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- Regulation
Crypto spent $8 million lobbying on the Clarity Act before the bill failed
Federal disclosures show more than $13 million in six months of crypto lobbying, with about $5.4 million of it never naming the bill.
- Adoption
Lloyds and Visa settle $750,000 in USDC across a seven-day cross-border pilot
The test sent funds from Jersey to the US in under an hour across a weekend, with Lloyds on Canton and Visa on a second blockchain the coverage does not name.
- Adoption
Cloudflare opens a closed beta for billing AI agents in USDC
The Monetization Gateway verifies payments with Coinbase's x402 standard and settles transactions on Base; Cloudflare targets wide availability in early 2027.
- Tokenization
Brazil's CSD BR mirrors BTG Pactual fund records on the XRP Ledger
The depository keeps its own database as the legal record and publishes a blockchain copy that approved banks and companies can reconcile in near real time.
- Adoption
Open USD launches with Coinbase, Visa, Mastercard, Shopify and Stripe as founding shareholders
Each of the five founding partners holds an equal initial equity stake, and together they have committed more than $1 billion to establish liquidity for the coin.
- Regulation
CFTC sends OMB two rules defining event contracts as swaps
One filing would put event contracts inside the swap definition; an interim final rule would remove casino-style gambling products from it.
- Crypto ETFs & funds
HANetf ETCs and HSBC's RedCoin list zero assets as Franklin, Goldman seek crypto cash
Eleven of fifteen placements tracked over Sept. 29–30 show nothing or under $500, while Franklin's $686 million money funds became pledgeable on Bybit and Goldman's FTIXX reached crypto firms through Lynq.
- Tokenization
Dune finds tokenized Treasury funds turned over 0.006% of supply in August
Tokenized real-world assets reached $34.5 billion, and equity tokens at 8% of supply produced 93% of spot volume.
- Regulation
FCA opens crypto authorization gateway with February 2027 deadline
Firms have five months to apply for permission to operate in the UK, well before the regime takes effect in October 2027.
- Tokenization
Dune report finds 81% of tokenized equities held in spot markets are individual stocks
The analytics platform estimates total tokenized real-world asset supply above $34 billion in 2026 and says the value of individual-stock token holdings grew ninefold over the past year.
- The Wrap
HSBC hedges HANetf bitcoin ETCs while readying Hong Kong dollar stablecoin
The bank is hedge counterparty on HANetf's sterling- and euro-hedged crypto ETCs and plans RedCoin for PayMe and its mobile app.
- Tokenization
HSBC names its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin RedCoin for 2026 rollout
The Defiant reports the token is planned for the second half of 2026, initially on PayMe and the HSBC HK Mobile App.
- Crypto ETFs & funds
HANetf lists sterling- and euro-hedged bitcoin ETCs with HSBC as hedge counterparty
The Arrow products list in London, Frankfurt and Paris, and HANetf calls them the first currency-hedged crypto ETCs.
- Regulation
Kalshi files to end volume incentive program tied to its ether perpetual tape
The reward pools exclude members with market-maker agreements, and Kalshi cited separate liquidity payments for the repeated same-size ether perpetual prints.
- Adoption
Morgan Stanley builds internal lab to test stablecoins and DeFi
The Defiant reports the testing runs through the bank's innovation-lab network; E*Trade's eligible clients already trade spot crypto through Zero Hash.
- Tokenization
Brazil's CSD BR mirrors BTG Pactual fund records on the XRP Ledger
The regulated depository keeps its own database as the official record and publishes a second copy of fund ownership on a public blockchain.
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- Adoption
BlackRock sees stablecoins as the rail for AI agent payments
The Defiant's Sept. 29 account names no stablecoin, agent platform, or dollar figure, but says traditional checkout retains a role.
- Tokenization
Cboe and S&P DJI extend SPX options license to 2051 with tokenization clause
The 25-year deal keeps Cboe's exclusive rights to the flagship index options and names tokenized contracts as one possible collaboration, with no product or date attached.
- Adoption
Uphold survey finds 75% of U.S. banks have blockchain programs, 22% live
More than half of respondents report over $50 billion in assets, and 54% have issued RFPs to digital asset vendors.
- Adoption
Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust report counts its technology in 29.4% of institutional blockchain platforms that disclose a stack
Hyperledger Fabric and Besu rank among the top three by deployment, and more than a quarter of projects in the sample disclosed no stack at all.
- The Wrap
Blockchain.com seeks $500 million IPO at $4 billion to $6 billion valuation
The London-headquartered exchange, wallet and lending company aims to be public by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported.
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- Regulation
Coinbase wins CFTC approval to clear fully collateralized derivatives in-house
Margined futures and the planned single-stock perpetuals remain with outside clearing partners, according to The Defiant.
- Regulation
SEC staff adds a 'no central party' condition to its token buyback FAQ
The revised answer makes the absence of centralized control an explicit condition, shifting from the Sept. 25 answer that looked only at system function.
- Tokenization
Chainlink launches CCIP 2.0 with new token-pool controls behind an opt-in upgrade
Existing integrations keep working on full-finality defaults; the report names custom verifiers and faster transfers but gives neither figures nor detail.
- Adoption
Goldman Sachs puts $100 billion Treasury fund on Lynq for crypto firms
FTIXX stays a traditional fund rather than a tokenized one; Lynq gives digital-asset firms a place to park cash between trades.
- Regulation
Tether says it helped freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT
A Senate minority report released the same day found USDT dominated activity in 84% of the 846 Iran- and proxy-linked wallets it studied.
- Tokenization
Dune flags a 15 basis point yield gap at WisdomTree's Treasury money fund
The Defiant reports WisdomTree's Treasury money fund trailed T-bills by 15 basis points over a year; issuer disclosures show how expenses and liquidity terms affect the return.
- Tokenization
Ondo Perps opens spot trading in 12 tokenized stocks and ETFs
The venue is letting traders post the tokens they buy as collateral for short perpetual positions, with spot fees waived for 30 days.
- Regulation
SEC staff FAQs separate issuer promises from token classification
The Sept. 25 answers, updated Sept. 28, say an issuer's own description of decentralization governs whether it kept its word, while the Commission's release governs the label.
- Crypto ETFs & funds
Spot bitcoin ETFs' seven-session, $3 billion run flips 2026 net flows positive
The streak erased a $1.96 billion year-to-date deficit and left the group's 2026 net at roughly $1.02 billion.
- Tokenization
Franklin Templeton expands its off-exchange collateral program to Bybit
Bybit users can pledge shares in Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market funds, about $686 million in net assets, to borrow USDT or USDC while the assets stay with ByCustody.
- The Wrap
With Peirce gone, a two-member SEC decides crypto rules by guidance
The staking carve-out can be unwritten, the tokenized-stock exemption is pending, and the Clarity Act's 49-50 failure has left the arguing to the agencies.
- Crypto ETFs & funds
Solana spot ETFs take in a record $188 million as Bitwise's BSOL leads
All seven funds drew net inflows in the five sessions through Sept. 25, with BSOL collecting about $128 million of the total.
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- Regulation
Why the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed in the Senate
CoinDesk's interviews with more than a dozen participants and aides point to piecemeal Senate drafting, a rejected ethics deal and White House involvement.
4 stories
- Adoption
Payward stops chasing volume and starts selling the ledger
Billions of acquisitions have turned Kraken's parent into a regulated stack other firms can rent — and into a single point of regulatory permission.
- Adoption
Circle buys USDC reach with equity; Tether's lead holds
Binance's $100 million stake lifts USDC quote markets on a single exchange to 329 while every other major venue stays inside its old range — the case for paying for distribution, and the risk in it.
- Tokenization
XRP Ledger's atomic-settlement upgrade slips to Oct. 9
Batch's ten-day reset shows the rail's feature dates move at validator speed, and tokenized-asset products waiting on all-or-nothing settlement inherit that schedule risk.
- Tokenization
Solana's 150-millisecond finality target hits devnet, still undated
Both public test networks now carry Alpenglow, giving teams somewhere to prepare while the headline speed figure stays a simulation number and the surrounding operations keep the wait.
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- Regulation
EBA's stablecoin lending options put examiners in charge
A leverage cap and a certification requirement would decide which firms may lend against stablecoins in the EU; the coverage names no number, no date, and no obligated party for either.
- Regulation
Peirce leaves the SEC as her crypto rulebook is still being written
The exit removes the commissioner most identified with the agency's crypto posture and leaves a two-member commission to decide a proposal and a five-year exemption.