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FinCEN says A7's sub-agents processed more than $17 billion in dollar-denominated transactions from January 2025 through June 2026, according to The Defiant. The US is sanctioning the A7 network and proposing a ban on sub-agent payments.
A Defiant report on an SF Fed study says stablecoin treasury growth partly offsets China's retreat, with issuers favoring short-term debt and China's decline mostly in longer-dated securities.
OpenZeppelin and T-REX Network introduced a new framework for regulated token eligibility and recovery, according to The Defiant. The redesign requires new deployments rather than in-place upgrades of existing 2.x identities, per the project's changelog.
A Castle Labs study of live order books found that Hyperliquid held as much resting liquidity as the median of Binance, Bybit and OKX on four of five crypto assets and cost less to trade. The remaining gap concerns how venues price stocks and commodities when the underlying market is closed.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules and amendments to create a tailored framework for the custody of crypto assets by registered investment advisers and regulated funds. The proposal would allow self-custody in some cases and permit state trust companies to serve as custodians.
The Block and The Defiant report that Drift has opened DFX recovery claims, with an initial recovery pool covering roughly 1% of user losses and no firm timeline for full repayment.
The Defiant reports that World Liberty Financial launched WLFI staking with a planned $1.25M USD1 pool. Holders must open a 180-day lock and cast governance votes to claim rewards, with no fixed payout rate.
The Defiant reports that Blockworks has opened its full dataset to AI agents through a hosted Model Context Protocol server, giving ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor read access to the datasets behind Blockworks research and its Intel app.
Multiple news outlets report that NEAR Intents suffered a $3.8 million exploit and halted services, with the platform promising to compensate affected users. Deposits and withdrawals on 11 networks remain disrupted while repairs continue.
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.
The authors of an Ethereum staking reward burn proposal withdrew it from the Hegota upgrade, with co-author Jérôme de Tychey saying a scoping process was the wrong venue for an issuance change. The authors plan a separate issuance-policy process, with Lido among those offering to help after objections over validator economics.
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The Defiant reports that Judge Jennifer Rochon dismissed a class action over LIBRA and M3M3 memecoin launches with prejudice, finding six months of launches cannot sustain a RICO claim and that plaintiffs never pleaded Meteora as a suable entity.
Marinade says its council blocked a DAO takeover attempt by vetoing two proposals within six hours, adding that no funds moved and staking services were unaffected.
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.
The Defiant reports sharp outflows from Sentora's Morpho vaults amid a MetaMask staking incident, citing available liquidity figures for the RLUSD and PYUSD vaults.
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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The Defiant reports that OFAC sanctioned a Tren de Aragua ATM network and listed seven Tron addresses. Chainalysis says the wallets' counterparties had exposure to laundering networks used by Mexican and Colombian cartels and Venezuelan launderers.
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Uniswap Labs plans an OUSD rewards hook for liquidity providers, according to The Defiant. OUSD is already available across Uniswap's protocol, apps and API, while the rewards mechanism awaits its full design.
The Defiant reports that Senator Daines unveiled the ADAPT Act, a crypto tax bill that would exempt qualifying stablecoin purchases and crypto-paid transaction costs of $10 or less from gain-or-loss recognition while restricting loss harvesting.
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.
The Defiant reports that Arc has packaged USDC funding and Morpho lending for apps, with Borrow Kit enabling cirBTC-backed loans and Onramp requiring provider identity checks and regional eligibility.
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The Defiant reports that Open USD has launched as Stripe's default stablecoin, with Mastercard routing through BVNK, Visa offering limited beta access, and Coinbase scheduled to follow on Oct. 1.
The Block and The Defiant report that Lloyds used USDC to settle $750,000 of payment obligations with Visa during a seven-day live cross-border pilot. The Defiant adds that the test sent funds from Jersey to the US in under an hour, including over the weekend, with Lloyds using Canton and Visa a separate blockchain.
The Defiant reports that Aave V4 total value locked rose 82% in September and that Arc reached $181 million, while V4 contributed 2% of Aave's trailing 30-day protocol revenue.
Chainlink introduced Fulcrum, a solution for connecting financial institutions to onchain financing, according to The Defiant and a community post. The Defiant reports a financing workflow demonstrated with DTCC at Sibos, while integrations with financing venues remain under way.
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.
The Defiant reports that Ostium's recovery plan repays wallets that lost $1,000 or less in full, while 345 wallets holding at least 86% of the $23.8 million loss must choose between a $1,000 payment and a pro-rata claim on unrecovered funds.
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.
The Defiant reports that Gate BEN market logged 92 liquidations after a scheduled dividend adjustment, citing two self-identified Gate managers who said a same-name asset error affected 200 accounts and that balance displays were being restored.