Deutsche Bank’s crypto custody licence is due 40 months after filing
Deutsche Bank will custody Bitcoin, Ether, USDC, EURC and EURAU, but expects its BaFin licence only in October - 40 months after it first applied in 2023.
Karthik Subramanian
Digital Assets Correspondent
Karthik Subramanian is a founder, writer, and technology consultant with nine years in the crypto ecosystem. He covers token economics, L1/L2 infrastructure, DeFi protocols, wallets/custody, and the bridge between crypto and forex—broker technology, liquidity, and macro drivers. Karthik’s writing focuses on clear, practical frameworks that help professionals evaluate new products and on-chain innovation alongside FX market realities.
September 2026
Crypto.com’s Form 1-N names 10 stocks and no perpetual
Crypto.com's Nadex filed a 515-page Form 1-N naming 10 US stocks. The SEC held no vote, and the single-stock perps Crypto.com plans are still unapproved.
S&P Global buys OpenZeppelin to rate code alongside issuers
S&P Global will buy OpenZeppelin, the auditor behind $37trn in onchain transfers, extending Ratings from issuer creditworthiness into smart contract code.
Cyber Resilience Act puts crypto wallet makers on a 24-hour clock
EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting now binds crypto wallet makers: 24-hour exploit warnings, fines up to €15m, and old devices in scope. Who is exposed.
Broadridge extends digital assets platform to US wealth firms
Broadridge has extended its digital assets platform to US wealth firms, wiring Anchorage Digital and Galaxy in first as the default custody counterparties.
Solana’s 4,096-byte transactions: opt-in to send, not to read
Solana's transaction size limit rose to 4,096 bytes at epoch 1035. Sending v1 is optional; reading it is not, and unprepared RPC calls can fail whole blocks.
Block files for Builders Bank, an uninsured bitcoin trust bank
Block has applied to the OCC for Builders Bank, an uninsured trust bank for bitcoin custody. Its filing hides the capital; its 10-Q shows a 3.8% bitcoin margin.
Visa brings onchain credit to stablecoin card settlement
Visa is feeding VisaNet settlement data to onchain credit lenders for stablecoin card programs, but Rain makes up about $2bn of the $2.5bn zero-default tally.
U.S. Bank’s USBDC stablecoin goes live on Stellar with clawback
U.S. Bank's USBDC stablecoin settled its first cross-border payment on the public Stellar network — and the pilot deliberately tested freeze and clawback.
Axcera Takes Three FinanceFeeds Awards for Prop Tech
Axcera has won three FinanceFeeds Awards 2026 across prop trading technology, infrastructure and multi-asset solutions.
Canary’s staked TRX ETF charges 1.10% plus 20% of rewards
Canary's staked TRX ETF (TRXS) began trading on 9 September with a 1.10% unified fee plus 20% of staking rewards, and no validator named in the filing.
Liquid sidechain stays frozen after 3,400 of 4,000 BTC returns
Blockstream's Liquid sidechain has not signed a block since 04:49 UTC on September 7. The white hats returned 3,400 BTC; 598.5 BTC and the peg stay open.
SPAYZ.io Named Payment Service Provider of the Year at the FinanceFeeds Awards 2026
SPAYZ.io has won Payment Service Provider of the Year at the FinanceFeeds Awards 2026, with one API reaching 55+ payment methods across 35-plus countries.
LSE hands tokenised equity distribution to Kraken until 2027
LSE will list xStocks on LSE 24 in 2027 while Kraken parent Payward distributes them now, and LSEG's own depository still sits at Gate 1 of the BoE sandbox.
South Korea dates only stage one of its securities tokenisation
South Korea's securities tokenisation roadmap dates only stage one, February 4, 2027. The all-securities and stablecoin settlement stages have no date.
CFTC turns CME’s own volume data against it in perpetuals suit
The CFTC's motion to dismiss CME's perpetual futures suit leans on the exchange's own volume reports and earnings script to argue it has no standing to sue.
Coinbase files for equity perps in a channel CME reopened in July
Coinbase filed SEC Forms 1-N and BD-N on September 1 to list 24/7 single-stock perpetual futures, entering the security-futures channel CME reopened in July.
Hyperliquid Strategies stakes 72.5% of its HYPE to its own validator
Hyperliquid Strategies' first 10-K puts 21.3m HYPE — 72.5% of its staked position — on its own validator, leaving just 27.5% with custodian Anchorage.
CME CF’s 12-asset crypto index caps ETF-ineligible tokens at 10%
CME CF's new 12-asset crypto index puts HYPE, UNI and AAVE beside Bitcoin, but a US listing-standards screen caps non-GLS names at 10% of index weight.
Teucrium’s BTCK hits its 50,000-share floor and gates redemptions
Teucrium told the SEC its BTCK spot-bitcoin ETP hit its 50,000-share floor and will reject redemptions. Its median 30-day bid-ask spread was already 9.80%.
Also filing this week: Rick Steves and Abdelaziz Fathi.