France Scraps Harmful Reporting Rule, Pension Fund Buys MSTR, And Extra

This week’s crypto tales spanned enforcement, mining, regulation, adoption, and institutional flows. Chainalysis traced Iran-linked stablecoin routing behind a significant USDT freeze, whereas Riot continued its regular BTC gross sales to NYDIG. France dropped a proposed self-custody reporting rule, Binance argued crypto’s subsequent wave of customers will come by funds and utility, and Canada’s AIMCo disclosed a $219 million MSTR place as pension publicity to bitcoin-linked property retains increasing.