Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 30, 2026 @ 10:19 am By JD Alois  |  

This week, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, part of the US Senate, published a report on Iran and its use of crypto and shadow banking to evade financial sanctions. The report focused much of its information on Iran’s use of Tether, the issuer of USDT,… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:41 am By JD Alois  |  

The United Kingdom has launched regulated crypto activities. Previously, crypto firms operated under a mix of limited registrations and opaque rules as policymakers worked to update the regulatory regime. These firms now fall under the remit of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which issued… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin is pressing into a densely packed band of long-term holder supply just as derivatives leverage has been stripped from the market. Glassnode’s latest on-chain maps show that more coins held by addresses inactive for months sit between $84,000 and $85,000 than in any other… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s regulated capital markets have taken a notable step toward integrating public blockchain infrastructure. CSD BR, a licensed registrar, central securities depository and settlement system, has launched the first stage of a partnership with Ripple that places selected ownership records on the XRP Ledger while… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is preparing to give US retail traders two capabilities that have long been more common in crypto markets than in traditional brokerage apps: perpetual futures and weekend trading in selected stocks and ETFs. The company outlined the plans at its HOOD Summit…. Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 4:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-chain bridges remain one of crypto’s most expensive weak points. They move value from one network to another, but they typically have no cryptographic way to confirm that the destination address is controlled by the same person who made the deposit. A substituted payout address… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 3:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a detailed essay arguing that the network is rapidly outgrowing the conventional idea of a blockchain. In “The Cryptographic World Computer,” he describes a hybrid system that fuses classic blockchain consensus with modern cryptographic tools and large-scale off-chain computation…. Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 2:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has taken on an expanded role within institutional blockchain infrastructure after being named a Super Validator on the Canton Network. The appointment, disclosed on 28 September 2026, builds on work already under way through LSEG’s Digital Settlement House, or DiSH,… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 12:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

An on-chain investigator has tied a long run of memecoin launches on Robinhood Chain to what he describes as one repeating extraction operation. On September 27, 2026, the analyst known as Wazz published a thread arguing that the same crew could be linked to 53… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

California Governor Gavin Newsom has approved a package of ethics and consumer protection measures that includes a first-of-its-kind state ban on public officials issuing memecoins. The announcement from his office on September 27, 2026, was framed in blunt political terms as “THE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP,”… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SoFi, Mastercard partner on card payment stablecoin settlement The system connects blockchain-based settlement and established card infrastructure. Stablecoins will settle transactions within the normal card experience. Moov Money built on Visa, Mastercard rails Moov Money enables consumers to send and receive money through their existing… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Blockchain Association, one of Washington’s most prominent digital-asset advocacy groups, is preparing for a leadership change. Current chief executive Summer Mersinger will leave the role on October 16, 2026. Founding leader Kristin Smith is expected to return the next day as interim CEO while… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana’s planned consensus rewrite has moved from a closed rehearsal environment onto the network’s public test clusters, a step core engineers have treated as the start of the formal activation path. Anza, the firm that maintains the Agave validator client, said Alpenglow completed its testnet… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR), the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, is asking common shareholders to approve a shift to daily dividend accruals on four of its Nasdaq-listed preferred securities: STRC, STRD, STRF, and STRK. The board backed the plan on September 24, 2026,… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aiden Pleterski, the Ontario man who branded himself a “crypto king” on social media, is scheduled to stand trial next week on fraud and money-laundering charges without a lawyer. An Ontario Superior Court judge rejected his last-minute bid for more time to hire counsel, meaning… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

BAGEY, Baillie Gifford’s Enhanced Yield Fund, a regulated investment fund, is said to be the UK’s first authorized tokenized fund. According to a note from Anchorage Digital, it will provide digital asset custody for the offering, along with other services. Baillie Gifford is a UK-based… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal appellate panel has cleared the way for Ohio and Tennessee to apply their sports-wagering statutes to Kalshi, a prediction markets operator that lists contracts tied to sporting outcomes. On September 25, 2026, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional money returned to bitcoin in force last week, even as policy and geopolitics offered little comfort. U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded products absorbed about $2.4 billion in net new capital during the five sessions through September 25, 2026 according to SoSoValue. That was the strongest… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain.com, one of the longest-standing firms in digital-asset services, is preparing a push toward public markets this year as conditions in cryptocurrency trading begin to improve. According to people briefed on the discussions, the company has been approaching potential investors with plans for a listing… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s top intelligence agency has recently issued yet another pointed reminder that cryptocurrency does not place users beyond legal scrutiny. In a public warning released on September 28, 2026, the Ministry of State Security argued that digital assets have been adopted by offenders seeking to… Read More