The SEC accelerated approval of Nasdaq Texas Rule 5711(d) under Order 34-106268, defining digital commodity and citing Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, and XRP as meeting eligibility. Funds may hold up to 15% NAV in non-qualifying assets. This is an exchange listing standard, not new federal commodity law.
Harmony has proposed sunsetting its Layer-1 mainnet launched in 2019 and migrating ONE to Ethereum via a final-block snapshot and ERC-20 airdrop. Multisigs, LPs, and on-chain apps will not migrate — users must exit before Sept 10. The proposal is non-binding and follows the Aug 11 cross-shard exploit.
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis said that if the CLARITY Act does not pass during the current Congress, the next real opportunity for market structure legislation may not come until 2030. She said finishing the bill now could avoid years of lost jobs, investment, and tax revenue.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas released an exposure draft proposing a 12-month freeze on new Operator of Payment System registrations while it reviews taxonomy and licensing. Banks would deal only with licensed VASPs, and a National QR Code Merchant Database is planned. Rules would take effect 15 days after publication if approved.
Takaichi adviser Takuji Aida said the BoJ is likely to hike in September and keep a quarterly pace until January next year, then roughly every six months, Reuters stamps. Markets have nearly fully priced +25bp to 1.25% for the Sept 17–18 meeting.
Euro-area GDP rose 0.6% q/q in Q2 2026, revising up the 0.4% flash, Eurostat said. Employment rose 0.1% to 176.4 million; Ireland led at +10.2%, with net exports +0.9 pp and inventories −0.5 pp.
Eurozone Sentix Investor Confidence improved significantly to 5.1 in September from 0.9 in August. Actual 5.1 versus forecast 2.1 and previous 0.9; sentiment turned positive in August after five negative months.
EUR/USD hovered just above 1.1610 at the European open Monday despite Germany’s July industrial production falling 1.1%. Destatis forecast +0.1% and a separate consensus at 0.3% are both quoted.
EUR/GBP loses ground to around 0.8585 in early European trade after Destatis July industrial production fell 1.1% m/m. Consensus +0.3% and Destatis-side forecast +0.1% are both quoted; they are not averaged.
Japan’s foreign-securities holdings fell $87.8 billion at end-August, close to the scale of a record ¥15.4 trillion ($98.6 billion) yen-support intervention through Aug. 26, Bloomberg stamps via Japan Times. Treasuries sales are framed as likely — MoF does not break that down.
USD/JPY holds near 155.85, virtually flat, as BoJ tightening expectations offset the dollar bid after August NFP printed +162K vs 56K.
The Indian rupee strengthens versus the dollar on Friday, with USD/INR near 94.49 after a prior-day two-month high at 94.29. SocGen stamps RBI FX mobilisation at $136.38 billion. NFP PRE only — three consensus stamps quoted separately.