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Citi and DBS completed their first tokenized cross-border transfer over the weekend, using Swift’s blockchain-based ledger to circumvent the constraints of traditional banking hours.
A central bank proposal would pause new payment operator registrations while requiring enhanced monitoring and transaction limits for arrangements involving virtual asset firms.
Galaxy said 82% of Bitcoin stolen across all Coldcard attacks remains in the original addresses, with 18% moved in apparent laundering.
Fomo generated $1.76 million on Friday, beating Pump.fun’s $1.1 million, though the memecoin launchpad remains ahead over 30 days.
The actors told Blockstream they would return most of the 4,000 BTC after the Elements vulnerability is patched across the network.
Harmony proposed sunsetting its layer-1 blockchain and migrating ONE to Ethereum, weeks after an exploit led to plans to discard 109,000 transactions.
In March 2010, twelve addresses holding a total of 600 Bitcoin, worth around $48 million, moved coins after more than 16 years of dormancy. Whale Alert and Lookonchain tracked these transfers but stated that the coins are not connected to Satoshi Nakamoto based on their research. Whale Alert explained that the rewards originated from blocks mined in March 2010, with one address having moved coins in 2026, and indicated that the pattern was consistent with test transactions. The movement of these coins has sparked speculation, but certain analyses suggest no direct link to Nakamoto.
Tether-backed Orionx is permanently closing after an audit found more than $7 million in customer assets had moved to wallets outside its custody.
Polish lawmakers failed to secure the necessary votes to override President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of crypto legislation aimed at regulating the industry, with the Sejm voting 241-198, falling short of the 266 votes needed. The proposed legislation was intended to establish a national framework under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and place oversight under the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF); however, Nawrocki argued the rules would overregulate the sector. The regulatory dispute is occurring amid a widening scandal involving the bankrupt crypto exchange Zondacrypto, with ongoing investigations into suspected fraud and money laundering, and a case merged with the 2022 disappearance of its founder. Prime Minister Donald Tusk highlighted testimonies implicating payments and political influence linked to the scandal, which involves significant financial losses estimated at over 95 million dollars.
The mortgage lender plans to bring more than $10 billion in historical loans onchain, turning thousands of mortgage files into blockchain-based records.
The agency reported that “transnational criminal organizations” based in compounds in Southeast Asia were largely behind digital asset scams targeting US residents.
Corporate crypto bets are getting bigger as rising markets reward direct exposure, putting balance-sheet strategies and institutional adoption back in focus.
QuFi’s new platform uses post-quantum cryptography to verify digital asset transactions without requiring changes to existing blockchain settlement networks.
Despite earlier opposition to the CLARITY Act over consumer protection, the National Sheriffs’ Association says it will now “step back and allow the legislative process to proceed.“
Revolut and OpenReserve have received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish national banks in Connecticut and Utah, respectively, with plans to offer cryptocurrency and stablecoin-related services. Revolut aims to provide digital asset custody, enable crypto use for cross-border transfers, and issue Revolut-branded stablecoins through third-party issuers. OpenReserve, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is developing a blockchain-based bank that will offer traditional banking services along with tokenized deposits and digital asset custody; it also plans to issue US dollar-backed stablecoins, although it has not yet filed an application for that subsidiary. Both banks are subject to meeting OCC’s preopening requirements before they can officially open.
Crypto projects are spending hundreds of millions buying their own tokens. But are buybacks creating lasting value — or just making tokens look more valuable than they really are?
Kalshi’s US web traffic climbed more than 1,500% in less than a year, while trading volume grew even faster and legal scrutiny of its sports contracts intensified.
Trezor said an additional 67,000 US users were affected by its shipping provider’s data breach, opening the path to potential phishing attacks and social engineering scams.
South Korea’s financial regulator introduced a three-phase roadmap for the issuance of tokenized assets, as the country prepares to adopt its first tokenized securities framework in February 2027.
AMC’s CEO criticized Robinhood’s tokenized stock offerings for being unregulated in the US and said he will request an investigation from an external securities counsel.
The IMF attributed Bitcoin added since June 2025 to private donations, addressing questions raised after El Salvador reported a $100 million acquisition.
The agreement includes parallel investigations and information sharing, with US and UK authorities planning a private-sector disruption operation in London in October.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) that challenged the CFTC’s treatment of cryptocurrency futures as swaps, which CME claimed was against Congress. In the filing, the CFTC argued that CME lacks standing to sue because it cannot demonstrate a likely financial injury from the agency’s approval of perpetual futures contracts tied to Bitcoin and related policy statements. The CFTC also stated that CME could list similar futures contracts and that the lawsuit was "much ado about nothing," describing it as “frivolous.” The CFTC requested a hearing to address the motion, which had not yet been scheduled as of Thursday.
Mantle has added Paxos-issued USDG as a natively minted stablecoin while joining the network’s reward-sharing structure.
