Server-rendered tracker page for custody regulation in Global. This page is built for Google and LLM crawlers: every event below links to a permanent policy-event URL with source data and APAC FINSTAB analysis.
Jurisdiction: Global. Regulator: Financial regulator. Topic: Custody. Latest event: August 25, 2026 — Base Tokenized Stocks Put B20 Equity Wrappers On Chain.
Use this page to compare rule changes, licensing signals, enforcement posture, and market-access implications for exchanges, stablecoin issuers, protocols, custodians and institutional teams operating across APAC.
Base said Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks are live under the B20 standard, with tokens representing shares held 1:1 by a regulated custodian for eligible non-U.S. users. The structure raises securities custody, redemption, transferability and DeFi-reuse questions for tokenized equity reviewers.
SafePal disclosed that an order-tracking plugin flaw exposed information for about 39,798 customers who placed orders between March 2025 and April 2026. The incident highlights wallet-sector compliance risk around third-party plugins, customer data minimization and breach-response controls.
WIRED reported that Kumio CTO Vangelis Stykas found evidence North Korea-linked hackers impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries, including hundreds of crypto-related targets with access to keys, cloud infrastructure and blockchain systems. The case ties cyber compromise directly to sanctions, AML and custody controls for crypto firms.
Bybit's latest proof-of-reserves disclosure showed key reserves above 100%, while the Discord policy feed flagged BTC and ETH user balances rising and USDT balances falling by roughly 600 million tokens from the prior snapshot. The shift makes asset mix, stablecoin liquidity and verification scope more important than headline reserve ratios alone.
Fiat24 said user and transaction growth had outpaced its risk, compliance and customer-support capacity, leading it to pause crypto deposits and new user registrations from July 14. The suspension shows how wallet, card and banking-account service providers can become operational compliance chokepoints for crypto distribution partners.
BNY Mellon is preparing 24/7 U.S. Treasury settlement infrastructure and plans tokenized Treasury pilots before the end of 2026. The move pushes tokenized securities and stablecoin-linked settlement from experiments toward regulated market infrastructure.
Coinbase Markets said LCX sends and receives will be disabled from July 27 to July 29, with remaining LCX converted one-for-one into the new token. The event is a direct exchange-operations control case for token migrations, user notices, old-contract delisting and unsupported-deposit recovery.
Drop Site News reported that Consensys unknowingly hired a DPRK-linked developer consultant who used the Tyler Knapp alias and worked on MetaMask-related code. The case turns developer onboarding, vendor screening, repository access and sanctions controls into a front-line wallet compliance issue.
Accountable terminated its verification service agreement with MainStreet Finance after saying the project failed to meet verification standards, while MSUSD reportedly fell sharply and related Morpho exposure became stressed. The event highlights reserve-attestation dependency, revocability and concentration risk for yield-bearing stablecoin structures.
Anchorage Digital Bank's USA stablecoin transparency page and latest reserve coverage show USA-backed supply expanding sharply through April while maintaining disclosed reserve backing. The report makes bank-issued stablecoin attestations a live comparison point for post-GENIUS Act stablecoin listing and custody reviews.
Socket Research reported a cross-ecosystem TrapDoor campaign across npm, PyPI and Crates.io packages targeting crypto, DeFi, AI and security developers. The attack raises compliance and listing-review risk because compromised developer secrets, wallets, CI/CD credentials and cloud keys can translate into project-control and custody failures.