September 29, 2026 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

California Governor Gavin Newsom has approved a package of ethics and consumer protection measures that includes a first-of-its-kind state ban on public officials issuing memecoins. The announcement from his office on September 27, 2026, was framed in blunt political terms as “THE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP,”… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SoFi, Mastercard partner on card payment stablecoin settlement The system connects blockchain-based settlement and established card infrastructure. Stablecoins will settle transactions within the normal card experience. Moov Money built on Visa, Mastercard rails Moov Money enables consumers to send and receive money through their existing… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Blockchain Association, one of Washington’s most prominent digital-asset advocacy groups, is preparing for a leadership change. Current chief executive Summer Mersinger will leave the role on October 16, 2026. Founding leader Kristin Smith is expected to return the next day as interim CEO while… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana’s planned consensus rewrite has moved from a closed rehearsal environment onto the network’s public test clusters, a step core engineers have treated as the start of the formal activation path. Anza, the firm that maintains the Agave validator client, said Alpenglow completed its testnet… Read More

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 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Swift and a coalition of banks, payment schemes, and technology firms have begun work on linking popular domestic instant-payment systems so that consumers can send money abroad using the same simple identifiers they already use at home. The initiative, announced on 28 September 2026, focuses… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 1:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY (NYSE: BNY) has rolled out a new Pay-to-Wallet capability that lets banking institutions send international payments from traditional accounts straight into participating retail digital wallets. Announced on September 28, 2026, the feature is designed to work through the correspondent banking system banks already use,… 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 @ 6:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and iCapital have unveiled a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening the operational backbone of private markets. Announced on September 28, 2026, the alliance pairs DTCC’s post-trade infrastructure and industry network with iCapital’s technology platform and investment workflows. DTCC… Read More