Russia gives P2P crypto 8 months left, then a Sberbank-only
Bank of Russia ends P2P crypto transfers July 1, 2027 and approves Sberbank as an exchange operator. Limits, coins and
USDC's reserves can't easily cross borders when a run hits
FSB's G20 note flags multi-issuer stablecoins like USDC and PYUSD-style structures: trapped reserves, 24/7
A Korean bank lent won against bitcoin. It never touches the
Jeonbuk Bank's first won loan backed by bitcoin: corporate-only, third-party custody, court-enforced default and
Thai brokers can't lend a baht to buy these bitcoin ETFs
Thailand's SEC rules for bitcoin and ether ETFs on the SET take effect Oct 16: passive, single-asset, local custody,
SEC calls it self-custody. You still can't hold your own keys.
The SEC's October 2026 proposal would let advisers self-custody client crypto under strict, conditional rules.
84% of Iran's sanctioned wallets ran almost only on USDT
Senate PSI report: 84% of 846 sanctioned Iran-linked wallets transacted almost exclusively in Tether's USDT stablecoin.
Korea legalized token stocks — but not the ones you can buy
FSC set Feb 2027 as South Korea's tokenized securities start date — phase one excludes listed stocks.
CME just froze the first SEC-approved Bitcoin options.
The SEC's May 2026 approval of Nasdaq PHLX's QBTC cash-settled Bitcoin index options is now stayed after CME
Coinbase's market share hit a record while crypto volumes fell
Top-10 CEX spot volume fell 55%. 2026 exchange rankings: Binance, Coinbase, Bybit, OKX by market share and derivatives.
Japan's new #1 crypto exchange moves less than $50M a day
SBI's $289M Bitbank buyout creates Japan's largest crypto exchange with $6.8B AUC and 2.92M accounts.
GENIUS is law. Now stablecoin reserves are split by continent.
GENIUS Act and MiCA are both law — but their reserve rules conflict, splitting the global stablecoin compliance map.
North Korea took 76% of 2026 hack losses. Congress just noticed.
A bipartisan House bill introduced June 11 would create a federal crypto-theft task force inside the DOJ — a direct response to the NCET's 2025 disbandment and $11.4B in FBI-logged crypto losses.