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The European Banking Authority has designated USDC as the EU’s first significant e-money token under MiCA, setting up an additional layer of supervision for Circle’s euro-area issuing entity. TL;DR: The classification was announced on October 14. From November 12, the EBA takes direct responsibility for specified prudential areas of USDC supervision, while French regulators retain […]

A new payments dataset offers a useful correction to the idea that stablecoin growth must be measured by how many tokens are in circulation. The stock of digital dollars has barely moved this year, but the amount being used for payments has climbed sharply. TL;DR: Allium estimates $482 billion in identifiable stablecoin payments through September […]

California has secured a $500,000 settlement with Fidelity Digital Asset Services over restrictions that previously prevented some crypto customers from moving purchased coins to their own wallets. TL;DR: Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the settlement on October 16. California challenged historical withdrawal restrictions; Fidelity disputes that its conduct breached state law, and transfers were enabled […]

Latvia has passed a change to the way crypto investment-account gains are taxed, shifting attention from individual trades to what an investor ultimately withdraws from an eligible account. TL;DR: New Latvian legislation taxes qualifying account withdrawals above deposits and provides a one-time 2027 process for declaring older holdings. The country is also considering crypto tax […]

JPMorgan is taking its bank-issued deposit token onto public Ethereum, an expansion that puts an established Wall Street payments product on infrastructure traditionally associated with crypto-native finance. TL;DR: JPMorgan is expanding access to JPM Coin on Ethereum for institutional users. The token represents bank deposits rather than an independently issued stablecoin, and participation remains restricted. […]

TL;DR: Research attributed to Castle Labs puts Solana’s real-world asset market at about $4.3 billion, versus $700 million a year earlier. Ethereum remains substantially larger, but the gap has narrowed sharply. Solana’s next growth story may have less to do with meme coins and more to do with assets that already exist in the traditional […]

TL;DR: Sazmining is offering individual Proto immersion hashboards at $4,187 each, with financing and managed hosting. The arrangement lowers the upfront hardware purchase but does not remove Bitcoin mining‘s ongoing costs or profitability risk. Buying into industrial Bitcoin mining usually means dealing with noisy equipment, electricity contracts and cooling infrastructure. A new offering built around […]

TL;DR: Stock-linked tokens deployed in DeFi reached an estimated $262.4 million across blockchains at the end of September, up nearly 18-fold from the start of 2026. Base accounted for about $16 million, not the entire total. Tokenized stocks are starting to do more than sit in digital wallets. A September 30 snapshot put approximately $262.4 […]

HONG KONG, October 18, 2026 – As quantum computing advances, the challenge extends beyond Bitcoin’s cryptography to the financial infrastructure built around it. Quantum computing is emerging as one of Bitcoin’s long-term security challenges. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could theoretically compromise the digital signatures protecting Bitcoin transactions, potentially exposing funds associated with vulnerable public […]

Washington, D.C., October 18, 2026 — The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing clear and ethical public policy, research, and education related to emerging technologies, participated in Nacha’s Payments Innovation Alliance Fall Meeting, where DSA Senior Policy Advisor Molly Woodman joined industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies, regulatory developments, and the […]

Over the past year, JUST has completed five consecutive large-scale buyback-and-burn rounds, permanently removing 1.88B JST tokens from circulation and pushing cumulative deflation toward 19%. Following this milestone, the buyback and burn mechanism is set to undergo a comprehensive upgrade.   On October 17, JUST, the leading DeFi infrastructure in the TRON ecosystem, announced the […]

The first round of BTT repurchased with decentralized service revenue has been completely burned, as BitTorrent leverages its reimagined architecture to pivot toward Web3 and AI infrastructure.    BitTorrent, a cornerstone of decentralized infrastructure in the TRON ecosystem, entered a new phase of growth driven by dual engines: the rollout of its long-term BTT buyback-and-burn […]

TL;DR: Fidelity’s technology research team says Solana has operated for more than two years without a major mainnet outage, while maintaining roughly 99.7% vote success. It also warns that validator and infrastructure concentration remain important concerns. Solana’s reputation was once shaped by how often the network stopped. A new assessment from Fidelity’s Center for Applied […]

TL;DR: Babylon Labs has advanced a proposal to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 without requiring wrapped BTC or a central custodian. The plan still faces community review, risk analysis and governance votes. Bitcoin could become collateral for Aave loans without first being handed to a custodian or converted into a freely traded wrapped […]

TL;DR: Uniswap generated approximately $14.81 million in protocol revenue during September, with Robinhood Chain contributing about 53% of the total. Tokenized-stock trading is changing where the exchange earns its fees. Uniswap’s strongest reported revenue month has come from an unexpected direction: a relatively new network associated with a mainstream brokerage. September protocol revenue reached approximately […]

TL;DR: Binance will discontinue its mining pool and related services at 07:00 UTC on November 10, 2026. Miners must redirect their machines before the shutdown to avoid an interruption in mining activity. Bitcoin miners connected to Binance Pool have a firm deadline: November 10. The exchange announced on October 13 that its mining pool, along […]

TL;DR: US spot XRP ETFs recorded a $1.84 million net weekly outflow, ending 13 consecutive positive weeks. The reversal was small relative to the roughly $1.8 billion the products have attracted over time. Thirteen straight weeks of positive flows into XRP exchange-traded funds have come to an end. US-listed spot XRP products finished the October […]

TL;DR: A Saturday derivatives snapshot showed Bitcoin open interest at $7.68 billion, down 0.69% in 24 hours. Funding remained positive, but the data does not establish that traders have finished reducing leverage. Bitcoin‘s derivatives market is heading through the weekend with slightly less leverage outstanding, though not with an outright bearish positioning signal. A market […]

TL;DR: US spot Ethereum ETFs lost $320.1 million in the week ending October 16, more than the $228.4 million withdrawn from Bitcoin funds. BlackRock’s ETHA accounted for nearly all of the Ether redemptions. Ethereum investment funds have ended another difficult week on the wrong side of the ledger. US spot Ether ETFs recorded $320.1 million […]

TL;DR: TD Cowen reportedly raised its Strive share-price target from $44 to $56 after the Bitcoin treasury company expanded its holdings to 35,595 BTC. Strive is also seeking financing through a substantial preferred-share offering. Bitcoin treasury company Strive is attracting fresh attention from Wall Street after a rapid buying programme took its reported holdings to […]