South Korea's communications regulator has ruled Polymarket illegal under gambling statutes, ordering access blocked despite the platform's decentralized structure and noncustodial design.

China's PBOC has expanded its e-CNY network to 30 authorized operators after adding 8 regional banks, with new institutions set to serve SMEs and cross-border trade clients.

The US Treasury proposed rules to implement the GENIUS Act ahead of its Jan. 2027 effective date, opening a 60-day public comment period on stablecoin issuance definitions.

The CFTC is reviewing AI compute futures as CME plans an Oct. 5 launch. A public comment period of 30–60 days could delay the products reaching market.

Austria's FMA fined Bitpanda €70,000 ($81,150) for MiCA breaches tied to white paper timing and missing marketing disclosures, marking the regulator's first published final penalty.

Strategy sold 3.46M MSTR shares for $334M last week, using proceeds for STRC dividends, buybacks, and reserves. Its dollar reserve climbed to $4.8B. No BTC moved.

Bitmine holds 4.8% of Ethereum's circulating supply after buying 9,926 ETH last week. Staking ops project up to $287M in annual rewards despite heavy paper losses.

HIVE Digital's BUZZ HPC unit has signed a $350M, five-year GPU cloud deal with an unnamed enterprise client, adding $70M in annualized revenue and pushing contracted ARR to $180M.

Ethereum developers are reviewing 66 proposals for the Hegotá upgrade, with privacy-focused EIPs among the top candidates for inclusion alongside FOCIL.

Greenlane Holdings' BERA crypto treasury fell to $16.4M in Q2, down from a $70M cost basis, as the token lost nearly 77% of its value YTD.

Tokenized stock holders doubled to 1.31M and monthly volume surged 179% to $23.13B, led by Ondo, xStocks and bStocks, per RWA.xyz.

SafePal disclosed a breach exposing personal data of 39,798 customers after an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plugin. No funds, keys, or seed phrases were affected.

10x Research's Markus Thielen says Bitcoin reaching $1M by 2030 is impossible without $15T in new capital inflows, equal to ~25% of the entire US stock market.

JPMorgan dropped Polymarket as a banking client in Oct. 2025 but still eyes an IPO underwriting role and has kept other business ties, per the Financial Times.

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC conditional approval for a trust bank to issue USD1 stablecoin, replacing BitGo, with a $20M capital requirement.

Strategy is selling Bitcoin and building cash as its MSTR premium weakens. Can Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin flywheel start spinning again?

The foundation of the crypto market structure continues to firm as Q2 13F filings show banks increasing their crypto-linked ETF holdings.

More than 100 crypto projects have closed or gone inactive in 2026 as users, capital, and liquidity concentrate around a smaller number of platforms.