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A bill expected before the Lords in September would give the Bank of England a legal duty to support digital-payments innovation, including stablecoins, while prioritising financial stability.
Jackson Hole is opening with a reported crypto-focused agenda as Kevin Warsh makes his first major symposium speech as Federal Reserve chair, drawing market attention to payments and infrastructure.
The Ouroboros Leios repository recorded an “Update protocol status” change, a low-detail signal of continued activity rather than a result, release, or timeline.
A Hydra change traces KZG trusted-setup warm-up work, flushes batch logs, and turns setup failures into explicit configuration errors.
Hydra merged caching changes for its Blockfrost backend, fetching system-start and genesis once while requesting era history only when needed.
Hydra merged PR #2836 for script integrity and reference scripts, closing issue #2594. The sparse record supports tracking the diff, not assuming release availability or specific new capabilities.
US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows were reported at $232.1 million as an eight-day streak reached $2.8 billion, while XRP funds recorded their largest inflow since Jan. 5.
Strategy’s cash nearly matches its convertible debt, putting net leverage near zero; the record says this mutes balance-sheet risk as MSTR outperformed Bitcoin.
Bitcoin slipped below $78,000–$79,000 after failing to hold $80,000, while hotter-than-expected July PCE data coincided with renewed Fed-hike bets and a broader leverage unwind.
Coinbase and Better Mortgage have made their Bitcoin-backed mortgage product generally available for US buyers who pledge BTC as down-payment collateral rather than sell it.
Revolut has launched its EURR euro stablecoin for select customers in three European markets, with multichain and external-wallet support.
Japan’s FSA, Finance Ministry and Bank of Japan will study tokenized cash settlement for stocks and government bonds, with a development plan targeted by early 2027.
Bitcoin and Ethereum saw concrete quantum-resistance work, including a published BIP, an experimental mainnet spend, and a staking-contract proposal.
Dallas Fed economists warn that tokenized deposits could make funding less stable, potentially reducing lending capacity and increasing borrowing costs.
The SEC sent a proposed digital-asset custody overhaul to the White House for review, while a vote on the CLARITY Act remains stalled.
Hydra PR #2844 fixes a flaky strictness test and explicitly forces deposit observations, adding a property test that observed deposit UTxOs carry no thunks.
Hydra merged a change that forces UTxO values during construction, aiming to prevent large-head close transactions from being delayed past their validity window.
BitMEX has stopped new positions and may close existing trades before Sept. 23, reducing users’ control over open positions.
Bitwise has turned Coinbase tokenized stocks into self-custodied, automatically rebalancing portfolios for eligible non-US investors.
The record links record Solana transaction activity, the largest reported ETF inflows of 2026, and tokenized assets nearing $4 billion, alongside a SOL rally.
Competing proposals on stablecoin identity checks could determine how self-custody wallet users are treated under GENIUS Act rulemaking.
Operation Lighthouse generated 14,300 investigative leads and flagged more than 7,700 suspect accounts across 11 exchanges and payment services.
US state banking associations say they are building BankChain, a shared network for tokenized deposits and onchain payments, with a 2027 timeline.
Treasury reportedly expanded Iran sanctions authority to the crypto sector, increasing the need for exchanges and infrastructure providers to assess counterparty risk.
