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ECB and EU central banks seek MiCA stablecoin rule changes
The European Central Bank (ECB) and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) have urged replacing MiCA’s mandatory stablecoin bank-deposit percentages with a liquidity-focused framework.
Bank-level protections and stablecoin adoption
Visa’s research and related surveys show that U.S. willingness to use stablecoins is highly conditional on perceived protections: in a hypothetical scenario where stablecoins came with bank-level…
Galaxy-Sky treasury and institutional collateral pact
Galaxy Digital added $100 million of Sky Protocol’s yield-bearing sUSDS to its corporate treasury and approved the token as collateral for institutional clients.
Crypto-native single-stock futures access in the US market
Affiliates of Crypto.com have cleared a notable regulatory hurdle: the North American Derivatives Exchange (also known as Nadex, operating under Crypto.com Derivatives North America and OG.com…
Zcash institutional products, European ETPs and price surge
The combined wave of product launches and market moves around Zcash has deepened institutional access while amplifying price volatility. 21Shares listed physically backed exchange-traded products on…
Coinbase and Morpho fixed-rate cbBTC-backed lending
Coinbase has added fixed-rate USDC loans backed by cbBTC, provided through the Morpho Midnight protocol on Base, allowing customers to borrow USDC against bitcoin without selling exposure.
NYSE and Blockchain.com: tokenized stocks for crypto users
NYSE Group and Blockchain.com signed a memorandum of understanding to give Blockchain.com’s more than 44 million confirmed accounts access to tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs via the NYSE’s planned…
Moscow Exchange perpetual crypto futures rollout
Moscow Exchange (MOEX) launched perpetual futures on Sept. 22 for five major cryptocurrencies: BTCUSDF, ETHUSDF, SOLUSDF, XRPUSDF and TRXUSDF.
CFTC guidance on manipulation risks in 'mention' markets
Staff at the CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight advised that prediction market contracts settling on whether a named person says certain words, appears somewhere, or interacts with others — known as…
Proposal for DEX Exemption and CEX Registration Framework
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the DeFi Education Fund submitted a joint proposal to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce asking the agency to establish a ‘‘safe harbor’’ that would create a rebuttable…
OpenAI GPT-6 family: cost cuts and workflow efficiency
OpenAI released two new GPT-6 variants, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, with substantial price cuts and infrastructure upgrades aimed at lowering costs for developers and businesses.
Dogecoin price action and market dynamics overview
Dogecoin has seen renewed momentum: on September 21 the token spiked intraday to roughly $0.105–$0.1059 before retreating to close the day down about 0.62%.
SoFi and Mastercard stablecoin settlement system
SoFi and Mastercard have launched live settlement using SoFiUSD, a bank-issued stablecoin running on Mastercard’s Multi-Token Network, enabling 24/7 settlement for debit and credit card transactions…
Binance under US probe over Iran sanctions compliance
Manhattan federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking about $61 million in cryptocurrency they allege was tied to laundering proceeds from black‑market Iranian oil sales funneled…
Cardano and x402: ADA as a machine-payment rail
Cardano’s contribution to the x402 standard embeds ADA and Cardano‑native tokens into a machine‑payments workflow that runs over ordinary HTTP requests, enabling applications and autonomous AI agents…