supports most assets in NOW Wallet, follows existing AML and geographic rules, and targets users seeking added privacy without extra registration or apps.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Market Participants Division issued a no-action letter to crypto wallet provider Phantom Technologies, allowing it to operate in certain ways without registering as a broker. Phantom says this position lets its non-custodial interface connect users to a registered exchange without assuming introducing broker obligations. The decision is among the first no-action responses for a crypto firm under CFTC Chair Michael Selig, who continues to assert the agency's authority over prediction markets while coordinating with the SEC.

On 17 March 2026, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission granted no-action relief to Phantom Technologies Inc. for activities related to its self-custodial wallet software. The position allows Phantom to offer wallet interfaces that connect users to trading services from registered futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, and designated contract markets without registering as a broker, as long as specific conditions are satisfied.

PayPal announced on Tuesday that access to its U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin PYUSD has been extended to 70 markets, up from a focus on the U.S. and UK. Users in newly added regions such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, and Singapore can now buy, hold, send, and receive PYUSD through their PayPal accounts, with eligible users outside Singapore and the UK able to earn rewards on holdings. The expansion follows PYUSD's 2023 launch and coincides with the token's market capitalization climbing to $4.12 billion.

A French couple in their late 50s in Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt was allegedly forced at knifepoint to transfer more than €900,000 (about $1 million) in Bitcoin to attackers posing as police officers. The suspects tied up the man, injured the woman, and fled in a white van, while authorities opened an investigation into suspected kidnapping, armed robbery by an organized group, and criminal conspiracy. Wrench attacks involving physical coercion to steal crypto have become more frequent in France as Bitcoin prices climb.

Ripple’s XRP has drawn about $1.4 billion into spot ETFs since their late-2025 launch, with institutional assets under management now near $1–1.2 billion and Goldman Sachs leading allocations. On-chain, XRPL is processing roughly 951,682 daily transactions with growing DEX volume and stablecoin liquidity, while tightening exchange reserves and active derivatives markets signal a gradual shift toward longer-term positioning.

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses JPMorgan Chase of providing the core banking services for an alleged $328 million crypto Ponzi scheme tied to Goliath Ventures. The complaint, brought by investor Robby Alan Steele, claims more than 2,000 investors were affected between 2023 and 2025, with around $253 million routed through one Chase account and $123 million sent on to Coinbase wallets.

On March 11, the official Bonk.fun website for the Solana memecoin launchpad was hijacked, with a wallet drainer embedded into the front-end to steal user funds. Only wallets that signed a fake terms-of-service message during the attack window were affected, and the team says losses are minimal. The BONK token has fallen nearly 1% in the last 24 hours and about 45% over the past year while the broader memecoin market has added around 2.5% and climbed back above a $32Bn capitalization.