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Greece has entered the European Union’s MiCA crypto regulatory register with four crypto-asset service providers, marking the country’s first appearance in the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) updated list.
Chainlink has launched CCIP 2.0, a major upgrade to its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. The new version adds optional third-party verifiers, faster-than-finality transfers, built-in compliance tools and more flexible execution. Chainlink is positioning the upgrade for banks and asset issuers moving regulated assets across multiple blockchains.
Ex-SEC chair Gensler’s 2020 AI vision gets fresh attention from Ripple CTO emeritus.
The Senate of the United States is now investigating Tether’s USDT in relation to crypto dealings that have connections to Iran. This investigation was led by Senator Richard Blumenthal through the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
XRP eyes a rare 3-month win streak to break its bear cycle as new SEC filings prime an ETF launch.
The wallet and exchange company, which filed confidentially with the SEC in May, is reportedly telling prospective investors it wants to list this year.
Three days after publishing its crypto FAQ, the SEC's Corporation Finance division added a condition to its buyback answer, a change a16z crypto's Miles Jennings called "great work by the SEC."
Greece joined the EU MiCA register with four providers as HCMC expanded its denial of remarks attributed to officials in a report on Binance.
Citi has expanded its blockchain based Token Services into Japan, giving institutional clients access to 24/7 US dollar transfers at a time when Japanese banks and companies are building stablecoins for some of the same payment uses. According to Citi,…
Coinbase Clearing will take USDC as collateral and settle around the clock, though margined products stay with partners.
Hester Peirce leaves the SEC on October 2, 2026, as the stalled CLARITY Act leaves crypto oversight split between the SEC and CFTC.
KB Kookmin Bank has partnered with BNY on cross-border digital payments as it becomes an early user of BNY’s new Pay-to-Wallet service.
A report by Democratic senators accuses USDT of being a pillar of Iran's parallel banking system. Tether responded the same day, highlighting nearly 550 million dollars frozen in 2026. The episode revives the question of stablecoin regulation.
Bitcoin held $83,000-$83,600 as Federal Reserve policy outweighed rising 2026 midterm odds, while failed crypto legislation kept risk alive.
Chainlink is working to enable financial institutions to connect their existing systems and transaction-signing infrastructure directly to Swift’s blockchain-based ledger through the Chainlink Platform, opening a path for 24/7 cross-border payments using tokenized bank deposits.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved the registration of Coinbase Clearing LLC as a Derivatives Clearing Organisation. This makes it the first USDC-native clearinghouse in the United States.
Coinbase Clearing is now registered by the CFTC to clear fully collateralized derivatives, with USDC-based settlement planned but no launch date set.
Tether highlighted that blockchain data is becoming a powerful tool for sanctions enforcement, allowing authorities to track funds on-chain, identify specific wallets, and work with issuers to freeze them.
The disclosure came as Senate Democratic investigators alleged USDT had become a key part of Iran’s shadow banking network.
Coinbase joins Kraken in bringing US derivatives infrastructure in-house, after Kraken’s parent acquired Bitnomial and its CFTC-regulated exchange, clearinghouse and brokerage in May.
US authorities are expanding the investigation of the crypto system that Iran is reportedly using to transfer money, now putting Tether at the center of the issue.
This completes Coinbase's derivatives infrastructure, allowing it to list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house.
The new clearinghouse can handle fully collateralized contracts; Coinbase will keep outside partners for margined futures and planned single-stock perpetuals.
The Sept. 25 answer referred only to a system’s functionality. The revised wording makes the absence of centralized control an explicit condition.
Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing deal so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi's banking rails.
Tether and its stablecoin have become central in "Iran's shadow banking system," according to a new Senate investigation.
With the failed cloture vote on the CLARITY Act, the SEC announced updates on how federal securities laws could apply to token issuers, following similar guidance from the CFTC.
The bank is bringing its roughly $100 billion Treasury fund to institutional crypto firms without creating a tokenized version of it.
The bullish case leans on 2022, when XRP rose 90% off its June bottom to the same weekly band, then pulled back before a later breakout.
A Senate minority report released the same day found USDT dominated activity in 84% of 846 Iran- and proxy-linked wallets it studied.