
Lloyds and Visa Settle $750,000 in USDC Over a Seven-Day Pilot
Lloyds settled $750,000 of live obligations with Visa in USDC over seven days. Funds landed in under an hour, weekends included.
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Lloyds settled $750,000 of live obligations with Visa in USDC over seven days. Funds landed in under an hour, weekends included.

Florida's payment stablecoin regime took effect on 1 October. Issuers need a state licence, one-to-one reserves and monthly accountant examinations.

PeckShield and CertiK both closed September above $766 million, the costliest month of 2026. Their incident counts are 42 apart.

The FCA started accepting cryptoasset authorisation applications on Wednesday. Firms have until 28 February to file, and the regime begins 25 October 2027.

Kalshi filed to close its Volume Incentive Program from 13 October. It follows reports that the CFTC examined about $5 billion of near-identical ether perp trades.

Robinhood is bringing eight perpetual futures contracts to eligible US customers, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether and 3x on the rest.

Bitget's chief executive said the attacker used a flaw in a third-party security product to obtain admin credentials, then tested the risk system with 0.184 ETH.

South Korea's FSC said Monday it will review letting market makers quote digital assets, eleven days after the yen stablecoin JPYC peaked at 37.6 won on Upbit.

The CFTC registered Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization on Monday. It may clear only fully collateralized contracts, and nothing margined.

Bitget's chief executive asked the protocol to refuse service to wallets holding funds from the 24 September breach. THORChain said a halt is not a selective freeze.

Strategy spent about $142.7 million on 1,665 bitcoin last week at an average of $85,681 a coin, and bought back $151.7 million of its STRC preferred stock.

A pseudonymous analyst says 53 launches between July and September were one operation, funded out of each other. No outlet has checked the tracing.