Russia has warned that investors may have to absorb losses when foreign stablecoin issuers freeze assets outside a Russian depository’s control, as officials estimate residents hold 3.7 trillion rubles, or
Bitcoin and Ethereum options carrying roughly $18.1 billion in notional value have moved toward their Sept. 25 quarterly expiry with calls outweighing puts across both markets, according to Coinbase Markets.
Stellar’s XLM has risen 2.7% to $0.2135 after BVNK added the blockchain to its stablecoin payments platform, opening the network to business payments across more than 130 markets. Summary BVNK
NEAR has partnered with Ondo Finance to give eligible users access to 20 tokenized U.S. stocks, exchange-traded funds, and commodity-linked products through near.com and NEAR Intents. Summary 20 tokenized assets
Pi Network has cleared a KYC barrier for more than 417,000 users and prepared a wallet fix for another 497,000 accounts that could not claim migrated PI balances. Summary More
Canada’s six largest banks have formed a joint project to test transfers of tokenized Canadian-dollar deposits between regulated financial institutions. Summary Six major Canadian banks will jointly explore an interbank
BitMEX has removed its remaining spot, conversion, and derivatives markets ahead of its Sep. 23 shutdown, ending more than 11 years of exchange operations. Summary BitMEX will end all exchange
The European Central Bank and the EU’s 27 national central banks have asked regulators to replace MiCA’s 30% and 60% bank-deposit floors for stablecoin reserves with maturity-based liquidity requirements. Summary
Kalshi has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to approve a margin framework for eligible event contracts, limiting access to qualified participants and excluding markets tied to sports. Summary Eligible
As access to Monero has become more restricted on some centralized exchanges — notably after Binance delisted XMR globally on 20 February 2024, OKX removed XMR pairs on 5 January