Calendar
Dates ahead for private DeFi and privacy coins: deadlines in new laws and rules, meetings of the FATF, court dates and network upgrades. Each entry says how firm its date is and links its sources; dates that have passed stay listed below.
- 18 dates ahead
- 6 in the next 30 days
- 7 past events
Coming up
All 18 dates ahead, soonest first, by month. Each entry shows what kind of date it is, how firm the date is and where it applies; regulation entries link to that jurisdiction's rules on the Access and rules page.
October 2026 3 dates
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in 2 days
Protocol Targeted
Zcash NU7 mainnet activation decision and height due
Zcash engineering organisations plan to decide on 20 October 2026 whether NU7 activates on mainnet and to set its activation height, after a testnet activation planned for 6 October at block 4,465,026. ZIP 259 still lists the mainnet height as to be set on that date.
Sources: NU7 Timeline ; ZIP 259: Deployment of the NU7 Network Upgrade . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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to 30 Oct in 8 days
Standards Fixed Global
FATF plenary and working group meetings in Paris
The FATF holds plenary and working group meetings in Paris from 26 to 30 October 2026, its first plenary since the UK presidency began on 1 July 2026. At the previous plenary, in June 2026, members approved a seventh targeted update on implementation of the FATF Standards on virtual assets and virtual asset service providers, and a new report on the regulatory challenges of decentralised finance.
Sources: Event Calendar ; Outcomes FATF Plenary, 17-19 June 2026 . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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in 12 days
Regulation Fixed Brazil
Brazil's deadline for existing virtual asset firms to apply for central bank authorisation
Article 88 of Resolução BCB nº 520, in force since 2 February 2026, gives firms already providing virtual asset services 270 days from that date to apply for authorisation, which runs to 30 October 2026 when the first day is not counted (the date the original Article 91 also used), and firms that do not apply in time must stop within 30 days; Resolução BCB nº 589 of 23 September 2026 did not change this deadline. The same resolution requires listing policies to bar assets whose features favour fraud or crime, such as assets designed to favour money laundering or terrorist financing by facilitating anonymity (Article 64), and bars providers from using mechanisms that hinder the detection of crimes, such as mixers that hide the authors or beneficiaries of transactions (Article 90).
Sources: Resolução BCB nº 520, de 10 de novembro de 2025 ; Resolução BCB nº 589, de 23 de setembro de 2026 . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in Brazil on the Access and rules page
November 2026 3 dates
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in 17 days
Regulation Fixed Kenya
Kenya's one-year compliance deadline for virtual asset service providers
Section 47 of the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, 2025, which commenced on 4 November 2025, gives anyone already providing virtual asset services one year from commencement to comply with the Act, and the Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations, 2026, in force since 22 July 2026, set no separate transition date. Section 21(1)(a) of the Act says a virtual asset service provider shall not undertake mixer or tumbler services or anonymity-enhancing services.
Sources: Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, 2025 (Act No. 20 of 2025) ; The Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations, 2026 (Legal Notice 134 of 2026) . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in Kenya on the Access and rules page
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in 18 days
Protocol Targeted
Zcash NU7 network upgrade targeted to activate on mainnet
The timeline agreed across Zcash engineering organisations targets NU7 mainnet activation on 5 November 2026, subject to the 20 October decision, and no mainnet height had been set by 16 October. Changes listed in ZIP 259 include 25-second block spacing (ZIP 218), the end of version 4 transactions (ZIP 2003), a Network Sustainability Mechanism (ZIP 237) and the removal of 60% of transaction fees from circulation (ZIP 235).
Sources: NU7 Timeline ; ZIP 259: Deployment of the NU7 Network Upgrade . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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in 19 days
Regulation Fixed Brazil
Brazil bars regulated institutions from dealing with unauthorised virtual asset providers
From 6 November 2026, Article 91 of Resolução BCB nº 520 bars financial institutions, payment institutions and other institutions authorised by the central bank from carrying out or enabling virtual asset operations whose counterparties provide virtual asset services without authorisation to operate in Brazil, except as the resolution expressly allows, covering virtual asset trading, intermediation and custody, foreign exchange, and payment accounts and transactions used for those operations. Resolução BCB nº 589 moved the start of this bar from 30 October 2026, and the amended wording no longer refers to providers still in the authorisation process.
Sources: Resolução BCB nº 520, de 10 de novembro de 2025 ; Resolução BCB nº 589, de 23 de setembro de 2026 . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in Brazil on the Access and rules page
February 2027 2 dates
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to 26 Feb in 127 days
Standards Fixed Global
FATF plenary and working group meetings
The FATF has scheduled plenary and working group meetings for 22 to 26 February 2027; its calendar gives no location. At its plenaries the FATF amends its Standards, adopts mutual evaluation reports and updates its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, as it did in June 2026.
Sources: Event Calendar ; Outcomes FATF Plenary, 17-19 June 2026 . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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in 133 days
Regulation Fixed United Kingdom
FCA application window for the UK cryptoasset regime closes
The FCA's application window for firms seeking authorisation under the new UK cryptoasset regime opened on 30 September 2026 and closes on 28 February 2027, as set out in an FCA direction. The FCA expects to decide applications made in the window before the regime starts and says it will not speed up late applications.
Source: Cryptoassets: How the gateway will operate . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in the United Kingdom on the Access and rules page
April 2027 1 date
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in 190 days
Court Fixed United States
Retrial of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm due to begin (S.D.N.Y.)
Judge Katherine Polk Failla's order of 25 August 2026 adjourned to 26 April 2027 the retrial on the two counts on which the jury could not agree in August 2025, conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, with a final pretrial conference on 20 April 2027. Storm's motion for acquittal, argued on 9 April 2026, was still pending when his lawyers filed a further letter on venue on 9 October 2026, and on 10 September 2026 the court refused his request to dismiss those counts under the Speedy Trial Act.
Sources: Order adjourning the retrial, United States v. Storm, No. 23 Cr. 430 (KPF), ECF No. 300 ; Order on letter motions, United States v. Storm, No. 23 Cr. 430 (KPF), ECF No. 303 ; Defence letter on venue, United States v. Storm, No. 23 Cr. 430 (KPF), ECF No. 306 ; Memorandum in support of motion for judgment of acquittal, United States v. Storm, No. 23 Cr. 430 (KPF), ECF No. 230 . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
June 2027 2 dates
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to 25 Jun in 246 days
Standards Fixed Global
FATF plenary and working group meetings in Paris
The FATF has scheduled plenary and working group meetings in Paris for 21 to 25 June 2027, the last plenary of its July 2026 to June 2027 plenary year. The June 2026 plenary approved the FATF's seventh targeted update on implementation of its Standards on virtual assets and virtual asset service providers.
Sources: Event Calendar ; Outcomes FATF Plenary, 17-19 June 2026 . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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in 255 days
Regulation Expected European Union
Deadline for the European Commission's report on the application of MiCA
By 30 June 2027 the Commission must present a report on the application of MiCA to the European Parliament and the Council, after consulting EBA and ESMA, with a legislative proposal where appropriate (Article 140(1)). MiCA Article 76(3) currently requires trading platforms' rules to prevent the admission of crypto-assets with an inbuilt anonymisation function unless holders and their transaction history can be identified.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2023 on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA) . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in the European Union on the Access and rules page
July 2027 4 dates
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in 256 days
Regulation Expected European Union
Deadline for AMLA to start selecting firms for direct EU supervision
Article 13(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 requires the EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) to begin its first selection of firms for direct supervision by 1 July 2027 and to finish it within six months, with direct supervision starting six months after the list is published. Crypto-asset service providers operating in at least six Member States are among the firms assessed, and one inherent-risk benchmark is the relative volume of products, services and transactions that offer considerable protection of clients' privacy and identity or other forms of anonymity (Article 12).
Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2024 establishing the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in the European Union on the Access and rules page
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in 265 days
Regulation Fixed European Union
EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation applies, barring anonymous crypto accounts at regulated firms
From 10 July 2027, Article 79(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 prohibits credit institutions, financial institutions and crypto-asset service providers from keeping anonymous crypto-asset accounts or any account allowing the anonymisation or increased obfuscation of transactions, including through anonymity-enhancing coins (application date in Article 90). The prohibition binds those firms and does not address individuals holding coins in their own wallets.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2024 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in the European Union on the Access and rules page
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in 265 days
Regulation Expected European Union
Deadline for AMLA guidelines on self-hosted address transfers and suspicious activity indicators
By 10 July 2027, AMLA must issue guidelines on the measures crypto-asset service providers apply to transfers to or from self-hosted addresses, including how to identify the originator or beneficiary and how to check whether a customer owns or controls the address (Article 40(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624). By the same date it must issue guidelines on indicators of suspicious activity or behaviours (Article 69(5)).
Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2024 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in the European Union on the Access and rules page
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in 277 days
Regulation Expected Japan
Latest date for Japan's crypto-asset rules to move into the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
Act No. 64 of 2026, enacted on 15 July and promulgated on 23 July 2026, moves crypto-asset trading from the Payment Services Act into the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act on a date to be set by Cabinet Order within one year of promulgation, so by 22 July 2027 at the latest, the date e-Gov still listed on 16 October 2026; registered exchanges may carry on for six months after that, or up to two years while an application is pending (Supplementary Provisions, Articles 1 and 8). New Article 43-7 bars financial instruments business operators from dealing in crypto-assets that do not meet standards, to be set by Cabinet Office Order, needed to protect the public interest or investors.
Sources: Bills submitted to the Diet (国会提出法案等) ; Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (金融商品取引法): revision history, including Act No. 64 of 2026 (令和八年法律第六十四号) ; Financial Instruments and Exchange Act as amended by Act No. 64 of 2026, version for 22 July 2027, with supplementary provisions . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in Japan on the Access and rules page
September 2027 1 date
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in 347 days
Regulation Expected European Union
Deadline for the first DAC8 exchange of crypto-asset data between EU tax authorities
Under Council Directive (EU) 2023/2226 (DAC8), which Member States apply from 1 January 2026, crypto-asset service providers report on user transactions from 2026 and Member States must exchange that information within nine months of the end of each calendar year (Article 8ad(6) of Directive 2011/16/EU as amended), so the first exchange, covering 2026, is due by 30 September 2027.
Source: Council Directive (EU) 2023/2226 of 17 October 2023 amending Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in the European Union on the Access and rules page
October 2027 2 dates
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to 22 Oct in 365 days
Standards Fixed Global
FATF plenary and working group meetings in Paris
The FATF has scheduled plenary and working group meetings in Paris for 18 to 22 October 2027, the first plenary of its July 2027 to June 2028 plenary year, during the UK presidency that runs to 30 June 2028.
Sources: Event Calendar ; Outcomes FATF Plenary, 17-19 June 2026 . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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in 372 days
Regulation Fixed United Kingdom
UK cryptoasset regime comes into force
Regulation 1(2) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/102) sets 25 October 2027 as the full commencement day of the regime bringing cryptoasset firms under FCA authorisation, and the FCA published its final rules on 30 June 2026. Firms that applied in the window and are still awaiting a decision can carry on under a saving provision, while a separate transitional provision lets firms that applied late, withdrew or were refused wind down their UK business over at most two years; it does not cover firms that never applied.
Sources: The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2026 (SI 2026/102), regulation 1 ; New regime for cryptoasset regulation ; Cryptoassets: How the gateway will operate ; Cryptoassets: The transitional provision . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
Rules in the United Kingdom on the Access and rules page
Past events
Dates that have passed, newest first. An entry is not rewritten when its date passes, so one marked Expected or Targeted may have happened on another day: check its sources.
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Incident Reported
About $1.83 million in USDC leaves Payy's Ethereum rollup contract
A transaction calling verifyRollup moved 1,832,149 USDC out of Payy Network's Ethereum rollup contract at 04:21 UTC on 24 September 2026, Blockscout records; The Crypto Times reported that an investigator said the rollup may have been drained and that Payy had not commented. Payy's GitHub advisory, published in June and recorded as CVE-2026-48100 on 28 September, describes a circuit flaw, fixed in version 1.3.0, that let a registered prover forge burn messages; neither source links the flaw to the transfer.
Sources: $1.83 Million in USDC Leaves Payy Network’s Ethereum Rollup Contract ; Transaction 0xf43abdac5422087f645d77923eb1c825178bff3eb86d17d40fa18d89701e1814 (verifyRollup, block 26044909, 2026-09-24 04:21:23 UTC), USDC transfers out of 0x367c1eaF14AA06b78ce76bd0243297de79d85270 ; agg_agg trailing message slots are unconstrained and allow forged burn messages (GHSA-fhxc-63vg-9gwr) ; CVE-2026-48100: Payy: agg_agg trailing message slots are unconstrained and allow forged burn messages . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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Market United States
Grayscale's Zcash ETF begins trading on NYSE Arca
Grayscale's Zcash Trust, renamed The Zcash ETF on 24 August 2026 and previously quoted on OTCQX, began trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH, according to Grayscale's announcement; the fund's prospectus filed with the SEC on 25 August says its shares were approved for listing there.
Sources: The Zcash ETF (Ticker: ZCSH), Built By Grayscale, Begins Trading on NYSE Arca, Expanding Investor Access to the Leading Privacy-Focused Digital Currency ; The Zcash ETF (formerly Grayscale Zcash Trust (ZEC)), prospectus filed under Rule 424(b)(3) . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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Incident
Aztec discloses a critical Alpha V5 proving-system flaw
Aztec said contributors had found a critical vulnerability in the Alpha V5 proving system that put V5 funds, applications and contract state at risk, with the fix planned for V6.
Source: Alpha V5 Proving System Vulnerability . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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Protocol
Zcash Ironwood upgrade activates at block 3,428,143
Ironwood (NU6.3), built so that every user can verify the soundness of Zcash's circulating supply after the Orchard flaw, was scheduled for block 3,428,143; Blockchair's record shows that block was mined at 14:07 UTC on 28 July 2026 with its coinbase transaction in a new format under a new consensus branch ID. The upgrade seals the Orchard pool, so funds can leave it only through the turnstile, which caps withdrawals at verified deposits.
Sources: Ironwood ; Zcash block 3428143 (mined 2026-07-28 14:07:23 UTC) ; Zcash block 3428143, raw block (coinbase transaction version 6, consensus branch ID 0x37a5165b; block 3428142 used version 5 and 0x5437f330) ; Zcash seals $1.7 billion shielded pool as Ironwood upgrade activates . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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Protocol
Aztec Alpha V5 launches privacy-preserving apps
Aztec said Alpha V5 more than halves private-transaction proving times, cuts average block production time from 14 to 6 seconds and launches the first wave of privacy-preserving apps.
Source: Introducing Alpha V5 . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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Incident
Zcash emergency upgrade fixes an Orchard counterfeiting flaw
After researcher Taylor Hornby found a soundness flaw in the Orchard circuit on 29 May, which Shielded Labs said could have been used to create unlimited, undetectable counterfeit ZEC within Orchard, an emergency soft fork disabled Orchard transactions from block 3,363,426 on 2 June and the NU6.2 hard fork re-enabled them with a corrected circuit on 3 June; Zodl and the Zcash Foundation said there was no evidence of exploitation, while Shielded Labs said this cannot be proved cryptographically.
Sources: Zebra 4.5.3 and 5.0.0: Emergency Soft Fork and NU6.2 Activation ; Orchard Vulnerability Successfully Remediated ; The Orchard Counterfeiting Vulnerability and Next Steps . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
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Sanctions United States
US Treasury removes Tornado Cash from the sanctions list
Treasury removed the economic sanctions on Tornado Cash, citing the administration's review of the novel legal and policy issues raised by using financial sanctions against activity in evolving technology and legal environments.
Source: Tornado Cash Delisting . Checked on 16 Oct 2026.
How dates are marked
How firm each date is
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- Set by a law or rule, a court order or the organiser's own calendar.
- Expected
- A deadline or latest date that a law sets. The step itself can come sooner, and deadlines are sometimes missed.
- Targeted
- A date that a project or organisation has said it is aiming for. It can move.
Types of date
- Regulation
- Laws and rules: when they apply, and the deadlines they set for firms, regulators and governments.
- Standards
- Meetings and decisions of international standard-setters, such as the FATF.
- Court
- Trials, hearings and rulings.
- Sanctions
- Sanctions imposed or lifted.
- Protocol
- Network upgrades, launches and decisions by the projects themselves.
- Market
- New markets and products, such as an exchange-traded fund.
- Incident
- Flaws, exploits and other security events.
Countdowns
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Where a date applies
Each entry names the jurisdiction it applies in, or Global for the FATF's international standards. Regulation entries link to that jurisdiction's rules on privacy coins and mixers on the Access and rules page.
Sources
Every entry links the documents it rests on. Primary sources come first: laws and official journals, regulators, courts, the FATF, block explorers and the projects' own announcements. Press reports add to them, and an entry marked Reported relies on press or other secondary reports for some of what it says. Each entry gives the day it was checked. The list was last reviewed for new dates on 16 Oct 2026.
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