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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has created a five-year regulatory pathway for limited onchain trading of tokenized U.S. equities, marking one of the clearest attempts yet to bring blockchain-native market structure into the National Market System. On September 17, 2026, the SEC issued its “Innovation Exemption,” granting temporary and conditional relief to qualifying Tokenized Securities Venues, or TSVs, that use permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools to facilitate tokenized stock trading. The relief also covers certain liquidity providers that would otherwise potentially fall within the Exchange Act definition of a dealer

Altcoins are rallying, but the Altcoin Season Index and Bitcoin dominance show that a full altseason has not been confirmed yet.

Strategy bought 950 Bitcoin for $75.7 million after a two-week pause. Its funding choice reveals more than the purchase size alone.

GSTOCK gained about 60% in 24 hours as traders embraced its stock meme narrative. Here is what the token represents and what could move it next.

Bitcoin has crossed $85,000 while Ethereum trades above $2,700. Here is how ETF inflows, easing yields and short liquidations fueled the rally.

Is POLY the official Polymarket token? Here is what is confirmed, what remains speculation and why traders must distinguish several similar assets.

Solana is preparing for the next stage of its latency-reduction roadmap, targeting a move from the current 300-millisecond slot time toward 250 milliseconds under SIMD-0525. The change would reduce Solana slot time by approximately 16.7%, continuing a staged path that began at 400ms and is ultimately designed to reach 200ms.

The U.S. derivatives market may be approaching an important structural shift as Kalshi and Coinbase Derivatives both move to introduce perpetual futures linked to individual U.S. stocks. The proposals matter because perpetual futures are no longer being treated only as a crypto-native trading product. Instead, two major U.S. platforms are attempting to adapt the format to equities such as Apple, Nvidia and Tesla, potentially bringing continuous leveraged stock-price exposure into a regulated domestic market.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission introduced a five-year Innovation Exemption on September 17, 2026, creating a temporary regulatory pathway for certain tokenized U.S. stocks to trade onchain. Under the framework, qualifying Tokenized Securities Venues can facilitate trading in tokenized National Market System stocks through permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools without being treated as registered exchanges under the usual definition, provided they comply with a detailed set of conditions. Liquidity providers participating in those pools can also receive limited conditional relief from the statutory definition of a dealer

Zcash holders have overwhelmingly voted to preserve the network’s Bitcoin-style halving schedule as part of the upcoming NU7 upgrade. Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated in the privacy-preserving vote, representing roughly two-thirds of the approximately 3.6 million ZEC eligible at the snapshot. Of the participating ZEC, 98.9% supported keeping scheduled halvings rather than replacing them with a smoother issuance model, while 99.9% backed reducing block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds