Blockchain & Digital Assets

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

September 11, 2026 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

There is never a shortage of Bitcoin price prognosticators. The world’s most popular crypto is highly volatile, if anything. Its capped issuance leads some to point to its inflation-fighting credibility. If demand increases while supply stays steady, prices must rise. Yesterday, Brian Armstrong, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN)… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has restored the Coinbase Wallet name to the self-custodial app it relaunched as Base App in July 2025. The change, confirmed on September 10, 2026, marks a clear shift away from a social-first “everything app” and back toward fast, permissionless trading across many… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A collaborative research effort involving more than 100 participants and AI coding agents has sharply lowered a widely cited measure of the quantum resources needed for a core arithmetic step in a theoretical attack on the elliptic-curve signatures used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. The work,… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange Gemini (NASDAQ:GEMI) has completed a long-running regulatory process in Singapore, and its local subsidiary now holds a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The approval, announced by the company in early September 2026, authorizes Gemini Digital Payments Singapore Pte. Ltd…. Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 12:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) is expanding its role in digital finance by pairing its traditional settlement network with blockchain-based credit tools. On September 8, 2026, the payments company outlined a model meant to help fintechs and issuers of stablecoin-linked cards obtain working capital more quickly than… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 11:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinCorner and AnchorWatch have brought a new insured Bitcoin custody option to everyday holders, pairing exchange-account convenience with multi-signature control and coverage arranged through Lloyd’s of London.Isle of Man-based CoinCorner, a Bitcoin and Lightning company that has served customers for more than a decade, has… Read More