Daily Summary2026-09-05

South Korea plans to tokenise all types of securities in three stages beginning in 2027, with stablecoin-based settlement forming part of the framework, per The Block. No asset-class sequencing or issuance detail was confirmed in available reporting, and the announcing regulator should be read from the primary text. The plan is the third Korean piece in a fortnight, following Shinhan and Visa's won-stablecoin settlement pilot and Mirae Asset's entry as a tokenisation issuer with a stated $109 billion target.

The IMF stated that El Salvador's Bitcoin holdings grew by roughly 1,540 coins without the government spending public funds, attributing the growth to private donations, per Decrypt and other coverage of the Fund's documentation. No donors or amounts were identified. The disclosure revises the sovereign-accumulation narrative around President Bukele's stated one-Bitcoin-a-day policy, which had been framed as defiance of the IMF loan programme's no-accumulation condition.

The OCC granted preliminary national bank charter approval to OpenReserve, an a16z-backed firm described as a blockchain-native bank built on on-chain settlement rails, and separately issued Revolut conditional approval covering US stablecoin distribution, per The Block and Cointelegraph. Both are permissions to proceed rather than operating charters. The approvals land days after Revolut completed its MiCA-driven USDT removal in Europe and launched its own euro stablecoin.

Polymarket launched perpetual futures with up to 20x leverage, per Decrypt and other coverage, with reporting also citing an expansion into oil perpetuals in the same launch window. The launch lands days after Kalshi introduced regulated US perpetual futures — two prediction-market platforms entering the perps business in one week, one from the regulated side, one on-chain, while Hyperliquid's US entry remains at the talks stage.