Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 1, 2026 @ 7:49 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

AI security firm Alice confirms $140M funding round Apax Digital Funds led the round, with participation from Samsung, SentinelOne, Maj Invest, MoreTech and Phoenix Insurance. Existing investors Resolute Ventures, Grove Ventures, CRV, Highland Europe, Vintage Investments, Norwest, NFX and Claltech came along for the ride… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam is reportedly building a supervised market for tokenized real-world assets, treating blockchain not as a speculative venue but as a new channel for raising capital against tangible economic activity. The core legal instrument is Government Resolution 05/2025/NQ-CP, signed on 9 September 2025. It launched… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 6:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Payward, Kraken’s parent company, is partnering with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to enable tokenized stocks. In a post on X, Payward said it would modernize UK equity markets by working with the LSE. “[The] LSE plans to list the full xStocks suite on LSE 24,… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 6:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Telegram has begun placing a built-in cryptocurrency wallet in front of a first wave of accounts, marking the start of a staged expansion that company founder Pavel Durov says will eventually reach more than a billion people on the messaging platform. In a post on… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 6:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), which decisively remains the largest public holder of bitcoin and a prominent digital asset treasury company, has formally objected to a new consultation launched by index provider MSCI. The firm described the proposal as discriminatory toward companies that maintain substantial digital asset reserves as… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 3:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana’s (SOL) first binding on-chain governance process ended with a razor-thin decision on token issuance. After days of stake-weighted voting, validators and delegators approved SGP-0002, the so-called Double Disinflation measure, by a margin of roughly one-third of a percentage point. The proposal needed a two-thirds… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 2:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple is no longer treating quantum risk as a theoretical footnote. In late August 2026, Ayo Akinyele, the company’s senior director of engineering, said the XRP Ledger is being prepared now so that wallets, settlement, and institutional rails can change before a so-called Q-Day arrives—the… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 1:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutionally oriented digital assets platform Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) has committed a $100 million stablecoin credit line to USD.AI, a protocol that originates loans against high-performance computing hardware. The facility is intended to fund non-recourse financing for operators building artificial-intelligence infrastructure, with repayment claims anchored to… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 5:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) founder and CEO Brian Armstrong posted on X that AI trading is now rolling out for trading securities. The service was already available for crypto and derivatives. Coinbase had previously announced its intent to enable AI agent trading. Some, like Armstrong, describe… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On-chain records show that potentially taxable cryptocurrency activity worldwide exceeded $457 billion in 2025, according to analysis from Chainalysis. The United States accounted for the single largest national total, about $112.6 billion. Significant volumes appeared in every other country examined as well. The figures combine… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Security remains a core concern across cryptocurrency, yet losses keep climbing. CoinGecko’s 2026 State of Crypto Security Report, published in late August, found that platforms lost $3.63 billion in 245 documented incidents from January 2025 through July 2026. A small number of large events drove… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kalshi has locked in an unexpected last-minute arrangement that places the federally regulated prediction market platform in an exclusive official role at the 2026 US Open. The agreement with the United States Tennis Association took effect as the main draw opened at Flushing Meadows, even… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Confidential Zcash payments have long carried a noticeable pause before they even leave a wallet. That wait may soon shrink from more than three seconds to well under 200 milliseconds in many cases, after the team behind the Zakura full node released Zakura Common, an… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 2:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZERO and ICE (NYSE:ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), have signed a deal to partner on the tokenization of public securities. At the same time, ICE has committed to investing in tZERO. The details on the investment were not immediately… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 2:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Webull (NASDAQ:BULL) has enlisted Coinbase’s (NASDAQ:COIN) crypto-as-a-service platform to extend its digital asset abilities in Canada. Webull, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, operates in Canada through Webull Securities (Canada) Limited (regulated by CIRO and a CIPF member) and primarily offers access to stocks and ETFs…. Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Michael Saylor, Chairman of Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) says his company is buying Bitcoin again. In a post on X, Saylor said Strategy has acquired 4,603 BTC for $370M. At the same time, he said that cash has increased by $29 million and that share repurchases have… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 10:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s tax authority has published its first standalone snapshot of declared cryptoasset profits, and the picture is highly concentrated. In the 2024–25 tax year, 240 people told HM Revenue and Customs they had made more than £1 million each in capital gains from digital… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 9:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM), Shopify (NASDAQ:SHOP), Ripple, and Visa (NYSE:V) were among the companies announcing product features and partnerships this week. Affirm, Shopify announce Aussie installment feature Shop Pay Installments lets eligible shoppers split their purchases into fortnightly or monthly payments. Approved consumers can choose from interest-free or interest-bearing payment… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On August 30, Cronos stopped producing blocks after Tectonic, the network’s main lending market, was emptied through a price-and-borrow sequence rather than a novel contract bug. On-chain researcher Weilin Li first estimated about $66 million in damage, then raised the figure to roughly $75 million… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgium has stepped up its campaign against online copyright infringement by asking European domain registrars and at least one registry to turn over extensive records on people believed to be running pirate sites. The requests go far beyond typical website blocking. Officials want names, contact… Read More