EU Watchdogs Make Tokenization a 2027 Priority, Not Yet a Rule
The EBA, EIOPA and ESMA named AI and tokenization as the 2027 focus of their joint work programme.
The EBA, EIOPA and ESMA named AI and tokenization as the 2027 focus of their joint work programme.
Standard Chartered has pushed its $2 trillion stablecoin market forecast from 2028 to 2030, as supply sits near $309 billion and on-chain use keeps climbing.
Crypto transfers from Canada to India, China and the Philippines reached $2.36 billion in the year to June 2026, up 141%, as stablecoins take a bigger share.
VanEck has asked the SEC to withdraw the Form S-1 for its Lido Staked Ethereum ETF, a stETH product that never sold a share. The SEC has not yet consented.
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The EBA has classified Circle's USDC as the EU's first significant e-money token under MiCA.
Bastion Trading will not tender its SKYA shares into SkyAI's $3.00 cash offer and wants other holders to wait until the company explains its Solana sales.
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The White House confirmed Patrick Witt's crypto council posting has ended, with no successor named and the CLARITY Act still stalled in the Senate.
EasyA says it reached a $1.1 billion valuation and filed for a direct listing. Tokenized shares are on the roadmap, with no mechanics disclosed yet.
The OCC found banks restricted services for crypto and other sectors, but its nine-bank debanking review gives no crypto example and no full count.
Ether took about $286 million of the $483 million liquidated in bitcoin and ether futures over 24 hours, as hot September CPI pressured crypto prices.
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Solana's Accelerate China tour runs October 16 to 22 across four cities. The Shanghai office the team is promoting still has no verified building or floor.
Solana activates Alpenglow in epoch 1064 on October 21, replacing TowerBFT with a system targeting 150ms finality, plus what validators must do first.
Binance will close its bitcoin mining pool at 07:00 UTC on Nov. 10, along with Pool Savings and Cloud Mining. Its remaining 8.7 EH/s has to go somewhere else.
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Bitcoin miners fell up to 12.64% on 14 October as September CPI hit 3.7% and rate hike odds jumped.
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StarkWare's OffMarket lets traders take Polymarket positions from wallets unlinked to their account. The bet stays public, the person behind it does not.
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Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams are live on Stellar, as the Stellar Development Foundation covers oracle costs for $3.5 billion in RWAs.
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DriveWealth is integrating Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin to settle money in Europe, with custody and payments to follow.
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Ripple signed Meritz Securities as its fourth Korean partner of 2026 and added DriveWealth the same day. XRP traded near $1.33, down 6.9% over seven days.
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Listed bitcoin miners averaged a $75,500 cash cost per coin in Q2 2026 while BTC closed at $58,400.
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Richard Heart, founder of Hex and PulseChain, was detained in Istanbul with his wife on an Interpol Red Notice, Turkish media report.
Perpetuals.com, run by former FTX Europe head Patrick Gruhn, is the second venue to use the SEC's five-year exemption for onchain trading of US stocks, after
BlackRock's digital asset products ended September with $79.6 billion, up 63% from June, but 23% below the $104 billion held a year earlier.
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Chainalysis counted more than 138 million x402 payments on Base, but over 87% were worth less than a dime and the network's real dollar value is still disputed.
SBF's counsel asked the Supreme Court to review his conviction and $11 billion forfeiture. The legal question, the timeline, what it means for FTX creditors.
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