VT Markets takes best gold trading platform at FinanceFeeds Awards
VT Markets has won Best Gold Trading Platform at the FinanceFeeds Awards 2026, capping a January in which it reported $1.5 trillion in gold turnover.
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
Bitget's $387.5m breach spoofed its approvals, not its keys
Bitget's $387.5m breach came through spoofed approvals, not stolen keys. Why MPC and HSM spend missed it, and what exchange ops teams should audit now.
North Capital’s PPEX ATS hands MoonPay a US securities stack
North Capital's sale to MoonPay moves a broker-dealer, a transfer agent and the PPEX ATS, with $8.7bn of volume, into a crypto group pending regulator approval.
Bullish and Equiniti bet tokenised stocks on the share register
Bullish and Equiniti's issuer-sponsored token coalition ties tokenised stocks to the share register. What Alpaca, Apex and DriveWealth add, and what is missing.
Quant now sits under both US and UK tokenised deposit rails
Quant now runs the tokenised deposit layer for The Clearing House and the UK's GBTD. Neither deal discloses contract value, term or a vendor-failure plan.
Canada’s Big Six tokenised deposit rail names no settlement asset
Canada's Big Six banks will build a shared CAD tokenised deposit rail, but name no ledger, launch date or settlement asset for interbank transfers.
Hana Bank digital bond settles T+0, lists first on SGX
Hana Bank's $100m digital bond on Euroclear's D-FMI settled T+0 and became SGX's first digital bond listing, months before Korea's tokenisation rules arrive.
Bastion’s national trust bank charter has a six-month clock
Bastion's national trust bank charter from the OCC must close within six months, a third of the time Agora and Catena get, on a $6 million capital floor.
DTCC’s October tokenisation launch starts a three-year clock
DTCC's tokenisation service enters full production in October 2026 under an SEC no-action letter withdrawn three years after launch. Renewal is unaddressed.
Four of Euronext’s five alternative CSDs are Euroclear’s
Euronext Securities becomes default CSD for Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris equity and ETP settlement on 21 September. Four of five alternatives are Euroclear’s.
Partior’s instant payments still leave its four settlement banks to square up the old way
Partior settles client-bank payments instantly, but DBS, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Standard Chartered still square up the old way until at least Q1 2027.
Oasis Pro’s Fund/SERV seat settles in fiat, not on-chain
Ondo's Oasis Pro Markets is Fund/SERV's first tokenisation member, but DTCC's rail settles in fiat through NSCC and no named Ondo fund is live on it yet.
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.
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.
Also filing this week: Rick Steves and Abdelaziz Fathi.