Singapore Would Bar Interest on Every Stablecoin It Licenses
The prohibition sits in the same consultation that would let a handful of foreign-issued tokens carry Singapore's regulatory label. Comments close on 16 October.
·Tom Chen·1 min read
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Cardano's Committee Falls to Three Seats If This Vote Fails
Four of seven seats expire at the end of epoch 653, and below five members the committee cannot ratify treasury withdrawals, parameter changes or the hard fork initiation that Dijkstra depends on.
·James Gray
Coinbase Is the Plumbing Behind Webull's Canada Crypto Launch
Canada is the fourth Webull market Coinbase has wired up after the US, Brazil and Australia, and it arrives with the Ontario Securities Commission reporting that crypto ownership among survey respondents has reached 25%.
·Tom Chen
Strategy Bought Bitcoin Again but Still Holds Fewer Coins Than in June
The 4,603 coins cost $369.7 million out of a $602.8 million stock sale; the rest went to STRC buybacks, dividends and cash. STRC still trades below par after $635 million of repurchases.
·Aubrey Swanson
Eleven Years On, the SEC Finally Rewrote Its Transfer Agent Rules
The 421-page proposal lets share registers run on blockchains and asks whether wallet addresses can replace postal ones. Comments close 60 days after Federal Register publication, and Hester Peirce will have left the Commission before they are read.
·James Gray
Ark Broke the Bitcoin ETF Streak; BlackRock Fixed It a Session Later
ARKB accounted for $114.9 million of Friday's $201.9 million outflow, ending nine straight days of inflows totalling just over $3 billion. On Monday, IBIT alone supplied $205.9 million of the $216.7 million that came back.
·Sarah Blake
An $11,000-a-Day Token Borrowed $75 Million Against Itself on Cronos
Validators halted Crypto.com's chain and rolled its state back to before the attack. About $6 million had already crossed to Ethereum; the rest sits on a ledger whose history has now been rewritten.
·Sarah Blake
Telegram Put a Seed Phrase in Front of a Billion People
The custodial Wallet bot has been renamed Walt and demoted to trading and yield, which leaves self-custody as the default for an audience that never went looking for it.
·James Gray
NYSE's Parent Took a Stake in tZERO and a Licence to 103 Patents
The investment size is undisclosed, but the patent licence hands ICE the transfer-restriction and corporate-action machinery it would otherwise have to build before an NYSE-affiliated platform can settle anything on-chain.
·Sarah Blake
Hong Kong Named SBCFX Unlicensed After the London Gold Blowup
The Securities and Futures Commission listed SBCFX and three related Star Bridge entities on 28 August. Around 3,000 retail traders had already been liquidated on London gold, and their margin was posted in Tether, which is the part that may not come back.
·Alex Turner
Avici Users Lost $500,859 to a Card Contract Nobody Updated
Avici's card-issuing partner Rain traced the theft to an outdated version of its Solana contract. The attacker registered himself as an administrator on 1,685 collateral accounts; every one of them will be refunded in full.
·Alex Turner
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Analysis & Research
The Fed's 8-4 Vote Was the Most Divided FOMC Decision Since 1992 — and Bitcoin Hit $75,000 Within an Hour
The Federal Reserve held its target rate at 3.5 to 3.75 per cent on Wednesday, but four members voted against the decision — the deepest split since October 1992. Bitcoin slipped from $76,200 to $75,440 in the first hour after the announcement.
·William Dale·1 min read
Galaxy Digital Warns at Least Five Crypto Treasury Firms Face Asset Sales or Closure as NAV Discounts Widen
A Galaxy Digital report finds 40 percent of publicly traded Bitcoin treasury companies trade below net asset value, with late entrants most exposed to forced liquidation or merger.
·Ray Crawford
IMF Warns Tokenised Finance Could Amplify Global Market Crises as Real-World Assets Surpass $27 Billion On-Chain
The International Monetary Fund has cautioned that moving trading infrastructure onto blockchain-based systems could accelerate financial crises beyond regulators' ability to respond, identifying four systemic risk categories in a landmark report.
·Oliver Bradford
Policy
Singapore Would Bar Interest on Every Stablecoin It Licenses
The prohibition sits in the same consultation that would let a handful of foreign-issued tokens carry Singapore's regulatory label. Comments close on 16 October.
·Tom Chen
The G20's Digital Asset Pledge Is Missing China's Signature
Beijing blocked the communiqué over language on trade surpluses, not crypto. The digital asset commitments went out anyway, carrying nineteen names and the chair's.
·Aubrey Swanson
Eleven Years On, the SEC Finally Rewrote Its Transfer Agent Rules
The 421-page proposal lets share registers run on blockchains and asks whether wallet addresses can replace postal ones. Comments close 60 days after Federal Register publication, and Hester Peirce will have left the Commission before they are read.
·James Gray
Business
Sberbank Expects $46 Billion of Legal Crypto Trading in Year One
Deputy chairman Anatoly Popov called the forecast conservative, because most Russian crypto flow will keep bypassing licensed venues and professional participants have until July 2027 to get authorised.
·Alex Turner
The World Cup Ended and Took $7.7 Billion of Betting Volume
Polymarket surrendered more than a third of its monthly volume. Kalshi gave up 7 per cent. The gap says more about the two platforms than the headline decline does.
·Oliver Bradford
Coinbase Is the Plumbing Behind Webull's Canada Crypto Launch
Canada is the fourth Webull market Coinbase has wired up after the US, Brazil and Australia, and it arrives with the Ontario Securities Commission reporting that crypto ownership among survey respondents has reached 25%.
·Tom Chen
Tech & Explainers
Thirty-Seven Silent Patches Later, Cosmos Lost $5.7 Million
Cosmos Labs cleared the underflow in April after testers could not reproduce it on live configurations. The fix finally shipped on 19 August, under a release note that named nothing, and validators had twenty hours.
·Ray Crawford
Cardano's Committee Falls to Three Seats If This Vote Fails
Four of seven seats expire at the end of epoch 653, and below five members the committee cannot ratify treasury withdrawals, parameter changes or the hard fork initiation that Dijkstra depends on.
·James Gray
Telegram Put a Seed Phrase in Front of a Billion People
The custodial Wallet bot has been renamed Walt and demoted to trading and yield, which leaves self-custody as the default for an audience that never went looking for it.
·James Gray
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