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The OKX Standard Chartered partnership is expanding into the European Economic Area right now, and it’s bringing bank-level crypto custody Europe solutions to institutional investors. At the time of writing, this collaboration offers a collateral mirroring programme that actually keeps digital assets secure with a Global Systemically Important Bank while also enabling seamless trading access through OKX’s platform. OKX blog post header announcing Standard Chartered partnership expansion – Source: OKX How the OKX–Standard Chartered Partnership Redefines Crypto Custody in Europe Bank-Grade Security for Institutional Investors OKX and Standard Chartered first launched their partnership in the UAE earlier in 2025 and are now extending it across Europe. This expansion addresses digital asset security concerns by allowing institutional investors to maintain custody of their assets with Standard Chartered, which is a Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB), while mirroring...

AI tools aren’t just helping you keep on top of your emails, they’re giving scammers the edge in stealing your crypto. Whether it’s through giving a boost to traditional “social engineering” scams, or writing crypto-stealing code disguised as a legitimate Javascript package, AI is helping to part users from their tokens while the operators sit back and watch the profits roll in. Trust nobody According to Joey Santoro, the decentralized finance (DeFi) developer behind Fei Protocol and the ERC-4626 (Tokenized Vaults) token standard, a friend recently lost $2 million to a “sophisticated” deepfake scam. Santoro claims that an audio deepfake of Paul Faecks, founder of stablecoin-focused blockchain Plasma, was used to pitch an advisor role, with information that “perfectly matched [the friend’s] profile.” During the call, the victim opened a file (despite it being blocked by security software on a first attempt) which then “ successfully got access to pa...