August 30, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dunamu, the company behind South Korea’s digital-asset platform Upbit, has formed a strategic alliance with Visa (NYSE: V) to build new payment and financial products at the intersection of stablecoins, cross-border transfers, and artificial intelligence. The two firms presented a joint roadmap at Visa’s Global… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plum, the money management app known for helping users automate saving and investing, has chosen Upvest to run its UK investment services. The move extends a relationship that already covers continental Europe and brings both markets onto one modern platform. The two companies first teamed… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 5:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management’s Solana Staking ETF has become the first dedicated Solana exchange-traded fund to pass $1 billion in assets under management. The product, listed as BSOL, reached the figure about ten months after it began trading in late October 2025. The timing is what… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 3:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monetae, a regulated digital finance company focused on Latin America, has introduced Monetae Markets, a new offering that gives customers in El Salvador exposure to tokenized US stocks and exchange-traded funds starting at just five dollars. Alpaca supplies the underlying brokerage infrastructure, handling custody and… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 2:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has expanded its institutional prime brokerage offering with the debut of a new Delta One desk inside Ripple Prime, giving professional investors another way to gain equity-linked exposure through total return swaps. The announcement, dated August 27, 2026 from San Francisco, positions the service… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 1:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bybit is expanding its derivatives lineup with a new product aimed at traders who want equity-style options without the usual stock-market clock. The exchange said it will introduce “Perp Options,” contracts written on its existing stock perpetual futures rather than on listed shares themselves. The… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal appeals panel has given Nevada a significant win in its clash with prediction market operator Kalshi, holding that sports-event contracts listed on the company’s exchange are not “swaps” under federal commodities law and therefore are not shielded from state gaming rules. On August… Read More

August 30, 2026 @ 1:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenPayd has gone live on the Circle Payments Network, giving business clients a way to send ordinary currencies across borders in seconds while settlement happens on regulated stablecoin rails in the background. The London-based infrastructure firm announced the connection on 25 August 2026. Companies that… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV), the firm that has built its strategy around accumulating and compounding Solana, has introduced a public analytics platform meant to give investors and builders a clearer look at the network itself rather than only the price of SOL. The tool,… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has asked the Speaker of the Sejm to schedule another vote on President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of the crypto-assets market law, arguing that the Zondacrypto affair has made further delay politically and practically indefensible. Tusk made the request on Friday… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MoonPay has expanded its AI-powered PayBox vault so eligible users can interact with Kamino, one of Solana’s largest lending protocols, through ordinary conversation in ChatGPT or Claude. The update, announced on August 27, 2026, does not invent a new credit product. It simply routes existing… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethena Foundation has published a package of four changes aimed at two long-running questions around the project: monthly selling pressure from early backers, and who ultimately captures the economic value the protocol produces. First, the Foundation completed over-the-counter purchases of remaining locked ENA from… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ondo Finance has named Allison Parent as its chief policy officer, adding a veteran of global financial regulation as the firm pushes tokenized assets further into mainstream markets. Parent spent nearly a decade as executive director of the Global Financial Markets Association, representing major banks… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evernorth Holdings, a firm built around holding and managing XRP for institutional investors, said this week that US regulators have declared its Form S-4 registration statement effective. That step removes a major filing hurdle and moves the company closer to a public listing on Nasdaq… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum researchers have put forward an early draft that would rebuild the smart contract used to admit new validators, creating a path to quantum-resistant staking keys before today’s cryptography becomes a liability. The plan focuses on the deposit contract, the gateway through which operators lock… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Moonwell, a lending protocol on Base, said on August 27, 2026 that it was looking into a problem in its MAMO Core Market and had taken emergency steps to stop new loans. In its official statement, the team said borrow caps for every Core Market… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm Holdings (NASDAQ: AFRM) closed fiscal 2026 with another quarter of rapid scale and a sharp jump in reported profit, then pointed investors toward continued growth in the year ahead. The buy-now-pay-later company, which reports results after the US market close on August 27, 2026,… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) has broadened its open-source AI cybersecurity framework, moving the tool from finding weaknesses to proposing and checking fixes in a single governed workflow. The payment network said the latest Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH) is meant to shrink the gap between spotting… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 6:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Identity verification company Socure has taken another step toward becoming a broader trust platform for the digital economy, announcing a strategic growth round that values the firm at $5.2 billion and completing a deal to buy Fravity, an agentic software company focused on automating fraud,… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 5:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swift has agreed to give the financial industry more time to complete a key part of the ISO 20022 payments upgrade: the shift from free-text postal addresses to structured ones. The decision follows formal requests from several market communities that said they could not meet… Read More