These are the most important news that you most likely missed:
- The US banking regulator published its final rules for stablecoins. Issuers it oversees have to hold reserves worth at least as much as every coin they issued. Starts on 18 January 2027.
- Solana’s biggest upgrade so far, Alpenglow, went live on Wednesday. The goal is for a transaction to be final in about 0.15 seconds instead of 12.8.
- The hacker behind April’s $295 million hack sent $109 million in ETH through Tornado Cash in just two days, while the people who lost money got about a penny per dollar when the recovery pool opened.
- Shinhan Card in South Korea and SBI in Japan will test yen stablecoin payments for travellers, between two countries that had more than 10 million visitor arrivals in eight months this year.
- Dogecoin now has its own company, Dogecoin Labs, building wallets, payments and apps so people can actually use dogecoin:native day to day.
- The US banking regulator published its final rules for stablecoins. Issuers it oversees have to hold reserves worth at least as much as every coin they issued. Starts on 18 January 2027.
- Solana’s biggest upgrade so far, Alpenglow, went live on Wednesday. The goal is for a transaction to be final in about 0.15 seconds instead of 12.8.
- The hacker behind April’s $295 million hack sent $109 million in ETH through Tornado Cash in just two days, while the people who lost money got about a penny per dollar when the recovery pool opened.
- Shinhan Card in South Korea and SBI in Japan will test yen stablecoin payments for travellers, between two countries that had more than 10 million visitor arrivals in eight months this year.
- Dogecoin now has its own company, Dogecoin Labs, building wallets, payments and apps so people can actually use dogecoin:native day to day.
