Russia’s comprehensive cryptocurrency law officially entered into force on September 1, establishing a regulated framework for buying, selling, holding and intermediating digital assets across the country. Federal Law No. 282-FZ, signed by President Vladimir Putin on August 4, replaces major parts of Russia’s previous digital-asset regime and formally recognizes cryptocurrencies as property that can circulate
Solana‘s fee generation approached a seven-day daily average of 9,200 SOL on August 27 as non-vote transaction activity reached record levels, strengthening the network’s fee economy just as validators approved a substantial acceleration in the decline of inflation rewards. Fee generation measured in SOL has increased more than 80% over the past three months, according
What Are Payward and the LSE Bringing Onchain? Payward, the owner of crypto exchange Kraken, is partnering with the London Stock Exchange to tokenize the 100 largest LSE-listed companies, bringing some of the UK market’s biggest stocks onto blockchain rails through the xStocks framework. The first London-listed xStocks are expected to become available in the
How Do Binance’s New Stock Options Work? Binance is expanding deeper into traditional markets with physically settled options on more than 1,000 U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds, adding another brokerage-style product to a platform historically built around cryptocurrency trading. The options will be offered through Nest Trading Limited, Binance’s broker-dealer regulated by the Abu Dhabi
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) fell more than 3% on Tuesday to trade below $144, dropping out of the $149-$151 range it had held for days, on the morning its reported payroll-cut deadline was due to arrive. The stock changed hands around $143.77, down about 3.6% on the day, and is now off roughly 27% for the
U.S.-listed crypto exchange-traded funds ended Friday, August 28 with a pronounced split between Bitcoin and the rest of the digital-asset market, as investors withdrew $201.9 million from spot Bitcoin ETFs while continuing to allocate capital to Ether, Solana, XRP and Hyperliquid products. Bitcoin’s reversal was particularly notable after nine consecutive positive sessions. BlackRock’s IBIT recorded $33.4
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act will face its most consequential Senate test yet on September 15, when lawmakers are scheduled to vote on whether to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633. Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed the cloture motion shortly before Congress left Washington for its August recess. According to
The U.S. Treasury Department’s latest stablecoin rulemaking is approaching a critical deadline, with public comments due October 19 before the GENIUS Act’s expected effective date on January 18, 2027. Treasury published its 24-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register on August 18 under docket TREAS-DO-2026-0496. The proposal implements Section 3 of the GENIUS Act,
KuCoin has added FinChain Dollar to its off-exchange collateral system, allowing eligible institutions to use the token’s mapped value to support trading without first transferring it to the exchange. The companies said in their partnership announcement that FUSD will join the real-world assets supported by KuCoin’s RWA Collateral Mirroring Solution. The arrangement separates custody from
The US Treasury is about to buy back a lot more long-dated debt, and the precious-metals market has been front-running the move for two weeks. On August 19, Treasury said it would at least double the maximum size of its liquidity-support buyback operations in the long end of the curve, and the bigger operations begin