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The US Treasury filed a 77-page notice of proposed rulemaking on 17 August, published 18 August, creating a new 12 CFR Part 1523 to implement section 3 of the GENIUS Act. Comments are due 60 days after publication, and the document puts 87 numbered questions to the industry. From the Act’s expected effective date of 18 January 2027, a foreign stablecoin issuer must clear a three-part test before US platforms can offer its token. The US Treasury has proposed the first regulations under the GENIUS Act, a 77-page rule setting who may issue, offer and sell payment stablecoins in the…
KuCoin activated a rule after 08:00 UTC on Aug. 17 that moves USDT- and USDC-margined perpetual contracts to hourly funding settlement once their contract-specific funding cap or floor is reached.The change applies starting with the next funding period and will happen without a separate announcement, shortening the time between potential funding debits and credits for traders who keep positions open.Under the mechanism, the trigger is the funding rate at a scheduled settlement. If that rate is at or above the contract’s upper limit, or at or below its lower limit, KuCoin switches the contract to a one-hour interval unless it…
World Liberty Financial has secured conditional OCC approval for a national trust bank that could bring USD1 issuance, redemption and reserve management in-house. The proposed bank must satisfy capital, liquidity and other regulatory requirements before it can begin operating as World Liberty Trust Company. The approval has intensified scrutiny of World Liberty’s Trump family and UAE ownership links, with Elizabeth Warren pursuing legislation over potential conflicts. World Liberty Financial has received conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank, marking a step towards bringing its stablecoin operations under its…
Solana treasury company SOLAI Limited (formerly BIT Mining) said shareholders approved a capital reset that leaves it with 100 billion authorized Class A ordinary shares after a 700-for-1 consolidation. The vote came nearly a month after the New York Stock Exchange suspended trading in its American depositary shares. Related ReadingBIT Mining’s Solana move sparks stock surge to three-year highThe Bitcoin mining company wants to position itself as a key public exposure vehicle for the Solana blockchain. Jul 10, 2025 · Oluwapelumi Adejumo SOLAI Limited said Monday that investors at an Aug. 14 extraordinary general meeting first approved increasing authorized Class…
Under its current plan, the proposed Vulcan financing totals $39.4 million and would redeem $33.1 million in senior notes due Oct. 31. Its Aug. 14 quarterly filing said the company would use the financing for that redemption. However, as of Aug. 16, Vulcan had not reported the financing closed.The company, formerly Greenidge Generation, said the private investment in public equity, or PIPE, had not closed. It said no proceeds had been received and no securities had been issued. At June 30, Vulcan held $3.197 million of cash and cash equivalents. In addition, it held $6.027 million of digital assets, or…
Bybit has given some Brazilian business users until Aug. 21 to complete additional verification. Accounts that miss a requested update will first face access restrictions, then, from Sept. 21, could have remaining positions on restricted products forcibly liquidated at market prices and unsupported fiat balances converted to USDT.The deadline applies only to business users who received a request to supplement existing Business Verification information, according to Bybit’s notice.Bybit began sending those requests in-app and by email from Aug. 1. Recipients must follow the deadline in their individual notification and finish no later than Aug. 21 unless the company specifies otherwise.…
The Aug. 17 target date for starting Agave 4.2 mainnet feature activations arrived without a confirmed delivery update. Agave is Anza’s validator client for the Solana network.Anza’s v4.2 release schedule still shows Aug. 17 as the tentative start date but left the delivery field blank. The empty field does not prove a delay or rule out a later update. It means the target date alone cannot establish that a feature gate is live.Anza recommended Agave 4.2 for general mainnet adoption on Aug. 11. Its feature tracker separately continued to classify the first 4.2 slot-time gates as pending on mainnet, distinguishing…
Israel’s largest regulated cryptocurrency broker, Bits of Gold, is investigating a data breach that potentially exposed the personal information of up to 250,000 customers.While customer funds and digital assets remain secure, the incident prompted Israeli retail and energy giant Paz to temporarily halt Bitcoin purchases on its Yellow convenience store app.In an Aug. 16 notice, Bits of Gold confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed a supporting data-analysis system several days earlier. The firm is Israel’s first licensed virtual asset service provider. Related ReadingIsrael and Pakistan show crypto’s next growth phase is likely to be outside the USNew moves in Israel…
Bitcoin Core, the top software client for running a Bitcoin node, is scheduled to enter its v32 feature freeze on Thursday, Aug. 20. The deadline shifts the release line to bug fixes and gives new v32 features their final normal window before the project’s October release target.The v32 milestone listed 17 items open and 79 closed on Aug. 17, putting the work at 82% complete. Those 17 entries span feature pull requests, bug reports, build and logging work, a private-broadcast test failure, and the release-schedule ticket itself. GitHub publishes no blocker ranking for the queue, so the raw count says…
Ethereum developers are eyeing 2027 for Hegotá as they open a new public testnet for Glamsterdam, the network’s next major upgrade now targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.The timeline marks a shift from previous expectations. Earlier this year, the Ethereum Foundation said Glamsterdam was targeting the first half of 2026, with Hegotá expected to follow later in the year.That timeline has since slipped, with developers only now launching Platåberget, a public testing ground for Glamsterdam. This testnet is designed to run for several months before the upgrade moves to Ethereum’s longer-lived Sepolia and Hoodi testnets. Related ReadingAnother hurdle for…