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Finance ministers agreed on October 9 to limit ESMA's direct oversight to 10-15 of roughly 360 EU crypto service providers, under a package that also proposes expanding the DLT Pilot Regime for tokenization.
Directives from Beijing's top bodies call for a closed, sovereign ledger to audit industrial data and coordinate computing power — a model that pointedly avoids public networks and sits apart from the digital yuan.
A critical integer-overflow bug in the XRP Ledger's payment engine could have let an attacker mint unlimited XRP. RippleX patched it before any known exploitation, bypassing the network's usual consensus procedure for the first time in more than a decade.
The Ethereum Economic Zone, Gnosis and Zisk, backed by the Ethereum Foundation, have executed Ethereum's first atomic cross-chain transaction between mainnet and a Layer 2 network, with a full rollup block on Gnosis Chain targeted for early 2027.
Isabel Schnabel outlined three possible architectures for integrating central bank reserves with DLT infrastructure, as the ECB advances its Pontes and Appia pilot projects.
Speaking in London, ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel laid out three possible architectures for putting Eurosystem reserves on distributed ledger technology, all preserving the two-tier banking system the euro area relies on.
tZERO Securities is giving eligible US companies access to Goldman Sachs' $105 billion FTIXX money market fund through Lynq, an Avalanche-based settlement network, without tokenizing the fund's shares.
Solana's developer network has migrated to the Alpenglow consensus protocol, a day after the testnet made the same switch, as the network works towards replacing its decade-old finality model with one designed to settle transactions in 100 to 150 milliseconds.
Chainalysis's 'Geography of Cryptocurrency' report shows that while crypto market capitalization lost $2.1 trillion between July 2025 and June 2026, actual on-chain economic activity fell only 1.6%, propped up by a surge in peer-to-peer and cross-border stablecoin transfers.
IBM has connected its Digital Asset Haven platform to Swift's new blockchain-based Shared Ledger, letting banks move tokenised deposits around the clock while keeping existing ISO 20022 messaging intact.
EBA, ESMA and EIOPA have classified quantum computing as an emerging financial stability risk, noting that roughly 6.9 million bitcoin sit in wallets with exposed public keys as developers work on mitigation proposals BIP-360 and BIP-361.
A seizure warrant unsealed by the US Department of Justice cites a February 2025 message from Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades instructing donors to route USDT through Trust Wallet, RedotPay, OKX, Kast or Bybit rather than transferring directly from Binance.
The Home Office and HM Treasury have launched a four-year plan to hire 500 specialist agents and deploy AI tools against money laundering, after the NCA estimated more than £100 billion is laundered annually via UK structures.
Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau says organised crime groups are renting private vaults to hide crypto private keys alongside cash and luxury goods, as the agency works to recover roughly €360 million from its largest crypto seizure ever.
Apple removed 'Tron Wallet – USDT & TRX' from the App Store and cancelled linked developer accounts after finding mismatched registration details, though it found no evidence the app executed a reported $17,528 unauthorized transfer.
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