Japan's cabinet approved legislation reclassifying crypto as financial instruments, banning insider trading and raising penalties for unregistered sellers to 10 years.
Polymarket's short-duration crypto markets surpassed $4 billion in total volume with average daily trading hitting $153 million following a Chainlink data feed integration.
StarkWare's Avihu Levy published a scheme to make Bitcoin transactions quantum-resistant without a protocol change, though the $75–$150 GPU cost limits it to large transfers.
The U.S. Treasury is expanding cybersecurity intelligence sharing with crypto firms as attacks grow more frequent and sophisticated across the digital asset industry.
Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone predicts Tether's market cap will surpass Ethereum in 2026 and eventually overtake Bitcoin, while warning BTC could crash to $10,000.