Blockchain & Digital Assets

October 20, 2025 @ 8:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The crypto market had earlier extended its rally for the third consecutive quarter in 2025 Q3, the team at CoinGecko noted while adding that the total market capitalization surged another +16.4%, adding about $563.6 billion to reach $4.0 trillion+. According the report from CoinGecko, the… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 5:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

U.S. Bank (NYSE: USB) has created a new Digital Assets and Money Movement organization to accelerate development of and grow revenue from emerging digital products and services such as stablecoin issuance, cryptocurrency custody, asset tokenization and digital money movement. Jamie Walker, a veteran in the… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 2:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a provider of global payments technology, has announced a strategic partnership with BitPay, a cryptocurrency payments processor, to further expand its digital assets solutions for merchants and payment service providers (PSPs) through ACI’s Payments Orchestration Platform. According to a recent study… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares (OTCQX: CNSRF) noted in an analysis this past week that Bitcoin prices have now returned to levels last seen in June of this year, after what they view as a somewhat puzzling correction. CoinShares also mentioned that from the recent peak, prices have dropped… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Function CEO Thomas Chen warns that Bitcoin poses a looming danger. The former head of sales at BitGo, Chen now spearheads the development of institutional-grade architecture for Bitcoin yield. Backed by partners like Galaxy Digital, Mantle, and Antalpha, Function has reached over $1.5 billion in… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Euronet (NASDAQ: EEFT), a firm focused on payments processing and cross-border transactions, announced it has chosen to leverage Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for digital asset infrastructure (non-custodial), settlement, trading operations and stablecoin payments. Fireblocks enables Euronet to integrate stablecoin tech into its payments infrastructure, “accelerating… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US this past week had announced the seizure of approximately $15 billion in Bitcoin from a so-called forced-labor pig butchering scam operation. As reported, the United States government noted that $15 billion worth of BTC was linked to a Cambodian man who allegedly carried… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 11:09 pm By Michael Wong  |  

UAE-headquartered M2 Capital said it invested $21 million in AVAX One, a Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury created to accumulate AVAX, the native token of the Avalanche blockchain. The move is part of a push to support the network’s growth and the Middle East’s adoption of… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 11:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary recently expressed concerns about Ethereum’s ( ETH) network congestion and fee surge over the past weekend. In a social media post, O’Leary claimed that the Ethereum blockchain network had become really congested, resulting in even relatively small transactions costing upwards of… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 10:07 pm By Michael Wong  |  

HitPay, a Singapore-based payments platform, said it partnered with licensed crypto payments firm Triple-A to enable more than 20,000 merchants to accept stablecoin payments at online and in-store checkouts while receiving instant settlements in fiat currency. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)-regulated arrangement targets small… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since introducing stablecoin payments, financial infrastructure, and payments processing, Fintech Stripe said that they’ve seen these digital tokens enable the global expansion of some of the fastest-growing companies today. According to Stripe, the top 20 AI firms on Stripe—all but 1 based in the United States—draw the… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lumx has raised $3.4 million in a funding round that has been led by Indicator Capital and CMT Digital, along with contributions from Honey Island, Antler, Bitso, Nomad, CAF Ventures (CAFE) and angel investors Arnold Lee, Joshua Weiss, Chuk Okpalugo, Carlos Souza, and Allan Schmitt…. Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:13 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Canada has committed more than C$3 million ($2.1 million) over five years to an Industrial Research Chair in Tokenization at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), backing work on advanced tokenization and decentralized federated learning led by Professor Kaiwen Zhang and industry partner T-RIZE Group. The… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos reported earlier this week that it mistakenly minted excess PYUSD as part of an internal transfer. Paxos confirmed that it immediately identified the error and burned the excess PYUSD. According to the company, this was simply an “internal technical error” and that there was… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:10 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched BLOOM, short for Borderless, Liquid, Open, Online, Multi-currency, a new industry initiative to extend settlement options for financial institutions using tokenised bank liabilities and well-regulated stablecoins while applying standardised risk controls. MAS said BLOOM will work with banks… Read More

October 18, 2025 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto exchange Gemini (NASDAQ:GEMI) noted that on September 30, 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that certain state-chartered trust firms may serve as custodians for digital assets, referencing the Investment Company Act and Advisers Act. Gemini pointed out that the statement went… Read More

October 18, 2025 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) recently announced that its Business services division has introduced global payouts and payment links, allowing businesses to send and receive stablecoin USDC with competitive fees, instant settlement, and global reach. These tools aim to simplify vendor payments, eliminate chargebacks, and offer seamless API… Read More

October 18, 2025 @ 10:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figment announced that they have acquired Rated, the provider of staking and validator analytics. By joining with Figment, they can carry forward and scale the important work that the Rated team has done in ore to bring more clarity, standards, and maturity to the digital… Read More

October 18, 2025 @ 10:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

There are now around 241,700 people with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency holdings worth $1 million or more, which is up a considerable 40% from the past year, according to Henley & Partners and New World Wealth. As first reported by CNBC, there are 450 crypto centimillionaires,… Read More

October 18, 2025 @ 10:10 am By Michael Wong  |  

The U.K.’s tax agency is turning up the heat on crypto traders, more than doubling the number of warning notices it sent to suspected underpayers in the latest tax year as digital-asset ownership swells. HM Revenue & Customs dispatched almost 65,000 so-called “nudge letters” in… Read More