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Cointelegraph states that stablecoins, being highly liquid and settling 24/7, can leave banks and countries at lightning speed, and that whether they are a risk or an opportunity depends on perspective.
An investor cited by Cointelegraph says Latin American stablecoin liquidity may depend on a small number of providers, based on researchers who warned that fragility is concentrated in the system's thinnest layer.
Illinois officials and crypto industry groups agreed to postpone the state's 0.2% crypto tax for six months while a legal challenge continues, according to multiple newswire reports. The delay is subject to court approval.
Cointelegraph reports that Bitcoin erased its post-PCE gains and traded below $86K, with analysts cautioning that methodology changes complicated the lower-than-expected inflation reading.
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A judge dismissed 15 other claims against Chainalysis while an aiding-and-abetting claim over Celsius' disputed $3.3 billion audit survives, according to Cointelegraph.
EU regulators are reportedly examining Binance's use of a MiCA exemption to serve EU customers, with ESMA seeking stronger enforcement powers. Regulators are probing how Binance keeps serving EU customers from Abu Dhabi after losing its MiCA registrations.
A Bitcoin Policy Institute paper says MSCI's proposed "non-operating company" rule could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its indexes and may have roots in an earlier crypto treasury review.
CertiK and Cointelegraph report that crypto exploits and phishing caused roughly $766-769 million in losses in September 2026, driven by the Bitget and Liquid Network incidents. Cointelegraph adds that Q3 losses exceeded $1 billion and that over $270 million of the Liquid Network funds were later returned.
MetaMask said it is exiting its Lido validators while investigating an infrastructure security incident, stating it found no immediate threat to user wallets. Lido estimated the exit, withdrawal and re-entry cycle could take up to about 45 days and warned of lost rewards and downtime penalties.
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The Ethereum Foundation introduced zkAPI, a system letting users pay for metered APIs using zero-knowledge proofs so providers cannot link requests to payers. Coverage reports it is live on mainnet and supports prepaid access, with one outlet noting prompts are not concealed from AI providers.
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Cointelegraph reports Bitcoin ETF inflows reached a third straight week while Ether ETFs swung to outflows and Zcash funds posted their first weekly outflow. Farside Investors posts daily flow figures for individual funds including Grayscale ETHE, Grayscale ZCSH and Bitwise BITB.
A crypto advocacy group announced its endorsements for US House and Senate races, according to Cointelegraph. The report notes that many polls showed Democrats favored to regain control of both chambers in 2027.
Base has launched its Cobalt upgrade, which adds conditional transactions and new functions for assets issued under its B20 standard, according to The Block, The Defiant and Cointelegraph.
Cointelegraph reports that Bloomberg has introduced an Allium-powered dashboard giving Terminal users hourly stablecoin data. The dashboard covers stablecoin supply, issuance, transfers and activity across blockchain networks.
The CFTC sent two proposed rules on swaps definitions to the White House for review, seeking to define event contracts as swaps and assert exclusive federal jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state gambling claims.
A Dune report published Wednesday found tokenized real-world assets reached $34.5 billion at the end of August, with tokenized Treasury funds making up half and equities generating most spot volume. Cointelegraph reports Dune found tokenized markets show different trading patterns from traditional markets.
Cointelegraph reports that THORChain will not or cannot block addresses linked to the $387.5 million Bitget hack, and asks whether developers could be prosecuted for money laundering, citing crypto lawyer Yuriy Brisov who says it is complicated.
CoinDesk and Cointelegraph report that Brazil's Petrobras is using Cardano in research projects to track sustainability claims for aviation fuel and renewable diesel. Petrobras developed two Cardano-based applications as part of an ongoing research collaboration.
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Cointelegraph reports that Singapore's crypto economy grew 55.4% to $284 billion, with institutional-platform activity surging 94%, while the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam stood out for small-value P2P transfers.
Multiple newswires report that the UK's Financial Conduct Authority has opened a crypto authorization application window, with a February 28, 2027 deadline, ahead of a new regime planned for 2027. Posts also state that existing money laundering registrations will not convert into FCA authorization.
Cointelegraph reports that CryptoQuant flagged potential selling pressure as deposit transactions and depositing addresses reached their highest counts since October 2025.
Cointelegraph reports that the European Commission's MiCA review consultation has closed, framing the question as whether Europe's crypto rulebook protects the market without making it too costly to build in.
SlowMist identified malicious activity weeks before the Bitget theft, involving a zero-day vulnerability, two security products and a custom withdrawal tool.
Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Ethena's ENA token with a $2 target for end-2028, citing USDe scaling and token buybacks. The bank also expects USDe supply to reach $40 billion by 2028.
Cointelegraph reports that European stablecoin issuer AllUnity is launching USDAU, its fourth fiat-backed stablecoin, expanding a MiCA-regulated lineup that already covers the euro, Swiss franc and Swedish krona.
Reuters reports, via The Defiant and Cointelegraph, that Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise about $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation. The posts state Sequoia and Wellington are in talks to lead the financing and that Kalshi was valued at $22 billion four months earlier.
Cointelegraph reports that Illinois has published draft rules specifying how its 0.2% digital asset transaction tax would apply to stablecoins, DeFi platforms, crypto bridges and self-custody transfers.
Cointelegraph reports that Crypto.com's AI agent remains in 'stealth mode' nearly eight months after its Super Bowl debut, with users still wondering about the promised agent.
Cointelegraph reports that Binance Pay will allow overseas users to spend USDT at most PayPay-supported merchants in Japan through HIVEX, with stores receiving yen.
Cointelegraph reports that a Trump accord calls for tech firms to 'self police' their own frontier AI, placing much of the responsibility for managing frontier AI risks on developers.
