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Microsoft, Alphabet, Goldman Sachs and McDonald's are among 22 companies objecting to tokenized versions of their shares on the OKX-ICE venue. Backers say the refusals reveal what the SEC's experiment is uncovering.
Bitcoin fell to $79,700 as Washington pulled personnel from embassies and bases over what its intelligence chief called advanced Iranian plotting against Americans.
Coinbase will convert customers' remaining GYEN into USDC from Oct. 26 as issuer GMO Trust closes its 180-day redemption window on Nov. 11, ending a stablecoin dogged by litigation.
A former Circle employee claims a $2bn MGX investment settled in Trump-linked USD1 diverted business from USDC, worth $70m-$82m a year in reserve income.
India's markets regulator is developing a framework for secondary-market trading in tokenised corporate bonds and graded compliance for brokers, chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said.
Washington killed the Clarity Act over whether stablecoins may pay interest. Brazil's banks lost that argument years ago, and its lenders still posted record profits.
A proposed class action in Ontario Superior Court alleges Coinkite's negligence and a 2021 coding error let hackers steal more than US$140-million in bitcoin from users.
South Korea, Sweden, Thailand and Hong Kong are moving on stablecoin rules, while Binance data shows 54% of its Pakistani users are aged 18-29. Pakistan's own framework remains the open question.
Franklin Templeton has registered two Nasdaq-listed ETFs that reinvest stock dividends into bitcoin, with an effective date of October 27 and a 0.09% fee on the equity fund.
JPMorgan Asset Management's 2027 long-term capital market assumptions project a 10% annual compounded base-case return for bitcoin over ten years, the highest in its public asset table, while keeping it out of portfolio models.
A simultaneous Treasury rally and selloff in bitcoin, equities and metals has put the average cost basis of US spot bitcoin ETFs and corporate treasuries under scrutiny, with $80,000 seen as the line to watch.
The Bank of Korea says it will draft a Foreign Exchange Transactions Act amendment with the government this year to regulate stablecoins as a means of payment, as a wider crypto law and a 2027 tax near.
The Bank of Thailand has released a consultation paper proposing 1:1 deposit backing for baht-denominated stablecoins and a ban on issuers paying interest or offering returns.
Toto Finance wants 22 million ADA to buy COMEX-grade copper tokenised as CuTT. Under the proposal's assumptions, copper must rise about 49.4% to recover the withdrawal.
Sweden's central bank wants lawmakers to prepare legislation for a digital krona, warning foreign-currency stablecoins and a planned digital euro could weaken the currency's role in payments.
Raffles Family Office, headquartered in Singapore and Hong Kong, is expanding its digital assets arm Revo, which won Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission licences in February, to serve younger Asian billionaires holding wealth in stablecoins.
San Francisco Fed research puts stablecoin issuers' Treasury holdings near $200 billion, with Tether alone at $141 billion, offsetting foreign selling of US debt.
HSBC has rolled out RedCoin, its first stablecoin, to PayMe users in Hong Kong, letting them send money and pay merchants, following its April licence from the HKMA.
Russia's central bank has widened its register of crypto exchange providers to 17 firms, with Sberbank and VTB holding both exchange and depository licences ahead of planned retail crypto services.
Binance has launched a regional rewards campaign across MENA and Pakistan, citing data that users aged 18-29 make up 54 per cent of its Pakistani user base.
