Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026
What the fintech newsletters in this directory covered on Crypto & Web3 that week — drawn from 21 posts across 8 newsletters, and nothing else.
Stablecoin regulation and institutional adoption were recurring themes last week. American Banker Fintech covered the OCC stablecoin rule, noting that the licensing process is key to yield, and separately argued that stablecoins need more than yield, pointing to ubiquity as a requirement. Banking Dive Newsletter reported that the OCC issued its final rule on a stablecoin framework. Payments Wrap Up covered JPMorgan bringing its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum for institutional clients, SoFi targeting idle crypto cash with an interest-bearing tokenized deposit, and Binance.US seeking $100 million to expand its crypto business. Stack and Story covered Mastercard building a stablecoin gatekeeper, as well as ETH ETFs posting their worst outflow month on record. Fintech Futures reported that stablecoins and ID verification dominated the opening day of Money20/20 USA 2026.
Bankless published the largest volume of coverage, spanning infrastructure, security, and privacy topics. On infrastructure, it covered DefiLlama's data markets, an Ethereum researcher-drafted consensus overhaul aimed at faster finality, Aerodrome and Velodrome going live as Aero across seven chains, Pump.fun replacing Relay with an in-house Pump Bridge, and Kinetiq's Elysium L2 setting a November 9th mainnet launch. On security and quantum resistance, Bankless covered a Bitcoin quantum to-do list and Coinbase's plan for a quantum-safe Bitcoin. It also reported that Zcash Sprout holders have two weeks to move their ZEC, that Privacy Pools v2 went live with a bigger feature suite, and that OpenSea Mobile dropped its waitlist.
Policy and market structure also appeared in the coverage. Andrew's Angles addressed what comes next for crypto infrastructure lawmaking following the Clarity Act's failure. The Fintech Blueprint covered DeFi, specifically Papertrade, an exchange funded by losing.
Taken together, the newsletters' coverage last week spanned regulatory developments (OCC stablecoin rule, Clarity Act fallout), institutional and corporate crypto initiatives (JPMorgan, SoFi, Mastercard, Binance.US), and Bankless's broader focus on protocol-level infrastructure, quantum security, and privacy tools within the crypto ecosystem.
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