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This Week in Blockchain - 16th Oct, 2026
1. Thailand's SEC finalized 11 notifications permitting Bitcoin & Ether ETFs on Stock Exchange of Thailand requiring passive funds with 80% net exposure to single assets and SEC-regulated custodians. [The Block: theblock.co/news/regulation/…]
4. Ledger confirmed investigating asset losses tied to hardware wallets sold through authorized reseller CryptoBilis after attackers drained $92.9M from 311 wallets in suspected supply-chain compromise affecting Southeast Asia customers. [Shattered: shattered.io/ledger-cryptobi…]
5. European Securities & Markets Authority stated opinion that crypto-asset service providers authorized under MiCA must stop providing EU clients services involving noncompliant asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens until authorized. [CryptoNews: cryptonews.net/news/legal/33…]
TOKEN2049 Singapore was all about what's working today.
Who's actually using the infrastructure? How is AI changing the way companies build and operate? Where is the revenue coming from?
@AhanRajgor and @niravbakshi1 spent the week in Singapore. Five shifts stood out.
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5. Tokenized assets are landing on more than one chain.
OKX and ICE filed to trade 63 tokenized NYSE stocks via permissioned Uniswap v4 pools on X Layer. Nasdaq’s pilot settles through DTC.
Venues are picking chains on cost, settlement and counterparties.
6. As always, great conversations with @theaadedewe , @NirupRam , @zane_suren and Maks Baranov.
Met Ahan or Nirav in Singapore, or building in stablecoin infra, agent payments or tokenization? We’d like to keep the conversation going.
Blockchain Founders Fund retweeted
PayPal looks underrated to me. And that's exactly the case I made to @alpGasimov on @TheStreet .
In the AI era, everyone has a model. What’s scarce is somewhere to deploy it. @PayPal reaches 439 million accounts, and that reach is the hardest thing in payments to replicate.
Add PYUSD as rails for agent commerce, and AI, stablecoins, and real payment volume all meet inside a network that already has the users. At about 10x earnings with $6B in free cash flow, the market is pricing the accounts, not what can flow through them.
Distribution was always the moat, AI just made it the whole game.
Full interview below.
thestreet.com/crypto/markets…
Founders are facing questions in first meetings that would have felt excessive two years ago. The numbers explain why.
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The money came back with conditions. Auditable revenue, regulatory licenses and a credible path to sustainable economics now open the door. A token narrative alone no longer does.
This Week in Blockchain - 9th October, 2026
1. FinCEN withdrew its 2023 crypto mixing proposal on Oct 5, citing concerns that broad definitions could chill legitimate privacy use, also withdrawing a 2020 self-hosted wallet reporting rule. [The Block: theblock.co/news/regulation/…]
4. Cross-border payments firm Conduit sued Tether on October 6, in the Southern District of New York, alleging the stablecoin issuer froze $2.76 million in USDT for over a year without explanation or legal authority. [The Block: theblock.co/news/regulation/…]
5. Crypto exchange operator OKX raised new funding at a $25 billion valuation on October 6, with Circle, Ripple, and Standard Chartered's SC Ventures participating in an extension of a March round led by NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange. [Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…]
