Policy Event Β· Medium impact

Ethereum Classic Core-Geth Incident Highlights Exchange Node Supply Chain Risk

An unreviewed ethereumclassic/core-geth v1.13.0 release was reportedly promoted through community channels before review by existing maintainers. For exchanges and custodians, client binary provenance, maintainer signatures, release hashes and rollback procedures become deposit-crediting controls rather than ordinary DevOps hygiene.

Medium impact🌐 GlobalAMLRegulationETCEthereum ClassicCore-Geth

APAC FINSTAB analysis

Although this is outside core APAC, it is relevant because global market-structure, enforcement, and stablecoin precedents often shape licensing expectations for APAC exchanges, issuers, custodians, and DeFi teams. Protocols/assets in scope: ETC. Named institutions or platforms: Ethereum Classic, Core-Geth. Teams should monitor the original source, map the change to licensing, custody, disclosure, and market-access obligations, and update their jurisdiction playbooks before the next compliance review.

Compliance read-through: map this event to entity licensing, market-access, custody, disclosure, token listing, and operational-risk obligations before expanding or marketing in the affected jurisdiction.

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FCA Consults On DeFi Guidance For Regulated Firms

The UK Financial Conduct Authority opened GC26/7 consultation on non-Handbook guidance for regulated firms using DeFi, covering operational resilience, financial-crime controls and Money Laundering Regulations obligations. The guidance would clarify how existing controls apply to DeFi dependencies such as smart contracts, bridges and oracle services.

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