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Wallets where users hold their own private keys instead of an exchange or bank, letting them control crypto funds without a regulated intermediary.
Russia's central bank says its digital currency law bars transfers to non-custodial wallets and allows peer-to-peer crypto trades only until July 1, 2027. Licensed intermediaries, Sberbank among them, will handle everything after that.
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CoinShares will offer stablecoin yield strategies inside Safe wallets through Railnet vaults, with US persons excluded, an Oct. 14 release says. Its no-custody claim rests on a vault design the release describes only in outline.
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Santa Catarina's civil police moved $1.7 million in crypto out of a phishing ring's self-custody wallets, the largest such recovery by Brazilian police. Self-custody left no company to serve with a freeze order. That protection ended once a search found the keys.
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Telegram widened access to its non-custodial Money wallet as GRAM rose 9% to $1.56, crypto.news reported. The wallet appears only after a user receives a transfer, so its reach across a billion-user app depends on people who already hold GRAM.
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Tangem launched a physical Visa card for Tangem Pay in a first run of 5,000 and added 1% or 2% cashback paid in USDC. Monthly caps of $100 and $300, The Paypers reported, only bite at high spending, so for anyone paying outside dollars the FX fee decides what the reward is worth.
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Binance will block withdrawals and may hold or return deposits from Nov. 1 when Brazilian users skip a central-bank questionnaire on cross-border crypto. Resolution 521/2025 makes the exchange report those flows as foreign-exchange activity in a market Chainalysis put at $252.5 billion over twelve months.
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Staff Letter 26-25 lets a passive front end display derivatives, pass orders to registered markets and take a fee without broker registration, so long as it stays out of custody, routing and advice. The position lasts until the Commission acts.
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The existing entity keeps operating as MetaMask with Joe Lubin as chief executive, while the protocols business goes out as a newly formed company aimed at a tokenized market Citi sizes at 5.5 to 8.2 trillion dollars by 2030.
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The plan names five leadership positions, two of them Joe Lubin's, and leaves revenue, valuation, ownership percentages and listing intent for later, which is the part anyone pricing either half would need.
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The finalized Travel Rule takes effect on 27 February 2027. Its hardest duty is proving that the venue at the other end is properly authorized, since undocumented transfers will not move after that date.
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