Hong Kong Stablecoin Licenses: 2 Winners, 34 Still Waiting
Key TakeawayOnly two Hong Kong stablecoin issuer licenses exist — HSBC (FRS02) and Anchorpoint Financial (FRS01), both effective April 10 — while 34 applicants...
Ant International Clears Shanghai-HK Millions in Seconds
Key TakeawayTwo Chinese state banks, on two consecutive days, moved digital yuan for Ant International "hundreds of millions" in digital yuan between Shanghai and...
Visa and Mastercard Join Stripe’s Tempo: How AI Agent Payments Get Their Own Rails
AI agent payments just stopped being a whitepaper idea. Two of the world's largest card networks have formally joined the systems built to settle...
Solana Alpenglow Test Hits 150ms Finality: 5 Numbers to Know
Key TakeawaySolana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade activates on mainnet October 21, 2026 — epoch 1064 — replacing TowerBFT voting with a certificate-based protocol that targets...
Standard Chartered Opens Bitcoin Trading in UAE: 3 Market Shifts
Key TakeawayStandard Chartered went live on October 14 as the first international bank to let clients buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum directly from...
Stablecoin Tax France: The 2027 30% Levy, 5 Facts for Holders
Key TakeawayFrance's finance committee adopted amendment I-CF1826 on October 7: swapping bitcoin or ether into MiCA-regulated Euro stablecoins becomes a stablecoin tax event from...
Binance Shuts Mining Pool: Hashrate Retreat Explained in 6 Points
Key TakeawayBinance will shut down its mining pool and all related services — Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, Transaction Accelerator, mining APIs and hashrate alerts...
BSP Puts Coins.ph License on Watch: 18M Users, Gambling Allegations
Key TakeawayThe Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas case against Coins.ph has escalated: a CoinDesk report citing two people with knowledge says the infractions are serious...
Bitcoin Quantum Warning: Coinbase Holds 5% of BTC — 7-Point Fix
Key TakeawayBitcoin quantum readiness moved from theory to agenda on October 13, when Coinbase — custodian of roughly 5 percent of all bitcoin —...
The Ledger Supply Chain Attack Explained: How to Verify Your Wallet Before You Trust...
Supply chain attack is a term security teams used to reserve for code. In October 2026 it found a body. The Ledger supply chain...