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Blockchain News
The infrastructure and the law around it: bank charters, custody rules, AML regimes, tokenised funds and the enterprise deployments that are actually in production. This is where crypto meets the institutions that have to sign things off.
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What this section covers
Regulation and licensing
Charters, registrations and the conditions attached to them. A conditional approval is not an approval, and we say which one it is.
Finance and Business NewsTokenisation and custody
Funds, treasuries and securities moving onto public ledgers, and who is holding the keys when they do.
DeFi NewsPrivacy, security and AML
Wallet screening rules, data breaches and the enforcement actions that follow them.
Bitcoin NewsWhere our coverage sits
Editorial stories by section, counted live from this site. Paid placements are excluded - they are not reporting, and the masthead carries their number.
Latest reporting
A governance vote shows strong support for studying whether Starknet should evolve beyond its role as an Ethereum scaling network. Starknet's governance process has produced a decisive signal. Token holders voted in large numbers to support research into the network's potential future as a standalone Layer 1 blockchain.
The upgrade targets how the network reaches finality, with implications for traders and developers. Solana has completed the rollout of its Alpenglow upgrade, CoinDesk reported on October 22, 2026. The upgrade touches the network's consensus layer, the underlying system validators use to agree on the state of the blockchain.
The Indian exchange says flagged wallet activity stems from an earlier incident, as blockchain investigator ZachXBT raises doubts. Reports circulating this week alleged that CoinDCX, one of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, may have suffered a hack resulting in losses of roughly $16 million.
Cloudflare's CEO warns that newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities have already drawn millions of exploit attempts worldwide. PHP remains one of the most widely deployed server-side programming languages on the internet. It underpins content management systems, e-commerce platforms, and countless custom web applications.
Binance founder and BNB Chain respond publicly as security flaws in PHP raise industry-wide concern. Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance and widely known in the crypto community as CZ, has warned users about critical vulnerabilities discovered in PHP.
Fresh demand for spot Bitcoin funds extends a multi-day buying streak even as reports diverge on the token's recent price direction. US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $528 million in net inflows on the latest trading day, according to data cited by multiple outlets.
The foundation argues regulators should fix existing gaps in crypto rules rather than pull staking and decentralized finance under MiCA's scope. The Cardano Foundation has called on European Union officials to prioritize fixing existing flaws in the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation.
Dubai's virtual asset regulator has cleared the exchange to operate spot trading services for retail and institutional clients. Bybit has secured a license from the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, Dubai's dedicated crypto oversight body, to offer spot trading services in the emirate.
The regulator is asking industry and public for input on how decentralized finance should fit into Britain's upcoming crypto framework. The UK Financial Conduct Authority has opened a public consultation on decentralized finance regulation. The move is part of broader preparations for a comprehensive crypto regulatory regime due to take effect in 2027.
The decentralized exchanges are combining operations in a bid to capture a larger share of on-chain trading volume. Aerodrome and Velodrome, two prominent decentralized exchange protocols, have announced a merger that will unify their operations under a single token called AERO.
UNLOCK Blockchain and AMBCrypto report different total figures for crypto seized and victims notified in the Trump administration's overseas scam crackdown. UNLOCK Blockchain and AMBCrypto report different total figures for crypto seized and victims notified in the Trump administration's overseas scam crackdown.
Authorities in Beijing are pursuing a court order in the United Kingdom to confiscate a massive Bitcoin holding tied to an alleged fraud scheme. Chinese authorities have moved to seize 61,800 Bitcoin held in the United Kingdom.
The British banking group moves to fully own the crypto custody platform it helped launch, expanding its digital asset footprint. Standard Chartered has signed a deal to acquire Zodia Custody, according to reports from Fintech News Singapore and Crypto News Australia.
October 22, 2026
OCC Stablecoin Rule: Outlets Disagree on NPRM Date
BlockchainReporter and Crypto News Flash both cover the OCC's final GENIUS Act stablecoin rule but give different dates for the proposed rule that preceded it. BlockchainReporter and Crypto News Flash both cover the OCC's final GENIUS Act stablecoin rule but give different dates for the proposed rule that preceded it.
The attacker behind the Drift Protocol exploit has funneled a sizable Ether stash into the sanctioned mixing service, according to blockchain trackers. An attacker connected to a security breach at Drift Protocol has moved $109 million in Ether into Tornado Cash over the past two days.
ZEC price climbs 12% as developers finalize the activation height for the privacy coin's next network upgrade. Zcash developers have selected November 5 as the target activation date for NU7, the project's next scheduled network upgrade. The upgrade is designed to reduce block times to 25 seconds, according to crypto.news.
October 21, 2026
AI Payments Startup Mural Raises $15 Million in Round Led by Tether
The stablecoin issuer backs a company building payment infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. Tether has led a $15 million funding round for Mural, a startup building payment infrastructure for artificial intelligence agents. CoinDesk and crypto.news both reported the investment on October 21, 2026, describing Mural as an AI-focused payment company.
October 21, 2026
Microsoft, McDonald’s, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs Oppose OKX-ICE Tokenized Stock Plan
A growing list of blue-chip companies and a major bank have raised objections to a tokenized equities initiative tied to OKX and Intercontinental Exchange. Microsoft and McDonald's have objected to efforts to bring tokenized versions of their shares to market through a project linked to crypto exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company…
The basics, in plain English
What is tokenisation?
Issuing a claim on a real asset - a fund share, a treasury bill, a property - as a token on a blockchain, so it can settle and transfer on that network. The legal wrapper does not change; the settlement rail does.
What is a conditional bank charter?
Permission to operate as a bank once a list of conditions is met - capital, controls, board appointments. Firms often announce the charter; the conditions are the part that decides whether it becomes a bank.
What does AML screening mean for a self-custody wallet?
Under rules coming into force across the EU and elsewhere, exchanges must apply extra checks to transfers to and from wallets they cannot identify. It does not ban self-custody; it adds friction where it touches a regulated business.
What is a layer 2?
A network that processes transactions off a main chain and posts proofs or data back to it, to get lower fees while inheriting the base chain's security. The security inheritance is the claim worth checking in each case.
