Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 3, 2026 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payward Inc., the parent of crypto exchange Kraken, has not confirmed a new public-listing date, and the company has not issued a statement postponing its IPO. The latest reporting, based on people familiar with internal planning rather than an official announcement, says the firm is… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has added Anthony Armstrong, a veteran banker who later served as finance chief across several Elon Musk companies, to its board of directors. The appointment took effect September 1, 2026, after the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee recommended expanding the board from nine… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 1:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Russia’s largest bank has issued a cautious but sizable outlook for the country’s newly legalized cryptocurrency market. Sberbank Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov said licensed trading platforms could handle roughly 3.5 trillion to 4 trillion rubles—about $46 billion—during the first 12 months after the rules take… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 1:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (NASDAQ: PURR), the digital asset treasury company trading under the ticker PURR, has enlarged the committed equity purchase arrangement it maintains with Chardan Capital Markets. An amendment filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 1, 2026, lifts the… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperliquid Labs is said to now be pursuing a regulated path into the United States by negotiating with Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, according to a Bloomberg report published on August 31, 2026. The discussions center on perpetual futures, the derivative contracts… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 6:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins told Fox Business that he expects the CLARITY Act will be approved in the Senate. The last update indicated that the Senate would hold a vote on September 15th. While industry insiders and Congressional supporters had hope… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 5:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has launched derivative contracts in Canada. Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM) is said to be the first major crypto native platform to offer direct native crypto futures in the country. CFM is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission operating under an international exemption…. Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore’s central bank has taken a further step toward turning its long-planned stablecoin regime into law. On 1 September 2026 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a consultation on proposed changes to the Payment Services Act 2019. The package would give legal force to… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed the first real update of its transfer-agent rules since the late 1970s and early 1980s. The move would facilitate new rules that enable tokenized assets and blockchain technology. Transfer agents are regulated entities that perform an important… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A synchronized drop in government bond prices has pushed borrowing costs across major economies toward levels last seen around the 2008 crisis. A Bloomberg gauge of global sovereign yields climbed to about 3.72 percent, its highest reading since mid-2008, as investors demanded more compensation to… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

XRP advanced sharply in late August, rising from about $0.99 on August 17 to roughly $1.38 by August 31. That gain of nearly 40 percent arrived alongside a contraction in overall futures exposure, a combination that often signals traders were taking risk off rather than… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) and OKX have announced a collaboration aimed at deepening the role of USDC across the exchange’s trading products. In a Sept. 1, 2026 post, Circle said the two companies are working together to increase USDC liquidity and trading utility on OKX, giving… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

1789 Capital, the venture firm in which Donald Trump Jr. is a partner, is heading a large new financing for Polymarket that would put the prediction-market company at a $21 billion valuation. A spokesperson for the firm said the platform is seeking $1 billion in… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance has taken another step toward becoming a full multi-asset venue by introducing options on more than 1,000 selected U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds. The product went live on September 1, 2026, and is available only to eligible customers outside the United States. The contracts… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 3:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Five years on from Asia-Pacific’s venture capital surge, most startups funded at the peak remain in business, but far fewer have kept advancing through new rounds, later stages or exits. A PitchBook resaerch study published in late August 2026 tracks the 24,602 unique APAC-headquartered companies… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cosmos Labs has recently acknowledged that it initially misclassified a critical flaw in Cosmos EVM, the shared software layer that lets Cosmos SDK chains support Ethereum-style applications. That error later enabled attackers to drain assets from six networks between August 20 and August 25, 2026…. Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Payward (Kraken’s parent company) announced a partnership today to begin tokenizing shares, with more digital asset innovation in the pipeline. Indicating its interest in pursuing tokenization or digital securities, the LSE stated: “The London Stock Exchange is assessing a… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Supporters of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 or BIP-110 have revived a breakaway chain that had gone quiet after an early August split, pairing a new mining algorithm with a much smaller block limit. The minority network forked from Bitcoin at block 961,632 when nodes enforcing… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has again increased its stake in Block Inc., (NYSE: XYZ), the payments and financial services company led by Jack Dorsey, continuing a pattern of adding shares during periods of price weakness. Reports published at the start of September indicated that ARK… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

USA₮, Tether’s U.S.-focused dollar stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, remained above the $175 million circulation mark at the end of July while posting the largest reserve surplus in its short history. The latest independent reserve report, prepared under the AICPA’s 2025 criteria for asset-backed… Read More