Luxembourg plans to issue a blockchain-native sovereign bond worth at least €1 billion, bringing public debt onto new infrastructure while keeping it connected to established European markets.

A crypto payment can expose more than its amount. On a public blockchain, the wallet receiving it may be able to inspect the sender’s balance and follow earlier transfers.

China’s top leadership has called for a national blockchain network, placing the technology alongside data infrastructure, industrial digitization and computing capacity in its new economic plan.

Scott Bessent says the U.S. may seize $1 billion in Iran-linked crypto this week. Whether that happens depends less on a wallet’s balance than on who can move it.

Zcash developers are targeting January for tools that could protect transparent ZEC payments against future key-recovery attacks without making wallet activity easier to trace today.

XRP Ledger has disclosed a decade-old payment flaw that could create spendable XRP, detailing why operators received an emergency patch before the public report.

Telegram has started rolling out Money, a built-in Gram wallet for transfers and collectibles that separates in-chat payments from Walt’s wider crypto trading tools.

Mastercard is among the partners for an XRP Ledger hackathon in New York, where developers will spend 36 hours building AI-payment, lending and protocol tools ahead of Ripple’s Swell conference.

Sui’s Hashi is preparing a phased mainnet rollout later this month with more than $500 million in committed capital. Anchorage Digital has joined the launch coalition, adding custody-based and self-custody routes for institutions that want to use Bitcoin as collateral.

XRP Ledger has activated PermissionDelegationV1_1, allowing businesses to assign specific tasks to separate accounts. The change gives stablecoin issuers, fund administrators and payment firms a way to keep primary treasury credentials away from systems handling routine work.

Samsung will add USDC transfers to Wallet for eligible U.S. Galaxy users in the last week of October.

Wells Fargo is reportedly discussing a crypto-trading-liquidity arrangement with Payward, the parent company behind Kraken. The talks offer a view into how a large bank could reach digital-asset markets without operating an exchange or building every part of the trading system itself.