DeFi & NFT
By Dan Saada
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Crypto Founders Call It a Security Breach. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams didn't hold back. He said the sweeping inclusion of units in luxury…
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Property Lawyer Flags Overreach, Appeals Window Opens. Property tax lawyer Ben Williams said he expects the list to shrink considerably.
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A Wider Pattern of Physical Risk for Crypto Holders. The broader crypto security community has been watching physical attack trends for a while now.
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New York City dropped a spreadsheet. It named 31,000 properties. And now some of the biggest names in crypto are furious.
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The list, published July 24, came out of a new city tax targeting secondary homes — residences not occupied by their owners.
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The data isn't just a raw count of units. It includes full street addresses, unit numbers, and owner names.
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Uniswap founder Hayden Adams didn't hold back. He said the sweeping inclusion of units in luxury buildings could carry serious privacy implications — the kind that go well beyond…
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Castle Island Ventures' Nic Carter went further. He warned that easily accessible, well-organized data like this could trigger the same kinds of crimes already spreading across…
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CertiK, a blockchain security firm, put numbers to it. The firm tracked 52 so-called wrench attacks in just the first half of 2026, mostly in Europe.
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The New York list doesn't include any crypto holdings. No wallet addresses, no exchange balances, nothing like that. But that's kind of the point.
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More context: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Puts Crypto Vault Registration on the Table
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Property tax lawyer Ben Williams said he expects the list to shrink considerably. His read is that it's too broad right now, and many homeowners will successfully contest their…
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Whether the city responds meaningfully to those challenges will probably shape how this story ends. The finalized version of the list is due December 31.
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The data was technically public before all this. Property records in New York aren't secret.
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See also: BitMEX Shuts Down September 23 as 4 Crypto Firms Collapse in Weeks
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