Blockchain & Digital Assets

October 8, 2025 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic, the world’s largest online investment platform serving private securities, will close its first offer for a Mirror Token, which represents shares in Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. The valuation of SpaceX is around $400 billion and is one of the world’s most valuable startups. SpaceX… Read More

October 8, 2025 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital wallet firm Ledger will partner with Concordium on stablecoin usage, according to a company statement. Concordium is a blockchain that uses zero-knowledge proof technology for privacy while complying with regulations. The company statement explains that Concordium will offer its 1-Click Verify & Pay functionality… Read More

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

Talos, the provider of institutional technology and data for digital asset trading and portfolio management, announced the integration of its order and execution management system (OEMS) with Aladdin, which is BlackRock’s tech platform that unifies the investment management process. Together, Talos and BlackRock’s Aladdin will… Read More

October 8, 2025 @ 1:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nine new ransomware groups have been identified in a key update shared by TRM Labs. And all of them are said to be a part of one evolving ecosystem. In their latest blog post, the team at TRM Labs examines the operations behind these emerging… Read More

October 8, 2025 @ 12:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GLXY) launched GalaxyOne, a financial technology platform offering U.S.-based individual investors access to so-called high yields on fiat cash, alongside crypto and equities trading in “a single digital experience.” Accredited investors are now able to access 8.00% APY via Galaxy Premium… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 11:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meanwhile announced it raised $82 million in additional capital to meet demand from individuals seeking to protect their families and financial institutions seeking to offer bitcoin-linked savings, retirement, and life insurance products to clients. This is still a somewhat experimental area of digital assets and… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 1:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

CruTrade, a new online investment platform that offers wine investors a place to buy and sell fine wine, announced its launch today, promising a marketplace where enthusiasts can trade wine powered by Avalanche. CrutTrade touts its ability to allow traders to instantly invest in bottles… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 10:09 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Akemona, a digital infrastructure provider, this week released Tokenization Cloud, an infrastructure platform that enables financial institutions and businesses to adopt digital assets at scale. The launch comes at a pivotal moment in U.S. financial regulation. The SEC’s recently announced Project Crypto aims to modernize custody rules and integrate decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform and the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap and overall adoption, has come back into the spotlight, closing the third quarter of 2025 with a 66.55% gain, marking its strongest Q3 performance since 2016. According to… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Prediction marketplace Polymarket will partner with ICE (NYSE: ICE), the operator of the New York Stock Exchange. At the same time, ICE will invest $2 billion (in cash) at a post-money valuation of $9 billion. The partnership involves ICE becoming a distributor of Polymarket data, enabling… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kourosh Khanloo, director of corporate strategy at Jefferies-owned Tradu, has shared his perspective with CI on the UK lifting the ban on crypto ETNs for retail investors on October 8, 2025. Kourosh says that he welcomes the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) decision to lift… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 1:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With each subsequent Bitcoin halving cycle, the supply of new BTC entering circulation drops by half, leading to increased scarcity over an extended period of time. CoinGecko notes in research report that since the first halving in 2012, block rewards have declined by 87.5%, from… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 12:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Between July 2022 and June 2025, Latin America reportedly recorded around $1.5 trillion in crypto transaction volume, according to an update from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Chainalysis also noted that the trajectory has been volatile but consistently upward: from $20.8 billion in crypto transaction volume… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 8:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SUI Group (NASDAQ: SUIG), in partnership with Ethena, a DeFi synthetic dollar protocol, and the Sui Foundation, this week announced the launch of suiUSDe, a Sui-native synthetic dollar token, and USDi, a stablecoin backed by the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) tokenized money… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 6:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grayscale Investments revealed that its Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHE) and Ethereum Mini Trust ETF (ETH) are now a U.S.-listed spot crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) that incorporates staking. This allows investors to earn additional yield on their Ethereum holdings through staking rewards, typically ranging from 3-5%… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) initiated a pilot program via its Visa Direct platform to allow businesses, including banks and remittance services, to preload accounts with stablecoins rather than traditional fiat currencies for international transfers. This approach treats stablecoins as readily available funds, akin to deposited cash,… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 4:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

While the United States has turned away from the concept of a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), other jurisdictions, such as Europe and China, have embraced it. As has been reported, a digital Euro is in the works with the European Central Bank (ECB)… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) claims to be focused on building the trusted bridge to the on-chain ecosystem. According to an update from the digital asset firm, this means making crypto easy to access — “anytime, anywhere, and for anyone.” Now, Samsung Galaxy users who are residing in… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken has announced enhancements to their equities offering for U.S. users, introducing a suite of features designed to provide a better trading experience. According to the announcement from Kraken, these latest additions aim to further bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets. The… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 11:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation revealed that it will be exchanging as many as 1,000 ETH tokens for stablecoins in order to support ongoing ecosystem growth. Leveraging CoWSwap’s TWAP solution, the Ethereum Foundation stated converting the ETH into stablecoins should help it enable work to finance research… Read More