Latvia targets tokenization rules in 2027 with commercial property in focus

Anti-money-laundering controls remain a central concern, he said, describing a need to understand and manage risks before introducing new rules. “We don’t want to create something with a big boom and then with a big collapse,” Valainis said. The government will implement solutions only when it is “1,000% sure” they would be transparent and understandable,…

Netanyahu Says Blockchain Could Help Israel Evade to Sanctions

Blockchain has become an issue in this week’s Israeli elections after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that the country could turn to cryptocurrency to avoid strains on the economy from any potential international financial sanctions. He told a local television interviewer that Israel is exploring the use of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies as a…

UK banks hit by 10,000 crypto transfer complaints

“Bank transfers represent a crucial on-ramp to add money to their account on our platform,” said Harries. “We are an FCA-registered crypto asset business, but are subject to the same blanket restrictions as the wider crypto asset sector.” Lloyds Banking Group, which includes Halifax and Bank of Scotland, received the most complaints with 2,297, equivalent…

Jack Dorsey’s new voice AI is impressing users and alarming fraud watchers

For now, Dessa remains a research preview rather than a publicly available product. Shock and awe Dessa’s demo quickly drew attention on social media, with some users praising how natural the interactions sounded. X user Alexander Hoff said he had never “heard anything artificial that sounded so… human,” while user Hesamation described it as “straight…

Strategy (MSTR), Strive (ASST) must balance bitcoin (BTC) purchases, preferred stock dividends

“Perpetual preferreds have brought bitcoin to income investors, a group that ETFs never reached,” said Mark Palmer, a senior equity research analyst at StoneX. Ryan Rasmussen, the head of research at Bitwise, also sees the products attracting buyers who might avoid bitcoin exchange-traded funds, though he expects the ETFs to remain the bigger demand channel….

Cardano Warns of Regulatory Overlap in EU Crypto Laws

The Cardano Foundation has urged the European Union not to introduce new, standalone regulations for decentralized finance and staking, arguing that existing financial laws should govern such activities based on their functions and risks rather than the technologies they use. In a Wednesday blog post outlining its 19-page Sept. 30 submission to the European Commission,…

Winklevoss-Backed PAC Backs Paxton in Texas Senate Race

Digital Freedom Fund, the Super political action committee (PAC) launched by Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2025, announced additional expenditures for US Senate races in the 2026 midterm elections, attempting to influence voters in Texas, Iowa and Ohio. In a Tuesday filing with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Digital Freedom Fund…

Ripple news: Franklin Templeton adds $150 million of money-market shares to XRP Ledger

Two batches of just over 72,184,793 shares followed at 02:58 and 04:13 UTC Thursday, each carrying a matching receipt code and a $1.039 share price. The receipts leave the investors, funding source and any connection to existing holdings on Stellar, the other blockchain the fund uses, undisclosed. RWA.xyz lists Franklin’s XRP Ledger position at about…

SEC flags tokenization as high-risk area in 2027 market examinations

The SEC’s latest priorities highlight tokenization as an emerging market risk, while cryptocurrencies remain absent as a standalone examination category. Source link

BTC news: Bitcoin will now stop hiding bugs an AI can find in one prompt

“This is largely due to LLMs drastically reducing the bar to find certain classes of issues or identify covert fixes.” How it works Core can now flag a bug as easy to discover during triage, which in practice means one that “can be found with a simple prompt to an LLM.” Those bugs get a…