South Korea's Supreme Court is nearing an August 11 deadline on proposed rules requiring crypto exchanges to disclose debtor holdings within seven days of a court order, part of a broader regulatory push in a heavily retail-driven market.
Bitcoin's 2025–2026 bear market marks its first institutional cycle, characterized by regulated spot ETF redemptions, corporate treasury sales, and orderly loss distribution rather than sudden platform collapses like FTX or Celsius.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed bill No. 1194918-8, creating a regulated framework for cryptocurrency markets, exchanges, and service providers, while capping retail investments and maintaining payment bans.
Galaxy Digital pledged up to $5 million to help Bitcoin prepare for quantum computing threats by funding research, post-quantum signature integration, and migration tools. The decentralized network requires years of coordination for an upgrade.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) to assess the operational resilience of crypto asset service providers (CASPs) under the MiCA framework. The review focuses on custody services, moving beyond initial licensing to examine practical security measures and risk management.
Phantom and the Hyperliquid Policy Center are asking the CFTC to remove regulations they claim hinder fintech firms from partnering with registered derivatives markets. They propose a model where non-custodial wallets provide technical access to markets without triggering broker registration.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has finalized its crypto rulebook, effective 2027. Firms seeking market access must undergo a new authorization process under FSMA 2000, distinct from current AML registration. The application window opens Sept. 30, 2026, with late submissions facing restricted market access.
BNY Mellon expanded its Digital Asset Custody platform to support Circle's USD Coin (USDC), allowing institutional clients to store, transfer, mint, and redeem the stablecoin directly. USDC is the first stablecoin on the platform, building on BNY's existing role as primary custodian for USDC's reserve assets.
Crypto firm BitGo is laying off approximately 15% of its workforce, around 90 employees, to shift focus towards AI-powered infrastructure and other core services. The move follows its recent IPO and comes amid a broader trend of staff reductions in the crypto and tech sectors.
El juez Juan Carlos Peinado ha retirado el pasaporte a Begoña Gómez, esposa del presidente Pedro Sánchez, como medida cautelar ante el riesgo de fuga. El juez argumenta que los mismos policías que la custodian podrían ayudarla a huir, o que dicha protección desaparecería al ser "efímero" el cargo de su esposo.
Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to submit disqualification petitions against 20 party MPs who have merged with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI). The MPs will now support the BJP-led NDA.
Major banks are investing in cryptocurrency custody just as a report highlights a quantum computing threat to current security architectures. The Taurus report suggests existing multi-party computation (MPC) and hardware security module (HSM) systems may be vulnerable, potentially impacting Bitcoin and Ethereum. Migrating to quantum-resistant signatures faces significant blockchain protocol challenges.
Binance revealed a revenue-sharing agreement with Alpaca, a provider of tokenized US stock and ETF infrastructure. Binance will receive 50% of Alpaca's PFOF fees and 65% of stock lending profits.
The Cerne Giant, a 55-metre-tall chalk figure in Dorset, undergoes rechalking every 7-10 years, but climate change effects like algae growth and intense rainfall necessitate more frequent restoration, with the National Trust adapting techniques to preserve the hundreds-year-old landmark.
Um acidente entre um ônibus de turismo e uma caminhonete na MG-050, em Formiga, deixou três pessoas feridas, duas em estado grave. O motorista da caminhonete, de 45 anos, e uma passageira do ônibus, de 61 anos, ficaram gravemente feridos. A pista ficou interditada por quatro horas.
Saudi Arabia has completed the arrival of 2,500 pilgrims from 104 countries for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program. The program includes 1,300 Islamic figures and scholars, alongside 200 from Liberia and 1,000 from Sudan representing families of martyrs and injured from "Decisive Storm" and "Restoring Hope" operations. Security forces have also intercepted over 217 fake Hajj campaigns and repatriated hundreds of thousands of violators.
Choughs, Cornwall's 'national bird', have returned to Tintagel Castle after a decades-long absence, rekindling connections to the legend of King Arthur.
Cardano launches Cardano Vault with Fireblocks, targeting institutional DeFi with enterprise-grade control. Despite modest current TVL, the platform aims to compete with Ethereum and Solana by offering unique staking yield profiles and compliance features.
A fund manager, treasury desk, custodian, or regulated fintech function with vault accounts, policy-based approvals, granular access controls, audit trails, API access, and operational continuity when employees rotate. That structure is reshaping how capital is allocated within DeFi, and it explains why Cardano's latest infrastructure push via Iagon's Cardano Vault, built with Fireblocks, is a […] The post Cardano wants in on the tokenized institutional vault race as DeFi’s retail focus fades appeared first on CryptoSlate.
A girls' volleyball team at Community High School Texas in Collin County raised $9,000 to buy a used car for their custodian Abel Rodriguez. Students discovered he stayed late to cheer them on during games and often waited until 1 am for a ride home after work. Within a week of launching the fundraiser, the team exceeded their goal, with Group 1 Ford of Rockwall providing the vehicle and J.R. Arey State Farm Agency covering insurance and fuel costs. The emotional car reveal took place in November 2025 and the story has recently gone viral again on social media.
Hong Kong's eight publicly funded universities are generating record income through knowledge transfer activities including patents, licensing deals, and industry partnerships. While education exports appear logical for the land-constrained city, a tension emerges: the 'international' strategy relies heavily on mainland China postgraduate enrolments, despite the international veneer of English-delivered degrees and globally connected campuses.
NIST finalized post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024 with a 2035 deprecation deadline, prompting Coinbase and Google to publish migration roadmaps. The crypto industry faces a full-stack migration challenge across consensus layers, wallets, exchanges, and hardware, with vendors like Trezor and AWS already marketing quantum-ready products. The convergence of these directives transforms post-quantum planning from a technical debate into a governance and credibility test, where firms with concrete end-to-end migration plans may gain institutional advantage.
When Customs launched the CAPE refund portal, it put administrative certainty behind an asset class that Wall Street had already begun pricing. As of Apr. 9, 56,497 importers had registered for electronic refunds totaling $127 billion, out of roughly $166 billion the government expects to be returned after the Supreme Court ruled in February that […] The post Were tariff refunds bought for 20 cents on the dollar by stablecoin-backed Treasurys custodian Cantor Fitzgerald? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
