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The Financial Stability Board urged Turkey to require stronger reserve, audit and redemption safeguards for foreign stablecoins sold on local crypto exchanges. The peer review's recommendations are nonbinding....

ECB board member Piero Cipollone urged EU lawmakers to finish talks on the digital euro law by year end, saying a launch date can only be set after adoption. A pilot with 36 payment providers starts in the second half of 2027....

Poland's Sejm voted 240-202 to let the interior minister freeze crypto and other assets of people on a national sanctions list before any court review. The bill now goes to the Senate and President Karol Nawrocki....

The IRS is sending more Letter 6174 notices to crypto users, according to Cryptotaxaudit CEO Clinton Donnelly, who says the letters are not proof of wrongdoing....

The ECB, European Commission and ESMA are inviting financial firms to join a new European Tokenisation Standards Group, with applications due by November 27, 2026....

Sen. Richard Blumenthal gave Binance, Tether and two Trump-linked firms until January 4 to produce records for a Senate subcommittee probe. He warned the panel could weigh other enforcement options if they miss the date....

OFAC sanctioned four people and 41 entities on November 5, 2026, targeting a network Treasury says sustained Prince Group after earlier sanctions. Entities 50% or more owned by blocked persons are also blocked....

The CFTC says federally regulated prediction markets generally cannot block traders by state and gave exchanges 30 days to comply or explain. The guidance follows a court order against Kalshi....

A former FBI agent pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering for stealing about $2.47 million in crypto using credentials from FBI cases. Sentencing is set for March 4, 2027....

Binance and Changpeng Zhao subpoenaed Kevin O'Leary and Michael Lewis in a $1.76 billion FTX clawback case. A July ruling let the recovery claims proceed....

Greece's parliament approved a 10% capital gains tax on crypto, lower than the 15% in an earlier draft. It applies from January 1, 2027, with the first €500 of annual net gains exempt....

South Korea's government plans to delay its 22% crypto gains tax to 2029, the fourth postponement, and proposes a three-year loss carryforward. The change needs National Assembly approval....

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour backs insider trading bans for Congress and administration officials. Some Democrats want election contracts banned outright....

A federal judge refused to halt stock perpetual futures on Kalshi, Coinbase Derivatives and Bitnomial, but said the CFTC likely lacked authority to allow them. The approvals remain while the injunction motion proceeds....

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance will not recommend enforcement over Canton Coin minting rewards, and the token rose more than 6%. The relief is limited to the minting arrangements described....

Stand With Crypto counted 222 pro-crypto House winners and 19 Senate winners in its unofficial November 4 scorecard. The ratings do not settle CLARITY Act disputes over banking and customer protection....

North Korea, through Kim Yo-jong, denied responsibility for the $6.3 billion Binance theft and called the FBI's attribution a political provocation. The FBI named TraderTraitor, and analytics firms traced the funds across 12,000 wallets....

The CFTC said perpetual futures on individual stocks can trade on US-regulated exchanges, deeming them approved as security futures products. No exchanges, contracts or launch date were named....

The HKMA said its EnsembleTX pilot now supports 24/7 interbank settlement of tokenized deposits in tokenized central bank money. Participation has grown to 12 banks and 20 industry pioneers....

Utah filed 13 criminal charges against Kalshi and its two founders after an undercover agent placed 12 sports wagers totaling $114.87. The case deepens a dispute with the CFTC over state gambling authority....

The ECB said Europe moves to T+1 securities settlement on 11 October 2027. Piero Cipollone also set out Pontes upgrades, DLT collateral rules and the Appia tokenization roadmap....

Attackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance hot wallets on 29 October 2026, the largest crypto theft on record. Elliptic and Chainalysis put the figure at about $6.4 billion. Binance traced the breach to a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, later found additional points of breach, and says it has seen no evidence that private keys […]...

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has moved to aggressively regulate the cryptocurrency sector by extending its flagship Consumer Duty to cryptoasset activities. In a decisive step detailed in Consultation Paper 26/4 (CP26/4), the regulator outlined a comprehensive framework that forces crypto firms to adhere to the same high standards of transparency and fairness […]...

A pivotal Senate Agriculture Committee markup of the Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act, originally stalled by a severe winter storm, concluded Thursday with a contentious 12-11 party-line vote. The delay, caused by hazardous weather that shuttered much of Washington earlier in the week, served as a prelude to the frosty reception the legislation received from committee […]...