September 29, 2026 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR), the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, is asking common shareholders to approve a shift to daily dividend accruals on four of its Nasdaq-listed preferred securities: STRC, STRD, STRF, and STRK. The board backed the plan on September 24, 2026,… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aiden Pleterski, the Ontario man who branded himself a “crypto king” on social media, is scheduled to stand trial next week on fraud and money-laundering charges without a lawyer. An Ontario Superior Court judge rejected his last-minute bid for more time to hire counsel, meaning… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

BAGEY, Baillie Gifford’s Enhanced Yield Fund, a regulated investment fund, is said to be the UK’s first authorized tokenized fund. According to a note from Anchorage Digital, it will provide digital asset custody for the offering, along with other services. Baillie Gifford is a UK-based… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 12:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meta (NASDAQ: META) has taken a step beyond advertising and consumer products, launching a dedicated unit aimed at selling artificial intelligence tools directly to companies. On September 28, 2026, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Enterprise Platform and named Chirantan “CJ” Desai, who… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Senator Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats are targeting big tech once again, as they have sent a missive to the CEOs of firms Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft, demanding that they share any tax breaks that have been received as they build out their AI… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal appellate panel has cleared the way for Ohio and Tennessee to apply their sports-wagering statutes to Kalshi, a prediction markets operator that lists contracts tied to sporting outcomes. On September 25, 2026, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional money returned to bitcoin in force last week, even as policy and geopolitics offered little comfort. U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded products absorbed about $2.4 billion in net new capital during the five sessions through September 25, 2026 according to SoSoValue. That was the strongest… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:56 am By Michael Wong  |  

Banking software provider Oradian says banks need to overhaul their core technology infrastructure to move generative artificial intelligence from experimentation to production, as most enterprise AI pilots fail to generate measurable returns. Oradian, citing data from MIT’s Project NANDA 2025 report, said 95% of enterprise… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain.com, one of the longest-standing firms in digital-asset services, is preparing a push toward public markets this year as conditions in cryptocurrency trading begin to improve. According to people briefed on the discussions, the company has been approaching potential investors with plans for a listing… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s top intelligence agency has recently issued yet another pointed reminder that cryptocurrency does not place users beyond legal scrutiny. In a public warning released on September 28, 2026, the Ministry of State Security argued that digital assets have been adopted by offenders seeking to… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) has recently secured registration from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization, a step that closes a long-running gap in the company’s regulated US derivatives business. The CFTC recorded the status as registered… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) used a single Monday in late September 2026 to send two messages at once: the company intends to shape how autonomous AI agents are controlled, and it still sees its own stock as one of the best uses of the cash those… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 5:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FIS (NYSE: FIS) has embedded Spade’s real-time merchant enrichment tools into its debit processing stack, giving issuing banks and credit unions cleaner merchant identities at the moment a transaction is processed. The move is aimed at statements that actually look familiar to cardholders, fewer avoidable… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 3:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany’s draft crypto-tax reform has drawn a pointed warning from Circle’s (NYSE:CRCL) Patrick Hansen, who says one overlooked clause could overtax ordinary retail holders who cannot reconstruct clean purchase records. Hansen, Circle’s senior director for EU strategy and policy, focused on a planned 50 percent… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 3:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI has confirmed that its autonomous AI systems improperly interacted with websites belonging to numerous organizations worldwide, including several US federal agencies. The company notified dozens of institutions after discovering that its agents had attempted to retrieve information from government bodies, universities, and public-sector sites…. Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 2:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors in California have moved to keep tens of millions of dollars taken from accounts and digital wallets tied to Capstone Ltd., a Montana-registered payments company that authorities say handled large transfers connected to crypto clients. The action, laid out in a civil forfeiture… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 2:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates has added his voice to a growing push for government oversight of artificial intelligence, arguing that companies cannot be left to police themselves as the technology becomes more powerful. In a recorded conversation with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” later… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 1:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance-owned CoinMarketCap has taken over Coinglass, a widely used platform that tracks cryptocurrency derivatives activity, according to an official announcement dated September 25, 2026. The deal is already closed. Neither company revealed the purchase price. CoinMarketCap is one of the most frequently cited sites for… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 12:07 am By Michael Wong  |  

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, is set to provide an unfunded risk participation facility of up to $200 million to Visa, according project documents seen by CrowdFund Insider. The facility will cover settlement risk exposure on a… Read More