CoinTelegraph reports on a proposed US accounting change for stablecoins, an FSB letter warning G20 officials about stablecoin oversight gaps and AI risks, and XRP Ledger developers defending a September emergency patch that bypassed the usual vote.

Developers said a normal two-week validator vote would have left the flaw exposed, marking the first deliberate bypass of the amendment process in more than ten years.
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