Digital Assets Thoughts of the Week: the CLARITY Act, Canada and Tokenization, and More

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The CLARITY Act remains top of mind in the digital asset sector. The CLARITY Act “The larger issue is that the US still lacks a clear rule for when a digital asset is a security, when it is a commodity, and which regulator is responsible…. Read More

 

 




95% of Enterprise GenAI Pilots Deliver No Measurable Return, Oradian Says

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

Blockchain.com Targets Up to $6 Billion Valuation in Planned IPO

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

Beijing Warns Criminals that Blockchain Transfers Leave Traces That Can Reveal Real Identities

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

CFTC Registers Coinbase Clearing for Fully Collateralized Derivatives

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

Circle’s Patrick Hansen Warns Germany’s 50% Crypto Tax Fallback Would Hit Everyday Investors Hardest

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

DOJ Targets $84 Million in Capstone Accounts Linked to Tether Partner Bank

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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

Bill Gates Urges Congress to Mandate AI Safeguards, Warning Self-Policing Is Not Enough

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

CoinMarketCap Announces Acquisition of Derivatives Analytics Firm Coinglass

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

Solana ETFs Draw $188 Million in Past Week as Bitwise Asset Management Accounts for Most of the Inflows

US spot Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) took in about $188 million in net new money last week, the strongest weekly result since the products began trading. The official Solana account highlighted the figure on September 27, calling it the biggest week since launch. All seven… Read More

tZERO Partners on Goldman Sachs Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund (FTIXX)

Digital asset firm tZERO is partnering with the Goldman Sachs Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund (FTIXX). The relationship will enable tZERO to support the regulated distribution of an existing Treasury money-market fund on a crypto institutional settlement network. FTIXX is a $100 billion government money-market fund… Read More



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    Analyst Issues Outperform Rating on Coinbase, $237 Price Target

    Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW), a boutique investment firm owned by Stifel, has issued a bullish outperform rating on Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) and set a $237 price target. According to the report viewed by CI, KBW views Coinbase as the preeminent franchise and a cycle call given the… Read More

    Riot Platforms Repays $200 Million Coinbase Credit Facility and Releases Pledged Collateral

    Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has extinguished a $200 million secured credit line with Coinbase Credit and regained control of the assets that had been pledged against it. The company disclosed the transaction in a Form 8-K dated September 25, 2026, reporting that it completed a… Read More

    Strategy ($MSTR) and Bitmine ($BMNR) Add to Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Holdings Amid Iran Tensions and AI Uncertainty

    Corporate digital asset treasury firms kept expanding their positions even as bitcoin and the wider crypto market opened the week with a modest pullback. The buying underscores a structural trend that has persisted through 2026: publicly listed companies treating bitcoin and ether as core balance-sheet… Read More

    Nubank’s Monzo Takeover Discussions Highlight How Digital Banks Are Scaling and Why Incumbents Still Dominate

    Brazil’s digital banking platform Nubank (NYSE: NU) is said to currently be holding early conversations about a possible purchase of UK’s Monzo, a move that would give the Latin American digital lender a ready-made platform in the United Kingdom and a foothold for wider European… Read More

    Tether Freezes Over Half a Billion in Iran Affiliated USD₮ in 2026

    Tether is touting its countermeasures against the rogue regime of Iran in line with the ongoing sanctions being applied by the US. According to a post by Tether, nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USD₮ has been frozen since the beginning of the year. Around $344… Read More

    NEAR Token Surges as Bitwise Asset Management’s NRR ETF Moves Closer to Trading

    NEAR Protocol’s native token has rallied sharply as Bitwise’s spot NEAR exchange-traded fund moves into the final stretch before a possible US listing. After NYSE Arca approved the listing application and the SEC declared the registration statement effective on September 24, 2026, the product—expected to… Read More

    Privacy focused L1 Network Zano Plans 24-Hour Chain Rollback After Gateway Address Inflation Bug

    FlawZano, a privacy-focused layer-1 network that hides amounts and transaction details by default, said on September 25, 2026 that a supply-integrity defect in its new Gateway Addresses feature had left developers with little option but to unwind roughly 24 hours of chain history. The team… Read More

    Unified DeFi Protocol Aero Confirms Oct 21 Debut

    Aero, the combined successor to Aerodrome and Velodrome, is scheduled to launch on October 21, 2026. The date was confirmed on September 25, 2026 after months of audits, public code review, and early “Aero Lite” deployments. The project is positioning itself as a single liquidity… Read More

    Citi, Coinbase to Partner on Digital Assets: Report

    Citi (NYSE:C) and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) are partnering on digital assets, with one of the world’s largest banks choosing Coinbase to provide its technology for stablecoins as the world shifts from analog finance to digital. WSJ.com first reported that Coinbase will provide stablecoins payment rails that support the conversion… Read More

    Revolut Obtains Central Bank Approval to Acquire Banco Cetelem in Argentina

    Revolut has secured a key regulatory milestone in Latin America after Argentina’s central bank approved its purchase of Banco Cetelem Argentina from BNP Paribas Personal Finance. The decision, announced by the London-based fintech on 24 September 2026, allows the company to complete a deal first… Read More

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