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The BIS has argued that tokenised bank deposits should carry most everyday and wholesale payments, leaving stablecoins in narrower roles. Project Agorá's real-value tests make that more than a theoretical preference—but not yet a production system.
HMRC’s first dedicated cryptoasset Capital Gains Tax table records £13.799 billion of disposal proceeds and £1.377 billion of gains. Our analysis finds that 240 people—about 1.4% of those included—reported 52% of the gains captured in the table.
Term Labs says a governance exploit affected its vaults. It has since shut every Term Meta Vault, revoked DAO governance roles and stopped new deposits while keeping withdrawals open.
HSBC and Standard Chartered have completed the first reported live transaction on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger. Swift’s own design documents show why the milestone is about bank interoperability—not the disappearance of existing settlement systems.
Evidence: CoinDesk · Swift · Swift · Standard Chartered
Bank Leumi and Galaxy have announced a partnership intended to let Leumi and PEPPER customers buy, hold and sell bitcoin, ether and solana inside Leumi Trade. The companies expect availability in early 2027, but the reviewed primary sources do not show a live customer service or announce a product-specific regulatory approval.
Evidence: Galaxy Digital · Bank Leumi · Bank Leumi · CoinDesk
Sharplink says it will stake $200 million of ether through Lido and hold the resulting wstETH with Anchorage Digital. The plan could add staking rewards and DeFi flexibility, but it also adds protocol, liquidity, custody and execution dependencies that ordinary ETH ownership does not carry in the same form.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cancelled an open meeting that was due to consider whether to propose a tailored offering regime for certain crypto investment contracts. The official notice gave no reason and announced no replacement date.
Evidence: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Decrypt
After selling 1,690 BTC and raising $653 million in stock, the world’s largest corporate bitcoin holder says its multibillion-dollar cash reserve is what shorter-term credit investors actually want.
Evidence: CoinDesk · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Russia’s largest bank is preparing to accept Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT as collateral for loans — while openly questioning whether anybody actually wants…
A critical Bitcoin hardware-wallet interface is heading towards retirement — but Ledger, Trezor, Coldcard and other devices are not suddenly unsafe.
Deribit is ending its daily public Proof of Reserves system after moving approximately 90% of client assets into Coinbase custody.
Tokenized stock transfers have surged 415% to $29.5 billion in a single month.