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China's 9 October policy guidelines call for "a national blockchain network". What the official text says, what it leaves out, and what it is not.

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.

Helium says the first stores of Wakefern, the co-op behind ShopRite, now carry carrier traffic over Wi-Fi. Store count, carriers and terms are undisclosed.

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.

Bloomberg News reports that the head of the DOJ's criminal division says officials are reviewing Binance's compliance with its 2023 agreement. He did not say Binance was in violation. What is known, what is not, and who said what.

XRPL's 9 October 2026 disclosure says an integer overflow in its payment engine could be exploited to create XRP from nothing. Fixed in xrpld 3.4.1 on 25 September, no evidence of exploitation. What an overflow and an amendment are, in plain English.

Luxembourg's Finance Minister announced a planned sovereign benchmark bond "natively based on blockchain technology": at least EUR 1 billion, 10 years, no issue date set. What "native" and "benchmark" mean, and what is only a plan.

PwC Germany says a system built for debt-buyer EOS with tokenforge, AllUnity and the Stellar Development Foundation cuts a monthly securitisation payout cycle from "30 days or longer" to a single day. Who does what, what is a company claim, and what the announcement leaves out.

New York's attorney general says she has secured "up to $35 million" from ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky and a permanent ban from the securities, commodities and crypto industries. Both sums are conditional, and New York may collect nothing if he meets both conditions. The exact terms, and what they do not mean.

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.