Blockchain & Digital Assets

December 16, 2025 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO Group, Inc., a blockchain-powered multi-asset infrastructure provider, announced a partnership with Polymath, the company behind Polymesh – an L1 blockchain built for real-world assets. The partnership brings together Polymath’s RWA blockchain tech and tZERO’s broker-dealer and tokenization capabilities to support issuers seeking to “tokenize… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Phantom, a crypto wallet trusted by more than 20 million users, and Kalshi, the world’s prediction market, introduced a new way to trade what’s trending. With Phantom Prediction Markets, users can tap into the moments shaping politics, crypto, sports, and culture, discovering markets and watching… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 2:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) today launched its Stablecoins Advisory Practice. The new service by Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) provides actionable insights and recommendations to guide banks, fintechs, merchants, and businesses of all sizes on market fit, strategy, and implementation. As the stablecoin market cap surpasses $250 billion, Visa’s… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management, an affiliate of Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GLXY) announced the forthcoming launch of the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP), which is described as a tokenized private liquidity fund that will aim to unlock the… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Conduit is pleased to announce a partnership with Tempo, incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. This partnership will now offer Tempo’s ecosystem with “performant” as well as “production-ready” RPC infrastructure to build the so-called next generation of finance. As Tempo continues its mission to “upgrade” the… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Avalanche Foundation has recently announced the formal incorporation of a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Foundation within Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), a milestone in Avalanche’s vision to support Web3 adoption, enterprise partnerships, and ecosystem growth across the MENA region. The DLT entity (The Avalanche… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 5:17 pm By Michael Wong  |  

South Korea’s push to tighten rules for virtual assets is moving into a second legislative phase focused on stablecoins, as policymakers and financial firms step up discussions on how won-linked tokens could be issued and used, according to organisers of an industry forum. The second… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 4:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 community weighed in on the crypto year that was and the crypto year that will be. Read more about Bitcoin, stablecoins and price movements below. “Companies that continue positioning themselves solely as Bitcoin holders risk commoditization. The strategic advantage will shift toward those… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) and Chainlink, the self-described industry-standard oracle platform, announced the selection of Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the bridging solution for all Coinbase Wrapped Assets, “enabling cross-chain transfers and expansion.” Coinbase Wrapped Assets, which include crypto tokens cbBTC, cbETH, cbDOGE, cbLTC, cbADA, and cbXRP,… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Interactive Brokers, (NASDAQ:IBKR) is rolling out the ability to accept stablecoins. Interactive Brokers reports over 4 million clients around the world and assets of more than $750 billion. Interactive Brokers is one of the largest electronic brokers based on daily average revenue trades, executing 4,273,000… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange  Commission, Crypto Task Force, is holding another roundtable today (December 15, 2025). The topic of discussion is financial privacy and surveillance. As blockchain technology can provide broad capabilities for monitoring transactions, and the US government has been known to abuse its… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital assets are quickly becoming the norm. Today, JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) announced a new tokenized money market fund –My OnChain Net Yield Fund (MONY). The Fund is available on the Ethereum blockchain and is powered by Kinexys Digital Assets. While it is available today, it… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, ONCHAIN Labs announced ONCHAIN Gateway, an access and routing layer built on the ONCHAIN Protocol Network (OPN, pronounced “open”). Gateway enables anyone to buy verified on-chain assets on demand, directly from fiat or crypto, without centralized listings, custodial intermediaries, or multi-step bridging flows…. Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:55 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Pineapple Financial has launched a mortgage tokenization platform. Pineapple is now converting real-world mortgage records – historically trapped in PDFs, emails, and back-office folders – into secure and programmable digital assets on the Injective blockchain. This is an example of a publicly traded mortgage company… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In October of this year, Grayscale reportedly became the first U.S. issuer to begin staking the ETH and SOL underlying its spot crypto ETFs. According to an update from Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), this made Grayscale one of the first asset managers in the U.S. to provide… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has signed a research partnership with Privy, the wallet infrastructure platform and a Stripe company, to explore, research and co-design potential wallet solutions to power a new generation of crypto products for Klarna users. The… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, announced a partnership with AMINA Bank AG, to “support near real time” cross-border payments for AMINA Bank’s clients using Ripple Payments. AMINA Bank, a Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA-regulated crypto bank with global… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic noted that 2025 has marked a turning point in how governments regulated cryptocurrency. Rather than depending on enforcement actions to shape the fast-evolving industry, jurisdictions across the globe have implemented comprehensive regulatory frameworks with requirements being defined clearly upfront. Elliptic pointed… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 3:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL), one of the world’s internet financial platform companies, announced a regulatory milestone in the United Arab Emirates as it strengthens its presence in the region. Circle has secured a Financial Services Permission (FSP) license from the Financial Services Regulatory… Read More

December 14, 2025 @ 5:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs noted that on December 10, the United States had reportedly seized a large oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast for alleged sanctions evasion, escalating pressure on Nicolás Maduro’s regime and highlighting why, amid rising illicit activity, it is vital to understand the nation’s economic… Read More