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ASIC opened consultation on 15 October on standards and guidance for crypto exchanges and tokenised custody platforms. Two of three capital options would require exchanges holding client assets themselves to keep AU$14 million in net tangible assets. The new regime starts on 8 April 2027, and submissions on the proposals close on 27 November. Crypto exchanges that hold customers’ coins themselves could need AU$14 million (US$9.66 million) in net tangible assets under rules the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) proposed on Thursday. The figure sits in Consultation Paper 392, ASIC’s draft standards and guidance for the Corporations Amendment (Digital…
Binance announced covered-call and cash-secured-put strategies on Oct. 15, allowing eligible stock-options customers to collect premiums while committing shares or USDC to a potential assignment.For put sellers, assignment means having to buy the underlying shares at the agreed price, even if their market value has fallen.A cash-secured put seller receives a premium for accepting that purchase obligation, and the agreed purchase price is the strike price. If the stock falls sharply, the premium offsets only part of the loss from buying at a price above the market.A covered-call seller commits shares already held and must sell them at the strike…
Treasury opened consultation on 15 October on draft legislation to bring the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework into Australian law. A domestic regime would require crypto service providers to report Australian residents’ transactions to the ATO from 1 July 2027. The draft also widens the Common Reporting Standard to e-money products, central bank digital currencies and crypto derivatives. Australian crypto platforms would have to report their customers’ trades and transfers to the Australian Taxation Office under draft laws Treasury released for consultation on Thursday. The Treasury Laws Amendment Bill 2026: Tax Information Reporting would also bring the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework,…
Ripple Prime launched RWA swaps giving institutional clients 24/7 exposure to more than 100 traditional financial markets through Hyperliquid-linked futures. Virtu is among the clients using the new swaps, with Ripple Prime acting as the institutional counterparty. Cross River Bank integrated RLUSD and XRPL into its banking infrastructure to support faster intraday settlement. Transak added native RLUSD support on XRPL, expanding access to regulated dollar settlement across its payments network. There’s a lot happening at Ripple, the San Francisco-based company closely associated with XRP, the fifth-largest crypto asset. Ripple introduces 24/7 swaps referencing Hyperliquid futures, an RLUSD partnership and fresh…
Crypto’s third-quarter rebound in 2026 came with weaker spot trading at major centralized exchanges, even as the dollar value of open perpetual futures positions expanded, according to data provider CoinGecko’s quarterly report.Total crypto market capitalization gained 39.6% during July through September, finishing at about $2.96 trillion after ending the second quarter near $2.1 trillion. Yet the report’s top-10 spot exchanges handled $1.65 trillion in quarterly turnover, down 14.2% from $1.93 trillion in the second quarter.Meanwhile, dollar open interest at its top-10 perpetual exchanges rose 40.6% over the third quarter and closed September above $100 billion. Recovering valuations were accompanied by…
Three Canadian Armed Forces members are among seven men facing 82 criminal charges following the alleged armed kidnapping of a crypto exchange owner in Toronto, police said in an Oct. 14 update.Investigators allege the victim was targeted as he approached his vehicle in the Finch Avenue East and Bayview Avenue area on July 25. He was abducted at gunpoint, handcuffed, and assaulted.The suspects allegedly tried to gain access to cryptocurrency assets and business-related security systems. Police said the victim was later released after threats and a warning not to report the incident to police.Police have not identified the exchange or…
Ledger unveiled an $849 crypto device with new anti-tamper protections as it investigated coordinated thefts involving modified hardware wallets.On Oct. 15, the French crypto wallet maker introduced Ledger Atom, which is a mobile device that combines everyday apps with hardware-protected crypto transactions. The company is accepting refundable $100 deposits for a Founders Edition priced at $849, with deliveries targeted for 2027.The launch coincides with Ledger’s investigation into an organized criminal operation that secretly modified genuine hardware wallets before returning them to reseller distribution channels. The attackers allegedly captured customers’ recovery phrases and used them to drain cryptocurrency holdings in a…
President Donald Trump’s crypto agenda has lost a White House negotiator as Patrick Witt confirms his departure and the administration’s flagship digital-asset legislation remains stalled in Congress.On Oct. 15, Patrick Witt, executive director of the White House Crypto Council, confirmed his departure after nearly two years in the administration, leaving the government for an undisclosed private-sector role.In a farewell statement, Witt described his government service as the privilege of a lifetime, thanked Trump and Sacks for their leadership, and highlighted his role in advancing the administration’s cryptocurrency agenda.He pointed to the passage of the GENIUS Act, which established federal rules…
Crypto investor Nic Carter’s worst-case quantum scenario consists of a hostile actor recovering the keys to dormant Bitcoin, then broadcasting a wave of spends across 10 blocks.In his Oct. 13 interview with Luke Martin, Carter says early coins moving together could shake confidence in the network.The stakes extend beyond choosing stronger cryptography. Glassnode’s May 20 analysis identified 6.04 million BTC, or 30.2% of then-issued supply, with public keys already exposed.The scenario assumes a future quantum machine capable of breaking Bitcoin’s key cryptography. Google’s published research models future resources for such an attack, and Bitcoin key recovery remains undemonstrated in that work.…
Bitcoin treasury company Strive bought 2,822 BTC during Oct. 12-13, according to a filing released Oct. 14. The purchase adds fresh demand from one of the two firms dominating this year’s reported corporate accumulation.The update follows River’s Oct. 8 business-adoption report, which put Strategy and Strive’s combined 2026 holdings additions at 197,000 BTC. That exceeded the 193,000 BTC net increase River reported for businesses overall in charts dated Oct. 5.Strive’s new purchase accompanies a separate financing disclosure. Meanwhile, Strategy reported buying Bitcoin while spending more on repurchasing preferred shares. Both cases show why an expanding roster of corporate holders does…