Crypto & blockchain
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- Brazil's Petrobras tests Cardano blockchain to track claims about cleaner jet fuel and diesel
- Cboe and S&P Dow Jones Indices extend their S&P 500 options deal to 2051 and leave the door open to tokenized options
- SEC Charges Two Groups of Entities Allegedly Behind Crypto Frauds Using WhatsApp and "AI Trading" Claims
- Researchers Forge RSA Signatures From a Hardware Vault Without Extracting the Key: What It Means for Crypto Assets
- US Sixth Circuit Rules Kalshi Sports-Event Contracts Are Not Federally Regulated "Swaps" and Fall Under State Gambling Laws
- Japan's FSA Sets Up an Onchain Finance Forum: Stablecoins, Tokenized Deposits and JGB Tokenization Go Into a Cross-Ministry Review
- Bitget Hacked for $351.6 Million: Circle Freezes Stablecoin Wallet, MistTrack Says Tether Followed
- South Korea Refers 4 Suspected Virtual-Asset Manipulation Cases to Investigators: API-Made Fake Activity, Issuer-Inflated Volume to Keep a Listing
- CFTC Issues Advisory on "Mention Market" Event Contracts, Citing Elevated Manipulation Risk
- CFTC Announces Frontier Forum Public Roundtable Series, with First Session Focused on AI and Agentic Finance
- Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade will go live on the Sepolia test network on October 6; no mainnet date yet
- Taiwan's Central Bank on Stablecoins, Deposit Tokens and CBDC: Layers Can Coexist, No Urgency Yet for Retail CBDC
- FCA Cracks Down on Illegal Peer-to-Peer Crypto Trading in London: Action on September 10, Announced September 17
- CFTC No-Action Letter Expands to All Passive Software Providers: The Line Drawn by Ten Conditions
- UK FCA Publishes Final Cryptoasset Perimeter Guidance PS26/18: Applications Open September 30, New Regime Takes Effect October 2027
- SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: Two Offering Exemptions and a Safe Harbor, Not Yet Adopted
- Japan's FSA Publishes a Crypto-Asset Cybersecurity Research Paper: One Class of Outflow Was Not Key Theft but Tampering Before Signing
- EU MiCA Transitional Period Ends July 1: Grandfathering Differs by Country, a Pending Application Is Not an Extension
- Taiwan's Virtual Asset Service Act Clears Third Reading: Seven Kinds of Provider, Stablecoin Licensing, No Commencement Date Yet
- NCUA's Proposed Stablecoin Standards: Credit Unions Could Issue Only Through a Subsidiary; Stablecoins Get No Share Insurance
- FinCEN and OFAC's Joint AML and Sanctions Compliance Proposal for Stablecoin Issuers, Not Yet in Effect
- FDIC Stablecoin Proposal: Reserve Deposits Insured to the Issuer, Not Passed Through to Holders
- Joint SEC and CFTC Interpretation: Five Categories of Crypto Assets, Effective the Day It Was Published
- The OCC's Proposed Stablecoin Rules: One-to-One Reserves, Redemption in Two Business Days and Periodic Reporting