Hong Kong plans to submit laws this 12 months to ascertain a licensing regime masking digital asset buying and selling, custody, advisory and administration companies, in accordance with Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui. Hui outlined the measure on October 5 throughout a coverage briefing of the Legislative Council’s Finance Committee on…
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revised July and August payroll beneficial properties down by 60,000 on Oct. 2, weakening the labor-based case for one more Federal Reserve hike and doubtlessly easing one coverage stress on Bitcoin. The September employment report put payroll progress at 29,000. July’s estimate flipped from 21,000 jobs added to…
The Solana Foundation, AMINA Bank, TensorX, APEX:E3 and the Cardano Foundation have collectively launched the Agentic Finance Report, inspecting how synthetic intelligence, blockchain settlement and tokenized property are converging into a brand new mannequin for institutional finance. The report argues that AI brokers are shifting past advisory features and gaining the flexibility to execute monetary…
Circle is urging the European Union to open its Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) to foreign-regulated stablecoins and loosen reserve rules that constrain world issuers. The USDC issuer proposed a recognition regime that would let qualifying abroad stablecoin firms distribute tokens in Europe with out changing into totally licensed EU issuers, as a part of…
Singapore-based digital asset agency QCP Capital has launched its Q4 2026 Digital Assets Market Outlook, titled “Beyond The Next Hike,” arguing that the ultimate quarter of the yr can be outlined much less by a single catalyst than by a cluster of macroeconomic and political occasions, every of which cuts each methods for crypto markets….
The US sanctioned two French charities and three people after alleging they helped channel cryptocurrency and different funds to Hamas. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Association Baraka, Ensemble C Mieux, Faouzi Barika, Amel Oualid and Saleem Abdallah Saleem al-Zaq to its sanctions checklist on Oct. 2, increasing the roster of…
Security researchers disclosed that an unidentified vault contract on Base misplaced roughly $6 million after attackers exploited weaknesses in its whitelist and multisignature controls. The incident was detected on October 4, when blockchain safety agency Blockaid recognized uncommon withdrawals. Within roughly 40 minutes, the estimated loss had risen from $2.02 million to about $6 million….
Illinois officers have joined crypto industry teams in searching for a six-month delay to the state’s controversial digital-asset tax. The agreed movement, filed Oct. 1 in Sangamon County, asks a decide to postpone the levy’s Jan. 1 begin till July 1, 2027, whereas a constitutional problem introduced by The Digital Chamber and the Illinois Blockchain…
El Salvador secured entry to $138 million from the IMF whereas recommitting to limits on additional state Bitcoin accumulation. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second and third evaluations of the nation’s $1.4 billion mortgage program on Oct. 1, permitting a right away disbursement equal to SDR 101.96 million, or $138 million. The board…
Coin Metrics has rebuilt Ethereum’s historic Standard Flow Metrics, elevating a timing drawback for checks that deal with exchange outflows as a buying and selling sign. The crypto information supplier’s Oct. 1 notice says it recomputed Ethereum Standard Flow Metrics from the community’s first block utilizing its newest info as a part of its Ethereum…