Russia could have its new regulated cryptocurrency market operating before the end of 2026, according to a senior Bank of Russia official, as authorities move from passing the country’s landmark crypto law to building the infrastructure required for legal domestic trading.Bank of Russia First Deputy Governor Vladimir Chistyukhin said on September 21 that the industry
SoFi Bank and Mastercard have taken stablecoin settlement live across SoFi’s debit and credit card program, moving a payments business expected to process more than $25 billion in annualized volume onto blockchain-based settlement rails. The companies announced the launch on September 22, six months after first unveiling their partnership. Transactions using SoFiUSD are already live
Crypto markets are capturing substantial demand for exposure to traditional assets outside regular U.S. trading hours, according to Binance Research, highlighting how real-world asset-linked perpetual futures and tokenized equities are creating a parallel, 24-hour market structure.The trend is particularly visible when Wall Street is closed. Binance said monthly weekend trading volume in perpetual contracts linked
What Is CME Launching for BCH and UNI? CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures on October 19, pending regulatory review, adding two more altcoins to a regulated derivatives business that is moving steadily beyond Bitcoin and Ether.The exchange will offer both standard and Micro contracts. Bitcoin Cash futures will represent 250
The XRP Ledger is preparing to activate its long-awaited Batch amendment on September 29, introducing the ability to group multiple transactions together and execute them under a single set of conditions.The upgrade requires server operators to run rippled — also known as xrpld — version 3.3.0 or later. Servers remaining on older versions when amendments
Prediction-market protocol Trueo plans to migrate from Coinbase-incubated Base to Ethereum mainnet, drawing public praise from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin as the project seeks deeper liquidity and a more decentralized foundation for its oracle and markets.Trueo announced the move on September 21, saying Base had been the appropriate network when the protocol launched in March
U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating whether Binance violated American sanctions against Iran by failing to stop certain trading activity on its platform, bringing renewed scrutiny to the exchange’s compliance controls nearly three years after its landmark settlement with U.S. authorities.The investigation is being led by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, with the Justice Department’s Criminal
GMGN, one of the crypto market’s prominent meme-coin trading terminals, has launched the public beta of its perpetual contracts product, expanding beyond the spot trading and token-discovery tools on which it built its user base.Co-founder Haze announced the beta on September 21 and invited users to test the product and provide feedback. Screenshots accompanying the
Why Is Fairshake Spending $30 Million in Ohio? Crypto-focused super PAC Fairshake is committing at least $30 million to oppose former Sen. Sherrod Brown’s attempt to return to the U.S. Senate in Ohio, making the race the group’s largest disclosed spending target of the 2026 general election so far.The campaign will include advertising and direct
How Did Hana Bank Cut Bond Settlement to the Same Day? South Korea’s Hana Bank has issued a five-year, $100 million foreign-currency digital bond through Euroclear’s blockchain infrastructure, reducing a process that traditionally takes three to five business days to same-day settlement.The transaction used Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure, or D-FMI, to process the bond’s