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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.

September 5, 2026

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.

September 4, 2026

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.

September 4, 2026

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.

September 3, 2026

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.

September 2, 2026

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%.

September 1, 2026

Stablecoin takes the interbank leg in Japan’s tokenised deposit test

Japan's FSA has 43 firms testing interbank settlement of tokenised deposits, and one of the two designs puts a private stablecoin where central bank money sits.

August 31, 2026

Coinbase’s B20 stocks trade 24/7 on a Chainlink feed that runs 24/5

Coinbase's B20 tokenised stocks are live on Base for non-US users, but the Chainlink feed DeFi lenders read runs 24/5 and freezes on corporate actions.

August 30, 2026

Hong Kong’s first tokenised covered-call ETF has no bridge to 3416

Global X, Citi and OSL opened Hong Kong's first tokenised covered-call ETF class on August 27. Switching into listed 3416 is barred, and no chain is named.

August 29, 2026

Revolut ships EURR stablecoin five days before its USDT delisting

Revolut rolls out Bridge-issued EURR in Denmark, Poland and Portugal days before its USDT conversion — and the ticker already belongs to a Tether-backed rival.

August 28, 2026

Pontes goes live September 21 as Cipollone warns on fragmented law

The ECB's Pontes DLT settlement service launches September 21 with one-off fees, but Cipollone says fragmented securities law, not technology, is the real limit.

August 28, 2026

Dallas Fed puts a $700bn price on the tokenised deposit push

The Dallas Fed's $700bn tokenised deposit figure is duration capacity, not lending, and not additive to the $580bn beside it. What the number really measures.

August 27, 2026

Only two of the OCC’s five crypto trust charters have opened

Eight months after the OCC conditionally approved five crypto trust banks, only BitGo and Circle hold final charters. Paxos, Fidelity and Ripple still wait.

August 26, 2026

Interactive Brokers’ stablecoin rail leaves out $183bn of USDT

Interactive Brokers' stablecoin rail now runs both ways on USDC, PYUSD and RLUSD across three chains - but excludes Tether, the market's biggest coin.

August 26, 2026

Standard Chartered issues $200m digitally native notes on Euroclear

Standard Chartered has priced $200m of three-year digitally native notes on Euroclear's D-FMI, the first G-SIB to do so. A live deal, not a pilot.

August 25, 2026

Neuberger sub-advises a credit fund Securitize runs end to end

Securitize Corp. (NYSE: SECZ) announced the launch of the Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund (“HINC”) on August 18, 2026, issuing it simultaneously on Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana and Sui. The […]

August 24, 2026

Digital Assets

HSBC and Standard Chartered net deposit tokens on Swift’s ledger

The first live interbank transaction on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger did not settle on the ledger. HSBC and Standard Chartered announced on 19 August 2026 that they had completed the first […]

August 24, 2026

Digital Assets

Shinhan signs Solana for the same won fund it gave Plume

Shinhan Asset Management signed a Solana, Etherfuse and Orca MOU for a won-denominated tokenised fund seven days after an identical Plume deal. It is a bake-off.

August 21, 2026

Digital Assets

FASB sets three tests for stablecoins as cash equivalents

FASB's proposed Topic 230 update sets three tests for stablecoins to count as cash equivalents, and adds a disclosure rule for every filer.

August 20, 2026

Digital Assets

Citi folds bitcoin into Custody+ without naming a key holder

Citi unveiled Custody+ on August 18, 2026 and will custody native bitcoin this year. What the release omits on keys, segregation and finality matters more.