Japan is moving toward blockchain-based settlement for traditional securities, with regulators and some of the country’s largest banks and brokerages testing infrastructure designed to settle stocks and bonds almost instantly rather than through conventional multi-day processes. The Financial Services Agency is supporting a demonstration experiment that will record and manage transfers of rights to Japanese
U.S.-listed cryptocurrency ETFs recorded another broad day of inflows on August 25, led by more than $300 million entering spot Bitcoin funds as investors continued rebuilding digital-asset exposure following Bitcoin’s recovery toward $80,000. Spot Bitcoin ETFs generated $314.3 million of net inflows, according to finalized Farside Investors data, marking their seventh consecutive positive trading session.
The cryptocurrency market experienced a dramatic shift in momentum in late August 2026, with digital assets surging to break a 5-year record. The total crypto market cap climbed roughly 24% in a single week, adding over $474 billion in value to reach a staggering $2.67 trillion. This marks the largest weekly gain the crypto market
Why Is MEXC Leaving The Netherlands? Crypto exchange MEXC will stop serving customers in the Netherlands in November and is directing affected users toward MiCA-authorised Bybit EU, showing how Europe’s new licensing regime is beginning to redistribute customers between crypto platforms. Dutch MEXC customers are being encouraged to move their assets by Oct. 31, with
CleanCore Solutions has effectively ended its Dogecoin treasury strategy after selling substantially all of its remaining 463 million DOGE for approximately $33.4 million, redirecting capital toward an ambitious expansion into artificial-intelligence infrastructure. The NYSE American-listed company disclosed that it sold the DOGE on July 20, according to securities filings reported August 24. The transaction implies
Pakistan has opened its formal cryptocurrency licensing regime, giving existing virtual-asset service providers until September 5, 2026, to submit regulatory applications or stop operating in the country. The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, or PVARA, notified its final licensing regulations on August 21 and opened applications for No Objection Certificates, full VASP licences and its
President Donald Trump says the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is working on a regulatory pathway that could allow Hyperliquid to operate legally in the United States, providing one of the clearest signals yet that Washington wants to bring decentralized perpetual-futures trading onshore. Speaking at a White House gathering of cryptocurrency and financial-industry executives on August
The US Treasury has made Iran’s cryptocurrency sector a named target of its sanctions machinery for the first time, folding digital assets into the sweeping “Operation Economic Outcast” campaign it launched on Monday. Alongside gold, technology, aviation, and shipping, crypto is now one of five Iranian economic sectors that the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets
Solana‘s lending market has gotten a lot more competitive lately, and not just on the usual metrics. Protocols aren’t only fighting over liquidity and borrowing demand anymore. They’re fighting over how efficiently users can put their capital to work across the rest of the ecosystem. Jupiter’s move into lending is a good example of that
What Does Pakistan’s New Crypto Licensing Regime Require? Pakistan has opened its licensing portal for cryptocurrency companies, giving exchanges and other virtual asset service providers until Sept. 5 to enter the country’s new regulatory framework or stop operating in the market. The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority said companies that were providing virtual asset services