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Federal Reserve staff research says stablecoins could theoretically fit into M1 or M2, but reserve overlap and offshore circulation make it difficult to measure their liquidity impact without risking double-counting.
A Bank of Korea study links buying pressure in dollar-backed stablecoins and Binance-paired currencies with local-currency depreciation, citing market makers’ efforts to balance positions as a possible channel.
Anthropic says Claude spent 11 days converting Fermat’s Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code that computers can verify independently, marking a notable AI application in formal mathematics.
Southeast Asia’s blockchain investment has rebounded to $680 million in 2026, led by crypto financial services. Funding remains concentrated in Singapore and a small number of more established companies.
CryptoSlate reports that Solana’s pending upgrade could disrupt incompatible indexers, streams and sponsors. These services must update before the first v1 transaction, as the issue may freeze network readers and silently disable fee limits.
The G7 is urging organizations to adopt post-quantum security before quantum computers can weaken current encryption and digital signatures. The crypto industry is weighing potential fixes, with the issue relevant to blockchain security and authentication.
CryptoSlate reports that a privacy-coin flaw could permit endless token creation. Node operators must upgrade to v0.14.18.0 before block 1,371,000, when multi-input private spending returns and older software becomes incompatible.
Pineapple Financial plans to put $1 billion in mortgage records on Injective and eventually bring more than $10 billion in historical loans onchain, converting thousands of files into blockchain-based records.
Crypto projects are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on token buybacks. Cointelegraph examines whether the programs build lasting value for projects and holders or mainly make tokens appear more valuable.
Decrypt reports that Trezor’s data breach now includes records tied to 67,000 additional customers. Some exposed records date to 2019, exceeding the 90-day retention period Trezor said its partners had agreed to observe.
Kalshi’s US web traffic climbed more than 1,500% in under a year, while trading volume grew faster. The surge comes as legal scrutiny of the platform’s sports contracts intensifies, Cointelegraph reported.
South Korea’s financial regulator has announced a three-phase roadmap for tokenized-asset issuance ahead of the country’s planned first tokenized securities framework, scheduled for adoption in February 2027.
Bitcoin rose above $82,000 and crossed its 50-week moving average, a level Galaxy Research says ended four of five comparable bear markets. Confirmation requires a weekly close, while CryptoSlate warned of a possible move toward $62,000.
South Korean regulators are targeting February 2027 for a fully tokenized securities market under a phased distributed-ledger roadmap. The plan concludes with onchain stablecoin settlement, CoinDesk reported.
