Omar Faridi

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

Coinbase Tokenized Stocks Become Collateral on Aave V4 Base

Aave V4 has opened a dedicated Equities Hub on Base that lets eligible users outside the United States post Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) tokenized U.S. stocks as collateral and draw USDC loans against them. The first seven assets are AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc and… Read More

White Hats Reportedly Recover $5.7M in NFTs Following Limit Break Payment Processor Exploit

White-hat researchers moved tens of thousands of NFTs to safety after a long-dormant settlement contract was used to pull tokens from wallets that still carried old marketplace permissions. The issue involved Limit Break’s Payment Processor V2, a contract that once handled on-chain settlement for Magic… Read More

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen Presses THORChain to Cut Off Stolen Funds After $387M Hack

Bitget’s chief executive has publicly pressed THORChain to stop processing funds tied to last week’s exchange breach, arguing that a protocol’s architecture should not be treated as cover for moving assets already identified as stolen.On September 24, Bitget detected unauthorized outflows from hot and warm… Read More

Cash FX Faces CFTC Lawuit Over Alleged $950M Cryptocurrency linked Forex Fraud

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued Cash FX Group S.A. and several associated individuals, alleging they ran a vast multilevel marketing operation that collected more than $950 million under the pretense of pooled retail foreign-exchange trading. The civil complaint, filed in the… Read More

OG.com Markets Asks CFTC to Approve Cash-Settled Single-Stock Perpetual Futures

OG.com Markets has asked US commodity regulators to let it list a new class of equity derivatives that never mature: cash-settled perpetual futures on individual American stocks. The request, submitted last week to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), would allow the platform to offer… Read More

Grayscale Files for Zcash Income ETF Designed to Pay Investors Every Two Weeks

Grayscale has submitted paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a new exchange-traded fund designed to generate recurring cash distributions tied to Zcash without holding the privacy-focused cryptocurrency itself. The proposed product, called The ZCSH High Income ETF, was filed on September… Read More

US and China Open AI Talks While Stretching Ongoing Trade Cooperation

Washington and Beijing have opened a formal conversation on advanced computing while stretching their latest commercial ceasefire, a pairing that looks modest on paper and more consequential in practice. After a three-day leadership visit in the US capital, the two governments said they would keep… Read More

Shielded Bitcoin : A Zcash Style Privacy Layer without Changing BTC Transaction Rules

A New York cryptography research group has outlined a way to hide Bitcoin payment details on the base chain itself, without asking miners or node operators to adopt a protocol upgrade. The design, called Shielded Bitcoin, comes from [alloc] init researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov,… Read More

Poolin Chooses Bitcoin Mining focused Hut 8’s $140M Bid for Texas Data Centers

Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT) has been designated the winning bidder for two West Texas campuses formerly used by Poolin, according to filings in Poolin’s Chapter 11 cases. The proposal is valued at $140 million in cash and other consideration for the Pyote and Tarbush sites…. Read More

Brazil Tops Global Crypto Adoption as Latin America Grows During Bear Market : Research

Latin America’s crypto markets expanded even as global prices collapsed, according to new research from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Over the 12 months ending June 30, 2026, the region recorded $593.8 billion in on-chain activity, a 9.8 percent increase. Worldwide, crypto market capitalization roughly halved… Read More

HIVE Takes Swedish Bitcoin Mining VAT Dispute to European Commission

HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ: HIVE), a publicly listed firm long associated with Bitcoin mining, has taken its long-running Swedish value-added tax fight beyond national courts and into the European Commission. The move, disclosed in an August 11, 2026 late-filing notice with the US Securities and… Read More

SEC Officials State that Certain Crypto Buybacks and Staking Tokens Fall Outside Existing Securities Laws

US securities staff have offered a more precise reading of how existing law applies to two common crypto practices: token repurchase programs and tokens issued in liquid staking. In staff-level FAQs released September 25, 2026, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance said that, in defined… Read More

MoonPay Agrees to Acquire North Capital, Expanding Focus on Tokenized Securities

MoonPay has taken a notable step toward regulated onchain capital markets by agreeing to acquire North Capital Investment Technology, a US private-markets infrastructure firm active in the securities crowdfunding sector. The companies announced a definitive merger agreement on September 23, 2026. Once the transaction closes,… Read More

Polymarket Requests European Authorities to Regulate Prediction Markets as Finance, Not Gambling

Polymarket is intensifying talks with policymakers in London, Brussels and other European capitals in an effort to have its event contracts treated as financial instruments rather than wagers. The New York-based prediction market, now raising capital at a valuation above $20 billion, argues that a… Read More

Canadian Banks Launch New Initiative for Tokenized CAD Deposits

Canada’s lenders have recently launched a joint effort to study a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system, aiming to keep the country’s payments rails competitive as digital money develops worldwide. On September 22, 2026, Bank of Montreal, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank,… Read More

AI Adoption Faces Reality Check as Tech Firms Rehire Professional Talent They Previously Cut

Across the technology industry, the first wave of large-scale AI adoption has produced a striking correction. After years of contraction and high-profile workforce reductions justified in part by automation, companies are now pulling former employees back—especially people with institutional knowledge and machine learning experience. The… Read More

OpenAI Expands GPT-6 Lineup with More Economical Sol and Luna Models

OpenAI has broadened its newest model family with two more accessible options designed for everyday professional work. On September 22, 2026, the company released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, placing them beneath the flagship GPT-6 Astra model that arrived earlier in the month. The company… Read More

Argentex Founder Harry Adams Secures Funding to Expand Fintech Tenora’s Operations Beyond FX

Harry Adams, the entrepreneur who established the foreign-exchange specialist Argentex, has obtained a fresh capital injection for Tenora, the fintech he launched after departing his previous company. Irish payments and currency group Fexco is committing £7.5 million, split between a £5.5 million equity stake and… Read More

Former Visa Crypto Lead Pete Cooling Launches Atum, an Open Payments Network

Atum, a San Francisco startup building what it calls the first open payments network for moving money worldwide, has come out of stealth with $13.5 million in new capital. The company was founded by Pete Cooling, who previously led Visa’s crypto product team and spent… Read More

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