Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 25, 2026 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

SoFi Bank (NASDAQ:SOFI) is now live in settling transactions across the Mastercard network using its in-house stablecoin, SoFiUSD. SoFi Bank claims to be the first national bank to do so. It has been estimated that by migrating its entire debt/credit card services to stablecoins, this… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York officials have opened a new front in their campaign against prediction-market platforms, accusing Polymarket’s US operation of conducting unlicensed wagering inside the state. On September 24, 2026, Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul announced a civil action against QCX LLC, which… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of the UK’s largest banking institutions has moved tokenised bank money out of laboratory tests and into actual customer activity, completing the first live retail transactions using digital representations of ordinary sterling deposits. The work sits inside the Great British Tokenized Deposit programme,… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has called on EU policymakers to consider bringing crypto-asset lending within the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation as part of a wider review of the bloc’s digital asset rulebook. In its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation, published on 24… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 12:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Two financial groups in East Asia have completed a proof-of-concept exercise designed to show how stablecoins might one day support institutional payments between Japan and South Korea without routing money through the US dollar. SBI Digital Practice, a subsidiary of Japan’s SBI Holdings (TYO: 8473)… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital (NASDAQ: GLXY) has placed $100 million of Sky Protocol’s yield-bearing savings token, sUSDS, onto its corporate balance sheet and opened the asset as eligible collateral across its institutional trading and lending platform. The allocation was funded from Galaxy’s own cash and stablecoin reserves,… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s roughly 10% advance through September 2026 has put the largest cryptocurrency on course for three straight monthly gains, a July-to-September run last recorded in 2012. July finished higher, August delivered a sharp rebound, and September has so far stayed in the green after bitcoin… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has published a new research paper examining how artificial intelligence and digital assets are starting to reinforce one another. Titled, The Machine-Native Economy, the note from the firm’s digital-assets team argues that widespread AI adoption could become an underappreciated source of demand… Read More

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

Anchorage Digital says it now offers Bitcoin staking to Bitcoin holders. Anchorage Digital is a federally regulated bank with a mission to support the digital asset sector. Bitcoin staking is its newest service, enabling clients to stake BTC held at Anchorage and benefit from staking… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto investment firm Keyrock has announced the launch of Keyrock Securities, a subsidiary that supports tokenized securities and institutional derivatives. According to a release, Keyrock Securities is a dealer registered in the Cayman Islands via the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority under the Securities Investment Business… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) research suggests that familiar banking-style safeguards could sharply lift US consumer interest in stablecoins, even though most Americans still know little about the category. The payments company released its Money Travels 2026 report on September 23, 2026. The US portion of the… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s (BTC) latest rebound has cleared several cost-basis hurdles that capped the market through much of 2026, and on-chain researchers at Glassnode now frame the $95,000–$97,000 band as the first genuine stress test if the advance continues. The firm notes that BTC price has moved… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A 23-year-old Sheepshead Bay resident has been sent to prison after admitting he ran a yearlong social engineering operation that drained nearly $16 million from Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) customers across the United States. Ronald Spektor received an indeterminate term of four to 12 years on… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether’s refusal to seek authorization under Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework was driven by one reserve rule rather than a general objection to oversight. MiCA requires issuers of significant stablecoins to keep at least 60 percent of backing assets as deposits with commercial banks. Chief… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), issued a concise public reply after venture capitalist Jason Calacanis posted a lengthy critique that treated Bitcoin as a technology whose cultural moment had passed. The comments appeared as the cryptocurrency recovered toward the $80,000 level. Calacanis… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 3:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethical researchers appear to have done what many Coldcard victims had hoped for: they reached 52.37 bitcoin before thieves could empty the exposed wallets. Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s (NASDAQ: GLXY) head of firmwide research, said those coins have now been gathered into a single address… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An iOS whale-watching app that never asked users for a seed phrase has been tied to nearly $580,000 in stolen cryptocurrency after researchers found it could reach secrets stored by other apps on the same iPhone. Blockchain security firm SlowMist, working with OKX’s security team,… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hashed, the global crypto venture firm, has agreed to serve as the anchor investor in a new private credit vehicle aimed at digital-asset institutions. The fund is targeting $300 million and will be managed by Thoro Capital Management, a platform set up by Abu Dhabi-based… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Blockchain.com are “exploring” 24/7 trading using tokenized shares. This would include US equities and ETFs. These securities would be made available to investors worldwide. The agreement is said to include deep market intelligence as the two sides share… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle (NYSE:CRCL) says it has expanded its partnership with Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. In a post on X, Circle said it has committed to a five-year deal in which Binance will support and promote USDC, Circle’s popular dollar-backed stablecoin. The deal… Read More