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The French hardware wallet maker unveiled Crypto Loan at TOKEN2049 in Singapore, letting holders borrow USDC or USDT against wrapped bitcoin collateral while keeping custody on their device.
The Independent Community Bankers of America has taken the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to federal court, arguing that a rule letting crypto firms obtain national trust bank charters has created an unregulated fourth category of banking.
Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel laid out three technical paths the ECB is studying to settle tokenized assets with central bank money, without committing to any of them.
Open USD went live on October 30 backed by commitments from Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe and Visa exceeding $1 billion, yet dashboards from Bridge and DeFiLlama show circulating supply closer to $480-490 million, a gap that sits uneasily with stablecoin transparency expectations in Europe.
JPMorgan analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou estimate bitcoin's average production cost at roughly $85,000, a level the asset briefly cleared last week before slipping back below it, as hashrate and mining difficulty continue to decline.
HSBC has confirmed the name of its forthcoming Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, RedCoin, alongside survey data showing gaps in customer understanding of how such tokens work.
Guardia Civil investigated four members of a family in Cáceres for allegedly running a fake crypto investment scheme that used forged bank statements, staged events and more than 90 bank cards to move victims' money.
Bitget has revised its estimate of funds stolen in a wallet breach to $387.5 million after adding zcash and tron to the list of compromised assets, and has launched a bounty programme offering 5% of recovered or frozen funds.
A civil forfeiture complaint filed on July 15 targets $84.2 million held by Capstone Ltd., which prosecutors allege acted as an intermediary for transfers connected to Tether and Bitfinex, as EQIBank's bid to recover the frozen funds was rejected in California.
Ondo Finance has launched three tokenized portfolio products built on investment strategies designed by BlackRock, available to eligible investors outside the United States on Ethereum and BNB Chain.
BMO, CIBC, National Bank, RBC, Scotiabank and TD have announced a joint effort to develop tokenized deposits backed by the Canadian dollar, aiming to build faster and programmable payment infrastructure while linking Canada's banking system to global digital asset initiatives.
Binance has taken a $100 million equity position in Circle Internet Group through a private placement, alongside a five-year renewal of their commercial deal to expand USDC distribution.
The CFTC has shielded passive wallet and interface developers from broker registration, while the SEC opened a temporary five-year window for tokenised stock trading — both arriving just days after the Clarity Act failed to clear the Senate.
Under new EU cybersecurity rules, crypto wallet providers must flag exploits within 24 hours and file full reports within 72, or risk fines of up to $17.3 million.
Tether blacklisted ten Tron addresses holding nearly $39.3 million in USDT tied to Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese escrow platform flagged by blockchain analytics firms as major illicit finance infrastructure. Xinbi has since redirected deposits to a USDD address.
A flaw in Elements, the software underlying Blockstream's Liquid Network, allowed an attacker to mint roughly 4,000 unbacked L-BTC and withdraw nearly 4,000 real bitcoin, leaving the Federation's reserves at about 197 BTC and redemptions frozen.
The US financial crimes watchdog says transnational criminal organizations operating from compounds in Southeast Asia are largely behind digital asset scams targeting American residents, a finding with direct relevance for European anti-money-laundering supervision.
A year after MiCA's full implementation, around 20 euro-pegged stablecoins have won regulatory approval, yet daily trading volumes remain a fraction of their dollar counterparts, with Revolut's new EURR token entering an already crowded and thin market.