Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a new Travel Rule requiring regulated cryptocurrency businesses to verify customers’ counterparties and establish ownership or control of self-hosted wallets involved in transfers. The SEC announced the final regulations on September 2 following public consultations conducted between March and July. The requirements will take effect on February 27,
Crypto exchange YUBIT is expanding into retail CFDs after obtaining a Full Service Investment Dealer licence in Mauritius, adding stocks, forex, commodities and indices alongside its existing cryptocurrency markets.The exchange now displays Mauritius Financial Services Commission licence number GB26206590 across its website under regulatory code SEC-2.1B, formally classified as Investment Dealer (Full Service Dealer, excluding
How Does Gate’s U.S. Stock Options Product Work? Crypto exchange Gate has expanded further into traditional markets with the launch of U.S. stock options, allowing eligible users to trade calls and puts on nine large U.S. companies without leaving its existing app.The service went live on Sept. 2 with options linked to Nvidia, Tesla, Apple,
Granite River Trading has formally launched as a principal digital-asset trading firm, naming co-founder Josh Gibson as chief executive and disclosing connections to more than 25 centralized, decentralized and onchain venues. The company announcement says the firm trades its own capital through systematic and discretionary strategies.That principal designation is important. GRT is not announcing an
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Kaiko have combined their crypto benchmarks into the S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices, a co-branded suite covering more than 4,000 rates and indices. Existing S&P crypto indices and Kaiko reference rates will be renamed, with Kaiko supplying data and calculation technology and S&P DJI handling benchmark administration, licensing and distribution,
Users of Robinhood Wallet and social trading application Fomo have been able to purchase meme coins with credit cards without completing a separate know-your-customer verification process, prompting Chase to ask Visa to investigate how the transactions are being classified.The purchases are powered by crypto payments infrastructure company Crossmint through its Token Checkout product.Tests conducted by
MoonPay is expanding its effort to turn artificial-intelligence assistants into financial interfaces, bringing its PayBox payment infrastructure to Grok after previously launching support for ChatGPT and Claude.The fintech company announced the Grok integration on August 31, saying users can now initiate crypto trades, move assets between blockchains and make online purchases using natural-language instructions from
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a sweeping modernization of transfer-agent regulations that explicitly recognizes blockchain technology as infrastructure capable of maintaining securities ownership records. The SEC announced the proposal on September 1 under file number S7-2026-30, marking the first comprehensive rewrite of rules governing registered transfer agents since many of those requirements
TradeXYZ recorded $202.36 billion of trading volume during the second quarter of 2026, an increase of 79.2% from the previous quarter as demand for equity perpetual futures accelerated across Hyperliquid. The figures come from TradeXYZ’s Q2 report published September 1 by GLC Research in collaboration with Four Pillars and the Hyperliquid Research Collective. Revenue increased
Telegram founder Pavel Durov says Gram Wallet is ready, beginning a phased rollout of a native self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet that could eventually reach the messaging platform’s more than one billion users.Durov announced on August 31 that Gram Wallet had become accessible to a selected group of users and would gradually roll out more broadly over