The OCC has granted conditional approvals for five national trust bank charters, but Circle is not named in the filing. That matters: it’s not a final green light, and in crypto, “conditional” is not the same as “done.”
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Circle has won conditional OCC approval for a national trust bank charter, a meaningful step toward deeper federal legitimacy — but it still has boxes to tick before operating under the charter. Investors liked the signal, sending shares higher, even if the fine print says this is far from a done deal.
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INTERPOL says a 97-country crackdown intercepted $293 million in scam and laundering proceeds, with 5,811 arrests and major freezes across bank accounts and wallets. The bust hit social engineering fraud, crypto laundering, and cross-border payment networks hard.
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Metaplanet, JPYC, and Progmat are reportedly exploring Bitcoin-backed credit products in Japan, a sign BTC is creeping deeper into regulated finance. It’s still just a feasibility study, though — and Bitcoin’s volatility remains the big landmine.
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MiCA is already reshaping Europe’s stablecoin market, and early on-chain data suggests Circle’s compliant EURC is winning the first round. With activity climbing and non-compliant rivals facing pressure, Europe is starting to favor the boring but necessary route: regulated rails.
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Metaplanet and JPYC are studying whether Bitcoin can back regulated credit products in Japan, with Progmat handling tokenization and settlement rails. It’s only a feasibility study for now, but it signals a bigger push to turn BTC into productive collateral rather than just a balance-sheet trophy.
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A malicious npm release in the Injective ecosystem briefly tried to steal developers’ wallet seed phrases and private keys through a trusted SDK, proving once again that the ugliest crypto attacks often target the software around the chain, not the chain itself.
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New Hampshire’s Executive Council voted 3-2 to reject a proposed $100 million Bitcoin-backed financing deal, shutting down a first-of-its-kind pitch that supporters said could fund development programs, while critics warned it was too volatile for public finance.
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The CLARITY Act could give U.S. crypto regulation a real rulebook, but a thinly staffed CFTC and unresolved DeFi questions may turn “clarity” into bureaucratic mush. The push is real — the execution risk is, too.
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UK Labour is pushing to make Britain’s temporary crypto-donation freeze permanent, arguing political money must be fully traceable. The move targets opaque donor flows and foreign influence concerns, not crypto generally — and Reform UK is in the crosshairs.
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