By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Ledger fixed a vulnerability affecting certain clear signing flows in its Ethereum application before another security company disclosed the issue publicly, Chief Technology Officer Charles Guillemet said on Aug. 23. Guillemet said Ledger Donjon, the company’s internal security research team, discovered the bug using an artificial intelligence vulnerability research system.
By Lawrence Mondal from crypto.news South Korea has advanced a three-part digital-finance program covering crypto accounts for about 3,500 companies, legal recognition for tokenized securities, and deposit-token trials involving nine banks. FACTBLOCK CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park said South Korea’s crypto market is moving away from its long reliance on retail trading
By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Swift, HSBC and Standard Chartered completed the first live interbank transaction on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger on Aug. 19, 2026. The transaction connected two independently operated tokenized deposit systems through a shared coordination layer. HSBC recorded its resulting obligation through the bank’s Tokenised Deposit Service. Standard Chartered used its own tokenized
By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) proposed new U.S. accounting guidance on Aug. 18 that would clarify when companies may present certain stablecoins as cash equivalents. The proposed Accounting Standards Update would add examples to Topic 230, Statement of Cash Flows. It would not change the existing definition of cash
By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Ripple partnered with Jeonbuk Bank on Aug. 18 to deploy Ripple Payments for cross border business remittances, making Jeonbuk the first South Korean regional bank to adopt the service. The companies said the integration would allow Jeonbuk Bank to settle international transfers in seconds or minutes rather than the days
By Shaurya Malwa from CoinDesk Bitcoin crossed $64,000 in Asian morning hours Monday, up half a percent on the day but down almost 3% over the week, as a softer dollar and fading rate-hike bets failed to lift crypto out of its recent range. Hyperliquid’s HYPE was the standout, up over 3% to $59 and
By Lawrence Mondal from crypto.news Dartmouth College’s crypto ETF holdings have fallen 15% to about $12.4 million in the second quarter, even though its $9 billion endowment kept the same number of fund shares. Dartmouth crypto ETF holdings have fallen to $12.4 million The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing submitted Thursday showed that Dartmouth’s
By Lawrence Mondal from crypto.news World Liberty Financial has received preliminary OCC approval to establish a national trust bank that would oversee more than $4 billion in USD1 stablecoin circulation. World Liberty Financial must meet OCC conditions The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said on Aug. 14 that it had granted preliminary conditional
By Andrew Folkler from Crypto News The SEC votes August 14 on its first formal crypto rulemaking. The proposal creates three exemption pathways, a decentralization off ramp for tokens, and a framework that could make congressional legislation optional. Here is what each provision means in practice. The Securities and Exchange Commission has spent six years
By Omkar Godbole from CoinDesk Tokyo-listed bitcoin holder Metaplanet isn’t dumping its bitcoin bags. Company CEO Simon Gerovich moved quickly to dismiss reports of a massive sale, clarifying that Wednesday’s large BTC transfer, flagged by blockchain trackers, was merely a “routine custody transfer” and not a liquidation. “We transferred 5,014 BTC between Metaplanet custodial addresses
