🔐 【Encryption Daily】2026.09.10
• Visa stablecoin annualized settlement surpasses $20 billion
Card network’s annual settlement volume surges about 15x year-over-year, driving issuing banks to adjust their financing system [City]
• Strategy pauses buying coins; redirects to repurchase $176 million STRC preferred stock
MicroStrategy abandons this week’s additional buying and switches to repurchasing STRC to maintain $100 parity [City]
• Germany’s Ministry of Finance plans to levy a 25% capital gains tax starting in 2028
The new draft taxes crypto gains at a 25% rate; capital losses can be deducted [Policy]
• Before the U.S. Senate’s Sept. 15 procedural vote, the industry floods TV ads
Crypto and banking sectors lobby separately, racing to win influence in home-state districts over the bill [Policy]
• The Secret Service freezes $52.8 million in Xinbi-linked on-chain funds
The U.S. Treasury simultaneously sanctions the Telegram scam market entity [Safety]
• Block applies for a U.S. trust bank license, planning to integrate custody services
Its subsidiary will obtain OCC supervision, replacing 50-state money transmission licenses [Hot]
• Visa stablecoin annualized settlement surpasses $20 billion
Card network’s annual settlement volume surges about 15x year-over-year, driving issuing banks to adjust their financing system [City]
• Strategy pauses buying coins; redirects to repurchase $176 million STRC preferred stock
MicroStrategy abandons this week’s additional buying and switches to repurchasing STRC to maintain $100 parity [City]
• Germany’s Ministry of Finance plans to levy a 25% capital gains tax starting in 2028
The new draft taxes crypto gains at a 25% rate; capital losses can be deducted [Policy]
• Before the U.S. Senate’s Sept. 15 procedural vote, the industry floods TV ads
Crypto and banking sectors lobby separately, racing to win influence in home-state districts over the bill [Policy]
• The Secret Service freezes $52.8 million in Xinbi-linked on-chain funds
The U.S. Treasury simultaneously sanctions the Telegram scam market entity [Safety]
• Block applies for a U.S. trust bank license, planning to integrate custody services
Its subsidiary will obtain OCC supervision, replacing 50-state money transmission licenses [Hot]