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the Central Bank of Russia has stated it wants illegal crypto exchange services and related gray areas to cease to exist by July 1, 2027. Putin previously signed a crypto legalization law on August 4, recognizing digital currency as property and assigning market regulatory responsibilities to the Central Bank of Russia; the main provisions of the law took effect on September 1, 2026, and crypto exchange services not included in the central bank's registration list may continue operating until July 1, 2027.
According to PR Newswire, Blockchain.com and NYSE Group have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide global users with access to trade tokenized U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs via NYSE's previously announced digital ATS platform, pending regulatory approval. The collaboration encompasses bidirectional market data distribution: ICE Data Services, a subsidiary of NYSE, plans to distribute Blockchain.com's cryptocurrency market data and analytics to its subscriber clients; in turn, Blockchain.com will integrate ICE and NYSE exchange data sources to deliver real-time stock quotes to its over 44 million registered accounts. The Citi Institute forecasts that the base case for the tokenized assets market by the 2030s will reach $5.5 trillion. Tokenized stocks offer advantages such as fractional ownership, 24/7 trading, global investor access, and faster on-chain settlement.
Odaily News: Visa has released its "Money Travels 2026" report, based on a survey of 2,192 U.S. adults, showing that if stablecoins were equipped with bank-grade fraud protection and deposit insurance, consumer willingness to use them would rise from 36% to 56%; if offered through existing financial institutions, willingness would also increase to 45%. The survey also found that 56% of respondents had never heard of stablecoins, and 64% of respondents had greater trust in payment providers than in the technology itself. Currently, the total global supply of USD-pegged stablecoins has exceeded $295 billion, with USDT at approximately $183.4 billion and USDC at approximately $76 billion; Visa's annualized stablecoin settlement volume has surpassed $20 billion, representing more than a 15-fold increase from a year ago. (The Block)
据 CoinDesk 报道，加密支付公司 MoonPay 宣布计划以超过 6000 万美元的全股票交易收购私人市场投资平台 North Capital，后者将成为 MoonPay 的全资子公司，交易尚待监管批准。North Capital 总部位于美国犹他州盐湖城，平台累计一级及二级市场交易量约达 90 亿美元，其关联机构持有 SEC 注册的经纪自营商、交易、转让及投资顾问等多项资质。 MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright 表示，此次收购旨在构建支持代币化现实资产大规模采用的监管基础，通过现代可编程基础设施连接金融系统各环节。这也是 MoonPay 今年收购潮的延续，此前已相继收购 Solana 交易基础设施提供商 DFlow 及安全初创公司 Sodot。
According to The Block, Visa released its Money Travels 2026 report. Based on a survey of 2,192 U.S. adults, consumer willingness to use stablecoins would rise from 36% to 56% if they feature bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance; if offered through existing financial institutions, willingness could also reach 45%. The survey also indicates that 56% of respondents had never heard of stablecoins, while 64% trust payment providers more than the technology itself. Currently, the global total supply of USD-pegged stablecoins exceeds $295 billion, comprising approximately $183.4 billion in USDT and around $76 billion in USDC. Visa's annualized stablecoin settlement volume has already surpassed $20 billion, representing an increase of over 15 times compared to a year ago.
Odaily News: Citi stated that the U.S. Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act into formal consideration did not interrupt Bitcoin's rally. After the procedural vote on the bill was blocked, Bitcoin remained strong, with market attention now shifting to whether the SEC can advance rulemaking on trading, tokenized assets, and market access under its existing authority.Citi noted that the legislative setback will limit the CFTC's ability to obtain more complete crypto market regulatory authority in the near term. Its economics team believes this round of rate hikes may be close to a one-time move; the quantitative macro team warned that if AI investment continues to support growth and employment and wage pressures persist, interest rates may face further upward revision risks.
Odaily News: The European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) stated in a joint risk update that advances in quantum computing could weaken the cryptographic systems that secure blockchain transactions, communications, and database security.In March, Google Quantum AI researchers estimated that the number of physical qubits required to break the cryptographic techniques used by many cryptocurrencies may be about 20 times fewer than previously estimated. A computer capable of carrying out such an attack does not yet exist.In February, Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp and others proposed phasing out current signature schemes and restricting how unmigrated funds can be used five years after the proposal's activation. The proposal has not yet been adopted. The Ethereum Foundation plans to make Ethereum's execution, consensus, and data layers quantum-resistant by December 2029. (Cointelegraph)
According to an official announcement from Bullish, Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) and diversified global financial services platform Marex Group Limited (NASDAQ: MRX) have announced a partnership. Marex will officially gain access to the Bullish platform, covering multiple product categories including spot, options, perpetual futures, and term futures. The firm will arrange block trades via electronic and voice execution to provide liquidity support for its OTC derivatives and structured products businesses. Marex currently serves over 3,400 active clients, with operations spanning crypto-backed financing, OTC trading, market making and clearing, wealth management, and structured investments. This collaboration integrates Marex's global infrastructure with Bullish's regulated market infrastructure to meet the growing demand from institutional investors for digital asset trading solutions that comply with traditional finance standards. Bullish's trading volume in the first half of 2026 has surpassed $300 billion, with open interest reaching a record high of over $6 billion.
Odaily News: North Korean hacker group WaterPlum obtained funds or credentials from over 7,000 crypto wallets through fake recruitment processes and transferred approximately $10.71 million to North Korea. Between December 2025 and July 2026, the group infected at least 30,000 devices across more than 100 countries.WaterPlum impersonates AI, crypto, or NFT companies and approaches developers through social media, job platforms, and freelance platforms, luring them into downloading malware-laden files under the guise of technical interviews or coding assignments. Targets include web designers, engineers, and professionals in the crypto, blockchain, and Web3 sectors.Japanese law enforcement dismantled a "laptop farm" within the country for the first time, discovering that hundreds of millions of yen in crypto assets had already been transferred overseas. Investigations suggest that WaterPlum and some North Korean remote IT workers both belong to the 313th General Bureau of North Korea's Ministry of Munitions Industry and share IP addresses used to access the laptop farm and job-seeking services. (Decrypt)
Odaily reports: U.S. President Trump recently once again advocated cutting U.S. interest rates to 1% or even lower, arguing that lower financing costs can boost corporate investment, reduce government debt costs, and enhance U.S. economic competitiveness. Meanwhile, on September 16, the Federal Reserve raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%, the first rate hike since July 2023. Boston Fed President Collins subsequently expressed support for the hike, saying that inflation risks remain above the Fed's 2% target and that monetary policy needs to remain somewhat restrictive to bring inflation down sustainably. (Reuters)
According to the official FATF website, the FATF published Turkey's 2026 Mutual Evaluation Report on September 23. The report indicates that Turkey has made progress in the use of financial intelligence and international cooperation, but continues to exhibit clear deficiencies in money laundering investigations involving high-risk predicate offenses (such as drug smuggling and illegal gambling), the recovery of overseas assets, and suspicious transaction reporting. Turkey received a "Partially Compliant" rating for both targeted financial sanctions related to the financing of proliferation (R.7) and the regulation of non-profit organizations (R.8), and was ultimately placed on the Enhanced Follow-Up List. It is required to complete key remedial actions within three years and report on its progress regularly.
According to FinTech Global, Chicago-based AI startup Go.AI has completed an $85 million Series A funding round led by Updata Partners, with existing investors GFT Ventures and LAUNCH participating, bringing the company's total funding to $90 million. The company provides on-premise, auditable AI infrastructure for regulated entities such as banks. The new capital will be used to expand the engineering team and increase marketing efforts, driving the company's expansion from its core regulated industries to a broader range of compliance-oriented institutions.
According to Decrypt, on September 23, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Surveillance Division issued an advisory opinion classifying “mention-type contracts” in prediction markets that involve specific individuals’ statements, appearances, handshakes, photographs, and social media interactions as products presumed susceptible to manipulation. The CFTC noted that the settlement outcomes of such contracts can be actively controlled by the parties involved, and relevant insiders (such as those holding draft speeches or guest lists) may possess material non-public information. Exchanges seeking to rebut this presumption must provide detailed monitoring mechanisms and risk control evidence, including measures such as establishing restricted participant lists, third-party reviews, and position limits. This advisory opinion was issued approximately three weeks after the CFTC fined former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez $172,000 for trading “presidential mention contracts” after learning the contents of the president’s speech in advance. The advisory opinion is not legally binding and represents only the stance of the division's staff.
Odaily reports: The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has published a strategic action agenda for implementing its first five-year plan. In the short term, it will introduce a new digital asset licensing regime and implement digital asset custody supervision, CrypTech market surveillance, and anti-money laundering capacity building.In the medium to long term, it will develop a regulatory framework for tokenized investment products as appropriate, covering tokenized gold and other real-world assets. The institution will also support the Hong Kong SAR government in establishing a central gold clearing and settlement system and developing RMB-denominated gold and commodity products. (HK01 NFT)
According to official social media announcements, HTX Research Asset Analyst WZ will join the seventh episode of "Huobi Expert Talk" today at 19:00 (UTC+8) to share insights on the theme "From Washington to Oil Prices: A New Pricing Logic for Crypto." During the session, WZ will address topics including US crypto regulation, the US Treasury market, international oil prices, and midterm elections, examining how policy expectations, liquidity shifts, and energy prices influence crypto asset pricing. Tying in concerns relevant to retail investors, he will also explore the transmission pathways of macroeconomic events to the crypto market and highlight key signals worth tracking when gauging market movements.
Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov stated that Russia has approximately 20 million cryptocurrency users, with citizens holding cryptocurrencies and related financial products totaling around $44 billion, and daily trading volume of about $595 million.Russia is advancing comprehensive regulation to clarify the rights and responsibilities of service providers, intermediaries, and investors; it plans to pursue criminal liability for illegally organized cryptocurrency trading activities starting July 1, 2027, while ordinary individual transactions are excluded. The Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank are studying the operational models and application scenarios of domestic stablecoins; if assets such as USDT and USDC are frozen due to actions by foreign issuers and Russian custodians are not at fault, related losses will in principle be borne by investors.
Odaily News: WeChat will continue to crack down on illegal and criminal activities such as pyramid schemes and fraud organized by certain accounts. Such activities typically use the pretext of national asset unfreezing, national policies, national projects, blockchain virtual currencies, or stablecoins, luring users with high returns to join group chats and recruit others, then stealing WeChat account passwords through suspicious links, inducing downloads of fraudulent apps, or requiring participation in check-ins, meetings, courses, and other activities to carry out scams.WeChat will take tiered measures against relevant accounts based on the severity of violations, including banning group functions, restricting certain features, and suspending accounts.
Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov stated that Russia will push to establish a transparent and legal cryptocurrency market. The country has approximately 20 million cryptocurrency users, with residents' total related investments amounting to about 3.7 trillion rubles, and a daily trading volume of around 5 billion rubles.
According to Cnfinance, Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Warren Woo stated at the Treasury Markets Summit that Hong Kong's equity, foreign exchange, and debt markets are mature, while digital finance is rapidly emerging. The Central Money Markets Unit (CMU) will launch new services by year-end, providing 24/7 on-chain real-time settlement, supporting the digital Hong Kong dollar and central bank digital currency (CBDC), and will also explore accepting tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins for settlement on the platform.
Odaily News: Cambodia has for the first time publicly revealed the internal operations of the scam compound "Park 8," the largest fraud city in Cambodia, capable of housing up to 20,000 workers who have been trafficked and forced to engage in online fraud. It is operated by the Cambodian company Legend Innovation.Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic found that the operating company is linked to Prince Group. Legend Innovation is alleged to have connections to the US- and UK-sanctioned Prince Group through company phone numbers, director activities, and related business records. Specifically, the phone number registered to Legend Innovation previously appeared in the records of a real estate company allegedly belonging to the Prince Group network. A Huione Pay physical store was once operating inside the compound, allowing people to exchange cryptocurrency and cash, while Huione Logistics was alleged to provide freight services between Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the compound. (Caixin)