The UK FCA finalized its crypto regulation framework covering stablecoins and exchanges, with applications opening September 30, 2026. Multiple blockchain projects launched stablecoin infrastructure: Circle's Arc mainnet went live with USDC as gas, Zebec enabled real-time payroll streaming, and Iris partnered with telecom operators like VIVA to issue stablecoins and provide wallet services.
Iris-mini and Iris-pro are open-weight search agents built on Qwen3.5/3.6 models, designed to autonomously decide when and what to search, how to process results, and when sufficient evidence has been gathered. The systems include context-management strategies like discard-all and retry to handle long-horizon searches, with performance evaluated across multiple benchmarks using a unified harness compatible with OpenAI endpoints.