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Meritz Securities has signed a strategic partnership with Ripple to explore bringing institutional digital asset custody and tokenization infrastructure into South Korea’s capital markets. Meritz Securities has partnered with Ripple to study how Ripple Custody and tokenization infrastructure could be used in South Korea’s capital markets. The companies will initially pursue cooperation within existing securities…

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor and analyst on CoinDesk’s Markets team. He has been covering crypto options and futures, as well as macro and cross-asset activity, since 2019, leveraging his prior experience in directional and non-directional derivative strategies at brokerage firms. His extensive background also encompasses the FX markets, having served as a fundamental…

US government linked wallets have transferred $103 million in Bitcoin and BNB, sending more than $71 million in BTC to Coinbase Prime as the transaction raises questions over whether the assets could be headed for a sale. US government linked wallets transferred 833.6 BTC and 40,285 BNB worth a combined $103 million The $71.56 million…

Cardano has put CIP-0113 live on mainnet after its 90-commit proposal was merged Sept. 29, giving issuers of regulated assets tools to add KYC checks, transfer limits and freeze or seizure rules to their tokens. Cardano’s CIP-0113 is live on mainnet, letting issuers add programmable rules to native token transfers. Issuers can require KYC, block…

Winklevoss Asset Services has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a spot Zcash ETF on Nasdaq under WINK, with a 0.25% annual fee and up to $100 million of nonbinding purchase interest from Winklevoss Capital. Winklevoss Asset Services filed for a Nasdaq Zcash ETF that would directly hold ZEC tokens. The…

In Ripple news, XRP holds near $1.50 before Evernorth’s XRPN Nasdaq debut, with $1.53 the breakout level traders are watching.

BitMine outperformed Ethereum in 2026, but its ETH treasury carried an estimated $3.6 billion unrealized loss as holdings neared 5% of supply.

On Friday, October 2, 2026, CoinDesk reported that a prominent U.S. community banking trade group sued the federal agency that issues national bank charters, challenging its approval of national trust bank status for cryptocurrency companies.

On Thursday, October 1, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a New York man admitted his part in a multistate scheme that defrauded elderly victims in the United States and Canada.

On Friday, October 2, 2026, the United States government filed a forfeiture complaint in the US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina seeking to claim roughly $119,306 worth of the USDC stablecoin that federal investigators say is proceeds of a cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme.