Stablecoins, central bank digital currencies and the new rails of digital cash.
South Korea blocks 27 crypto exchanges with one website-level blitz, and the message to unregistered platforms is hard to misread: register, or vanish from Korean screens. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) confirmed the sweep this week, extending years of app-store restrictions into full web access blocks across a broad slice of offshore venues. The move … Read more
Bank of Russia guidance bans crypto transfers to personal wallets from regulated accounts, citing Federal Law 282-FZ, with a P2P ban following in 2027.
FASB stablecoin accounting proposal: tokens with on-demand $1 redemption could count as cash equivalents. Comments close Nov 19.
USDC minting on Noble stops today as Circle executes the first milestone of its CCTP V1 wind-down; $91.6M USDC stays redeemable 1:1 until the January 12, 2027 full pause.
Standard Chartered RLUSD custody goes live at its DIFC Dubai branch, with Ripple and LMAX Group collateral mirroring planned.
A China national blockchain network plan landed in hard copy this weekend: Beijing published a policy document on Friday calling for a state-built blockchain backbone, wrapped inside a wider push to accelerate its digital economy. What it is not is any hint of a thaw on cryptocurrencies — the 2021 blanket ban on crypto transactions … Read more
Tether freezing USDT vaults belonging to THORChain turned a quiet Friday into an unplanned outage for the cross-chain protocol: technical co-founder Chad Barraford revealed that the stablecoin issuer blacklisted four of the network’s vault addresses, locking roughly 1.45 million USDT in combined funds — then reversed the freeze hours later without explanation. Barraford laid out … Read more
Tether signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Bank of Kazakhstan and the Alatau City Authority on October 7, 2026, putting the Tether Kazakhstan partnership on the map — at least on paper. The agreement covers stablecoin use cases and asset tokenization across the Central Asian republic: the parties will study international stablecoin issuance … Read more
China P2P stablecoin wallets grew 43x between Q1 2024 and Q2 2026 as transfers shifted to wallet-to-wallet flows, Chainalysis data shows.
Russia’s Finance Ministry paid wages in digital rubles for the first time starting Oct. 1, running government payroll on the CBDC’s proven budget-trial rails.