Blockchain & Digital Assets

December 4, 2025 @ 2:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Citadel Securities has issued a statement telling the Securities and Exchange Commission that it should not grant exemptive relief regarding definitions of an exchange or broker-dealer for DeFi trading protocols. Citadel Securities is a global market maker that provides liquidity for institutions and retail investors. It is owned… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 2:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fusaka, the 17th major upgrade to Ethereum now comes around seven months after the Pectra update broadly transformed the decentralized cryptocurrency and smart contract enabled protocol. The recent deployment of Fusaka brings the now 10+ year-old Ethereum project into a so-called new “era of maturity,”… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital Asset has received a strategic investment from several big financial services firms. The group included S&P Global, Nasdaq, BNY, and iCapital. The terms of the investment were not revealed, but reports indicate the investment totaled $50 million. Digital Asset’s valuation in June 2025 was… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The crypto ETF ecosystem has grown considerably in size and scope during this past year. VanEck has also added to this activity this last month when it launched the VanEck Solana ETF (VSOL), which is now reportedly the third SOL ETF in the United States… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) released survey data, revealing AI’s influence and overall impact in commerce / shopping and spending, a generational shift in consumer spending behavior, and emerging payments trends this festive season. Bruce Cundiff, vice president, Consumer Insights at Visa said: “The data tells… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 12:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ostium Labs has raised $24 million, which includes $20 million Series A led by Catalyst and Jump Crypto, plus a previously unannounced $4 million strategic round. The total raised to date is set at $27.8 million. Existing investors include Balaji Srinivasan, Localglobe, Susquehanna International Group… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 12:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since their founding back in 2013, Circle says that it has been focused on their mission of raising global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value. And, for over 1o years in parallel, they’ve deployed their people and technology to expand access to financial… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Santander has published a report on the future of payments in the UK that also highlights concerns about fraud. The survey used data garnered from 3,022 adults (February 2025), 501 SME finance decision-makers, 14 in-depth interviews, and a “London citizens’ jury on crypto and the digital… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 10:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bullish (NYSE: BLSH), an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services, announced its integration with Immersive Finance, a provider of risk and portfolio analytics. The integration now enables institutional and professional customers to connect their trading activity on Bullish… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Data announced the launch of QVAC Fabric LLM, a new LLM inference runtime and fine-tuning framework that makes it possible to execute, train and personalize large language models on hardware, including consumer GPUs, laptops, and smartphones. What had once reportedly required more high-end cloud… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier, it was revealed that nine large European banks – Banca Sella, CaixaBank, Danske Bank, DekaBank, ING, KBC, Raiffeisen Bank International, SEB, and UniCredit – announced on 25 Sept this year that they had teamed up to launch a MiCAR–compliant stablecoin issuer under the supervision… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com announced that Crypto.com Exchange has integrated with Cede Hub, a platform for digital currency trading competitions designed for active crypto traders. Via this collab, Crypto.com Exchange users can connect their accounts to participate in “structured trading and holding competitions powered by Cede Hub.” As… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Argentinians visit Brazil each year for various reasons such as work, tourism, and family travel. Now, paying in Brazil reportedly became more accessible, because of a new Binance Pay integration that enables Argentinians to use Pix with crypto. As covered, Pix is Brazil’s national instant-payment… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 3:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy Inc (Nasdaq: MSTR) announced the establishment of a US dollar reserve of $1.44 billion and updates to its assumptions underlying its previously issued forward guidance and bitcoin key performance indicator (KPI) targets for the FY ending Dec 31, 2025, which were released on Oct… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 2:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sei has integrated with the prediction market Kalshi. Sei is a blockchain that claims to be the highest Level 1 blockchain that claims to transact at 400ms – faster than any other Layer 1 EVM blockchain. The Sei Giga network upgrade is expected to improve… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 2:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vanguard Group, which claims to be one of the world’s largest asset managers, has reportedly made the decision to permit ETFs and mutual funds that mainly hold crypto-assets to be traded on its platform. Interestingly, this new move goes against a longstanding position that the… Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CertiK has recently joined forces with Korean gaming firm WEMADEin order to launch the Global Alliance of KRW Stablecoin (GAKS), to provide comprehensive security audit services for StableNet, Korea’s dedicated mainnet infrastructure for the complete lifecycle of KRW stablecoins. At blockchain focused CertiK, they claim… Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company providing crypto solutions for businesses, announced that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has approved an “expanded scope” of payment activities for the Major Payment Institution (MPI) license held by its Singapore subsidiary, Ripple Markets APAC Pte. Ltd. (RMA). With… Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinGecko noted that the decentralized crypto exchange or DEX to centralized exchange or CEX spot ratio has more than tripled in the last five years, with DEX spot trading volumes starting “out at just 6.0% of CEX spot volumes in Jan 2021 and growing to… Read More

December 1, 2025 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Nobody seems to love crypto anymore. Bitcoin is down by almost 8% over the last 24 hours, with Ethereum (ETH) down by over 10%. There is plenty of speculation as to why people are selling, but there are also reports of people anticipating a bounce… Read More