Important News from Last Night and This Morning (October 19–October 20)
2026/10/20 18:10:02
ESMA adds 9 crypto-asset service providers, bringing the total to 375. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has added nine crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) to its registration list under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), including BingX's Austrian entity MEGE zweite, YouHodler's Italian subsidiary, and Santander's Openbank Deutschland, bringing the total number of registered CASPs to 375. Shenzhen Economic Crime Investigation: Beware of "RWA real estate tokenization" and "blockchain evidence storage" scams. The Economic Crime Investigation Bureau of the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a reminder to be wary of new scams packaged as "RWA real estate tokenization" and "blockchain evidence storage." The bureau pointed out that technical terminology ≠ trust endorsement. Technical practitioners tend to mistake "technically verifiable" for