August 25, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

An article on WSJ.com says US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may get support from the crypto markets as he tries to push bond yields lower. Earlier this week, Bessent said the US Treasury Department would use its balance sheet to buy Treasuries in an attempt to drive yields… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Figure’s  (Nasdaq: FIGR) YLDS, a digital asset that is a security, is now accepted as collateral on EDX Markets, an institutional crypto trading platform. YLDS,  a regulated yield-bearing security,  gives institutions flexibility to manage capital. EDX also said it will adopt YLDS as a treasury… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland sheds light on how American households view and interact with cryptocurrencies. Titled “Do You Even Crypto, Bro? Cryptocurrencies in Household Finance,” the study draws on repeated large-scale surveys of U.S. households to examine investment… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 3:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A San Francisco-based entrepreneur with roots in the gaming industry has been found guilty of orchestrating a scheme that defrauded investors in a cryptocurrency trading fund of nearly $1 million. On August 24, 2026, a federal jury in the Northern District of California convicted Japheth… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, the global payments and financial infrastructure company, is commemorating ten years of operations in Singapore by rolling out a series of enhancements designed to help Asian companies expand internationally more efficiently. The updates focus on multi-currency treasury features, additional local payment options, and simplified… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has ranked Canada as the least effective jurisdiction for assisting victims of cryptocurrency-related crimes, based on his extensive experience handling such cases. In recent comments shared via his Telegram investigations channel and on X, he placed Canada at the top of a… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recently highlighted vulnerability in Ledger’s Ethereum application for its hardware wallets has drawn attention in the cryptocurrency community. The issue involved a race condition in certain clear-signing processes. In these flows, users review human-readable transaction details on the device screen before approving them. Security… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 1:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kingscrowd, a provider of data and analysis of online securities offerings, has commented on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s allegations of fraud against Netcapital (NASDAQ:NCPL), a company that operates a FINRA-regulated Funding Portal. Kingscrowd notes that only three of the eleven securities offerings mentioned in… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 12:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a recent filing with federal regulators, US banking associations have called for stronger customer identification standards to cover more of the stablecoin ecosystem. The Bank Policy Institute (BPI), working jointly with The Clearing House Association, submitted comments on a proposed rule from the Financial… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment flowing into UK based financial technology companies reached its weakest point in at least a decade during the first six months of 2026. Capital raised by UK fintech firms totalled £1.8 billion (approximately $2.5 billion), representing a decline of nearly two-thirds compared with the… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO has announced a partnership with Sui to enable digital securities, or tokenized assets. The company says its services will integrate directly with the Sui blockchain to support trading, issuance, custody, and more for institutional-grade digital securities. Sui is a layer-one blockchain created specifically for… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 10:38 am By JD Alois  |  

European Central Bank (ECB) researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze Reddit posts and how they reflect retail investor optimism or pessimism. The publication by Fabian Wagner and Julian Metzler drew on a daily retail-investor mood gauge based on over 4 million (out of… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) in France has issued a caution to the public to look out for fake media websites. According to the regulator, a bevy of news sites have recently been impersonating French news sites by copying their design and identity. Apparently,… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) tokenized stocks are now on Base using its B20 standard. The group quickly points out that these are “real ownership” and not a “workaround,” as each digital asset represents 1-to-1 shares held by a custodian. The digital asset is not a synthetic product… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TerraPay, a global money movement specialist, has reportedly entered into a collaboration with Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) to improve the efficiency and reliability of international fund transfers. The arrangement gives TerraPay access to the bank’s extensive correspondent banking network, advanced payment technologies, and foreign exchange services, enabling smoother… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal jury in Nevada has found Las Vegas businessman Brent C. Kovar guilty of running a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency fraud that prosecutors described as a classic Ponzi scheme. The verdict, delivered after a nine-day trial, holds Kovar responsible for taking roughly $24 million from at… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Hyperliquid Policy Center has formally urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to establish a coordinated regulatory approach for perpetual contracts. In a comment letter submitted on August 24, 2026, the group responded to a joint… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 7:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Blockchain Association, an industry advocacy group for digital assets, has voiced strong support for key elements of proposed federal rules implementing customer identification requirements for permitted payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. In a comment letter submitted on August 21, 2026, the organization… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 1:20 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stripe goes AI shopping, buys OpenRouter for $7B Stripe expands its AI presence with OpenRouter, which builds infrastructure allowing developers to secure access and route requests across different AI models. Bank of America to invest up to $1.8B in Jio Credit For its investment, BoA… Read More

August 25, 2026 @ 1:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe has introduced its Treasury product in Australia, offering companies a unified system to handle payments, hold balances, convert currencies, and disburse funds worldwide—all within the Stripe Dashboard. Announced in Sydney, the move aims to simplify the fragmented financial setups many international operators currently have… Read More