South Korea's central bank plans live CBDC transactions with nine banks in September, moving its digital won pilot from lab testing to real settlement.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bank-of-korea-cbdc-live-transactions-nine-banks-september-2026/

Polymarket puts a 93.5% probability on the Fed holding rates at its July 29 meeting. Here is how crypto traders are positioned as BTC sits at $63,873.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/polymarket-93-percent-fed-rate-hold-july-29-2026/

Cardano's Van Rossem hard fork went live July 20, cutting smart contract execution costs and setting up the Ouroboros Leios throughput upgrade due late 2026.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/cardano-van-rossem-hard-fork-leios-scaling-july-2026/

Hyperliquid's HIP-4 vote lets anyone deploy custom outcome markets by staking 500,000 HYPE, moving prediction-style markets into a permissionless model on-chain.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/hyperliquid-hip-4-permissionless-outcome-markets-500k-hype-july-2026/

Cointelegraph says the CLARITY Act market structure bill hinges on Trump's conflicts of interest, and the odds of a clean passage aren't looking great.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/clarity-act-trump-ethics-crypto-market-structure-july-2026/

Allbridge Core halted its cross-chain bridge after a $1.65M flash loan attack manipulated its stablecoin swap pricing. Here is what happened and why bridges keep failing this way.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/allbridge-core-165m-flash-loan-exploit-bridge-pause-july-2026/

A Japanese logistics company plans to pay thousands of transportation contractors in JPYC, the regulated yen stablecoin, in one of Asia's first high-volume payroll rollouts.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/japan-logistics-jpyc-stablecoin-driver-payroll-july-2026/

A UK offence effective July 17, 2026 ties delayed wallet identification to criminal liability of up to 14 years, forcing crypto firms to rebuild custody records.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uk-wallet-identification-14-year-criminal-penalty-crypto-firms-july-2026/

Japan recognizes crypto as a financial product, South Korea plans tokenized treasuries, and Russia opens USDT and USDC trading to qualified investors.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/asia-crypto-regulation-japan-korea-russia-wave-july-2026/

Roughly 2,000 institutional investors disclosed Bitcoin exposure in their Q1 2026 SEC filings, a fresh sign of how far ownership has spread beyond retail.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/institutions-2000-bitcoin-holdings-sec-filings-q1-2026-july-2026/