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Sep 30, 2026
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Kalshi will close its Volume Incentive Program on October 13, 2026, nearly a year early, after an analyst flagged more than $5 billion in repetitive ether trades and the Wall Street Journal reported the CFTC is weighing a wash trading investigation.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer sent records requests to Crypto.com, Hyperliquid, and PredictIt over identity verification and suspicious prediction market trading on nonpublic information.
Technology
Goldman made its roughly $100 billion FTIXX Treasury fund available to crypto trading firms over the Lynq settlement network on September 28, 2026, without tokenizing it, letting firms park idle cash and earn yield between trades.
Innovation
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Sep 29, 2026
Morgan Stanley's new Digital Asset Lab will test stablecoins, tokenization, tokenized deposits and DeFi vaults in a segregated environment before the Wall Street bank scales them.
Global Affairs
Senate investigators found Iran moved an estimated $2 billion through Tether's USDT stablecoin, calling it a financial lifeline for the regime's shadow banking network and sanctions evasion.
The CFTC registered Coinbase Clearing as a derivatives clearing organization on September 28, 2026, letting the exchange clear its own fully collateralized futures, options, and swaps on a USDC-native clearinghouse.
Sep 28, 2026
Citi and Coinbase expanded their partnership so corporate and institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments with automatic fiat settlement through Coinbase Virtual Accounts and Spring by Citi.
The stablecoin issuer said on September 28 that it worked with US authorities including OFAC to freeze about $550 million in Iran-linked USDT in 2026, part of more than $4.9 billion frozen worldwide.
Federal prosecutors in California moved to seize $84 million from Capstone, a payments company they say ran as an unlicensed money transmitter and helped scammers turn stolen cash into stablecoins, with the complaint noting the firm processed payments tied to Tether and Bitfinex.
Philanthropy
The Circle Foundation is funding the UN Development Programme and the World Food Programme to move humanitarian aid onto regulated stablecoins, cutting the cost and delay of getting money to people in Syria, Haiti, Guatemala, and The Gambia.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2409, barring California public officials from issuing memecoins and blocking exchanges from listing official-linked memecoins, in a law his office aimed at President Trump's crypto earnings.
US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $2.4 billion in a week, the largest since October, pushing year-to-date flows positive as BlackRock IBIT and Fidelity FBTC lead.
Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger steps down and SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce departs within weeks of the CLARITY Act's Senate defeat, thinning crypto's regulatory bench in Washington.
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Sep 25, 2026
The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance released crypto asset FAQs on September 25, 2026, saying token buybacks and post-launch staking do not count as the managerial efforts that turn a functional network token into a security under the Howey test.
Trung Nguyen Van faces money laundering charges in the Western District of Missouri after prosecutors say his crypto wallets received more than $53 million from pig butchering investment scams targeting Americans.
The Fed opened public comment on two proposals setting reserve, capital, and risk-management standards for payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act before the January 2027 deadline.
Attackers spoofed Bitget's backend to drain $387.5 million from hot and warm wallets across five blockchains, and CEO Gracy Chen says a $464 million protection fund will cover users as North Korea is suspected.
Aave V4's new Equities Hub on Base lets users borrow USDC against Coinbase-issued tokenized shares of Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and four other stocks priced by Chainlink.
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander, Nationwide, and Monzo moved tokenized pound deposits between institutions in the first live interbank tokenized deposit transactions, run on the Great British Tokenized Deposit pilot using Quant technology.
AI
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ARK Invest and Securitize tokenized the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) on Ethereum, giving eligible investors onchain access to a portfolio that holds stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks.
Sep 24, 2026
MoonPay will acquire North Capital, a Utah broker-dealer with SEC broker, ATS, transfer-agent, and investment-adviser licenses and about $9 billion in transaction volume, in an all-stock deal to move into tokenized securities and onchain capital markets.
A memorandum of understanding would give Blockchain.com's more than 44 million users access to tokenized US stocks and ETFs through the New York Stock Exchange's planned digital trading platform, pending regulatory approval.
Sep 23, 2026
SoFiUSD, the first stablecoin issued by a nationally chartered US bank, now settles SoFi Bank's debit and credit card transactions on Mastercard's global payments network.
The Chainalysis 2026 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report puts Brazil first on its global crypto adoption index, with cross-border stablecoin flows up 77.5% to $220.3 billion.
BMO, CIBC, National Bank, RBC, Scotiabank and TD are jointly exploring a CAD tokenized deposit system for faster, programmable payments after Canada's bank regulator said tokenized deposits are still deposits.
