Nigeria’s central bank is cautiously opening the door to stablecoin and virtual asset testing through a supervised sandbox, signaling support for crypto innovation without handing out a free license. It’s a measured move in one of the world’s most active crypto markets.
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Blockstream has launched a beta swap service for moving value between Bitcoin, Lightning, and Liquid as Boltz pauses swaps after attacks and an EVM bug. The timing is brutal, but the takeaway is clear: noncustodial doesn’t mean bulletproof.
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Reuters says Binance reportedly shared KYC and transaction data with Russian investigators in a terrorism-financing case, raising a sharp question: whether EU privacy rules should have blocked the handover. The case highlights how centralized exchanges can become surveillance chokepoints.
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Reuters reports Binance shared Russian customer KYC data that later helped build a terrorism-financing case over just $700 in crypto transfers. The case spotlights the ugly tradeoff between exchange compliance and user privacy, especially in politically sensitive situations.
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Austria’s FMA has hit Bitpanda with a €70,000 fine for MiCA disclosure and timing breaches, marking one of the country’s first published final penalties under the EU crypto rulebook. It’s a compliance warning shot, not a fraud case — but the paperwork now has teeth.
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New York has sued Kalshi, claiming its prediction markets are illegal gambling, while Kalshi says it runs federally regulated derivatives. The fight could decide whether state gaming laws or federal preemption controls prediction markets nationwide.
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Paul Tudor Jones’ firm added to its BlackRock IBIT stake in Q2, but a sharp cut in call exposure suggests caution, not blind Bitcoin evangelism. The filing fits a broader pattern of institutions buying IBIT carefully while keeping risk controls firmly on.
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Bitcoin is hovering near $63K as ETF outflows cool momentum, altcoins like HYPE and LINK steal the spotlight, and Washington prepares a crypto policy meeting that could shape the next move for markets and regulators alike.
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JPMorgan is now accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral for U.S. dollar loans to institutional clients, a sharp reversal from Jamie Dimon’s long-running crypto bashing. The bank is keeping it tightly controlled with heavy haircuts, third-party custody, and narrow asset eligibility.
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OCC guidance is narrower than the headline suggests: national banks can handle crypto network fees and briefly hold certain assets as principal to pay them, but that’s not a blanket green light to run retail crypto trading desks. Small rule, big implications.
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