regulation
FinCEN withdraws 2023 crypto mixer rule and 2020 self-hosted wallet proposal
FinCEN killed both pending crypto proposals the same week, citing a 'chilling effect on legitimate activity' and the July 2025 Working Group report.
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governance
Safe investor Greenfield files Swiss ESA complaint over Foundation governance
Greenfield Capital asked Switzerland's Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations to intervene at the Safe Ecosystem Foundation after months of failed board-reform talks.
protocol
Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC and bought back 11,000 in Q3 to prove liquidity
Metaplanet disclosed a Q3 round-trip of 10,000 BTC sold for ¥124.7B and 11,000 BTC repurchased for ¥149.9B — a net +1,000 BTC to 44,000, framed as a liquidity demonstration to rating agencies.
regulation
OKXICE files with SEC for 24/7 tokenized trading in 63 US stocks
The OKX-ICE joint venture notified the SEC under the September innovation exemption, planning permissioned Uniswap v4 pools on XLayer for Nvidia, Apple, Tesla and 60 others.
SequenceHash lands in C2SP: hash-agnostic multihashing with length-encoded inputs
Trail of Bits published SequenceHash v1.0.0 — a hash-agnostic multihashing construction with 128-bit length encoding, specified in C2SP with Rust, Go and Python implementations.
protocol
Strategy books $20.9B Q3 fair-value gain, buys 334 BTC, repurchases $176M of STRC
Strategy's October 5 filing reports a $20.91B Q3 fair-value gain on bitcoin, a 334-BTC purchase for $28.7M between September 28 and October 4, and $176.3M of STRC preferred-share repurchases.
regulation
Treasury designates two France-based charities over $2M Hamas crypto fundraising
OFAC added Association Baraka, Ensemble C Mieux and three individuals to the SDN list for routing over $2M to Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades between 2020 and 2026, part via cryptocurrency transfers.
protocol
Zcash NU7 activates on testnet with 25-second blocks, mainnet set for Nov 5
NU7 cut Zcash's target block time from 75 to 25 seconds at testnet block 4,465,026 on Oct 4, with mainnet activation scheduled for Nov 5 if a Oct 20 review clears.
on-chain
Binance's SAFU fund now holds 15,000 BTC at $1.27B, ~$270M in the money
Binance's insurance reserve, converted from stablecoins in February, sits at roughly $1.27B against a $1B cost basis. The wallet is public and verifiable on-chain.