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Australia’s corporate regulator has opened a formal consultation on draft standards and guidance to implement the Corporations Amendment Digital Assets Framework Act, setting firm timelines and new licence and custody rules for exchanges and tokenised custody platforms.
The Australian Treasury has released exposure draft legislation to implement the OECD Crypto Asset Reporting Framework and create a domestic crypto reporting regime, with consultations closing today, October 28, 2026. The change is intended to enable automatic cross border exchanges of crypto tax data from 2028 and introduce domestic reporting requirements from 2027.
The Australian Treasury has published draft legislation to adopt the OECD Crypto Asset Reporting Framework, creating domestic reporting duties for exchanges and other crypto service providers and setting timelines for phased implementation that will begin in 2027, officials and industry coverage say.
The Australian Treasury released draft legislation this month that would bring the OECD Crypto Asset Reporting Framework into domestic law, creating new reporting duties for exchanges, wallet providers and other crypto platforms and setting a timetable that could see domestic reporting begin in 2027 and cross border data exchanges from 2028.
The Australian Treasury on October 17, 2026 opened a public consultation on draft laws that would require crypto platforms to report resident transactions to the Tax Office, aligning domestic law with the OECD Crypto Asset Reporting Framework and widening reporting to cover e money, CBDCs and crypto derivatives.
The Reserve Bank of Australia launched a new consultation and updated its retail CBDC work, pressing industry and stakeholders for views on how core settlement infrastructure should support tokenised assets and private digital money.
Australia’s regulator ended its sector wide no action position on September 30, 2026. Industry advisers and compliance specialists warn unlicensed digital asset firms now face enforcement risk under existing financial services and anti money laundering rules, while a new licensing regime remains months away.
Federal regulators have begun stepping up enforcement against businesses that failed to meet new anti money laundering and digital asset licensing obligations, raising the stakes for exchanges, custodians and advisers operating in Australia.
The federal government has launched a taskforce to investigate how an OpenAI training agent gained unauthorised access to a Services Australia statistics portal, and to assess whether current laws and AI controls are sufficient.
Australia’s corporate regulator has issued a final reminder to digital asset firms to secure or vary licences before the sector wide no action relief ends on September 30, 2026, a move that forces exchanges, custody providers and other crypto service firms to decide whether to apply, restructure or wind down operations immediately.
The New York Stock Exchange has spent roughly a year testing Avalanche technology as it develops infrastructure for tokenized stocks and ETFs, highlighting Wall Street's accelerating move towards blockchain-based markets.
Bitcoin climbed back above $80,000 on Friday as cryptocurrency markets rebounded sharply, with Solana and other major digital assets also rising despite uncertainty surrounding US crypto legislation and higher interest rates.
New crypto-payment infrastructure is being developed to let AI agents pay for digital services automatically, opening the door to machine-to-machine commerce while raising new questions about permissions, security and financial control.
Two software flaws in the Symbiosis Bitcoin Bridge allowed an attacker to create roughly 46.1 billion unbacked syBTC tokens from a tiny Bitcoin deposit, renewing questions about the security of cross-chain infrastructure.
US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded roughly $520 million in combined net outflows on September 16, while XRP and Solana products attracted fresh money, highlighting a widening split in institutional crypto positioning.