Dr. Kardee Backs Digital Asset Law Reform to Unlock 3 Major Challenges and Build RWA Market and Stablecoin Issuance

Summary of top crypto news for September 25, 2026: the key stories are that Bitget was hacked and the US Federal Reserve proposed regulatory rules for stablecoins, while the broader crypto market weakened. Bitcoin reversed course and fell to around 84,300 dollars after the 10-year US Treasury yield surged to a new high, prompting investors to increase their bets that the Fed will raise interest rates in October. As a result, the total crypto market capitalization fell 2.73%. Investors are also watching US jobless claims figures as the next factor.

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have announced a collaboration on a Know-Your-Agent interoperability framework designed to streamline agent onboarding and identification across card networks, digital wallet ecosystems and agent platforms. The framework relies on shared principles while allowing each network to maintain its own verification and decisioning processes, a step the article calls critical as AI agents and automated payment workflows expand. For Mastercard and Visa, the partnership is meant to reinforce network scale and transaction growth by embedding their infrastructure into emerging AI agent ecosystems and cross-border digital wallets, while also creating a tailwind for their value-added services such as identity verification, cyber risk management, fraud decisioning and security tools. The article cautions that integrating the framework carries execution and margin challenges, requiring sustained technology and integration spending at a time when operating expenses and client incentive pressures are already elevated, with rising rebates and promotional spend potentially compressing net take rates. It adds that both companies face revenue growth deceleration relative to historical double-digit rates, alongside moderately higher leverage and cash flow moderation, leaving near-term benefits conditional on managing implementation costs without sacrificing profitability.