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In a move that might make even the most patient bureaucrat blink, Nomura’s Laser Digital has entered the delicate dance of talks with Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), hoping to earn the coveted crypto trading license. Asia’s digital asset scene is buzzing, and Japan, ever the constipated but reliable player, is trying to show it can keep pace. Should fortune smile, Laser Digital dreams of offering brokerage services to the stiff-collared institutional investors – the very folks who consider volatility a mild form of entertainment.

While the markets are popping champagne for this “Uptober” nonsense, the rest of the world’s headlines are more like a bad blind date – full of regulatory catfights and policy experiments gone wrong. Bitter much? 😂

Xu declared that building an open public chain is “one of OKX’s core strategies.” Bold move. Next thing you know, they’ll tell us water is wet. The X Layer will supposedly fuse the OKX Wallet and Exchange into a “stronger ecosystem,” which sounds like a Marvel villain’s origin story.

But fear not, dear reader, for the hackers have merely shifted their focus from smart contract exploits to wallet vulnerabilities. 🦹‍♂️🔍 Code-related losses plummeted from $272 million to $78 million, proving that even cybercriminals can get bored with the same old tricks. Yet, September’s 16 hacks over $1 million remind us that mid-sized attacks are the new black. 🕶️

Yet, hidden beneath this gilded growth lies a truth so banal it could make a Victorian poet weep: most of RLUSD’s supply resides not on XRPL, Ripple’s blockchain, but on Ethereum. How ironic, don’t you think? 🐍

“We started this adventure with a modest $0.25 billion in Bitcoin-and, of course, an immediate $0.04 billion unrealized loss,” Saylor proudly proclaimed on Thursday. Oh, the sweet sting of a good gamble, right? Over the past seven weeks, Strategy added 11,085 BTC to its coffers, including a cheeky 196 BTC just last week on September 29. It’s like watching a snail turn into a race car.

Now, this wasn’t just a haphazard bump in the road; nay, it was born amidst whispers of upgrades and a market rally quite like a Discworld festival in full swing. Over a 24-hour spell, it added a cool 7.4%, and across the week, it surged a robust 17.5%, to the surprised delight of number crunchers at a place called CoinGecko.

XRP, in a display that can only be described as mildly encouraging, has ventured north of $3.00. Institutional blokes, it seems, have been rather keen to acquire it, establishing a short-term floor at $2.99. The Japanese, bless their forward-thinking souls, and the looming decision on those ETFs are giving the whole affair a bit of a shove. Resistance, however, appears to be stubbornly lodged at $3.10 – a price point treated with a degree of suspicion.

Well, friends, Ripple has gone and tied its fortunes to UC Berkeley to raise a Center for Digital Assets, backed by a tidy $1.3 million in RLUSD. They say the thing will fiddle with blockchain and digital twins, hunting for practical uses in finance, supply chains, and a passel of other frontiers where money wears … Read more

Approved by Spain’s CNMV, the launch stands as one of the first major applications of the EU’s MiCA framework. It’s like the financial world’s version of a secret society, and BBVA has just been handed the membership card. 🧙‍♂️