Regulation
Kenya gazetted the Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations, 2026 on 24 July 2026, completing implementation of the VASP Act assented to in October 2025. The Central Bank of…
Tokenized capital markets
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital placed a $75m private markets strategy onchain through the KAIO platform on 23 July 2026, issuing on Solana, Sui and Base. Coinbase took exposure to…
Institutions
BNY said in July 2026 that it plans to pilot tokenized US Treasuries on its private blockchain by the end of 2026 and offer round-the-clock settlement for both conventional and…
Stablecoins & payments
Bank of China settled the two largest transactions recorded on mBridge, the multi-central-bank digital currency platform, in June and July 2026. A CNY 11.3bn payment through its…
Tokenized capital markets
Franklin Templeton's Benji tokenization platform held $2.44bn in assets as of 18 July 2026, of which $1.5bn, or 61.7%, sat on BNB Chain, overtaking Stellar. BNB Chain balances…
Tokenized capital markets
DTCC started limited production trading on its DTC Tokenization Service in July 2026, covering Russell 1000 constituent stocks, major ETFs and US Treasury securities. JPMorgan,…
Regulation
HM Treasury published the first report of its Wholesale Digital Markets Champion, Chris Woolard, on 13 July 2026. The report projects £33bn in annual economic benefit and £14bn in…
Regulation
The European Parliament approved its position on the digital euro regulation on 9 July 2026, following a committee vote in June. Trilogue negotiations with the Council and…
Economic security
Security firm PeckShield reported $75.87m in losses from 40 crypto security incidents in June 2026, a decline of about 7% on the previous month, with an exploit of Humanity…
Tokenized capital markets
Robinhood began operating Robinhood Chain on mainnet on 1 July 2026, alongside round-the-clock tokenized stock trading, perpetual futures and onchain lending. The tokens give…
Stablecoins & payments
The Bank for International Settlements published the money and payments chapter of its 2026 Annual Economic Report on 23 June 2026, arguing that stablecoins fall short on…
Regulation
On 22 June 2026 the Bank of England published a policy statement and draft Code of Practice for sterling systemic stablecoin issuers, dropping proposed individual holding limits…
Protocol economics
Ethereum client teams locked the devnet-0 specification for the Glamsterdam upgrade in June 2026, with enshrined proposer-builder separation (EIP-7732) and block-level access…
Prediction markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved a notice of proposed rulemaking on prediction markets, published in the Federal Register on 12 June 2026, setting out when event…
Africa & emerging markets
The IMF Executive Board concluded its 2026 Article IV consultation with Nigeria on 9 June 2026 and identified stablecoin oversight as a priority. A follow-up IMF country note…
Tokenized capital markets
Securitize brought Hamilton Lane's tokenized Senior Credit Opportunities Fund to Tron on 2 June 2026, its first issuance on that network. The feeder fund held about $4.28m and…
Regulation
The European Commission opened a two-part consultation on revising the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation in May 2026, with responses due by 30 August 2026. The review's central…
Regulation
The Senate Banking Committee released its version of the CLARITY Act on 11 May 2026 and advanced the crypto market structure bill out of committee that month. A further revision…
Protocol economics
Alpenglow, which replaces Solana's TowerBFT consensus with the Votor and Rotor components, activated on a community validator test cluster on 11 May 2026. The design targets…
Tokenized capital markets
Trading volume in tokenized gold reached $90.7bn in the first quarter of 2026, exceeding the total for all of 2025, according to research published by CEX.IO. Tether Gold and Pax…
Africa & emerging markets
Mastercard and the African digital-asset platform Yellow Card announced a partnership on 7 May 2026 to build stablecoin-based payment and settlement rails across Eastern Europe,…
Institutions
State Street announced on 28 April 2026 that it would launch tokenized fund servicing from Luxembourg, initially for tokenized money market fund issuers, later in 2026. The…
Tokenized capital markets
The European Central Bank published a study of the tokenised bond market in Issue 33 of its Macroprudential Bulletin on 13 April 2026, comparing matched samples of tokenised and…
Regulation
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority granted its first stablecoin issuer licences on 10 April 2026 to HSBC and to Anchorpoint Financial, a joint venture led by Standard Chartered with…
Prediction markets
Intercontinental Exchange announced an additional $600m investment in Polymarket on 27 March 2026, adding to its earlier stake in the prediction-market platform. Separately the…
Africa & emerging markets
An IMF working paper published on 27 March 2026 examined cross-border stablecoin flows and their effects on emerging-market foreign exchange rates. It found that dollar stablecoin…
Regulation
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a Nasdaq rule change on 18 March 2026 allowing certain tokenized securities to trade on the exchange, alongside an interpretation…
Decentralised finance
Aave reported cumulative lending volume above $1tn in late February 2026, the first decentralised credit protocol to reach that figure. The protocol attributed part of the growth…
Regulation
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency published a proposed rule on 25 February 2026 implementing the GENIUS Act, consolidating reserve, redemption, audit and supervision…
Stablecoins & payments
Tether announced USAT on 27 January 2026, a dollar stablecoin issued in the United States by Anchorage Digital Bank under the GENIUS Act framework, with Cantor Fitzgerald as…
Institutions
JPMorgan said on 7 January 2026 that it would issue JPMD, its dollar deposit token, natively on the Canton Network, a privacy-oriented institutional blockchain. The move extends…
Governance
Uniswap governance activated the protocol fee switch on Ethereum on 28 December 2025, redirecting a share of swap fees to protocol revenue used for UNI buybacks and burns, and…