Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 14, 2026 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Caroline Ellison, the former head of Alameda Research, has begun working at the nonprofit grant platform Manifund. Co-founder Austin Chen made the news public on September 11, 2026, explaining that Ellison will help improve the organization’s funding tools and study better ways to steer philanthropic… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Senator Cynthia Lummis, a member of the Senate Banking Committee and a keen supporter of digital asset innovation, says that some Democrats simply won’t support the CLARITY Act no matter what. The CLARITY Act is scheduled for a cloture vote tomorrow (Tuesday, September 14, 2026)… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea‘s crypto investors have again pressed lawmakers to postpone a long-delayed tax on virtual-asset profits, after a National Assembly petition calling for a two-year grace period cleared the 50,000-signature threshold needed for committee review. Regulatory and finance officials, however, have given little indication that they… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple USD (RLUSD) has grown into one of the larger regulated dollar stablecoins, with net circulating supply recently topping an all-time high of about $2.44 billion before settling near $2.42 billion. That expansion looks like a success story for Ripple’s dual-chain product. A closer look… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 7:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sage Capital Management has chosen OpenPayd to widen the fiat payment options available to its institutional digital-asset clients. The live connection, announced on 9 September 2026, adds dollar, euro and sterling rails so firms can move funds into and out of crypto markets through a… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lightning Development Kit version 0.2.6, published on September 9, 2026, closes two security problems that could have affected applications built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. One issue allowed a hostile channel partner to siphon a modest amount of value during a splice. The other could leave… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reversed course last week, posting more than $460 million in net withdrawals after three straight weeks of inflows. Ethereum products moved in the opposite direction, finishing the same holiday-shortened stretch with nearly $200 million in net creations. The Bitcoin… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator is examining whether some digital representations of physical gold should sit outside existing fund rules, as part of a wider push to modernise wholesale markets and keep London at the centre of global bullion trading. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The time has come for the US Senate to determine if the US is going to move forward with profoundly vital crypto market legislation. The CLARITY Act is expected to come to a vote tomorrow for cloture and to open up the bill for debate…. Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenovate shares that it has completed an intra-day repurchase agreement (Repo) on the Canton Network using the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM), utilzing USDC. Tokenovate is a UK-based Fintech enabling post-trade lifecycle automation and digital settlement solutions. Canton is  a privacy-enabled blockchain network built for… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Plenty of heavy hitters came out of the Labor Day weekend with product releases and partnerships, including Visa, Mastercard, Ant, Nu, and Marqeta. Visa, Mastercard and Ant to develop agent trust framework The trio hopes to build a trust framework that will help agentic commerce… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satsuma Technology PLC (LSE:SATS),  a United Kingdom company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has completed the sale of its entire Bitcoin treasury and secured court clearance to send the resulting cash back to investors. The firm disposed of 669.4867 Bitcoin in late July and will… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise is ending its spot Dogecoin exchange-traded product less than a year after it began trading, closing a short chapter in the first wave of US memecoin ETFs. On September 10, 2026, Bitwise Investment Advisers said it would liquidate the Bitwise Dogecoin ETF, listed on… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s rebound has lifted sentiment, yet CryptoQuant’s latest research argues that a new bull market has not been confirmed. After a roughly 24 percent advance over two weeks, the BTC price stalled inside a $76,000–$82,000 band and was trading near $77,000 when the firm published… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has expanded the artificial intelligence tools inside its enterprise treasury platform, positioning the update as a more controlled way for corporate finance teams to use AI without handing over final authority on money movement. On September 10, 2026, the company said it is broadening… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse, a digital assets focused firm currently based in Zug, is preparing a far-reaching reorganization that would transfer a large share of its Swiss workforce to operations in other countries. The company, founded in 2013, currently employs about 120 people in Switzerland and roughly… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured an unprecedented influx of cash from two cryptocurrency billionaires, who together handed the party £72 million in the space of a day. The gifts, each worth £36 million, rank as the largest individual donations ever recorded to a British… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 9:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stablecoins, in one way or another, dominate this edition of Web3 thoughts of the week. Lawyers speak out on the CLARITY Act, too. Stablecoins “The number of issuers is expanding quickly. A consortium of 21 financial institutions plans to launch a dollar stablecoin in 2027,… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoins are beginning to rewrite the playbook for global remittances, a market that has operated on aging infrastructure for decades. A Solana Foundation report argues that digital dollars on high-throughput blockchains can cut costs, speed settlement, and expand access in ways traditional money-transfer rails have… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Chime hits its Stride in $590M deal Chime has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stride Bank, N.A. for $590 million in cash. Stride is a nationally chartered bank that has been Chime’s bank partner for more than seven years. Upon closing, Stride will… Read More