Agora received preliminary conditional approval from the OCC
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Agora has received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a federally chartered and supervised national trust bank. The charter will bring Agora’s stablecoin, custody, and transaction infrastructure under direct federal supervision. Here’s what that means for how Agora builds and operates going forward.
Continue readingWalletConnect’s new State of Compliance and Regulation 2026 report is a clear side-by-side of how the major stablecoin frameworks compare and a few things stood out.
AgoraMost major markets are considering how stablecoins should be regulated, with several having a live regulatory framework, not a proposed one. The GENIUS Act is enacted, MiCA reached full enforcement on July 1st, Hong Kong issued its first licenses in April, and intermediary amendments to Japan’s Payment Services Act in effect since June and further reforms promulgated in July. WalletConnect’s new State of Compliance and Regulation 2026 report maps how these frameworks actually compare, where they converge, where they still diverge, and the open question of how DeFi protocols themselves get regulated, if at all. Our Head of Operations, Tanya Denisova, contributed her perspective on what that convergence means for issuers and institutional trust.
WalletConnectAugust at Agora: new SVP of Revenue, institutional credit going onchain, rewards on the Platform, Nick on stablecoins’ next chapter, and more.
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