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OKXICE, a joint venture between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, has asked US regulators to approve round-the-clock trading in tokenized shares of 63 US-listed companies.
The Finance Ministry says some employees received salaries in the central bank digital currency from October 1, 2026, a voluntary step that moves the digital ruble into government payroll.
Blockchain firm Chainalysis says it used its own AI to follow funds from the September Bitget breach, which it attributes to North Korea, across four chains.
A Lloyds survey of 100 senior executives found 71% expect tokenisation to transform financial services, with faster payments and settlement seen as the main benefit.
The Independent Community Bankers of America has asked a federal court to overturn OCC rules that let crypto firms obtain national trust bank charters.
Blast said maintenance costs have outpaced its revenue, and has asked users to move assets to Ethereum mainnet before October 26.
The federally chartered U.S. crypto custody bank has reduced its headcount again, even as it expands its institutional and stablecoin operations.
The Stellar Community Fund awarded about $4.04 million in XLM across 40 projects, with five targeting African markets in payments, banking and trade finance.
The payments infrastructure startup, which says it processes $2.5 billion in annualized volume across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, closed a seed round led by Generative Ventures.
Bybit is repositioning as a broader financial platform, adding stocks, gold, forex and other products alongside digital assets, its CEO says.
The U.S. regulator says contracts tied to what a named person will say or do may be especially open to manipulation, and wants platforms to show safeguards.
A large quarterly options settlement covering bitcoin and ether arrives Friday, with a book that traders describe as heavy on call positions.
Binance has taken a $100 million stake in stablecoin issuer Circle under a five-year deal aimed at expanding USDC access, with a focus on emerging markets.
The country's six largest banks are jointly testing tokenized deposits, aiming to move digital commercial funds between regulated institutions.
Binance has invested $100 million in USDC issuer Circle as part of a five-year agreement to promote the stablecoin across its exchange.
Reap plans a Mexican peso stablecoin while Kakao Pay and KakaoBank partner with Fireblocks, signalling growing interest in local-currency stablecoins across regions.
South Africa's institutional rand-backed stablecoin ZARU has launched on Circle's Arc blockchain and joins Circle StableFX as a founding currency pair.
The European Central Bank has introduced Pontes, a settlement system linking its payment infrastructure to blockchain-based markets, with full implementation targeted for 2028.
Bitcoin briefly traded above $85,000 on September 21, its highest level since January 2026, as a market recovery accelerated and short positions were liquidated.
Singapore-based DTCPay has completed a $25 million Series A round, with Japan's SBI Group entering as a strategic investor and Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia India leading the initial tranche.
Coinbase has asked U.S. regulators to approve perpetual futures tied to individual stocks, aiming to move a crypto-market product into equity trading.
The number of banks listed as crypto-asset service providers under the EU's MiCA framework roughly doubled between late June and mid-September 2026, lifting their share to about 23%.
The exchange is extending its traditional finance perpetuals into currency markets, starting with a dollar-Brazilian real contract on September 21 2026.
Crypto-linked equities and bitcoin recovered after U.S. regulators moved ahead with existing authority following the Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act.
The U.S. derivatives regulator submitted a prerule on crypto asset transactions and markets days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act.
Coinbase has asked U.S. regulators to greenlight perpetual futures tied to individual stocks, days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act and the CFTC moved ahead with crypto rules.
OFAC says BitBank moved hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, including payments tied to passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Tehran-based exchange BitBank, which it says moved hundreds of millions in bitcoin to the IRGC and processed payments from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
World, the project formerly known as WorldCoin, has rolled out World Money, an app combining stablecoin payments, digital-asset trading, and rewards.
The Financial Conduct Authority issued cease-and-desist letters at three London premises suspected of running unregistered peer-to-peer crypto businesses.
