Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 13, 2026 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut customers have been told that a subset of their most sensitive records was released after the company treated a fraudulent information demand as a genuine government inquiry. The episode became public on 11–12 September 2026 after affected users received notices and investigators circulated excerpts…. Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) chief executive officer Vlad Tenev has restated that publicly traded companies should not automatically possess the power to block third-party stock tokens linked to their shares. The comments, published Friday on his X account, extend a public disagreement with AMC Entertainment (NYSE:… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Metaplanet (TYO: 3350) has reversed a large part of its executive equity package after investors objected to how much dilution the awards could create. The Tokyo-listed bitcoin treasury company said its board approved another rewrite of the Series 10 stock acquisition rights, shrinking the pool… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal regulators have quietly authorized multiple inquiries into unusual activity on a major prediction-markets platform, according to internal records released through a public-records request. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) signed off on at least three previously undisclosed probes into Polymarket event contracts tied to… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 1:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s capital market regulator has begun a closely watched experiment that could reshape how corporate debt is issued, recorded and paid for. At the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra and Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman Tuhin… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth management professionals are showing growing interest in digital assets, even as most have yet to put client money to work in the space. That mixed picture emerged after Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen and Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan spoke to a room… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin, Etheruem, Solana, other digital assets briefly advanced after August US inflation figures arrived close to forecasts, then slipped again over the weekend as trading thinned. BTC, ETH, SOL and many smaller tokens rose Friday when markets judged that the Consumer Price Index did not… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Andreessen Horowitz has become one of the most recent backers of Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based company whose license-plate readers, cameras, drones and audio sensors now operate across thousands of US based communities. The firm led Flock’s 2021 Series D round and returned to lead a… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 2:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Julian Sawyer is handing over day-to-day leadership at Zodia Custody and moving into a strategic advisory role. The change was set out in a 10 September note to staff and later confirmed by the digital assets focused firm. He framed the shift as a natural… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Harmony has formally proposed shutting down its independent Layer 1 blockchain and moving its native ONE token onto Ethereum. In a September 6 post, the project said pressure from state-backed attackers and AI agents had become too severe to keep operating a standalone network. Mainnet… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 12:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Diameter Pay has raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand a payments platform built around U.S. dollar accounts, conventional payment rails, and stablecoin on- and off-ramps. CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction co-led the equity round. SixThirty Ventures, the Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 6:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Canada’s federal banking watchdog has given financial institutions clearer room to experiment with deposits recorded on digital ledgers. On September 10, 2026, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions published a short statement confirming that a deposit does not become a new legal product… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Italian lender UniCredit is evaluating a broader move into digital assets, including tokenized investment products and crypto-related services that could eventually be offered to clients. The discussions remain early and no final choices have been made, according to people familiar with the matter. The Milan-based… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, the issuer of the world’s most widely used dollar-linked stablecoin, has been publicly thanked by the US Department of Justice for helping investigators disrupt a sprawling marketplace accused of supporting crypto fraud and money laundering. The company said on September 11, 2026, that the… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has asked the US Supreme Court to review his 2023 fraud conviction and the accompanying $11 billion forfeiture order. The petition for a writ of certiorari, filed on September 10, 2026, seeks a new trial… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 5:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

A securities crowdfunding OG has submitted a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on its proposed rule, Regulation Crypto Assets. The SEC has leveraged existing securities exemptions, Reg CF and Reg A, to guide the proposed rules and provide compliant options for… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enterprise demand for stablecoin-backed cards is accelerating, and a new partnership is designed to shorten the path from concept to live product. Wirex, a global stablecoin infrastructure company and principal member of both Visa and Mastercard, has brought Tempo onto its platform as a settlement… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram has introduced a new spending product that turns a dollar-linked digital balance into everyday payments. The company said the MoneyGram Card is now available to eligible users in Colombia, marking the first live market for a Visa-branded card backed by stablecoins rather than a… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On September 9, 2026, US authorities took action against Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese-language marketplace investigators describe as a central hub for Southeast Asia’s industrial-scale online fraud economy. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) listed the platform as a significant transnational criminal organization and also designated… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Payment stablecoins will soon be ubiquitous. Less crypto and more a modern approach to transferring value, stablecoins can enable faster, lower-cost payments if implemented correctly. Fighting against stablecoins makes little sense. Yesterday, Moov and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) announced they’re working together to help community banks enable… Read More