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Add to Google Preferred Sources The Blockchain Association has filed a comment letter supporting the SEC’s proposal to repeal two Regulation NMS trading rules adopted in 2005. The group argues Rule 611 and Rule 610(e) have failed to achieve their original objectives and have instead imposed substantial unnecessary costs on market participants over two decades.…

A new study of cross-border payments news coverage has revealed that blockchain technologies are most discussed in Hong Kong, where 70% of the reporting reviewed focused on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, or tokenization, while in the Asia region overall, 26% of articles discussed the technology.

Harmony Protocol suffered a major security breach on August 12, 2026, when an attacker exploited verification flaws to mint 2.385 trillion unauthorized ONE tokens. This caused the token price to plummet over 30%. In response, the developers decided to roll back the blockchain to its state on August 11 to undo the exploit. They also…

Harmony has moved from considering a rollback to publishing the exact checkpoints it plans to use after an attacker forged trillions of ONE tokens. The recovery decision will discard legitimate post-checkpoint activity as well as the malicious state, making it one of the most disruptive options available to a live blockchain.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was scheduled to formally initiate the development of a new crypto fundraising framework last Friday, but the meeting was abruptly canceled just three days after its announcement. Multiplefrom Wall Street industry organizations and the White House were significant factors behind this halt