Bastion Receives Preliminary OCC Approval for National Trust Bank Charter. The authorization covers custody, payments, and stablecoin issuance while the firm adds four new directors and advisors.

Solana reduces slot time to 250 milliseconds. This third update under SIMD-0525 maintains total capacity by scaling down compute limits for each individual slot.

WSJ: Lagarde Intervened to Stall Binance License in Greece. Binance declined to comment on reports that Christine Lagarde personally blocked its regulatory approval bid in Greece.