August 29, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV), the firm that has built its strategy around accumulating and compounding Solana, has introduced a public analytics platform meant to give investors and builders a clearer look at the network itself rather than only the price of SOL. The tool,… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has asked the Speaker of the Sejm to schedule another vote on President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of the crypto-assets market law, arguing that the Zondacrypto affair has made further delay politically and practically indefensible. Tusk made the request on Friday… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MoonPay has expanded its AI-powered PayBox vault so eligible users can interact with Kamino, one of Solana’s largest lending protocols, through ordinary conversation in ChatGPT or Claude. The update, announced on August 27, 2026, does not invent a new credit product. It simply routes existing… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethena Foundation has published a package of four changes aimed at two long-running questions around the project: monthly selling pressure from early backers, and who ultimately captures the economic value the protocol produces. First, the Foundation completed over-the-counter purchases of remaining locked ENA from… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 2:27 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Fintech investment in Singapore fell sharply in the first half of 2026 as investors became more selective and capital was concentrated in a smaller number of larger transactions, according to KPMG’s latest Pulse of Fintech report. Singapore fintech companies attracted more than $499 million across… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ondo Finance has named Allison Parent as its chief policy officer, adding a veteran of global financial regulation as the firm pushes tokenized assets further into mainstream markets. Parent spent nearly a decade as executive director of the Global Financial Markets Association, representing major banks… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 2:24 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Chinese technology giants are rapidly increasing spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure but face greater financial constraints than their U.S. counterparts, whose larger and more profitable core businesses provide stronger cash flow and greater capacity to sustain heavy investment, Moody’s Ratings said. Capital expenditure by leading… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evernorth Holdings, a firm built around holding and managing XRP for institutional investors, said this week that US regulators have declared its Form S-4 registration statement effective. That step removes a major filing hurdle and moves the company closer to a public listing on Nasdaq… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 2:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Netcapital (Nasdaq: NCPL), a securities crowdfunding business, says it has received a delinquency notification from Nasdaq regarding its delayed annual report. Nasdaq requires firms to file timely earnings reports to maintain a listing. Netcapital has been in the news recently because the Securities and Exchange… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 1:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced yesterday that it has found large-scale abuse in the investment advisor sector and filed complaints against 38 entities. At the same time, the SEC thanked the Federal  Bureau of Investigation’s Operation Level Up, a project launched to protect… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

China-based bots are seeking to create political and social havoc in the US. This is according to a statement distributed by X Global Government Affairs. According to a post on X: “The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Stripe and Advent International have decided to halt their efforts to acquire PayPal (Nasdaq:PYPL). Advent International is a private equity firm active in the Fintech sector. The two partners had previously agreed to acquire the payments firm for around $53 billion, or $60.50 a… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum researchers have put forward an early draft that would rebuild the smart contract used to admit new validators, creating a path to quantum-resistant staking keys before today’s cryptography becomes a liability. The plan focuses on the deposit contract, the gateway through which operators lock… Read More

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