Blockchain & Digital Assets

November 5, 2025 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO Group, Inc., a key player focused on blockchain and tokenization for capital markets, and Voatz, a firm specializing in secure mobile voting, announced a collaboration in order to deliver blockchain‑backed proxy voting. tZERO as well as its broker-dealer subsidiaries were reportedly among the first… Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rain, the enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, has recently announced plans to participate in the Western Union Digital Asset Network in order to bring everyday cash access to clients. This integration enables users to convert stablecoins held in Rain-powered wallets into local cash payouts at… Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UBS  (NYSE:UBS) announces the “first” completion of an in-production, end-to-end tokenized fund workflow leveraging the Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard. The completion of the first on-chain subscription and redemption request of the UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund Token (uMINT), a Money Market… Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 9:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Last month, an event was held in Vienna where Europol, UNODC, and the Basel Institute on Governance joined to discuss criminal activity in the crypto sector. In brief, the group sees crypto-crime as becoming more sophisticated. Burkhard Mühl, Head of Europol’s European Financial and Economic… Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenovate, a UK-based Fintech offering post-trade solutions, has announced a new service called Novat, which is described as providing programmable settlements for tokenized assets. As all asset classes, including securities, become digital or tokenized, there are opportunities for innovators to provide modern services to capital… Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearstream, a provider of post-trade services and part of Deutsche Börse Group, has launched a tokenized securities platform: D7 DLT. With D7 DLT, Clearstream facilitates the issuance and management of securities, based on distributed-ledger technology (DLT) and compliant with the central securities depository regulation (CSDR)…. Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial tech firm that provides crypto solutions for businesses, announced the acquisition of digital asset wallet and custody firm, Palisade. The acquisition will now further expand Ripple’s custody capabilities to serve the needs of fintechs, crypto-native firms, as well as corporates. Ripple Custody… Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle (CRCL:NYSE) says that its Developer Grants aim to offer more than just financial support. The USDC stablecoin issuer explained that they’re actually serving as a launchpad for so-called “bold” thinkers shaping the next era of onchain finance. With USDC and Circle’s suite of APIs… Read More

November 5, 2025 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cipher Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFR) has recently announced its third quarter 2025 financial results, as well as an update on its overall operations and business strategy, including key corporate developments. Tyler Page, the Chief Executive Officer has noted that the third quarter of 2025 was… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for global businesses, has recently announced the launch of digital asset spot prime brokerage capabilities for the US market. Now, US-based institutional clients are reportedly able to execute OTC spot transactions across “dozens of digital assets… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 1:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan  (NYSE:JPM) revealed this past week that it will be further extending its Kinexys blockchain beyond simple payments and repo trading into the back-office infrastructure supporting fast-growing private markets. The US banking institution stated this past Thursday that its asset and wealth management units, along… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 1:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A legal representative for US Senator Elizabeth Warren is now defending a social media post in which the lawmaker alleged that “corruption” somehow led to the October 23, 2025 presidential pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao or “CZ”. A lawyer said to be representing Zhao… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 12:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WisdomTree, Inc. (NYSE: WT), a global financial services firm, announced it has appointed The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY) (NYSE: BK), a financial services provider, as its core banking-as-a-service infrastructure provider for WisdomTree Prime, the firm’s retail platform for tokenized assets and cryptocurrency…. Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global enabler of payment services, and Fipto, a European fintech providing stablecoin payment infrastructure, announced a partnership to look into how stablecoins may enhance settlement and payment services across Europe. Through collaboration, Worldline and Fipto are helping build the payment infrastructure… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Concordium is announcing a partnership with Transak, a global fiat-to-crypto payment gateway, expanding access to CCD, the native token of the Concordium blockchain. The integration is now live, enabling users to interact with CCD through Transak’s on-ramp infrastructure. According to the update, the impact of… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, announced that several of the world’s development and humanitarian nonprofit organizations – including World Central Kitchen, Water.org, GiveDirectly, and Mercy Corps – are leveraging Ripple Payments and the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin to help… Read More

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

Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) (previously doing business as MicroStrategy) has reportedly acquired an additional 397 bitcoins for around $45.6 million at an average quoted price of about $114,000 per BTC between October 27 and November 2, 2025. This, according to a recent 8-K filing… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a global provider of brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to crypto, stocks, ETFs, options, and fixed income, announced that it joined Global Dollar Network (GDN). This should offer clients access to USDG on Solana, one of the “most used” blockchains with reported benefits such… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ/TSX: GLXY) announced its integration with Coinbase Prime (NASDAQ: COIN) – a full service platform that combines liquidity and institutional-grade custody supporting institutions by powering their staking solutions. Via this latest collaboration, Coinbase Prime clients can access Galaxy’s staking infrastructure – placing… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Global Digital Finance (GDF) has reported the results of an initiative to test the viability of Tokenized Money Market Funds (TMMF). As part of the working group 30 firms participated in the GDF Industry Sandbox, powered by Ownera, the firm which operates the FinP2P routers… Read More