September 18, 2026 @ 6:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based stablecoin payments company dtcpay has completed its Series A financing at US$25 million after bringing Japan’s SBI Group in as a strategic investor. The round was first led earlier in 2026 by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. SBI Group is participating through SBI… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 5:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

WisdomTree (NYSE: WT) and MoonPay have unveiled a partnership aimed at widening how eligible American investors can reach tokenized investment products, with the first focus on a digital Treasury money-market fund. The firms said they will use MoonPay’s payments and blockchain rails to create a… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payward, the company behind Kraken, has outlined plans to give eligible U.S. customers access to perpetual futures that settle and match on a public blockchain rather than a conventional centralized venue. The first destination would be Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework, which lets a third party create,… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

North Korea has expanded a covert campaign to place information-technology staff inside American firms by recruiting people in third countries to help hide the true origin of job applicants, according to US officials and cybersecurity researchers. The effort previously relied heavily on stolen US identities… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 11:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) has introduced a dedicated reference data product for privately originated credit instruments, extending work that began earlier this year with unique deal identifiers. The offering, branded ICE Private Credit Reference Data, is intended to give lenders, asset managers and other counterparties… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 10:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

X Money, the Fintech segment of social media platform X, has added a new trading pathway to its cashtag system, giving US users a shorter route from market conversation to an actual brokerage or crypto exchange. The company announced the US Cashtag Partner Program on… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s police have advanced a months-long inquiry into domestic use of Polymarket from investigation into formal charging. Twenty-six local participants on the crypto prediction platform have been booked on suspicion of illegal gambling, and 18 of those cases have already been sent to prosecutors…. Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) has opened the public mainnet of Arc, an open Layer-1 blockchain the company positions as infrastructure for markets, fast settlement, and automated onchain activity. The network went live on September 16, 2026, after a private mainnet period and a public… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash (ZEC) led Thursday’s cryptocurrency rebound after US policymakers delivered their first rate increase since 2023, a move that markets largely treated as already expected rather than a shock. The privacy token advanced roughly 23 percent over 24 hours and traded near $1,369. Bitcoin rose… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grab Holdings (NASDAQ: GRAB) has agreed to take a controlling interest in Atome Financial, a Singapore-based digital lending platform owned by Advance Intelligence Group, in a two-stage transaction that would significantly expand Grab’s consumer-credit business across Southeast Asia. Under definitive agreements announced on 15 September… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A bipartisan proposal to put the federal government’s Bitcoin holdings on firmer statutory footing has moved into the House Financial Services Committee, where lawmakers can amend the text before it advances any further. The measure, H.R. 8957, known as the American Reserve Modernization Act of… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Danske Bank has rolled out a new wealth advisory offering that pairs its own investment specialists with BlackRock’s (NYSE: BLK) Aladdin Wealth technology. The service, branded Butterfly, went live for the bank’s private banking clients on 9 September 2026 and is described by the lender… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has revised its Federal Reserve outlook after this week’s policy meeting, now projecting another quarter-point increase in October rather than treating September’s move as the last adjustment of 2026. The bank had previously expected a single hike this year. That view changed… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator has given digital-asset businesses a clearer map of what will count as a regulated activity under the country’s incoming crypto framework. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published perimeter guidance explaining which firms will need full authorisation once the new regime takes… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 1:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Albuquerque has moved to shut down physical cryptocurrency kiosks after the City Council approved a citywide prohibition on virtual currency ATMs and cashier-assisted crypto transactions. The ordinance, passed on September 10, 2026, requires operators and host businesses to take existing machines offline and remove them… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 1:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A new exchange-traded product offering US investors regulated access to Tron’s native token is scheduled to begin trading Wednesday. The Canary Staked TRX ETF, listed under the ticker TRXS on Cboe BZX Exchange, is designed to hold TRX directly while also participating in the network’s… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearpool, a decentralized marketplace focused on on-chain institutional credit, has outlined plans to extend its lending stack to the XRP Ledger. The firm positions the move as its next growth chapter, arguing that XRPL is a mature network whose institutional credit market remains comparatively undeveloped…. Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lithuanian electronic money institution ConnectPay has turned the proprietary core banking stack it built for its own operations into a standalone commercial product. The platform, now branded Serdis, is being offered to other European EMIs and financial institutions that want cloud-native infrastructure they can run… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis has said it reclaimed about 15 bitcoin after a vulnerability in its native Bitcoin Bridge was used on September 11. The team also extended a 20 percent white-hat bounty to the attacker, with a September 13 cutoff for a direct return of… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mexican federal and state investigators have shut down a concealed cryptocurrency mining site in the mountains of Puebla, seizing hundreds of specialized computers while examining whether the facility stole electricity and helped disguise illicit funds. The property was secured in Tlaola, a remote municipality in… Read More