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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 Reserve Bank of Australia consultation on how its settlement systems could support tokenised markets and whether stablecoin issuers should access central bank reserves closes today, forcing industry and regulators to sharpen positions on tokenised settlement, wholesale central bank money, and the future of private digital money in Australia.
OKX Australia has launched USDT settled Pre IPO perpetual futures that let eligible wholesale clients take leveraged positions on the implied valuations of private tech firms including OpenAI and Anthropic. The product expands derivative access in Australia but raises regulatory and market integrity questions for local policymakers and institutions.
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.
Tasmania Police say scammers steered victims to cryptocurrency ATMs, extracting more than AU$1.5 million in three months. The surge, concentrated among older victims, highlights gaps in ATM oversight and the limits of recent AUSTRAC safeguards.
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.
Bitcoin surged above $85,000 for the first time in roughly eight months as a wave of forced liquidations erased about $648 million in bearish crypto positions and accelerated the market's latest rebound.
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.
Europe's MiCA framework has moved beyond its transitional phase, putting crypto exchanges and other service providers under a harmonised licensing regime while EU authorities review whether the landmark rules need to evolve with the market.
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.