Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 20, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan now argues that the Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act is unlikely to halt the cryptocurrency rally that began in early July. In a September 16 memo, he recast the legislative setback as a temporary obstacle rather than… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Chain’s fee boom has unwound far faster than its traffic. After a memecoin-led spike made the young Ethereum layer-2 one of the costliest networks to use, daily gas revenue has collapsed while transaction counts and trading flows have stayed close to their recent peaks…. Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KalshiEX has asked US regulators for permission to list perpetual futures tied to individual American stocks, placing the prediction-markets firm in the same race as Coinbase to bring a crypto-style derivative into traditional equities. On September 18, 2026, KalshiEX filed a proposed rule change with… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 12:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland’s state-controlled energy group Orlen is facing one of its costliest trading setbacks after a late-2023 attempt to secure cheap Venezuelan crude unraveled. The arrangement, handled through its Swiss trading arm, Orlen Trading Switzerland, was meant to lock in about six million barrels of heavy… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde personally pressed Greek leaders to stop Binance from receiving a pan-European crypto license, according to a Wall Street Journal account published in mid-September 2026. The report, based on people familiar with the talks and related documents, describes an… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional crypto technology firm Haruko has told customers that a targeted intrusion into its own systems reached a limited group of users. The London company supplies portfolio, risk and trade-data tools that sit between hedge funds and the exchanges they use. In messages to clients,… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenEden has expanded its tokenized credit product HYBOND onto BNB Chain, pairing the deployment with RedStone’s pricing and planned settlement tools. The move marks the fund’s first network expansion after its original launch on Ethereum and brings a BNY-managed high-yield bond strategy into a larger… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

S&P Global has agreed to buy OpenZeppelin, a move that pairs one of the best-known names in credit ratings and market data with a firm that has spent a decade building security standards for blockchain-based finance. The companies announced the deal on September 17, 2026…. Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BMLL Technologies has struck a partnership with Kalshi that brings the prediction-market venue’s historical order-book records onto BMLL’s institutional data platform. Announced on 17 September 2026 from London and New York, the deal folds Kalshi’s CFTC-regulated event-contract history into the same high-fidelity, multi-asset coverage that… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 12:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

While some see crypto and digital asset services as a negative for traditional finance, more specifically, smaller firms, the reality is quite different. All forms of finance will enter the digital age including digital assets like tokenized securities, stablecoins and other assets. This week, Coinbase… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

A seismic shift for global finance as the US regulator brings the $75 trillion plus US equity market into the digital age As the tokenization market is predicted to quickly top trillions of dollars in securities within a few years, global participants in the tokenization… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US officials have added an Iranian digital asset platform to the sanctions list, saying it helped move large bitcoin payments tied to Tehran’s security apparatus. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the designations on September 17, 2026, as part of Operation Economic… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 6:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based stablecoin payments company dtcpay has completed its Series A financing at US$25 million after bringing Japan’s SBI Group in as a strategic investor. The round was first led earlier in 2026 by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. SBI Group is participating through SBI… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 5:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

WisdomTree (NYSE: WT) and MoonPay have unveiled a partnership aimed at widening how eligible American investors can reach tokenized investment products, with the first focus on a digital Treasury money-market fund. The firms said they will use MoonPay’s payments and blockchain rails to create a… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payward, the company behind Kraken, has outlined plans to give eligible U.S. customers access to perpetual futures that settle and match on a public blockchain rather than a conventional centralized venue. The first destination would be Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework, which lets a third party create,… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

North Korea has expanded a covert campaign to place information-technology staff inside American firms by recruiting people in third countries to help hide the true origin of job applicants, according to US officials and cybersecurity researchers. The effort previously relied heavily on stolen US identities… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 10:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

X Money, the Fintech segment of social media platform X, has added a new trading pathway to its cashtag system, giving US users a shorter route from market conversation to an actual brokerage or crypto exchange. The company announced the US Cashtag Partner Program on… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s police have advanced a months-long inquiry into domestic use of Polymarket from investigation into formal charging. Twenty-six local participants on the crypto prediction platform have been booked on suspicion of illegal gambling, and 18 of those cases have already been sent to prosecutors…. Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) has opened the public mainnet of Arc, an open Layer-1 blockchain the company positions as infrastructure for markets, fast settlement, and automated onchain activity. The network went live on September 16, 2026, after a private mainnet period and a public… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 4:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a pioneer in the tokenization sector, has commented on the Innovation Exemption order published by the Securities and Exchange Commission today.  The innovation exemption supports tokenized assets or digital securities. A tokenized securities venue, or TSV, can trade tokenized NMS stocks (NYSE/Nasdaq listings) through… Read More