Month: October 2026

TL;DR Fiserv’s digital-asset platform is live, with Bank of North Dakota’s Roughrider Coin as its first production use case. Roughrider Coin transactions are processed on Solana, while VersaBank serves as issuer and Fireblocks supplies tokenization and security infrastructure. The deployment gives Solana a live role inside a regulated interbank...

Bithumb adds Talus to its KRW market while Upbit lists Dolphin against KRW, BTC and USDT, expanding Korean access to two AI-linked tokens....

The sanctions on A7 highlight the increasing scrutiny on digital currencies, potentially reshaping global financial compliance norms. The post A7 denies Iran links after US Treasury sanctions the Russian payments network appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Quanta’s growth highlights the critical role of infrastructure in supporting tech expansion, with potential risks tied to project delays and budget shifts. The post Quanta Services posts record revenue as Big Tech pours $735 billion into data centers appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

BlockSec traced Bitget’s $387.5M theft into Bitcoin, THORChain and CoinJoin, while only about $840,000 has been publicly frozen....

Meteora and its former CEO Benjamin Chow have secured the dismissal of a U.S. class action that accused them and Kelsier Ventures of fraud and racketeering tied to the LIBRA and M3M3 memecoin launches. According to a Sept. 29 opinion…...

TL;DR WISeKey’s redomiciliation from Switzerland to the British Virgin Islands became legally effective on October 1 through a merger into WISeQey Corp. Existing WISeKey securities continue trading through October 2, with WISeQey ordinary shares expected to begin trading under WQEY on Nasdaq and SIX on October 5. The company...

TL;DR CFTC records show Bitnomial’s “Ondo US Dollar Spot” futures product was certified on October 1. The filing classifies the contract as a futures product under the financial-instrument category. Certification is a regulatory product filing status; it should not be described as a broad CFTC endorsement of ONDO or...

TL;DR Optimism has released op-supernode v1.0.3 as an optional operator update. The release tightens validation around hardfork activation times and rejects invalid post-genesis fork ordering in custom rollup configs. Existing chains in the Superchain registry are not affected by the configuration issue described in the release notes. Optimism’s latest...

TL;DR Aptos Labs has released `aptos-node-v1.49.2-hotfix-rc` for testnet. The release notes say validators should upgrade and fullnode operators are recommended to do so. Aptos describes it as a private hotfix and does not publish the source code or a detailed public explanation of the underlying issue. Aptos has pushed...