The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has updated its safe harbor for digital-asset staking by certain trusts. As of early October 2026, Revenue Procedure 2026-20 allows qualifying investment trusts and grantor…
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has withdrawn two long-standing proposed rules targeting cryptocurrency activity. As of early October 2026, FinCEN formally dropped the 2020 proposal on transactions…
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has detailed an undercover operation that linked funds from the Bybit hack to a laundering network. As of early October 2026, he described spending $349,700 to pose…
Polymarket has begun production testing of its Protocol V2 architecture. As of early October 2026, canary markets are running through the end of the month ahead of a tentative November…
Binance has drawn fresh attention to a feature that allows eligible users to convert supported stock positions into on-chain tokens. As of early October 2026, the exchange highlighted bidirectional 1:1…
Hyperliquid’s HYPE token is trading near $93 after recovering from a late-September pullback. As of early October 2026, the price sits within roughly 7% of the $100 level and below…
The International Monetary Fund has approved a new disbursement to El Salvador under its existing financing program. As of early October 2026, the IMF Executive Board completed the second and…
Recent analysis highlights deepening wealth concentration in the United States. As of early October 2026, data referenced by the Kobeissi Letter shows the top 1% of households, roughly 1.4 million,…
Users of the Revenue platform have been affected by a wallet-draining attack involving malicious USDG approvals. As of early October 2026, security firm Salus reported that attackers obtained permit signatures…
A major U.S. community banking group has sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency over its recent approvals of national trust bank charters for crypto firms. As of…
