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SEC proposes amendments to regulations on transfer agents, requiring the reporting of shareholder records in the distributed ledger, with a 60-day comment period.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced the first substantive amendment to transfer-agent regulations since the early 1980s. The proposal was released on Tuesday in a lengthy 421-page document, repeatedly referencing the retention of records using blockchain and tokenized securities, reflecting growing pressure from the trend of bringing transfer agents operating directly on-chain to the U.S. market.

The OCC’s conditional approval for Revolut paves the way to offer loans, stablecoins, and credit cards in the U.S. market.
Revolut, a financial technology company headquartered in the UK, on Thursday said it has received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the country’s key bank regulators. This is an important step in the roadmap to become a licensed bank in the U.S., allowing the company to move closer to the ability to directly offer banking products to customers, from loans and stablecoins to credit cards.

The CFTC asked that CME’s lawsuit be dismissed, saying the company failed to prove financial harm from Kalshi’s perpetual Bitcoin contracts.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Wednesday officially asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to challenge a decision approving perpetual futures contracts for crypto assets.
The regulator argued that CME has not shown that it would suffer specific financial harm or face increased competition as a result of this decision, and also stated in its legal filing that the lawsuit is “making a big deal out of an issue that has no substance.”

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok were simultaneously disrupted on Thursday morning. OpenAI recorded a peak of 38,000 error reports on Downdetector.
The leading artificial intelligence platforms, ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, all experienced service disruptions on Thursday morning, leaving many users unable to access or receive responses from these tools. OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have all confirmed that the issue affected their respective platforms, though it is not yet clear whether these outages are related or just coincidental in timing.

The G20 agreed to modernize the management of crypto assets and cross-border payments, awaiting the FSB to study global stablecoins before issuing new regulations.
At the second G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in 2026, held in Asheville, the United States, the delegates reached a consensus that crypto assets should be considered one of the key areas to be reviewed in the process of modernizing the global financial regulatory framework.

GPT-6 Astra achieves 100% on ExploitBench, surpassing the “severe” threshold for cybersecurity, forcing OpenAI to roll out the system cautiously, stage by stage.
On Thursday, OpenAI officially launched GPT-6 Astra, a model that Chairman Greg Brockman described as a “generational leap in capability,” marking the arrival of general artificial intelligence (AGI).
In a press briefing before the announcement, Brockman told reporters that he believes Astra has reached the threshold of AGI—artificial intelligence with capabilities on par with or exceeding humans—and declared: “Welcome to the AGI era.”

The Thai SEC has approved the Travel Rule for crypto assets, effective from 27/2/2027, requiring transaction records to be retained for at least 5 years in order to combat money laundering.
The Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially approved the Funds Transfer Rule governing the transfer and receipt of crypto assets, marking a significant tightening of the crypto asset market in the country.
Under the new regulations, virtual asset service providers (VASPs) must transmit information about both the sender and the recipient at the time the transaction is executed, and also retain all related records for at least 5 years to support oversight when requested by the competent authorities.

Wyoming has integrated Chainlink’s Proof of Reserve for the FRNT stablecoin, exceeding the requirements of the GENIUS Act, with a market capitalization now reaching more than $968,000.
The Stable Token Wyoming Committee has just announced the integration of Chainlink’s Proof of Reserve technology into the operating infrastructure of Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), the first stablecoin issued by a U.S. state. This will be the project’s only blockchain-based system for verifying reserve assets, aiming to provide on-chain, verified data in near real time, rather than relying solely on periodic reports like before.

Two Thai businessmen sue Tether in New York, accusing it of freezing $42.4 million in USDT about four months before a court order.
Two Thai businessmen, Nutthawat Rukthammachalern and Natthawat Kasamvilas, filed a lawsuit against Tether on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that the issuer of this stablecoin froze approximately $42.4 million worth of USDT without any legal basis. The complaint names four corporate entities of Tether, related to the USDT holdings across more than ten Ethereum addresses.

Astra, OpenAI’s unreleased model, achieves 100% on ExploitBench and becomes the first model to reach the cybersecurity threshold of “critical.”
OpenAI has just announced that Astra, an unreleased model that many people believe is essentially GPT-6, has surpassed the company’s Preparedness Framework benchmark for cybersecurity capabilities at the “critical” level, becoming the first OpenAI model to be classified at this tier.

CCI, Grayscale, and a16z urge the SEC not to change the definition of an investment company and to simplify the approval process for new-type ETFs.
A series of organizations in the crypto assets industry, including the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI), Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and Grayscale, have submitted comments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in response to the request for public comment issued in June on how to regulate the next generation of products traded on new exchanges, including crypto assets, private assets, event contracts, and strategies that use leverage.

The FBI seized approximately 560,000 USD in cryptocurrency assets and took over online infrastructure allegedly used to raise funds for Hamas.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized approximately 560,000 USD in cryptocurrency assets and took over online infrastructure allegedly used by Hamas to solicit donations, according to a notice from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday. The money is believed to be intended for the Al Qassam Brigade, Hamas’s military wing. Investigators tracked down and seized the aforementioned cryptocurrency assets pursuant to three orders issued on March 25, June 25, and October 10, 2025.

Anthropic strengthens protection after a Claude model infiltrated three companies and was detected by the UK AI Security Institute for illegal activity on the internet.
Anthropic has just announced strengthened protective measures in testing and training, after the Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems during cybersecurity assessment evaluations.
In a blog post on Monday, the company said the incidents reflect shortcomings in operational security, while also revealing two model-alignment issues: motivated reasoning and a readiness to carry out harmful behavior. Anthropic emphasized that although it does not view this as simply an operational problem, the company’s immediate priority is to address specific issues related to scope control and monitoring.

21 financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citi, and Goldman Sachs, have formed an alliance to issue the USD stablecoin, which is expected to launch in the first half of 2027.
21 international financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and UBS, have just agreed to establish an alliance to issue stablecoins, with the first product being a USD-denominated stablecoin expected to launch in the first half of 2027.
According to a press release, the company operating the alliance will be officially established in the second half of 2026, subject to meeting the conditions to complete the transaction; the company’s official name has not yet been announced. The new business is expected to operate on a global scale, initially focusing on issuing USD stablecoins before expanding to other currencies in the G7 group, with a euro-denominated stablecoin identified as the next priority.

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) teams up with Payward (Kraken) to build infrastructure for tokenized stocks in the UK, with 24/7 trading expected to launch in 2027.
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has just announced a plan to develop infrastructure for tokenized stocks in the UK, aiming to begin 24/7 trading in 2027. To roll out this new business line, the exchange has partnered with Payward, the parent company of the Kraken crypto-asset exchange.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand publicly seeks comments from 31/8 to 30/9/2026 on new regulations for foreign crypto-asset derivatives, categorized by investor group.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Thailand has just launched a public consultation on proposed amendments to regulations governing investors’ access rights to derivatives products for which foreign crypto assets serve as the underlying asset. This is the next step in developing a regulated crypto-asset derivatives market in Thailand, after the SEC Council added crypto assets and digital tokens to the list of eligible underlying assets under the Derivatives Act of 2003.

The FSA of Japan proposes to abolish the reporting of changes in the beneficiary for delegated stablecoins, effective from fiscal year 2027.
The Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) has just put forward a notable proposal as a key tax reform focus for fiscal year 2027: exempting certain reporting obligations for transactions related to stablecoins issued under a trust structure.
Specifically, the regulator proposes removing the requirement to submit reports related to changes in the beneficiary of digital payment instruments pegged to fiat currencies, which are issued using funds placed under the management of a trustee organization such as a trust bank.

Virtu Financial, M1X Global, and Tradeweb complete the first repurchase agreement transaction on the Canton Network, using USDM1 securities from the Marshall Islands as collateral, reducing settlement time to below 10 minutes.
The digital financial market has just marked a new milestone as Virtu Financial, M1X Global, and Tradeweb complete the first repurchase agreement (repo) executed entirely on blockchain, using USDM1, a government bond issued by the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as collateral.