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
What Does the New ASSX ETF Actually Track? REX Shares and Tuttle Capital Management have launched a leveraged exchange-traded fund tied to Strive, giving traders a new way to amplify daily moves in one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury companies. The T-REX 2X Long ASST Daily Target ETF began trading Friday on Cboe
What Would Batch V1.1 Change on the XRP Ledger? Ripple says asset managers and other commercial projects are preparing to use a rebuilt XRP Ledger feature that can make several linked transactions settle together, as the amendment approaches possible activation on September 29. Batch V1.1 allows as many as eight transactions to be bundled into
Why Did VanEck Single Out Metaplanet? Asset manager VanEck has criticized Metaplanet’s executive compensation structure, arguing that recent reductions to its management equity program still leave shareholders exposed to unusually high dilution. In a review of executive compensation across the 10 largest digital asset treasury companies, VanEck classified Metaplanet’s structure as “Bad,” making the Japanese
What Happened in Tether’s September 17 Blacklist Wave? Eighteen cryptocurrency addresses holding approximately $3.75 million in USDT were blacklisted on September 17, with almost all of the frozen funds concentrated on the Tron network. On-chain monitoring service USDTBanList recorded 17 newly restricted Tron addresses holding a combined $3.15 million and one Ethereum address containing approximately
What Is Coinbase Trying to Launch? Coinbase is seeking regulatory approval to bring perpetual futures tied to individual U.S. stocks to American traders, extending a derivatives structure built in crypto into companies including Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and Nvidia. Coinbase Derivatives filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday for approval to list single-stock perpetual
Brazilian banks and payment institutions will be prohibited from facilitating transactions for unauthorised cryptocurrency businesses from 30 October 2026, as the country approaches a major enforcement deadline under its new digital-asset regulatory regime. Article 91 of Banco Central do Brasil Resolution 520 prohibits financial institutions, payment institutions and other entities supervised by the central bank
Key Facts Bybit has switched on Perp Options, which it describes as the first options contracts written on TradFi perpetuals. SpaceX and Nvidia are the two underlying assets available at launch, with settlement handled in USDT. The contracts trade continuously, with no exchange opening bell and no weekend closure. A contract multiplier of one allows
Moscow Exchange will launch perpetual-style futures linked to five major cryptocurrencies on September 22, expanding regulated digital-asset exposure for qualified Russian investors without allowing them to take possession of the underlying tokens. The new contracts will track Moscow Exchange indexes for Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP and Tron, the exchange announced on September 16. They will
Why Is the FCA Targeting Peer-to-Peer Crypto Trading? Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has stepped up its enforcement against unregistered peer-to-peer cryptocurrency businesses, targeting three London premises suspected of operating outside the country’s anti-money laundering rules. The FCA worked with HM Revenue & Customs and the Metropolitan Police during the September 10 operation. Cease and desist