OCTOBER 2026
An exchange's reversal on a reported breach topped a Sunday dominated by security disputes, tokenization pushback and central-bank plans, as Bitcoin and Ether both slipped.
A sharp weekend drop in bitcoin dominated Saturday's tape, even as banks, asset managers and regulators kept building out the infrastructure around crypto.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal has asked Tether for records on a reported deal with Nxum, a firm connected to Bo Hines, as regulators and lawmakers across three continents took up crypto on the same day.
Bitcoin and the large-cap market dropped on Thursday while regulators, lawmakers and venture firms moved across crypto's regulatory and commercial ground.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalised stablecoin reserve, redemption and rewards rules under the GENIUS Act, drawing praise from the Treasury and a sharp rebuke from the American Bankers Association, on a day when bitcoin firmed and regulators in the US, UK and EU weighed in on crypto.
The SEC's comment period on its crypto-asset proposal drew to a close as digital-asset firms and Wall Street institutions filed their positions, while JPMorgan issued its first long-term Bitcoin return forecast and objections to a tokenized-stock venue kept growing.
Two of traditional finance's largest names moved deeper into public crypto rails, even as bitcoin held near $82,000 and spot buyers stayed away.
Corporate resistance to the planned OKX-ICE tokenized-equity venue widened on Sunday, even as Bitcoin ETFs logged a second straight week of net outflows and two security failures came to light.
On a quiet market day, a fight over who gets to tokenize company stock crystallised as corporate objections met Wall Street enthusiasm.
Index provider MSCI confirmed it will treat companies whose balance sheets are dominated by one asset as ineligible from Nov. 30, a decision Decrypt reports leaves bitcoin treasury company Strategy facing removal.
MSCI has finalized classification rules that could exclude crypto treasury firms such as Strategy, Metaplanet and SharpLink from its indexes, with the final list of affected firms due Nov. 11.
Prices fell across the majors on 14 October as an on-chain research note described a stalled market, while institutions in Russia and the UAE moved closer to crypto and US policy leadership changed hands.
Hardware wallet security led Tuesday's crypto news, as Ledger asked resellers to halt sales and Trezor moved to cut authorized sellers, while corporate bitcoin buying and tokenization deals carried on.
Major tokens fell on Monday as a sentiment gauge sank to pre-rally lows, while institutions, treasury firms and regulators kept moving despite the pullback.
A near-miss in the XRP Ledger's payment engine led a day dominated by hardware-wallet attacks, ETF outflows and a crowded fight over who regulates prediction markets.
Washington's derivatives regulator advanced a rule to treat certain event contracts as swaps on the same day a major crypto platform applied for licences to operate a regulated prediction market, while enforcement and sanctions actions ran in parallel.
Decrypt reported the heaviest single-day outflow from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs since June, as bitcoin, ether and the other large-cap tokens all ended the day lower.
An Ethereum Foundation researcher's warning to move funds to fresh addresses topped a down day, with major-coin prices falling even as banks and enterprise software firms pushed further into crypto.
A payments firm's lawsuit over frozen stablecoin funds led a day that also brought a Winklevoss-backed Zcash ETF filing, a UK digitally native government bond and the planned shutdown of the Pudgy Penguins-backed L2 Abstract.
The former SEC chief's elevation to the top of federal AI policy dominated crypto's Sunday, as Bitcoin ETFs opened October with inflows and Washington's regulatory agenda stalled ahead of next month's election.
Blockchain-tracing firm Chainalysis said it used in-house AI to follow funds from the September Bitget hack to North Korea, as a quieter trading day carried news of a full theft recovery, fresh US and European policy fights, and mixed industry hiring.
Four crypto outlets reported on Friday that Blast, once among Ethereum's largest layer-2 networks, is shutting down after its operating costs came to exceed its revenue.
The US securities regulator published a proposed rule on 1 October setting out how registered advisers and funds may hold crypto assets, as a heist, an XRP treasury listing and a fresh round of EU and US policy fights filled out the day.
SEPTEMBER 2026
Two weeks after the U.S. market-structure bill failed, the industry is recasting defeat as opportunity and taking its fight to the 2027 midterms, while sanctions, a court judgment and fresh infrastructure round out 30 September.
A key resignation leaves the SEC and CFTC thinly staffed just as ETF money flows back into bitcoin and Wall Street edges further onchain.
Two of the largest US banks moved further into digital-asset infrastructure on Monday, even as a stalled bill in Congress left regulators writing the rules through staff guidance instead.
New SEC staff guidance reframed when securities law applies to crypto, as Vitalik Buterin mapped Ethereum's path beyond a blockchain and the market drifted through a quiet Sunday.
US spot bitcoin ETFs erased their year-to-date losses on the back of their strongest weekly inflow since October, while regulators and courts kept reshaping the rules around them.
A day dominated by U.S. policy: a prominent commissioner heading out, new SEC staff guidance, a trade group changing hands and a fresh appeals-court setback for prediction markets.
US regulators moved on several fronts on Thursday while a major exchange disclosed a breach whose size outlets could not agree on.