South Korea report proposes stablecoin rules before crypto law

Policy report recommends interim licensing guidance, greater flexibility for stablecoin issuers and rules ahead of the Digital Asset Basic Act.

Policy report recommends interim licensing guidance, greater flexibility for stablecoin issuers and rules ahead of the Digital Asset Basic Act.
A new Ethereum Research proposal is putting post-quantum wallet security back in focus, outlining a practical way to verify quantum-resistant signatures on the EVM without requiring a full protocol-level upgrade. The proposal, published by Ethereum researcher nicocsgy, explores an EVM-optimized version of the SPHINCS+ stateless post-quantum signature scheme. The design aims to make quantum-resistant verification…
Key Takeaways: SBI Holdings has changed the name of its company SBI Security Solutions to SBI Digital Practice to favour on-chain finance activities through its initiative, Canton Network. The new company will provide blockchain solutions to the financial industry, including compliance and cross-border payments. Canton Network already bridges over 600 institutions, enabling over $6 trillion…
The SWIFT integration rumor No adoption? There is a rather perennial debate regarding the real-world utility of the Ripple-linked XRP token, and it has just been reignited by a prominent community of a rival altcoin. Zach Rynes, who is known as the Chainlink community lead, publicly declared that there is “no tangible adoption or meaningful…
For most of 2026, the story was simple: AI stocks up, crypto down. July flipped the script. Bitcoin and Ethereum posted the strongest monthly returns of any major asset class, while the trade that carried global equities all year came apart. The scoreboard for July: Asset July performance Ethereum ($ETH) +20% Bitcoin ($BTC) +9% Russell…
In this handout photo by Morteza Akhoundi via Getty Images, a damaged bridge lies in a riverbed, following U.S. airstrikes carried out a day earlier, on July 17, 2026 in the southern Hormozgan Province, Iran. Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty Images Iran on Friday claimed it had targeted U.S. military forces in Syria…
A group of former Ethereum Foundation researchers just hung out their own shingle, and their pitch is simple: make Ethereum private enough for banks to actually use it. EthSystems launched on July 14 as a for-profit engineering company building privacy and compliance tools for institutional players on Ethereum. The company grew directly out of the…