Blockchain & Digital Assets

December 25, 2025 @ 12:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen is announcing what they describe as a new chapter in their journey: Joint Venture Protocols (JVPs). Blockchain analytics firm Nansen has been built to help users navigate onchain markets with greater clarity and potentially more conviction. As the web3 and crypto matures and evolves,… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis noted that the policy agenda for 2026 is full of deadlines and developments. In the United States, market structure legislation will remain on the policy agenda, even though it is somewhat uncertain at this time just how quickly Congress will be able to resume… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has partnered with Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) to add stablecoin funding to its broad range of traditional sources of funding, which include consumer deposits, long-term loans and short-dated commercial paper. The digital bank intends to raise short-term funding… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 9:23 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 community weighs in on the AI’s intersection with Fintech and blockchain in 2026. “AI is enabling CFOs to move beyond reporting to prediction. In AP/AR, generative and predictive AI are powering intelligent invoice routing, anomaly detection, automated dispute resolution, and cash-flow forecasting.” –… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gemini Predictions, which is part of Gemini Spacestation (NASDAQ:GEMI), has recently announced that it listed several new contracts featuring various key events in the Sports and Politics categories, expanding the number of offerings on their prediction markets platform after they had just launched last week…. Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Architect Financial Technologies Inc. announced the completion of a $35 million strategic Series A investment round. The funding will now aim to accelerate the growth of AX, the financial industry’s centralized exchange for perpetual futures on traditional asset classes, “launched by the company last month.”… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbax has reportedly raised $4.2 million in seed funding to accelerate development of its programmable trust layer for stablecoin payments. The round was led by BankTech Ventures, with participation from Connecticut Innovations, Paxos, SpringTime Ventures, and other banking and payments industry participants. According to the… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), the largest U.S. bank in terms of assets and scope of operations, is assessing the potential to provide cryptocurrency trading services to its institutional clients. This move involves evaluating spot and derivatives products for assets like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21X – Europe’s DLT trading and settlement system under the EU DLT Regime – and SOOHO.IO – the Korean blockchain fintech powering Project Namsan, an institutional consortium building a stablecoin ecosystem for FX and programmable payments – announced they are exploring a collaboration. This tie-up… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 9:43 pm By Michael Wong  |  

  North Korea-linked hackers stole more than half of the over $2.7 billion taken in cryptocurrency hacks in 2025, as the country’s cyber operators increasingly targeted the operational infrastructure of major exchanges and outsourced the “cash-out” stage to a web of Chinese underground brokers, blockchain… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 2:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CertiK has noted that privacy coins are cryptocurrencies engineered to significantly improve user anonymity by effectively obscuring transaction data (such as sender identities, transaction amounts, transaction history, etc.). CertiK explained that, unlike pseudonymous virtual currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), privacy coins tend to employ more… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 1:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs policy team’s Ari Redbord and Angela Ang were joined by TRM’s EMEA Compliance Advisor Luke Dufour for a review of what mattered most in global crypto policy in Q4 2025. As jurisdictions across the globe move from rule‑setting to execution, the crypto and… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis noted that stablecoins have reportedly crossed the chasm from trading utility to live, programmable payment channels that are able to regularly settle value in “minutes, 24/7/365, across borders and applications.” Chainalysis also mentioned that banks now face both demand to serve and margins to… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinGecko noted that MYX Finance (MYX) is now by “far” the top crypto gainer this year, achieving the highest YTD price returns of 3,358.15% among the largest market cap crypto assets. The BNB Chain-native derivatives protocol launched its token at “around $0.097 on May 6… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NYDIG noted that DATs or digital asset treasuries are now making billion-dollar financing moves based on rather “inconsistent, loosely defined metrics, risking major strategic missteps.” NYDIG pointed out recently in a blog post that with several companies trading right around “1x mNAV,” small changes in… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 4:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hana Securities announced it gained exposure to a Digitally Native Note (DNN) through a Total Return Swap (TRS) structure, marking their entry into the digital bond market. The investment aligns with their strategy to participate in tech-driven capital-market innovation. Standard Chartered acted as the TRS… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 1:40 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

AIQuant Labs has launched DexTrader.ai, a machine learning-powered investment platform designed to bring institutional-grade DEX trading and tokenized real-world assets into a single, fully on-chain experience. DexTrader.ai addresses two of the most prevalent problems confronting crypto investors: the difficulty of consistently trading fast-moving DEX markets,… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 8:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has assessed a $3,500,000 civil money penalty against Paxful, Inc. and Paxful USA, Inc. (collectively doing business as, Paxful) for its (alleged) willful violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the primary U.S. anti-money laundering… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperliquid (HYPE) is currently available to purchase, sell, and store on digital assets platform Gemini via HyperEVM. As explained in the update from Gemini, Hyperliquid (HYPE) is an EVM native L1 blockchain and decentralized “everything exchange” launched back in 2023. It was reportedly designed for… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 12:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Blockchain Association, a leading advocate for blockchain-friendly policy, has added DoubleZero as a new member. DoubleZero is a blockchain enabler, providing a high-performance global network to reduce latency for “everyone everywhere.” Starting with Solana, DoubleZero has its eyes on other networks. As blockchain grows… Read More