Evening Wrap: SEC Grants Five-Year Exemption for Tokenized Equities Venues

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SEC Grants Five-Year Innovation Exemption for Tokenized Stock Venues

The regulator granted temporary exemptive relief allowing tokenized NMS stocks to trade on public ledgers via permissioned automated market makers .

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Ethereum Foundation Details 2029 Post-Quantum Cryptography Roadmap

Core developers plan to replace consensus-layer signatures with quantum-resistant cryptography by 2029 . The shift follows March 2026 estimates from Google regarding the vulnerability of elliptic curve security to…

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Strategy Directs 9.5 Percent of Q3 Share Proceeds to Bitcoin

According to SEC filings, Strategy allocated 9.5 percent of its $5.41 billion third-quarter equity raise to direct $BTC purchases . Bitcoin per 1,000 common shares fell 8.5 percent between July 24 and Sept. 27 .

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Regulators Finalize Financial Industry Bans Against Alex Mashinsky

A federal court approved a consent order granting the CFTC and New York regulators permanent trading and registration bans against the former Celsius CEO .

The numbers

Bitcoin ($BTC) trades at $83,526, up 0.7 percent over 24 hours, while ether ($ETH) reached $2,533 amid a total market capitalization of $2.78 trillion.

What to watch

• Publication of the SEC's tokenized stock venue order in the Federal Register, initiating the five-year exemption period.
• The inclusion of EIP-8141 in Ethereum's Hegotá upgrade during the second half of 2026 to introduce signature agility.
• Subsequent SEC Form 8-K filings detailing Strategy's weekly share sales and USD reserve levels.

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