September 16, 2026 @ 1:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wirex has announced the launch of Wirex One, which is described as a “stablecoin neobank.” The goal is to serve the mass affluent by acting as a private bank. A neobank is typically a digital application that provides services similar to traditional banks, frequently in… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 12:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York payments startup Fin.com has come out of stealth after securing a $20 million seed round, positioning itself as infrastructure that turns digital dollars into money people can actually spend in local accounts and wallets. The financing closed in August and was publicly disclosed… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 12:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial institutions expanding into stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and other digital asset products have long faced a monitoring problem: traditional compliance systems were built for fiat activity, while on-chain transactions often sat in a separate silo. Nasdaq Verafin and Stablecore announced a partnership on September 15,… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

  The dust has yet to settle on the failed vote in the US Senate that would have advanced the CLARITY Act to a vote for future consideration. The vote was a procedural move for cloture, which would have established sufficient support to avoid a… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 11:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lawmakers in the US House are advancing a package that would reduce everyday tax friction for certain digital asset activity while still producing a modest net gain for the Treasury. On September 16, 2026, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to consider H.R…. Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent working paper from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS argues that many of the headline figures used to describe cryptocurrency and decentralized finance activity can mislead more than they illuminate. Drawing on roughly 100 billion records from Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron, the researchers… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A Bank of England official has suggested that the rapid rise of dollar-linked digital tokens could support broader use of the US currency and add to demand for American government debt, while also introducing new vulnerabilities if large numbers of holders seek to cash out… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted their heaviest single-session withdrawals since late June of this yaer after a landmark digital asset market-structure bill (the CLARITY Act) notably failed to clear a Senate procedural vote. The 13 products listed in the United States recorded a… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Velocity has added $10 million to its Series A, bringing the round to $48 million after a group of traditional finance and crypto investors joined the raise. Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures and Ripple participated alongside Haun Ventures, Translink Capital and Mirana Ventures, according to… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 1:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE: KLAR) has added a new layer of protection for customers in the Nordic region, rolling out an in-app tool that lets people check in real time whether an incoming phone call is actually coming from the company. The feature, called Call Status Detection,… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Latin America’s digital bank Nubank (NYSE:NU) has taken another step beyond its home markets. Nu, which already serves more than 140 million customers in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, has entered a strategic alliance with Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum to support the launch of Nu… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset insiders are disappointed by today’s Senate vote on the CLARITY Act, which landed with a thud.  The inability to advance crypto market infrastructure legislation is a significant loss for the industry, and most argue it is a loss for the United States. The vote… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic has signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain security firm CertiK, creating a long-term framework for cooperation on the country’s planned central bank digital currency and on broader digital asset supervision. The Digital Som is Kyrgyzstan’s official CBDC… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH) and Base developers have ended a months-long attempt to merge two competing account abstraction designs into a single standard. The talks, which sought to reconcile Base-led EIP-8130 with Ethereum’s EIP-8141, known as Frame Transactions, collapsed last week. Both networks will now ship their… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pave Finance, a New York firm building artificial intelligence tools for wealth advisors, has closed an oversubscribed Series A round of more than $15 million at a $100 million valuation. The capital will expand its sales and engineering staff after a $14 million seed round… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency trading platform CoinEx is shutting down after nearly a decade in business, citing a long stretch of weak market conditions that made continued operations unsustainable. The company, which went live on December 22, 2017, said it reached the decision after reviewing the industry’s reduced… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) shares rallied. Today, the story is quite different, as shares of Coinbase are now down by over 10% following the disappointing vote on the CLARITY Act. While the vote was always expected to be close, in the end, supporters couldn’t even break the 50-vote… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 1:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zama is reportedly expanding confidential finance on Ethereum (ETH) by widening its Morpho vault lineup and launching private swaps between shielded assets. On September 15, 2026, the protocol opened deposits into 16 confidential Morpho vaults spanning USDC, USDT, AUSD, and TGBP, plus their encrypted counterparts…. Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

With a cloture vote scheduled for today and market participants hopeful the bill will move forward, the CLARITY Act, crypto market infrastructure legislation, continues to have a dim outlook on prediction markets that the bill will be approved. Kalshi currently has just a 33% expectation that… Read More