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A Visa survey of 14,250 people says 46% in Asia Pacific are likely to use stablecoins within five years, 16% have in the past year, and 6% understand them.

HSBC and Ant Digital say an AI agent found a service, paid a micropayment and settled it in tokenised deposits in a test, not a commercial launch.

On 9 October 2026 four THORChain vault addresses on Tron were put on Tether's USDT blacklist, holding about a combined 1.45 million USDT, and removed about three hours later. Tron records confirm the listing and removal; the amount, the pause and the absence of an explanation are reported. What is confirmed, what is reported.

French MPs voted 38-37 for a crypto-to-stablecoin swap tax that would apply from 2027. It is a first-reading budget vote, not law, and the Senate must act.

Three crypto policy moves from 8 October 2026: an ESMA opinion telling MiCA-authorised firms to stop services in non-compliant stablecoins, Senator Blumenthal's letter asking Cantor Fitzgerald about its Tether ties, and a Greek draft bill proposing a 10% crypto capital-gains tax. What each one does, and what it doesn't.

Sui reports 40.6 million transactions per second through off-chain "tunnels", not its base chain, and says Hashi, its Bitcoin collateral layer, goes live this month. Polygon's payments stack adds TRON's USDT. Lido contributors propose a security-first lending market that still needs a DAO vote. What each claim does and does not mean.

Kazakhstan’s central bank signs an exploratory MoU with Tether; Binance accepts four tokenised securities as margin collateral at a 50% ratio; GSR commits $100m to Hare’s onchain vaults; Orca and Loopscale merge as Formation. What is confirmed, what is only planned, and what each step does not prove.

On 6 October 2026 Paxos-issued Global Dollar (USDG) went live natively on Arbitrum One with Fluid, Morpho, GMX, Maple, Uniswap and Kraken among first integrations. A DAO proposal to add 100M ARB to DRIP is a proposal, not yet approved.

Trade press: an unidentified Base DeFi vault lost about 1,783 wstETH (~$6m) on 4 Oct 2026 after a multisig whitelist change. Firms say Aave V3 was not hit.

Circle published its MiCA review consultation response on 1 Oct 2026. It is company advocacy; rankings and “largest” claims are Circle’s own statements.