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Ghana’s Securities and  Exchange  Commission ( SEC ) said 11 companies have been granted access to a regulatory sandbox to test  cryptocurrency  and  digital  asset services under the country’s Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, 2025. The program allows companies to  run  their products in a controlled environment while regulators monitor risks and  compliance . The sandbox will run for 12 months and sits at the center of Ghana’s early efforts to bring oversight to the  crypto  sector, according to a press release. Companies in the first cohort include asset tokenization firms like Africoin, Blu Penguin, Vaulta, XChain and Goldbod as well as cryptocurrency exchanges like Hyro Exchange, HanyPay and WhiteBit. The commission said firms whose products are market-ready and meet regulatory requirements could transition to a full license after six months. Others may remain in the sandbox for the remaining period to refine the...

A federal court dismissed a lawsuit filed by investors against crypto  exchange   Uniswap , who claimed the company assisted scammers in stealing their funds. The news provided an immediate boost to the market. The legal victory boosted Uniswap’s native  $UNI   token , which has risen 6% on the day to $3.92. According to Judge Katherine Polk Failla, the evidence  did  not prove that Uniswap was directly involved in the scams, and therefore, the court lacked the legal authority to charge the company with fraud. The court rejected the claims against Uniswap developers In April 2022, a group of investors filed a lawsuit against Uniswap Labs, accusing the company of aiding in fraud schemes. These investors wanted the  platform  to share responsibility after they lost  money  due to “rug pulls” and “pump-and-dump” schemes, since the tokens traded on Uni. According to them, Uniswap violated state consumer protection laws because it...

INSIDE THE PLAN TO KILL ALI KHAMENEI When the highly trained, loyal bodyguards and drivers of senior Iranian officials came to work near Pasteur Street in Tehran — where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli air strike on Saturday — the Israelis were watching. Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter. One camera had an angle that proved particularly useful, said one of the people, allowing them to determine where the men liked to park their personal cars and providing a window into the workings of a mundane part of the closely guarded compound. Complex algorithms added details to dossiers on members of these security guards that included their addresses, hours of duty, routes they took to work and, most importantly, who they were usually assigned to protect and transport — building what intelligence officers...