Blockchain & Digital Assets

November 5, 2025 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial tech firm that provides crypto solutions for businesses, announced the acquisition of digital asset wallet and custody firm, Palisade. The acquisition will now further expand Ripple’s custody capabilities to serve the needs of fintechs, crypto-native firms, as well as corporates. Ripple Custody… Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle (CRCL:NYSE) says that its Developer Grants aim to offer more than just financial support. The USDC stablecoin issuer explained that they’re actually serving as a launchpad for so-called “bold” thinkers shaping the next era of onchain finance. With USDC and Circle’s suite of APIs… Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cipher Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFR) has recently announced its third quarter 2025 financial results, as well as an update on its overall operations and business strategy, including key corporate developments. Tyler Page, the Chief Executive Officer has noted that the third quarter of 2025 was… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for global businesses, has recently announced the launch of digital asset spot prime brokerage capabilities for the US market. Now, US-based institutional clients are reportedly able to execute OTC spot transactions across “dozens of digital assets… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 1:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan  (NYSE:JPM) revealed this past week that it will be further extending its Kinexys blockchain beyond simple payments and repo trading into the back-office infrastructure supporting fast-growing private markets. The US banking institution stated this past Thursday that its asset and wealth management units, along… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 1:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A legal representative for US Senator Elizabeth Warren is now defending a social media post in which the lawmaker alleged that “corruption” somehow led to the October 23, 2025 presidential pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao or “CZ”. A lawyer said to be representing Zhao… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 12:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WisdomTree, Inc. (NYSE: WT), a global financial services firm, announced it has appointed The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY) (NYSE: BK), a financial services provider, as its core banking-as-a-service infrastructure provider for WisdomTree Prime, the firm’s retail platform for tokenized assets and cryptocurrency…. Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global enabler of payment services, and Fipto, a European fintech providing stablecoin payment infrastructure, announced a partnership to look into how stablecoins may enhance settlement and payment services across Europe. Through collaboration, Worldline and Fipto are helping build the payment infrastructure… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Concordium is announcing a partnership with Transak, a global fiat-to-crypto payment gateway, expanding access to CCD, the native token of the Concordium blockchain. The integration is now live, enabling users to interact with CCD through Transak’s on-ramp infrastructure. According to the update, the impact of… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, announced that several of the world’s development and humanitarian nonprofit organizations – including World Central Kitchen, Water.org, GiveDirectly, and Mercy Corps – are leveraging Ripple Payments and the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin to help… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 2:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) (previously doing business as MicroStrategy) has reportedly acquired an additional 397 bitcoins for around $45.6 million at an average quoted price of about $114,000 per BTC between October 27 and November 2, 2025. This, according to a recent 8-K filing… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a global provider of brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to crypto, stocks, ETFs, options, and fixed income, announced that it joined Global Dollar Network (GDN). This should offer clients access to USDG on Solana, one of the “most used” blockchains with reported benefits such… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ/TSX: GLXY) announced its integration with Coinbase Prime (NASDAQ: COIN) – a full service platform that combines liquidity and institutional-grade custody supporting institutions by powering their staking solutions. Via this latest collaboration, Coinbase Prime clients can access Galaxy’s staking infrastructure – placing… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Global Digital Finance (GDF) has reported the results of an initiative to test the viability of Tokenized Money Market Funds (TMMF). As part of the working group 30 firms participated in the GDF Industry Sandbox, powered by Ownera, the firm which operates the FinP2P routers… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, the provider of institutional digital assets technology and data for trading and portfolio management, announced the appointment of Drew Forman as SVP and Head of Strategy. In this executive role, Forman will spearhead various companywide initiatives such as ongoing market expansion, product development and… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 8:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Falconedge plc says it anticipates listing a Bitcoin Treasury Strategy offering on London’s Aquis Exchange. The anticipates the listing will go into effect on November 5, 2025. Falconedge is a London-based financial-advisory and infrastructure platform focusing on Bitcoin-treasury management. Falconedge says that under a WRAP Retail… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer—an automated market maker (AMM) protocol claiming over $750 million in total value locked (TVL)—suffered a security breach on November 3. Blockchain analytics firms like PeckShield and Lookonchain reported outflows exceeding $116 million across multiple chains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon, and Sonic. The… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 3:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Electric Coin Co. (ECC), the company that launched Zcash (ZEC) and maintains the Zashi wallet, recently shared its roadmap for Q4 of this year, following a significant increase in the privacy-focused cryptocurrency’s shielded supply and market price. ECC’s latest roadmap includes on a focus on… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 2:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com has recently announced the introduction of its Model Context Protocol (MCP), Crypto Market Data by Crypto.com, in order to offer a high-performance cryptocurrency and financial data service that now integrates directly with AI large language models, such as Anthropic’s Claude as well as OpenAI’s… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 12:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stablecoin infrastructure firm Hercle this week announced $60 million in new capital. The round features a $10 million equity investment led by F-Prime, with participation from Fulgur Ventures and Exponential Science, alongside a $50 million credit line to support the expansion of institutional services and… Read More