regulation
WSJ reports Tether sent ~$6.3M to Nxum, a consulting firm one-third owned by then-White House crypto chief Bo Hines, starting while he was still in government.
regulation
The second executive director of the White House digital assets council departed October 14. On his way out: no new Strategic Bitcoin Reserve purchases are planned.
ZKsync says its single-GPU Airbender Prime prover kept pace with 7,200 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks on an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell. Vitalik Buterin's response: raise the next bar.
infrastructure
BNY says it settled an overnight triparty repo with Citadel Securities in minutes on its private digital ledger, using a tokenized U.S. 2-year Treasury as collateral.
protocol
Coinbase, custodian of about 5% of all BTC, says Bitcoin's quantum migration must begin now. Its design brief favors BIP-360 (P2MR) and P2TRv2, plus a 1-of-2 classical/post-quantum spending path.
regulation
BSP Monetary Board Resolution 839 blocks InstaPay and PESONet inbound to DCPay Philippines, the Coins.ph wallet entity. Outbound rails and Betur Inc. crypto trading not covered.
regulation
Payward said it will acquire Lithuanian lender Saldo Bank; the deal, flagged by the Financial Times, is expected to close in 2027 subject to regulatory approval.
regulation
Nasdaq-listed PDC, led by former FTX Europe chief Patrick Gruhn, filed a notice October 14 to run a tokenized-securities venue; trading could begin after a 30-day review.
regulation
De Nederlandsche Bank authorised Qivalis B.V. as an electronic-money institution on October 14, the MiCA prerequisite to issue the consortium's euro-denominated EMT.