Blockchain & Digital Assets

October 14, 2025 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Singapore High Court has reportedly approved crypto exchange WazirX‘s debt restructuring scheme on October 13, 2025. The announcement has come after the Indian digital currency exchange had been hacked in July of 2024. This court approval in Singapore enables the crypto platform to proceed… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 12:30 pm By Blake Jeong  |  

The crypto discussion remains pinpoint-focused on U.S. enforcement squabbles and city-state experimentation, but no one seems to notice what’s going on in Japan and South Korea. Both of these countries have been building predictable rules, institutional-grade foundations, and establishing consumers who already spend on digital… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 11:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Toku, a stablecoin payroll platform, has announced a partnership with Lagrange, a provider of verifiable AI. Over the past four years, Toku has built the first global system for token compensation, solving for taxes and compliance across more than 100 jurisdictions. With the 2025 stablecoin… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banxa Holdings Inc., an infrastructure provider for enabling embedded crypto within payment platforms, announced its European entity, EU Internet Ventures B.V (EUIV), received regulatory approval under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework. The newly acquired licence, granted in the Netherlands, authorises EUIV… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Societe Generale-FORGE (SG–FORGE) and Bitpanda have announced that they strengthened their partnership to enable the deployment by Bitpanda of SG-FORGE’s stablecoins in decentralized finance. Bitpanda claims that it is the “first” broker to enable its retail clients in Europe to earn yield on the CoinVertible… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 5:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Draper Goren Blockchain, a Los Angeles-based “Venture Studio” which has backed multiple blockchain firms, says it will alter its approach to “bet big” on real estate technology. Draper Goren will open up a satellite office in Detroit to pursue Proptech firms. The group was once the… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure (NASDAQ:FIGR), has recently noted that Tricolor bankruptcy made headlines and for “good reason.” The Texas-headquartered auto lender had allegedly “double-pledged” hundreds of millions of dollars in car loans to various banks like JPMorgan and Fifth Third. What appeared to be a… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 3:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House of Doge, the commercial arm of the Dogecoin Foundation, will merge with Brag House Holdings (NASDAQ:TBH), effectively becoming a publicly traded company. Seward & Kissel, the law firm that handled the combination, shares that the combined entity will become the largest institutional holder of Dogecoin, managing over 837… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Foris DAX Middle East FZ-LLC (trading as Crypto.com) announced that it has received In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) for a Stored Value Facilities (SVF) license, claiming it becomes the “first” Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) in the… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, Ethena Labs saw its stablecoins (USDe and USDtb) experience significant volatility. The vector for the event appears to be a combination of President Trump’s declaration of additional tariffs on China and the liquidation of crypto on Binance. On October 12, Binance confirmed a… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 10:48 am By Nick Morgan  |  

The financial advisory profession is at a crossroads. Clients are asking more questions than ever about Bitcoin, blockchain, tokenization, and digital assets. Yet, the institutions traditionally responsible for setting the bar on advisor education—self-regulatory organizations (SROs), such as FINRA, have been painfully slow to adapt…. Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Mike Selig, Chief Counsel on the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, is reportedly set to be nominated as Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The SEC Crypto Task Force is pursuing updated rules to enable digital asset innovation and will likely become one of… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After nearly a $19 billion wipeout, the Bitcoin and crypto market has clawed back but volatility is signaling more turbulence ahead, according to an update from Derive.xyz. The team noted that they witnessed an unprecedented market meltdown on Friday (October 10, 2025), with more than… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Quinlan & Associates have noted that during the past decade, CBDCs or central bank digital currencies have moved to the top of many reserve banks’ strategic priorities, expanding gradually from just 3 projects in 2016 to 149 by August 2025. Although many initiatives have moved… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos has noted that stablecoins are becoming core infrastructure for the global financial sector. They aim to enable faster settlement, economical cross-border payments as well as efficient on- and off-ramps between traditional and digital markets. Paxos pointed out that as adoption accelerates, so do the… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

September marked a significant period for markets as the Federal Reserve cut its rate by 25bps for the first time since December of last year, reaffirming the weakening labour market reports as well as economic uncertainty. HashKey Capital further noted in their latest update that… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

This past month, Brazil’s Polícia Federal launched Operation Lusocoin, which is described by blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs as a sweeping investigation into a rather sophisticated criminal network that has been accused of laundering billions of reais via various cryptocurrency transactions. TRM Labs recently revealed… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of the platform X (formerly known as Twitter) and current CEO of payments firm Block Inc. (NYSE: XYZ), has introduced a new Bitcoin wallet feature within the Square point-of-sale system. This update, announced on October 8, 2025, enables small U.S. businesses to… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 5:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Derive.xyz has noted that a massive and truly unprecedented flash crash of liquidations saw nearly $7 billion wiped across all markets within a span of just one hour, with $5.5 billion coming from longs. The firm also pointed out that Bitcoin and Ethereum have accounted… Read More

October 12, 2025 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has recently told its financial advisors that the company would be broadening access to cryptocurrency-based investments to all of its clients and enabling these types of investments in any type of account. This will reportedly include retirement accounts as well. Beginning October… Read More