September 15, 2026 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic has signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain security firm CertiK, creating a long-term framework for cooperation on the country’s planned central bank digital currency and on broader digital asset supervision. The Digital Som is Kyrgyzstan’s official CBDC… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 6:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana (SOL) came close to losing transaction finality on August 12 after a routing failure at infrastructure provider Teraswitch briefly took validators representing nearly 29 percent of staked SOL offline. Blocks kept being produced, and the offline share stayed several points below the level that… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH) and Base developers have ended a months-long attempt to merge two competing account abstraction designs into a single standard. The talks, which sought to reconcile Base-led EIP-8130 with Ethereum’s EIP-8141, known as Frame Transactions, collapsed last week. Both networks will now ship their… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pave Finance, a New York firm building artificial intelligence tools for wealth advisors, has closed an oversubscribed Series A round of more than $15 million at a $100 million valuation. The capital will expand its sales and engineering staff after a $14 million seed round… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency trading platform CoinEx is shutting down after nearly a decade in business, citing a long stretch of weak market conditions that made continued operations unsustainable. The company, which went live on December 22, 2017, said it reached the decision after reviewing the industry’s reduced… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 1:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zama is reportedly expanding confidential finance on Ethereum (ETH) by widening its Morpho vault lineup and launching private swaps between shielded assets. On September 15, 2026, the protocol opened deposits into 16 confidential Morpho vaults spanning USDC, USDT, AUSD, and TGBP, plus their encrypted counterparts…. Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wyoming’s Stable Token Commission on September 14 published its fullest account of why the state’s Frontier Stable Token left LayerZero and now uses Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol as its only approved path between blockchains. The statement came from Keith Lawhorn, the Commission’s chief information security… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors in New York have moved to confiscate about $61 million in cryptocurrency they describe as revenue from unsanctioned Iranian crude and petroleum sales. The civil forfeiture complaint, filed September 14, 2026 by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU), which has become one of Latin America’s largest digital banks, has begun offering deposit accounts and a broader set of everyday banking products to customers in the United States. The company, which operates under the parent name Nu Holdings, said the U.S. rollout started… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer, one of DeFi’s longest-running automated market makers, is asking token holders to approve an orderly wind-down of the protocol and a return of remaining DAO assets to BAL holders. The plan was posted on the project’s governance forum by treasury council member and former… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 6:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland’s largest retail lender has taken another step in modernising its technology stack by deepening its relationship with Stripe, the Dublin-founded payments and financial infrastructure company. The newly announced strategic collaboration is being presented internally as a significant marker in Bank of Ireland’s broader digital… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brussels fintech Chift has closed a €10.5 million Series A round to expand the software “plumbing” that links Europe’s fragmented financial tools — and to make that plumbing usable by artificial intelligence as well as by traditional applications. The financing was led by BlackFin Capital… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 12:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland’s mobile payment scheme has taken a notable step into the emerging world of agentic commerce. BLIK, the account-to-account system used across Polish banking apps, has completed its first pilot in which an artificial intelligence agent independently finished an online purchase and settled it with… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 11:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hungary’s CIB Bank has teamed up with Visa (NYSE: V) to put contactless payment rings into everyday banking, turning a once-niche wearable into a mainstream account perk. Under a joint initiative, eligible customers who open selected CIB ECO current accounts and add a Visa Inspire… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Caroline Ellison, the former head of Alameda Research, has begun working at the nonprofit grant platform Manifund. Co-founder Austin Chen made the news public on September 11, 2026, explaining that Ellison will help improve the organization’s funding tools and study better ways to steer philanthropic… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea‘s crypto investors have again pressed lawmakers to postpone a long-delayed tax on virtual-asset profits, after a National Assembly petition calling for a two-year grace period cleared the 50,000-signature threshold needed for committee review. Regulatory and finance officials, however, have given little indication that they… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple USD (RLUSD) has grown into one of the larger regulated dollar stablecoins, with net circulating supply recently topping an all-time high of about $2.44 billion before settling near $2.42 billion. That expansion looks like a success story for Ripple’s dual-chain product. A closer look… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 7:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sage Capital Management has chosen OpenPayd to widen the fiat payment options available to its institutional digital-asset clients. The live connection, announced on 9 September 2026, adds dollar, euro and sterling rails so firms can move funds into and out of crypto markets through a… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut is facing a public extortion campaign after criminals began publishing identity files taken from a recent customer-data incident, just as the company presses ahead with plans to enter Israel. The firm has confirmed that an unauthorized party obtained sensitive records after submitting… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lightning Development Kit version 0.2.6, published on September 9, 2026, closes two security problems that could have affected applications built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. One issue allowed a hostile channel partner to siphon a modest amount of value during a splice. The other could leave… Read More