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Crypto Travel Rule laws now cover 83% of jurisdictions answering the relevant Financial Action Task Force (FATF) question, FM Intelligence reported today (Thursday). Only 40% of those with enacted rules reported a focused supervisory or enforcement measure. The full FM Intelligence report counted 91 enacted-law jurisdictions among 109 respondents to that question. Only 36 reported a finding, directive, enforcement action or another supervisory measure focused on compliance Compliance In finance, banking, investing, and insurance compliance refers to following the rules or orders set down by the government regulatory authority, either as providing a service or processing a transaction. Compliance concerning…

Russia’s largest stock market, the Moscow Exchange, is going to add perpetual futures on Bitcoin and Ethereum to its crypto derivatives lineup. The news comes ahead of the enforcement of the “digital currency” law next month, which thoroughly regulates investment in coins and related products. MOEX to offer new futures contracts on $BTC and $ETH in September The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) is expanding its crypto derivative offerings with new contracts based on the cryptocurrencies with the biggest market capitalization. The stock trading venue plans to launch perpetual futures on Bitcoin ($BTC) and Ethereum ($ETH) in September, one of its top…

Asset manager Neuberger has launched its first tokenized fixed-income fund through Securitize, offering an actively managed high-yield strategy across four blockchains, Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX) and Sui (SUI). The Neuberger Securitize High Income Tokenized Fund (HINC) will invest primarily in high-yield bonds, with additional exposure to collateralized loan obligations and leveraged loans, according to an announcement Tuesday. The launch comes as investors are demanding higher yields amid heated competition for corporate and government funding. “The previous market regime rewarded investors for assuming that capital would remain cheap and plentiful,” Saxo chief investment strategist Charu Chanana said in a…

Crypto lending imploded in spectacular fashion back in 2022, taking down household names like Celsius, BlockFi, and Genesis in the process. Yet one platform that also had exposure to that meltdown didn’t disappear. It rebuilt. Today, Maple Finance stands as the second-largest institutional crypto lender in the world, trailing only Tether, and its approach to Maple Finance crypto lending looks almost nothing like the model that nearly sank it three years ago. Key takeaways Maple Finance is now the second-largest institutional crypto lender globally, behind only Tether. The platform holds roughly $1.9 billion in active loans, with total value locked…

As of August 19, 2026, the Ethereum price sits around $2,011 at a technical fault line. Price has cleared the daily EMA20 and EMA50, yet the EMA200 near $2,140.80 still caps it. Short-term strength and longer-term structure now pull in opposite directions. $ETH/USDT — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Key takeaways Ethereum trades near $2,011 and sits above the daily EMA20 and EMA50. The daily EMA200 at $2,140.80 is the level that must be reclaimed to confirm an uptrend. Lower timeframes are overbought: hourly RSI is 86.57 and the 15-minute RSI is 90.45. The Fear & Greed Index…

Cryptorank Counts Just 150 Active Venture Firms, Fewest Since November 2020 Crypto venture capital may be approaching a structural turning point, even if bitcoin, ethereum and stablecoins continue to expand. Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly, said the sector could eventually reach a “last vintage” as established networks become harder for startups to challenge. “At some point, crypto VC might just be over,” Qureshi said in a July 21 interview. “There might just be a last vintage.” His warning is not a prediction that crypto will disappear. Instead, it reflects a market where scale, liquidity and network effects increasingly favor…

$LAB [$LAB] plunged more than 36% over the past 24 hours as token unlocks, insider transfers, and exchange activity intensified selling pressure on the token. The sharp decline added weight to concerns raised by on-chain investigator ZachXBT, who has repeatedly questioned the project’s legitimacy. Despite the sell-off, $LAB continues to hold a sizeable share of market liquidity, allowing it to remain listed on major exchanges. On-chain data pointed to three key factors behind the token’s collapse, which has now erased roughly 99% of its value from its all-time high (ATH). Why is $LAB price falling so hard? The 14th of…

TRM Labs Report Evidences MiCA’s Sweep In Europe As the grandfathering period established by the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation ended in Europe, the European crypto industry entered a new period of consolidation, as the existing crypto asset service providers (CASPs) landscape experienced changes that shifted the digital assets landscape. In a recent report, TRM Labs found that MiCA contributed to streamlining and consolidating the European CASP ecosystem, with only roughly a fifth (281 of 1,343) of the pre-MiCA crypto organizations applying and receiving authorization to operate under the new rules. Jurisdictions with looser registration requirements were hit the…

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has announced the removal of six spot trading pairs from its platform, effective August 25 at 8:00 a.m. UTC. The affected pairs include CAMP, WHITEWHALE, CUDIS, PIRATE, TAI, and SVL. The exchange’s decision follows its routine review of listed assets, focusing on liquidity, trading volume, and project compliance. Why Bybit Is Delisting These Tokens Bybit periodically evaluates all listed digital assets to ensure they meet its listing criteria. Factors such as trading activity, community engagement, and adherence to regulatory standards play a role. Tokens that consistently show low volume or fail to meet these benchmarks may be…

Ethereum’s long-term scaling roadmap is beginning to reach production networks. World Chain has become the first layer-2 to deploy streamed EIP-7928 block access lists on mainnet, introducing a new way for validators to verify transactions before a block has even been finalized. Instead of waiting for a complete block, validators receive access list data every 200 milliseconds through World Chain’s Flashblocks architecture, allowing independent transactions to be verified in parallel as the block is still being assembled. The approach is designed to increase throughput without requiring more powerful validator hardware, tackling one of blockchain’s biggest scaling challenges as networks process…