By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Brazil’s central bank has required covered institutions to report virtual-asset transfers worth at least $10,000 to or from self-custody wallets beginning October 1, 2026. The Central Bank of Brazil published Resolution BCB No. 588 on September 23, amending Circular No. 3,978, the anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing framework for institutions under its
By Shaurya Malwa from CoinDesk A rebound in oil, the strongest U.S. business survey in five years and a poorly received five-year note sale pushed borrowing costs higher, with DOGE leading token losses. Bitcoin traded near $83,900 as of Thursday Asian morning hours, down more than 2% over 24 hours after touching nearly $87,300, CoinDesk
By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Bitwise has found that most crypto allocations among 15 institutional investors sat between 1% and 2% of investable assets, while none of the interviewed institutions cut exposure during the roughly 50% market decline from October 2025 through April 2026. Bitwise published its inaugural Institutional Crypto Adoption report on Sept. 23
By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Bitcoin has recovered above $86,000 after absorbing a Federal Reserve rate increase and the Senate’s failed CLARITY Act vote within the same week, prompting BitGo Research to argue that two negative catalysts failed to produce a lasting selloff. BitGo Research said on Sept. 22 that Bitcoin behaved differently from several
By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Bitcoin has entered what CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju describes as a more mature bull cycle that could deliver a 3–5x gain while avoiding the 10x rallies and 80% drawdowns seen in earlier eras. CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju said the increase in Bitcoin’s market size and institutional ownership is
By Olivia Stephanie from Crypto News U.S. federal prosecutors have been investigating whether Binance knowingly allowed trading that violated Iran sanctions, nearly three years after its $4.3 billion federal settlement, according to a Sept. 22 Bloomberg report. Bloomberg said the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office is leading the inquiry, while the Justice Department’s Criminal Division in
By Olivia Stephanie from Crypto News Apple and Google have opened senior roles seeking stablecoin, blockchain and tokenized-finance expertise as both companies build teams around payments and digital-asset infrastructure. Apple’s official careers posting, dated Aug. 26, shows the company recruiting an Apple Pay Financial Product Strategy Lead in the U.S., with understanding of stablecoins, tokenized
By Jesse Hamilton from CoinDesk U.S. agencies are racing to substitute their regulations for the law that was meant to set crypto markets in governmental bedrock, but will the stand-ins last? OK, the Clarity Act is dead (at least for now). Most crypto enthusiasts had a sense that this was a big bummer for the
By Rony Roy from crypto.news Hong Kong has laid out plans to expand regulated stablecoin trading, tokenized real world assets and digital bond infrastructure as part of its 2026 Policy Address, while preparing round the clock central bank digital currency settlement under EnsembleTX by the end of the year. The Hong Kong SAR Government said
By Helene Braun from CoinDesk Crypto stocks were a sea of red Tuesday afternoon after the Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to an industry that has spent years — and hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions — gunning for a comprehensive U.S. regulatory framework. The pain spread
