Blockchain & Digital Assets

October 28, 2025 @ 4:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group, Inc. (CRCL:NYSE) has recently announced the launch of the public testnet for Arc, which is described as an open L1 blockchain network intended to meet the needs of developers and companies bringing more economic activity to an onchain ecosystem. The launch arrives… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 4:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken has issued an alert about the increase in recruitment and job-related scams via networks like LinkedIn and social media platform X. Indeed, job scams are nothing new but they continue to take on new forms with an increasing level of sophistication…. Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

In recent days, Senator Elizabeth Warren took to X to criticize President Trump’s decision to pardon Changpeng “CZ” Zhou, Binance founder and former CEO. Senator Warren is a longtime critic of digital assets and financial services firms in general. She sits on the key Senate… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite Standard Chartered analysts incorrectly forecasting this past week a BTC price drop below $100,000 being “inevitable” over the weekend, Bitcoin surged to over $113,800 on October 24, 2025 following the announcement that the US and China have formally committed to a framework agreement made… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase  (NASDAQ:COIN) is announcing a collaboration with Citi (NYSE: C) that’s said to be focused on solving a pressing challenge: making it more seamless for Citi’s clients to leverage the potential of digital assets as well as stablecoins to facilitate the transmission of value. The… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gemini Exchange and Gemini Wallet customers are now able to deposit USDT and USDC on Avalanche. With the addition, Gemini customers are now able to make transfers for these stablecoins via multichain rails with Solana, Ethereum, Base, Optimism, Arbitrum along with the latest network addition…. Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 1:55 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Modern Treasury this week announced the acquisition of Beam, a stablecoin and fiat payment platform for customers like Sling Money. With the addition of Beam’s technology and team, Modern Treasury’s money movement platform now spans both traditional and stablecoin settlement rails. “Instant payments and stablecoins… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 12:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CipherOwl, founded by the team that built Coinbase’s on-chain data and compliance platform, this week announced $15 million in seed financing co-led by General Catalyst and Flourish Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Sancus Ventures, Enlight Capital, OKX Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Road Capital and Predictive VC. The company is emerging from stealth with an AI-native… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japanese fintech JPYC Inc. recently revealed that it has introduced the nation’s legally recognized yen-denominated stablecoin, called JPYC (with trading starting this Monday). JPYC Inc. stated that it began offering the JPYC token this Monday along with introducing its issuance and redemption service, JPYC EX…. Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, a platform that is focused on tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), has introduced the Securitize MCP Server, an integration layer meant to make its asset data more accessible to larger enterprise systems and artificial intelligence tools. The server is reportedly developed on the Model Context… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 9:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cybrid, a platform for compliant stablecoins and fiat payment infrastructure, has raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by the Growth Venture Fund at BDC Capital with participation from Golden Ventures, Luge Capital, and Panache Ventures. The funding will accelerate Cybrid’s mission to drive stablecoins… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 1:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Holdings Ltd., the company behind the USDT stablecoin, anticipates generating nearly $15 billion in earnings for 2025. This projection underscores the company’s steady business growth, enabled largely by the adoption of its pegged digital currency, which underpins much of the global cryptocurrency trading volume… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Approximately $7 billion in Bitcoin has now been transferred out of long-term BTC holder reserve wallets since mid-October of this year. This, according to the latest data and insights shared by Glassnode. Because of this fairly recent development, the leading cryptocurrency’s illiquid supply could make… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

This past week, Fireblocks announced its acquisition of Dynamic to deliver the end-to-end custody-to-consumer stack, letting businesses build and scale on-chain products faster and more securely. Dynamic reportedly powers over 50 million on-chain accounts for key players like Kraken, ZeroHash, and Magic Eden. The deal… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) will soon offer futures trading for account holders in the UK. In a company statement, Robinhood stated that users may trade index, energy, metals, and foreign exchange futures directly in the Robinhood app and on Robinhood Legend. The service includes CME products like… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a digital asset trading and issuance venue, says it will pursue a public listing. While the company has stated its intent to trade on an exchange or marketplace, it has not provided details on whether it will pursue an initial public offering, a SPAC,… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox announced that it will be further delaying its repayment deadline by yet another year to October 2026. This seemingly abrupt update from Mt. Gox has come just four days prior to its deadline that was initially set for October 31,… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Ark Labs launched Arkade to public beta, introducing Bitcoin’s first scaling layer for programmable finance since Lightning Network’s debut nearly a decade ago. Alongside the mainnet launch, the company announced Arkade Assets, a native asset framework designed to bring stablecoins and other tokens to Bitcoin’s execution layer, with… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 7:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Access to tokenized deposits is now available to community and regional banks nationwide with Custodia’s bank-grade blockchain platform and Infinant’s Interlace platform. Vantage Bank, working in partnership with Custodia, invites banks and credit unions to join the consortium, which has developed a turnkey accretive solution… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 2:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has announced a new strategic partnership between Bybit Pay and Idram, Armenia’s established financial service provider and digital payment powerhouse. Joining forces to launch comprehensive payment services in Armenia, Bybit Pay and Idram will enable users… Read More