September 24, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s (BTC) latest rebound has cleared several cost-basis hurdles that capped the market through much of 2026, and on-chain researchers at Glassnode now frame the $95,000–$97,000 band as the first genuine stress test if the advance continues. The firm notes that BTC price has moved… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A 23-year-old Sheepshead Bay resident has been sent to prison after admitting he ran a yearlong social engineering operation that drained nearly $16 million from Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) customers across the United States. Ronald Spektor received an indeterminate term of four to 12 years on… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 12:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic has reportedly taken a first step toward the safety framework its chief executive outlined earlier this month, naming Accenture (NYSE: ACN) as an on-site independent reviewer of its most advanced systems. The arrangement is meant to put outside scrutiny inside the lab itself, rather… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has surfaced as a leading candidate to serve as President Donald Trump’s next artificial intelligence coordinator, according to people familiar with internal discussions. The reports come days after Trump said he would name an “AI czar” and stand up an “AI… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent investigation has revealed how a Kremlin-linked payments company allegedly moved more than $6.9 billion through major international banks by exploiting gaps in compliance controls and using a large-scale document-forgery operation. The reporting from the FT is said to be based on hundreds of… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An iOS whale-watching app that never asked users for a seed phrase has been tied to nearly $580,000 in stolen cryptocurrency after researchers found it could reach secrets stored by other apps on the same iPhone. Blockchain security firm SlowMist, working with OKX’s security team,… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hashed, the global crypto venture firm, has agreed to serve as the anchor investor in a new private credit vehicle aimed at digital-asset institutions. The fund is targeting $300 million and will be managed by Thoro Capital Management, a platform set up by Abu Dhabi-based… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Portals, a new type of intermediary created by the JOBS Act of 2012, were established to facilitate online capital formation through Reg CF, or Regulation Crowdfunding. Reg CF allows a firm to issue or sell securities to anyone, raising up to $5 million in… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Blockchain.com are “exploring” 24/7 trading using tokenized shares. This would include US equities and ETFs. These securities would be made available to investors worldwide. The agreement is said to include deep market intelligence as the two sides share… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

The Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 40) was published last week, and according to their rankings, New York City continues to lead the way, something that should come as no surprise. Following NYC are London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai. The GFCI 40 is published… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle (NYSE:CRCL) says it has expanded its partnership with Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. In a post on X, Circle said it has committed to a five-year deal in which Binance will support and promote USDC, Circle’s popular dollar-backed stablecoin. The deal… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

NatWest has invested in its first outside venture capital fund. According to a company statement, NatWest Venture Banking has committed an undisclosed amount across Phoenix Court’s family of funds. Phoenix Court is a VC firm that supports private firms from pre-seed through to scale-up. The… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

JP Morgan is now using DTCC’s Central Trade Matching Platform (CTM), according to a public release. JPM is using the service for US-listed options, including commission reconciliation and post-trade processing. DTCC says that CTM’s automated matching capabilities allow JPM to gain operational efficiency while mitigating… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional demand for Bitcoin has reasserted itself with striking speed. U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds absorbed about $1.7 billion in net inflows across two trading sessions as the price of Bitcoin climbed above the estimated average cost basis of ETF holders. The move put the… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 7:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s Hana Bank has completed a $100 million foreign-currency digital bond on Euroclear’s distributed ledger platform, compressing a process that usually stretches across several business days into a same-day settlement. The five-year note was placed on Friday through Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure, or… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 6:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US derivatives regulators have drawn a sharper line around a fast-growing corner of prediction markets: contracts that pay out based on what a named person says, where that person appears, or whom that person meets. On September 22, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC)… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash developers have locked in a working timetable for Network Upgrade 7, aiming to cut confirmation waits so shielded transfers can move more quickly without changing the coin’s privacy model. On September 17, Zcash cofounder Sean Bowe posted that every major builder group had reached… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 12:48 am By Michael Wong  |  

Mynt Inc., the parent company of Philippine e-wallet GCash, has received approval from the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) for an initial public offering that is set to become the largest in the exchange’s history, marking a major test for investor appetite for the country’s fintech… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 12:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI is preparing for one of the most expensive corporate buildouts in technology history. Internal forecasts reviewed by the FT show the company expecting about $278 billion in negative free cash flow from 2026 through 2030, even as it projects a steep rise in sales…. Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As companies rush to deploy artificial intelligence, the real bottleneck is not software. It is whether people actually use it, trust it, and change how they work. That is the argument innovation expert Soren Kaplan has been making as organizations discover that buying licenses is… Read More