September 8, 2026 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cronos, the Layer 1 network associated with Crypto.com, has released its official accounting of the August 30 attack on Tectonic. The review confirms that more than $9 million extracted during the incident remains outside the chain’s reach. Validators later rolled the ledger back and reversed… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wall Street research firm Bernstein has restated a constructive view on Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD), arguing that the brokerage’s proprietary blockchain is already contributing meaningful profit rather than remaining a speculative experiment. Analysts led by Gautam Chhugani kept an Outperform rating and a $160 price objective. That… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Saudi Arabia based payments group PayTabs has struck an agreement to take over Amazon Payment Services’ operations across the MENA region, in a transaction both sides have already approved and valued at more than $100 million. The move would fold Amazon’s regiplatform onal merchant-acquiring and processing… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum’s core protocol teams have begun shaping the next major network upgrade, Hegotá, while setting a firm long-range goal: a Layer 1 that can withstand quantum computers by the end of 2029. The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster published its first unified assessment of the work… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin has had a good few weeks. In mid-August, BTC experienced a bounce after a couple of sleep months stuck in the doldrums. Coinshares Senior Portfolio Manager Marc des Ligneris see renewed investor interest as partially driven by the US Department of the Treasury’s bond… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS (SGX: D05) and Citi (NYSE: C) have shown that commercial banks can move US dollars across the Pacific on a Saturday, without waiting for Monday morning clearing windows. On 5 September 2026, the two institutions completed a live dollar transfer between DBS in Singapore… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 1:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Metaplanet’s (TYO: 3350) stock weakened again after Chief Executive Simon Gerovich tried to answer shareholder criticism in a public note and left the market unconvinced. The Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company dropped nearly 10 percent on Tuesday to 244 yen, after a 7.5 percent decline on… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 12:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom’s financial industry is entering a more demanding stage of market digitalization. Proof-of-concept work has already shown that distributed ledger technology can represent bonds, funds and other assets as tokens. The harder question now is whether Britain will help set the operating standards… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sweden’s tax authority has intensified its scrutiny of cryptocurrency mining operations, issuing substantial additional tax assessments against several firms based in the northern town of Boden. Skatteverket has determined that six companies must pay nearly 540 million kronor—roughly 56 million dollars—in back taxes after concluding… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A large share of cryptocurrency-related profits generated in France appears to have gone undeclared, according to new on-chain analysis from blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis. The company’s Crypto Tax Report estimates that French residents generated about $9.4 billion in potentially taxable crypto activity during 2025. That… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European wealth technology startups faced a steeper funding winter in the second quarter of 2026. Capital flowing into the sector contracted sharply from the $343.2 million raised in the opening three months of the year to $185.5 million between April and June, according to data… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission under the leadership of Chairman Paul Atkins has made leaps and bounds in updating securities rules to accommodate innovation. He has also expressed his intent on making access to capital easier as well as providing greater access to  private securities… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) is positioning itself for a coming shift in how people and companies buy and sell online. According to the payments network, autonomous software agents will play a growing role in digital commerce, moving from helpful assistants to systems that can search, compare, decide… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly rejected a high-profile forecast that artificial intelligence will trigger a sharp collapse in Bitcoin. In a September 7 exchange on X, he said he stands on the opposite side of a claim that AI will erode confidence in Bitcoin’s… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Washington State regulators have moved to sanction a major cryptocurrency kiosk operator, arguing that gaps in its compliance systems left consumers—especially older residents—exposed to fraud and unfair charges. On September 3, 2026, the Washington Department of Financial Institutions announced a Statement of Charges against GPD… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors have secured a guilty plea from a Mexican citizen accused of helping move millions of dollars in narcotics profits out of the United States through digital assets. Carlos Erick Vazquez Gonzalez, 48, admitted on September 4, 2026, to taking part in a money-laundering… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 5:17 am By Michael Wong  |  

Saudi Arabia’s Al Qadsiah Club has signed a memorandum of understanding with cybersecurity provider LogRhythm | Exabeam to explore the use of cloud-based security and AI  tools to protect the sports club’s growing digital operations. The agreement, signed on the sidelines of technology conference LEAP… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The operator behind the so-called Wave 3 cluster of Coldcard hardware-wallet thefts has begun systematically cashing out stolen bitcoin after weeks of inactivity, according to a Monday update from Galaxy Research. Galaxy’s on-chain team says the actor created 293 separate 2-of-2 multisignature vaults, one for… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 1:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US listed spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have now drawn about $1.68 billion in cumulative net subscriptions since they began trading last November, according to the latest industry tallies. The figure underscores a durable, if uneven, institutional bid for regulated exposure to the token even as… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 12:40 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

FTV leads TabaPay’s $155M round This financing includes both primary capital for the company and a secondary transaction. Alongside the transaction, TabaPay also announced its intent to acquire Transact Bank, N.A., an OCC-chartered and FDIC-insured bank based in Denver, Colorado. Through a single API, TabaPay… Read More