September 8, 2026 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin has had a good few weeks. In mid-August, BTC experienced a bounce after a couple of sleep months stuck in the doldrums. Coinshares Senior Portfolio Manager Marc des Ligneris see renewed investor interest as partially driven by the US Department of the Treasury’s bond… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission under the leadership of Chairman Paul Atkins has made leaps and bounds in updating securities rules to accommodate innovation. He has also expressed his intent on making access to capital easier as well as providing greater access to  private securities… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 8:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Reg CF securities exemption has had a choppy 2026 so far. The smallest exemption for issuers raising funds online, the numbers are off versus their peak but activity continues to generate funds for smaller, private firms in need of growth capital. Crowdfund Capital Advisors… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 5:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

The National Sheriff’s Association has done an about face reversing its opinion on the CLARITY Act, crypto market legislation that will protect consumers while establishing updated rules for the digital asset sector in the US. Previously, the Association has voiced its opposition to the legislation… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) and Regulation A (Reg A) were both part of the JOBS Act of 2012, the legislation that enabled online capital formation. Today, there is an established ecosystem of platforms including regulated Funding Portals and Broker Dealers that support companies that need… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Hugging Face, a repository for open source artificial intelligence models, has been acquired by NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) for $12,930,300,000. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027. The announcement did not come as a surprise as markets had anticipated the move last… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 6:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins told Fox Business that he expects the CLARITY Act will be approved in the Senate. The last update indicated that the Senate would hold a vote on September 15th. While industry insiders and Congressional supporters had hope… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 5:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has launched derivative contracts in Canada. Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM) is said to be the first major crypto native platform to offer direct native crypto futures in the country. CFM is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission operating under an international exemption…. Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Later this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission will hold a Roundtable on 24-hour trading. The gathering is timely as round the clock trading is already taking place in the crypto-sphere and some platforms are enabling 24 hour trading with tokenized shares. The three panel… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 10:46 am By JD Alois  |  

TabaPay, a platform that provides a single point of management for money movement for banks and Fintechs, says it intends to acquire Denver-based Transact Bank, a federally chartered entity. At the same time, TabaPay has received a $155 million investement from FTV Capital a growth… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed the first real update of its transfer-agent rules since the late 1970s and early 1980s. The move would facilitate new rules that enable tokenized assets and blockchain technology. Transfer agents are regulated entities that perform an important… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 11:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic Europe has announced an opportunity to own shares in Mercury, a San Francisco-based neobank, through a secondary offering listed on its platform. Secondaries, or issued shares in private firms, have become an important revenue generator for securities crowdfunding platforms. Shares of more mature private… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Payward (Kraken’s parent company) announced a partnership today to begin tokenizing shares, with more digital asset innovation in the pipeline. Indicating its interest in pursuing tokenization or digital securities, the LSE stated: “The London Stock Exchange is assessing a… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 6:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Payward, Kraken’s parent company, is partnering with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to enable tokenized stocks. In a post on X, Payward said it would modernize UK equity markets by working with the LSE. “[The] LSE plans to list the full xStocks suite on LSE 24,… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 5:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) founder and CEO Brian Armstrong posted on X that AI trading is now rolling out for trading securities. The service was already available for crypto and derivatives. Coinbase had previously announced its intent to enable AI agent trading. Some, like Armstrong, describe… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 2:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZERO and ICE (NYSE:ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), have signed a deal to partner on the tokenization of public securities. At the same time, ICE has committed to investing in tZERO. The details on the investment were not immediately… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 2:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Webull (NASDAQ:BULL) has enlisted Coinbase’s (NASDAQ:COIN) crypto-as-a-service platform to extend its digital asset abilities in Canada. Webull, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, operates in Canada through Webull Securities (Canada) Limited (regulated by CIRO and a CIPF member) and primarily offers access to stocks and ETFs…. Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Michael Saylor, Chairman of Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) says his company is buying Bitcoin again. In a post on X, Saylor said Strategy has acquired 4,603 BTC for $370M. At the same time, he said that cash has increased by $29 million and that share repurchases have… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 9:04 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Commission says the following platforms now fall under the Digital Securities Act (DSA). According to an EU statement, ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox now qualify as Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) or Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) because they have topped 45 million… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 2:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Netcapital (Nasdaq: NCPL), a securities crowdfunding business, says it has received a delinquency notification from Nasdaq regarding its delayed annual report. Nasdaq requires firms to file timely earnings reports to maintain a listing. Netcapital has been in the news recently because the Securities and Exchange… Read More