India Ends Six Years of Free UPI: MDR on Large Payments Starts After Diwali
The UPI merchant fee is deferred to after Diwali. UPI volume: 24.07 billion transactions in September, worth about ₹29.37 lakh crore | October pace:...
Pyth Network Rides Nasdaq and Kalshi Deal Flow to a 55% Month
Key TakeawayPyth Network is the best-performing fundamentally-backed crypto of the week — +16.8% over 7 days and +55% over 30 days — on a...
Digital Yuan Goes Institutional: mBridge Enters Bonds and Swaps
Table of ContentsKey TakeawayThe Digital Yuan’s Institutional TurnWho Built the BridgeThe Parallel Lanes Are MultiplyingThe ¥600 Billion Ledger, Line by LineHow the Seconds Standard...
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
Table of ContentsKey TakeawayWhat AI Agent Payments Are: the Machine Payments Protocol ExplainedTempo Mainnet: Who Built the Rails and Who Signed OnMastercard’s BVNK Acquisition:...
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
Table of ContentsKey TakeawayWhat Standard Chartered Actually LaunchedCustody First, Then Institutions, Now IndividualsThe Custody Trade-Off: Bank Vault vs Seed PhraseWho Gets In Now —...
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...