The Bank of Russia has proposed limiting banks’ covered crypto and foreign digital instrument exposure to 1% of capital, with separate treatment for custody positions and reporting set to begin in January 2027.

A temporary multi-agency working group has been launched to draft cryptocurrency exchange rules, issue licenses and supervise operations over 18 months, with a compliance timetable also due for existing platforms.

The US Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act after a procedural cloture vote fell short of the 60-vote threshold, leaving crypto market-structure legislation stalled and SEC-CFTC jurisdiction questions unresolved.

GSR said its study of more than 2,300 token listings since 2013 found the median listing fell below its issue price within three days and was down nearly 50% by day 90, with high-FDV, low-float launches performing worst.

A joint law enforcement advisory said North Korean-linked group WaterPlum infected at least 30,000 devices in more than 100 countries and exfiltrated funds or credentials from over 7,000 crypto wallets, with at least $10.71 million traced to DPRK-linked control.

MultiversX said its mainnet was hacked through a virtual machine atomicity issue that caused invalid state changes, prompting a network pause while the team tests a fix and prepares a recovery plan with validators and exchanges.

Coinbase has partnered with Stablecore to make crypto trading, custody and stablecoin payment services available through banking technology used by more than 3,000 U.S. banks and credit unions, though adoption will depend on each institution activating the services.

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Iranian digital asset exchange BitBank, its software developer, and three associates tied to Babak Zanjani, alleging the platform helped move hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to the IRGC.

NYSE has been testing Avalanche technology for possible use in tokenized securities infrastructure, according to remarks at Avalanche Summit, as the exchange group weighs technical and economic fit for a broader tokenized stocks and ETFs push.

Solana has lowered its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds under the SIMD-0525 upgrade path, increasing block cadence while keeping overall processing capacity broadly unchanged and shortening validator, staking, and transaction timing windows.