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● The week in review

Weekly Recap — 29 Sep–5 Oct 2026

This was a week where structural plumbing advanced quietly while louder events — a stalled bill, a record hack, macro turbulence — drew most of the attention. The CLARITY Act's failure defined the political mood, but the more durable story was institutional infrastructure deepening in several directions at once: Goldman connecting a flagship fund to crypto rails, Coinbase completing vertical integration, Lloyds and Visa settling in USDC. The Bitget hack, attributed to North Korea with over a billion dollars stolen in 2026 so far, was the sharpest reminder that the same week's progress in custody and settlement is not yet matched by security across the ecosystem.

  1. Chainalysis traces $387M Bitget theft to North Korea using AI-assisted on-chain analysis.North Korea's confirmed authorship raises systemic custody risk for every institutional counterparty.2 Oct
  2. Goldman Sachs connects its $100 billion Treasury fund to crypto settlement rails.Goldman linking a $100B Treasury fund to crypto rails is durable back-office adoption, not speculation.29 Sep
  3. CLARITY Act fails cloture, both SEC and CFTC respond with staff guidance.CLARITY Act failure leaves the US without statutory market structure, forcing regulators to act administratively.29 Sep
  4. Coinbase completes its full derivatives stack with CFTC DCO approval.Coinbase controlling exchange, clearing, and custody in one entity reshapes competitive dynamics for derivatives.29 Sep
  5. Lloyds and Visa settle $750K cross-border payment in USDC during live pilot.Two systemically important banks settling cross-border in USDC validates stablecoin as live payment rail.2 Oct
  6. SEC approves 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ether ETPs.SEC approving 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ether ETPs marks a significant shift in its product tolerance.3 Oct
  7. Uniswap logs $17.1 billion in tokenised stock DEX volume.Uniswap's $17B tokenised equity volume signals a new asset class taking real structural hold onchain.3 Oct
  8. Community banking lobby sues the OCC over its crypto trust charter programme.A legal challenge to OCC crypto trust charters could close one of the cleanest federal licensing pathways.3 Oct