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In a statement shared after this article’s publication, Paige Pidano Paridon, the executive vice president and co-head of regulatory affairs at the Bank Policy Institute said, “BPI supports efforts to bring innovative new products and services into the regulated banking ecosystem, provided that the entities engaging in those activities are subject to the same rules and responsibilities as every other chartered institution engaging in the same activities.”Firms should not get trust charters unless they only engage in “trust activities,” she said, adding, “if they want to engage in traditional banking activities, they should seek full-service banking charters. Rigorous, uniform standards…

Job losses among screen-based workers and troubles for the housing market are among the challenges to the economy posed by AI, according to credit-ratings agency Egan-Jones.

According to the 760-page proposal, the SEC will allow for self-custody by advisers seeking to hold their clients’ funds. The agency is using the term “self-custody” as an asset management firm practice, not how crypto companies typically use the term. It would first require that an adviser can’t find a qualified custodian ready to take the assets, which would likely be an unusual circumstance after the rule is implemented, and it also requires certain expertise for the investment firm to hold crypto assets. Additionally, that ability to hold their own clients assets would have to be reviewed every quarter to…

Las Vegas, NV, October 1st, 2026, Chainwire Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs announced the launch of more than 400 cryptocurrency ATMs across the United States. The machines allow customers to purchase Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT and USDC with cash at a stated flat 5% fee. Customers can also pre-register online before visiting an ATM. Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs, a new nationwide low-fee Bitcoin ATM operator, launched today with an initial rollout of more than 400 Bitcoin ATMs across the United States, a footprint that places it amongst the largest Bitcoin ATM operators in the country on its first day. It also launched…

Coinbase spent enough to make the top-ten in the overall category of securities and investment lobbying, according to OpenSecrets.org, above even Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Andreessen Horowitz.In U.S. law, lobbying must be legally disclosed through federal filings (though plenty of soft lobbying happens around the edges at parties and other events). CoinDesk’s review focused only on the first two quarters of the year — the most recent filings available, and nothing from 2025, which was also busy with crypto policy efforts.Looking at the overall field of lobbying that didn’t explicitly flag the Clarity Act, four digital asset firms cleared…

“As a country, we have grown dangerously comfortable.”

New York, USA, September 30th, 2026, Chainwire Integration lets users hold XRP, RLUSD, and USDC and use XRP to fund Tria cards and Hyperliquid or Decibel trading accounts without manually bridging or swapping. Tria, the self-custodial neofinance platform for trading, earning, spending and moving assets across chains, today announced native support for the XRP Ledger, making XRP directly usable across Tria’s wallet, card and trading products. Users can now receive, hold and send XRP, RLUSD and USDC on the native XRP Ledger, use XRP to book or top up a Tria card, and fund futures trading accounts on Hyperliquid or…

Enhancing user security with direct IOS App Store availability and seamless MT4/MT5 ecosystem integration, MC Prime delivers ultra-low-latency execution under robust risk management standards. HONG KONG – September 22, 2026 — MC Prime, a global financial services and brokerage provider, today announced major infrastructure enhancements to its mobile trading ecosystem. Designed to meet stringent international compliance and technological security standards, MC Prime has optimized its mobile platform to provide seamless connectivity with the industry-standard MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) engines, while expanding verified accessibility across official global application stores. As macroeconomic volatility increases across global markets, financial market…

“Onchain transactions between two individuals shouldn’t mean publishing your financial history to the world,” Joe Andrews, CEO of Aztec Labs, said in a statement.Andrews added that Aztec Labs chose DAI because it considers it “the most decentralized of the mass-market stablecoins used today on Ethereum.” He said the wallet could support other assets later.Aztec’s zk.money hides payments once money is inside. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)Ethereum already has apps that hide payments, though transfers from an ordinary wallet remain public. Its developers are weighing changes for the planned 2027 Hegotá upgrade that could let privacy apps handle transaction approvals and fees with less…

“When my paycheck lands, it takes a detour through bitcoin.”