August 28, 2026 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Moonwell, a lending protocol on Base, said on August 27, 2026 that it was looking into a problem in its MAMO Core Market and had taken emergency steps to stop new loans. In its official statement, the team said borrow caps for every Core Market… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm Holdings (NASDAQ: AFRM) closed fiscal 2026 with another quarter of rapid scale and a sharp jump in reported profit, then pointed investors toward continued growth in the year ahead. The buy-now-pay-later company, which reports results after the US market close on August 27, 2026,… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) has broadened its open-source AI cybersecurity framework, moving the tool from finding weaknesses to proposing and checking fixes in a single governed workflow. The payment network said the latest Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH) is meant to shrink the gap between spotting… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 6:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Identity verification company Socure has taken another step toward becoming a broader trust platform for the digital economy, announcing a strategic growth round that values the firm at $5.2 billion and completing a deal to buy Fravity, an agentic software company focused on automating fraud,… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 5:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swift has agreed to give the financial industry more time to complete a key part of the ISO 20022 payments upgrade: the shift from free-text postal addresses to structured ones. The decision follows formal requests from several market communities that said they could not meet… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global digital asset investment platform RockawayX has acquired Relayer Capital, a crypto-focused hedge fund, in a move that expands its suite of investment strategies and strengthens its footprint in the United States. The deal, announced on August 25, 2026, transforms Relayer into the newly branded… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Department of the Treasury has created a new public-private group to help banks, payment systems, market operators, and technology vendors prepare for a future in which quantum computers could undermine today’s encryption. Announced on August 24, 2026, the Quantum-Readiness Task Force follows President… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 9:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Super Crowd has announced the launch of PurposeBuilt100, a list of promising, fast-growing firms that are described as combining growth with impact. The list was revealed on the final day of the SuperCrowd26 event, a three-day virtual gathering focused on access to capital, community,… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 7:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

BitGo Holdings (NYSE: BTGO) has announced that it entered into a definitive agreement and completed the acquisition of NYDIG’s institutional trading business and other assets. The deal terms were not immediately available. Shares of BitGo were little changed on the news. BitGo offers custody, wallets,… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 5:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) moved higher today by almost 5%, propelled by two distinct catalysts. First, Coinbase revealed it is partnering with Better Mortgage to issue conforming products backed by digital assets. Coinbase actually revealed its intent for the mortgage sector and its partnership with Better this… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 5:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Multiplier, an artificial intelligence firm focused on tools for investment professionals, has closed a $6 million seed round to advance its specialized platforms for asset management companies. The financing was led by Lux Capital, with additional backing from Y Combinator along with GoAhead Ventures, Rebel… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vanguard has agreed to buy Altruist, an artificial-intelligence-focused wealth technology and custody firm that serves independent financial advisors. The companies announced a definitive agreement on August 26, 2026, framing the deal as a way to widen access to advice and strengthen the tools advisors use… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s current transaction signatures rely on elliptic-curve cryptography. A powerful enough quantum computer could, in principle, derive a private key from a public key that has already appeared on the blockchain and then spend the associated coins. No one can say with certainty when such… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payouts.com and the Casper Association have joined forces to give autonomous AI systems a practical way to pay for digital goods and services. The collaboration, announced in late August 2026, positions Casper Network as a settlement layer for Payouts.com’s AgentWallet and Digital Employees products. Together… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 1:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ground says it is joining two digital asset industry advocacy groups: the Blockchain Association and CCI’s Vault Coalition. The Vault Coalition was launched on June 5, 2026, by the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI). Its goal is to clarify U.S. rules for onchain vaults—smart-contract products that pool… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Firms using Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) raised $23.1 million in the month of July 2026. This is a month-over-month decline of -19.3% from June 2026, which totaled $28.6 million, and a year-over-year decline of -33.5% from July 2025 at $34.8 million. More optimistically, there were… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 11:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Former executives from Danish digital bank Lunar have closed a sizable early funding round to launch Repodo, an authorized audit firm designed around artificial intelligence rather than traditional, labor-intensive workflows. The Copenhagen-based company raised €8.2 million in pre-seed capital, a figure that stands out in… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 10:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong addressed the proposed confiscation tax in California, calling it “deeply un-American” and saying he is considering leaving the state. The comments were made during the Katie Miller Podcast, where Armstrong addressed a litany of issues surrounding crypto and the policies that impact… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

StarkWare has reported that a Bitcoin transfer designed to withstand a future quantum-computer attack has been confirmed on the live network. The company said the spend used Avihu Levy’s Quantum-Safe Bitcoin construction, which was first described in a research paper in April 2026 and has… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) reported solid earnings last night, beating on the top and bottom lines. While shares briefly dipped on the news, rationality soon kicked in, and investors saw the actual story: that Nvidia continues to lead the world in AI development and is executing on… Read More