Blockchain & Digital Assets

September 9, 2026 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Tazapay, a Singapore-based specialist in business-to-business cross-border payments. The announcement, made on September 8, 2026, positions the transaction as a way to broaden Circle’s payments infrastructure and… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 6:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A coalition of market operators, including Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) and Börse Stuttgart Group, has urged European Union lawmakers to revisit and strengthen proposed updates to the bloc’s distributed ledger technology framework. The group argues that current and planned restrictions, particularly an aggregate activity limit of… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

El Salvador has not directed taxpayer money toward additional bitcoin purchases since the first review of its IMF-backed loan program last June, according to the International Monetary Fund. Officials in San Salvador instead supplied records showing that coins added after that review arrived as private… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US and UK based investigators have opened a new chapter in the fight against industrial-scale cryptocurrency fraud. On September 3, 2026, officials from both countries signed a first-of-its-kind memorandum of understanding that commits them to pursue the overseas compounds behind investment and romance scams that… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 12:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A SWIFT service provider has teamed up with Chainlink in a move designed to give hundreds of banks a simpler path onto blockchain networks. Bottomline, frequently described as one of the three largest firms that help institutions use the Swift messaging system, entered a strategic… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 12:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monero (XMR) trading has grown more fragmented after successive exchange delistings, and that fragmentation now shows up in liquidity and pricing. Traders who want XMR cannot actually treat every single swap path as interchangeable. They have to compare routes because the same pair, quoted at… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland’s financial sector has taken another step toward exploring a digital Swiss franc. On 8 September 2026, organizers of the CHF Stablecoin Sandbox confirmed that the project has entered its live testing phase and that two additional partners — SIX and TWINT — have joined… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cronos, the Layer 1 network associated with Crypto.com, has released its official accounting of the August 30 attack on Tectonic. The review confirms that more than $9 million extracted during the incident remains outside the chain’s reach. Validators later rolled the ledger back and reversed… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wall Street research firm Bernstein has restated a constructive view on Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD), arguing that the brokerage’s proprietary blockchain is already contributing meaningful profit rather than remaining a speculative experiment. Analysts led by Gautam Chhugani kept an Outperform rating and a $160 price objective. That… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum’s core protocol teams have begun shaping the next major network upgrade, Hegotá, while setting a firm long-range goal: a Layer 1 that can withstand quantum computers by the end of 2029. The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster published its first unified assessment of the work… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin has had a good few weeks. In mid-August, BTC experienced a bounce after a couple of sleep months stuck in the doldrums. Coinshares Senior Portfolio Manager Marc des Ligneris see renewed investor interest as partially driven by the US Department of the Treasury’s bond… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS (SGX: D05) and Citi (NYSE: C) have shown that commercial banks can move US dollars across the Pacific on a Saturday, without waiting for Monday morning clearing windows. On 5 September 2026, the two institutions completed a live dollar transfer between DBS in Singapore… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 1:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Metaplanet’s (TYO: 3350) stock weakened again after Chief Executive Simon Gerovich tried to answer shareholder criticism in a public note and left the market unconvinced. The Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company dropped nearly 10 percent on Tuesday to 244 yen, after a 7.5 percent decline on… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 12:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom’s financial industry is entering a more demanding stage of market digitalization. Proof-of-concept work has already shown that distributed ledger technology can represent bonds, funds and other assets as tokens. The harder question now is whether Britain will help set the operating standards… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sweden’s tax authority has intensified its scrutiny of cryptocurrency mining operations, issuing substantial additional tax assessments against several firms based in the northern town of Boden. Skatteverket has determined that six companies must pay nearly 540 million kronor—roughly 56 million dollars—in back taxes after concluding… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A large share of cryptocurrency-related profits generated in France appears to have gone undeclared, according to new on-chain analysis from blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis. The company’s Crypto Tax Report estimates that French residents generated about $9.4 billion in potentially taxable crypto activity during 2025. That… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly rejected a high-profile forecast that artificial intelligence will trigger a sharp collapse in Bitcoin. In a September 7 exchange on X, he said he stands on the opposite side of a claim that AI will erode confidence in Bitcoin’s… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Washington State regulators have moved to sanction a major cryptocurrency kiosk operator, arguing that gaps in its compliance systems left consumers—especially older residents—exposed to fraud and unfair charges. On September 3, 2026, the Washington Department of Financial Institutions announced a Statement of Charges against GPD… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 7:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors have secured a guilty plea from a Mexican citizen accused of helping move millions of dollars in narcotics profits out of the United States through digital assets. Carlos Erick Vazquez Gonzalez, 48, admitted on September 4, 2026, to taking part in a money-laundering… Read More

September 8, 2026 @ 3:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The operator behind the so-called Wave 3 cluster of Coldcard hardware-wallet thefts has begun systematically cashing out stolen bitcoin after weeks of inactivity, according to a Monday update from Galaxy Research. Galaxy’s on-chain team says the actor created 293 separate 2-of-2 multisignature vaults, one for… Read More