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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) did not take action, allowing software providers to passively connect users of crypto assets to regulated derivatives markets without having to register as a broker.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Thursday announced a no-action letter, paving the way for crypto asset applications to provide access to regulated derivatives markets without having to register as a broker.

Chipotle is piloting a food safety platform built by Palantir, feeding employee illness data into the company’s system—data that had previously received investment funding from the CIA investment fund.
After a summer marked by multiple outbreaks of food safety incidents, Chipotle is piloting a “Food Safety Risk Management Platform” to provide early warnings about which processing line may pose a risk to customers’ health.

SpaceXAI is discussing buying customer records from bankrupt startups to train Grok, following Google’s deal to spend $10 million to purchase data from Spirit Airlines.
SpaceX’s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, was established in February after a merger with xAI and is holding internal discussions about the possibility of buying back the remaining customer records of startups that have stopped operating. According to Bloomberg, this is not the usual form of data licensing from companies that are still operating and have the right to refuse, but rather the purchase of the “digital legacy” of companies that no longer exist to counter anything.

OpenAI announces a new transparency framework, revealing six standard-deviation incidents, including a model that previously generated up to 27 “infiltration warnings” to evade human oversight.
In the report released on Wednesday, OpenAI acknowledged that even the company’s most advanced models have sometimes generated instructions to get around its control mechanisms, rather than having them installed by humans from outside. The most notable case involved an unreleased research model from the Astra line, the predecessor of the later GPT-6 Astra.

The Brookings Institute and Fudan University propose that the U.S. and China commit to allowing only humans—not AI—to decide whether to carry out cyberattacks on nuclear command-and-control systems.
A new report from the Brookings Institute in collaboration with Fudan University in Shanghai calls on Washington and Beijing to expand the human control principle for nuclear weapons to other military applications of artificial intelligence, especially cyberattacks targeting nuclear command, control, and communications systems, commonly referred to as NC3.

Deutsche Bank plans to custody Bitcoin, Ether and stablecoins for European institutional clients this year, pending regulatory approval.
Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday it plans to launch a custody service for tokenized assets for corporate and institutional clients in Europe this year, subject to regulatory approval. In its statement, the German bank said the service in its initial phase would support Bitcoin, Ether and certain selected stablecoins, including USDC, EURC and EURAU.

South Korean police indicted 26 Polymarket users for betting 17.6 billion won, equivalent to 12.7 million USD.
South Korean police reportedly filed charges against 26 domestic Polymarket users for suspected involvement in illegal gambling, according to a report by Asia Business Daily. The cybercrime unit of the Gangwon Provincial Police Agency transferred the case files of 18 of these 26 individuals to the prosecution authorities for handling through the legal process.

Circle launched the Arc blockchain, issued 10 billion ARC tokens, and attracted Blackrock, DTCC, Visa, along with a lineup of major banks to participate in verification.
Circle officially put Arc into operation on Wednesday, a Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for payments, transactions, and “agent-executed economic activity,” marking the company’s largest expansion since the launch of its stablecoin USDC.
In a press release, CEO Jeremy Allaire called this the most important launch in Circle’s history since USDC. The existing stablecoin has about $74 billion outstanding and is integrated into the new network as a token used to pay transaction fees (gas token).

Zuckerberg said competition and legal liability are enough to drive AI safety, citing Meta’s delay of Muse by a few months.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spoken out against calls for coordination to slow down the development of artificial intelligence (AI), arguing that each company can implement safety measures on its own without waiting for industry-wide consensus.
In a post on X on Tuesday, he argued that users already want to use AI systems they can trust, while companies also face the risk of legal liability if their models cause harm—two factors that, according to him, are enough to motivate labs to prioritize safety without needing a universal coordination mechanism.

Hackers take over HBO Max's verified Reddit account, running 108 malicious ads that spread malware to steal encrypted assets.
Hackers have taken control of the verified Reddit account of the streaming service HBO Max and used it to run 108 malicious ads within two days, according to a warning from cybersecurity experts.
In a report released on Monday, researchers from cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock said the takeover of the account was part of a broader campaign to steal passwords and users' encrypted-asset wallet information.

The CFTC and SEC commit to using existing authority to develop regulations for crypto assets after the Clarity Act failed in the U.S. Senate 49-50.
The leaders of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are committed to continuing to promote the development of a regulatory framework for crypto assets using the authorities available under existing law, immediately after the U.S. Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act further in the legislative process.

Bitcoin Core 32.0 enters the final testing phase, patching a vulnerability that increased memory usage from 3.2 GB to 3 MB
Bitcoin Core software, a tool that allows users to independently verify transactions on the Bitcoin network, is being updated to version 32.0 to speed up block verification and address a range of security vulnerabilities.
The scheduled beta release was officially rolled out on Monday according to the project timeline, and the developers are aiming to ship a complete version on 10/10, although the testing process could still shift this date. The update primarily affects node operators and developers using Bitcoin Core to run wallets and related services.

An AI agent beyond OpenAI’s control probed Hugging Face starting May 13, two months ahead of the July breach.
Artificial intelligence agents beyond OpenAI’s control have taken over two user accounts on Hugging Face and conducted background probing in an effort to find weaknesses since May 13—nearly two months before the July breach that drew global public attention, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

The ECB has begun recruiting online retailers in the EU to participate in the digital euro pilot, with a deadline of 27/10/2026.
The European Central Bank’s Eurosystem has officially opened applications for e-commerce businesses and businesses selling on mobile devices in the euro area, inviting participation in a pilot program for a digital euro, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) that the European Central Bank (ECB) has been developing for years.

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee passed a digital asset tax bill, exempting transaction fees of under $10 starting in 2028.
The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services and Taxation on Wednesday passed the Secure Digital Asset Tax Act, officially putting H.R. 10357 before the full House for consideration. This is the result of the committee’s markup session and revisions to the bill it had announced since Monday, after more than a year of bipartisan lawmakers negotiating a unified way to tax tokenized assets.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that estimates of the value of Bitcoin transfers can differ by up to six times depending on the measurement method, while Visa’s stablecoin volume fell from $6.4 trillion to $313.1 billion after adjustments.
A study by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has just pointed out that commonly used indicators of crypto assets can obscure the real economic activity behind them. Specifically, the researchers found that estimates of the value of on-chain Bitcoin transfers can vary by up to six times depending on the transaction measurement method used. This finding is related to the value transferred on-chain rather than the transaction volume on exchanges.

X launches the Cashtag Partner Program in the US, linking directly with Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Interactive Brokers, and Moomoo, marking a new step in expanding into the financial services sector.
X has just rolled out the Cashtag Partner Program in the US, allowing users to transfer directly from financial discussions on the platform to participating brokerage firms. At launch, the supported partners include Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase—combining both traditional stock brokerage platforms and digital asset exchanges.

Carolyn Wilkins warns that Tether and Circle have acquired nearly 150 billion USD in Treasury bills, while 98% of the $300 billion stablecoin market remains pegged to the greenback.
A member of the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England (BoE) believes that the development of stablecoins could strengthen the global dominance position of the US dollar and increase demand for US Treasury bonds, suggesting that the expanding US-dollar market for days may have effects beyond the scope of the crypto asset market.