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The objections offer an early look at how companies are navigating a new market structure that could let U.S. investors trade stocks around the clock on blockchain plumbing. The SEC’s five-year “Innovation Exemption,” rolled out roughly a month ago, gives qualifying venues room to test trading through automated market makers and liquidity pools, while giving issuers a say in whether their shares participate.Cuomo described that approach as a deliberately limited experiment, with caps on the number of stocks and trading volumes.“There are limits on how many companies can participate and on the volume that can be traded, so by definition,…

With spooky season upon us, we’ve rounded up a selection of Halloween-themed updates for games you may already have in your catalog.This is another in our series of spooky season articles this month. If you are seeking more content, check out our list of horror game recommendations and upcoming horror games.Our Favorite VR Games For Spooky Season 2026Halloween is just around the corner. We’ve picked ten of our favorite scary VR games for spooky season 2026.Updates are listed in alphabetical order by game title and we will update this article as new updates are released. The developers of Convrgence, Hard…

Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) authorization has dominated the compliance conversation for crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) operating in the EU. But authorization is only one part of the picture. Once a firm is licensed as a CASP, it is automatically pulled into a second, separate regulatory regime: the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).DORA has applied to CASPs since January 17, 2025, the same date it applied to banks, insurers, and asset managers across the EU, with no phase-in period left to plan around. MiCA decides whether a firm can offer crypto-asset services. DORA decides whether that firm’s technology stack is…

Imagine your country suddenly said: “You can still shop online… but only at stores we’ve approved. Amazon? Nope. eBay? Not unless they open a local branch and follow our rules.” You could still buy stuff. But the internet would feel a lot less… global. And that’s basically what’s unfolding in crypto right now. Reports surfaced that Russia is preparing to block access to foreign crypto exchanges as early as this summer. Translation: if you live in Russia, you might soon lose access to major international crypto platforms like Binance, Bybit, or OKX – unless those companies register locally and operate…

Reason to trust Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Created by industry experts and meticulously reviewed The highest standards in reporting and publishing Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. South Korea is approaching another decision point on its long-delayed cryptocurrency gains tax, with exchanges and policymakers preparing to discuss whether the January 2027 start date is realistic. TL;DR: The country’s planned crypto tax has already been deferred three times. A new proposal would push implementation…

GameFi is the part of crypto gaming where the game and the money are tied together on purpose. Players earn tokens, trade items for real value and sometimes vote on how the game is run. In 2021 it was sold as a new way to make a living. By 2022 most of those economies had collapsed. This guide explains how GameFi works, where the money in a play-to-earn game really comes from, and how to judge a project before you put anything into it. Risk note: GameFi tokens and NFTs are highly speculative and many have lost almost all of…

Tether’s CEO also spoke remotely at a Washington event, DC Fintech Week, and addressed the senator’s report there, as well, last Tuesday. He criticized how it was released to the media before his company could review it.”I believe it’s important for the public also to hear our side of the story,” he said.”Our aim is to push out the bad actors from USDT,” Ardoino said. “Those bad actors are moving to other means that are outside of the control of the United States, and now outside of our control.”He added that the work “is not finished,” but he said he’s…

JPMorgan made its JPM Coin deposit token available on Ethereum on Oct. 19, giving its institutional clients another public-blockchain route to send and receive dollar deposits. The launch adds Ethereum’s main network alongside the token’s existing availability on Base.JPMorgan says the expansion puts native cash on the network where institutions already transact with tokenized assets, collateral and counterparties. That includes its own tokenized money-market funds, bringing the bank’s payment and investment offerings onto the same public blockchain.JPM Coin, which uses the ticker JPMD, digitally represents a bank deposit. The bank’s Ethereum announcement says it supports peer-to-peer transfers between institutional clients…

PAYDAY: Aces High, the VR game set in the Payday universe, is officially set to launch across Quest, PC VR headsets, and Steam Frame next month. Payday: Aces High is an upcoming VR co-op heist game from Fast Travel Games which lets up to four players take on some pretty classic heisting: infiltrating banks, museums, and even a luxury penthouse apartment. Like all Payday games, you can also build out your own unique loadout—weapons, gadgets and special skills—as your team decides to go in hard and fast, or with a more tactical approach. Now, Fast Travel Games says Payday: Aces…

This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade. It is the first time the cluster has published one unified view rather than per-team opinions. Geth, of course, being an EL client will still ship their own standalone tier list. However, they and the rest of the Protocol cluster (about 60 people in total) across research and engineering worked together to include their feedback in this post as a datapoint along with that of every other team and individual contributor…