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- Custody & Infrastructure
OCC returns Zerohash's trust bank charter application
Zerohash's first application was returned as 'materially deficient.' The firm calls the move administrative and plans to refile this month with a narrower request.
- Custody & Infrastructure
Coldcard's $100M hack: the air-gap's blind spot
The wallet never touched the internet, yet it was drained. The vulnerability was in how its seed phrase was created.
- Tokenization
AMM-correlated-pairs debate turns on permission
The XTX counterpoint concedes the mechanism; who gets to provide liquidity decides whether tokenized equities matter.
- Tokenization
Coinbase makes Abu Dhabi its tokenized-securities hub
The ADGM license lets Coinbase arrange deals and hold digital assets, with investors keeping tokenized shares in wallets instead of brokerage accounts.
- Crypto ETFs & funds
Neuberger Berman puts a credit fund on Securitize's rails
The filing landed just as Securitize reported record assets and shrinking fees, raising the question of who collects when the wrapper is a commodity.
- Custody & Infrastructure
GnosisDAO votes to settle Gnosis Chain on Ethereum
The move would release roughly 350,000 GNO and end the treasury's staking subsidy.
- Adoption
Metaplanet pays $134.6 million to turn Super League into Superplanet
The Japanese bitcoin treasury firm will hold a 95.7% stake in the renamed Superplanet and use bitcoin as collateral for preferred stock financing.
- Tokenization
Robinhood CEO Tenev pushes SEC to open US to tokenized stocks
A week after the SEC shelved its innovation exemption, Tenev makes a market-structure case for tokenized equities at home.
- Tokenization
HSBC and Standard Chartered move first cross-bank tokenized deposit on Swift
A live transfer between HSBC and Standard Chartered shows how tokenized deposits can move across banks on Swift's blockchain.
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- Regulation
GENIUS Act's redemption test opens a stablecoin wrapper gap
Coins that redeem only into other stablecoins fall outside the payment-stablecoin definition, opening a route around issuer regulation that rulemaking has to close.
- The Wrap
Stablecoin oversight is becoming a dollar funding problem
The Treasury's GENIUS Act definitions and a BIS-IMF paper decide which institutions absorb the dollar pressure that stablecoin demand creates.
- Tokenization
Hong Kong's first regulated stablecoin, Standard Chartered's HKDAP, enters beta
The HKMA-licensed stablecoin's beta pairs strict holder-identification rules with institutional distribution; tokenized settlement is the aim.
- Regulation
SEC proposes crypto asset rules with $75 million exemption, safe harbor
The proposal gives token issuers a registration-free path to $75 million and a completion-based off-ramp from security status.
- Adoption
Jeonbuk Bank takes Ripple's payment rail to regional Korea
The first regional Korean bank to deploy Ripple Payments extends the company's institutional push beyond the country's biggest financial firms.
- Adoption
Strategy hoards $4.8 billion as bitcoin treasury playbook shifts
Saylor's retreat from buybacks and pivot to preferred equity redraws how corporate bitcoin holders manage capital.
- Adoption
Visa's stablecoin settlement search turns on four licenses
The card network's request for a licensed over-the-counter and settlement partner, seen by CoinDesk, points to a future of multiple stablecoin issuers.
- Regulation
Bank of England listens, but stablecoin rules wait on risk appetite
Lord Ranger came away from a Bank of England evidence session with two impressions. The one that sets the stablecoin timeline is risk appetite, not technology.
- Tokenization
BIS's Agorá selects 41 institutions for tokenized payments test
A unified-ledger experiment backed by seven central banks moves from design to live testing with the private sector.
- Custody & Infrastructure
SocGen Forge secures French license for digital-asset custody and trading
France's AMF has licensed Societe Generale's digital-assets arm to hold client crypto, a milestone for bank-run custody.
- Custody & Infrastructure
Citi's Custody+ puts bitcoin on the bank's main institutional rail
Digital assets enter the same custody network as stocks and bonds, shrinking the case for separate crypto custodians.
- Regulation
Treasury proposes stablecoin definitions in first GENIUS Act rulemaking
Treasury's first rulemaking under the stablecoin law sets definitions and a comment schedule that will determine which issuers face U.S. rules.
- Tokenization
Securitize's tokenized assets reach a record $4.3B as revenue falls
The first public report since Securitize listed shows tokenized assets at a record even as tokenization fees shrink and the net loss widens.
- Regulation
Stablecoin yield deal revives Clarity Act with Coinbase on board
A Senate compromise on stablecoin interest payments restores Coinbase's backing and moves the Clarity Act toward markup.
- Tokenization
Standard Chartered's HKDAP stablecoin enters beta on licensed exchanges
Hong Kong's first regulated stablecoin moves into beta with institutions, testing an identity-first compliance model.
- Regulation
Stablecoin yield deal breaks the Clarity Act impasse
A Senate compromise on stablecoin interest and Coinbase's endorsement clear the way for a Clarity Act markup. The hardest fight moves to rulemaking, where "bona fide" gets defined.
- Regulation
Trump expected to meet crypto CEOs at White House before CFTC panel's first session
The White House meets crypto's chiefs the day before the CFTC innovation panel's first session. A stalled market-structure bill and an ethics standoff hang over both.
- Tokenization
JPMorgan adds euro payments to JPM Coin
Siemens is the first client to move euros on the bank's tokenized rail, which still settles only inside JPMorgan.
- Adoption
Jeonbuk Bank becomes first Korean regional bank to run Ripple Payments
Ripple's third Korean institutional deal of 2026 puts stablecoin settlement inside a traditional provincial lender.
- Tokenization
SEC delays tokenized-securities exemption after White House and SIFMA pushback
The canceled Friday meeting leaves tokenized equities without a compliance path; their near-term fate now rests with Congress.
- Regulation
Bank lobby's yield push helps knock over Clarity Act
The stablecoin yield argument may have fatally derailed the Senate's crypto-rule bill, with three weeks of action left.
- Regulation
Stablecoin flows spill into currency markets, BIS-IMF paper finds
A BIS-IMF working paper finds stablecoin purchases from non-dollar economies spill into traditional currency markets, raising dollar funding costs for banks and corporates that never touched crypto.
- Regulation
Treasury proposes GENIUS Act definitions for stablecoin issuers
The first formal GENIUS Act rule will decide who must license stablecoin issuance, with Tether's treatment and a congressional rewrite hanging over a January 18 deadline.
- Regulation
SEC postpones Regulation Crypto proposal without setting a new date
The agency's first major digital-asset rulemaking is deferred, and the sector is left waiting on a stalled Congress.
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- Regulation
SEC's tokenized-stock exemption stays off the agenda as Atkins talks it up
Chair Paul Atkins has promised a framework for compliant onchain trading of stock tokens, but the SEC's Friday agenda carries no such item.
- The Wrap
Franklin Templeton's tokenized money fund gets a custody green light
SEC staff no-action relief puts FOBXX under Rule 17f-2's cash and collateral framework, making onchain money funds a practical institutional cash tool.
- Crypto ETFs & funds
Bitcoin ETFs see largest weekly outflow in six weeks
A three-day selling streak and sliding Clarity Act odds accompanied the $390 million exit; Solana ETFs were the exception.
- Tokenization
SEC staff clears Franklin funds to run cash through an onchain money fund
A no-action letter puts a tokenized money fund inside Rule 17f-2's custody framework, opening FOBXX to cash and collateral duty.
- The Wrap
Independent broker-dealers lose three teams in one day
Commonwealth lost two teams to Cetera and Hightower added a $275 million team from Valley, all on Aug. 17