Blockchain & Digital Assets

November 27, 2025 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoonPay, the global enabler of crypto payments, has recently announced that the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has authorized the MoonPay Trust Company, LLC, a New York Limited Purpose Trust Company (LPTC), to begin offering its services to customers. The charter authorizes… Read More

November 27, 2025 @ 5:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Animoca Brands announced it has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, the international financial center of Abu Dhabi, the Capital of the UAE, to operate as a regulated Fund Manager. Currently subject to the fulfillment of conditions and… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 9:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

RateX, a Solana-based yield trading protocol, has raised $10.4 million across three funding rounds over the past two years, including a recently completed $7 million strategic round. The latest raise includes participation from Animoca Ventures, ECHO, GSR, Crypto.com Capital, Gate, Rzong Capital, BGX Capital, and… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the world’s derivatives marketplace, announced that its Cryptocurrency futures and options suite achieved an all-time daily volume record of 794,903 contracts on November 21. The new high now reportedly overtakes the previous record of “728,475 contracts set on Aug 22, 2025.” Giovanni Vicioso,… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 4:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), a European Fintech that operates in the US, is planning to launch a dollar-based stablecoin. Klarna, best known for credit and payments, said it would be issuing KlarnaUSD using Stripe’s stablecoin infrastructure, “Open Issuance,” which is powered by Bridge. The stablecoin is currently… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking nominations for its CEO Innovation Council. Applicants must be received by December 8th. Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham aims to support ongoing innovation and updated market structure rules. The CFTC’s Crypto Sprint to implement the President’s Working… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Exodus Movement, Inc. (NYSE: EXOD), a self-custodial cryptocurrency platform, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire W3C Corp, the parent entity of Monavate Holdings Ltd. and its subsidiaries (collectively, Monavate) and Baanx.com Ltd. and Baanx US Corp, two providers of card and… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 12:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gibraltar-based Xapo Bank has announced a new Bitcoin yield product. The company says that following strong initial demand from early access individuals, the product is now available to all of their customers. The Xapo BTC Credit Fund is a product that aims to enable participants… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase  (NASDAQ:COIN) noted in a blog post on November 22, 2025 that they had been migrating funds from their internal legacy wallets to new wallets. According to the update from Coinbase, security is considered to be the foundation of everything they aim to do and… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 7:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset liquidity provider, Hyphe, has reportedly received a MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets) license from German regulator, Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin). MiCA is intended to be a comprehensive EU framework for harmonizing crypto-asset rules across its member states. Its goals and objectives are to provide… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 4:07 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

YouHodler’s chief of markets, Ruslan Lienkha, believes macro factors have been a significant factor in Bitcoin and crypto markets of late. He also shares his predictions for 2026. Are we seeing more macro-driven pressure (rates, inflation data, liquidity) or crypto-native factors (ETF flows, miner behavior,… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 6:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Investor Advisory Committee has scheduled its next meeting to take place on December 4th. The meeting will host two panels of interest. First, a discussion about changes in corporate governance; second, a discussion of the tokenization of securities. The… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 4:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

The practice of “debanking” has emerged once again, with reports that JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) is pursuing the discriminatory practice. Debanking was prevalent during the Biden years. Effectively, banks would sever relationships with individuals or entities deemed unsavory for political views or activities out of favor… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 2:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anchorage Digital Bank, a federally chartered financial institution, will soon offer rewards on certain stablecoin offerings. Nathan McCauley, CEO and co-founder of Anchorage Digital, said they are setting the standard in digital dollars: “The launch of America’s first federally regulated stablecoin was a major milestone… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 2:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ondo Finance has made a $25 million investment in YLDS, which is described as the yield-bearing stablecoin issued by Figure Certificate Company (FCC), a subsidiary of Figure Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:FIGR). This investment will now reportedly be used as part of the backing of the Ondo… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 2:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross River Bank, a tech infrastructure provider that offers embedded financial solutions, announced the launch of its offering to power stablecoin payments. Integrated directly with Cross River’s real-time core, COS, the offering unifies fiat and stablecoin flows through a single, interoperable system–enabling firms to move… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 2:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KryptoByte, which is reportedly seeking to transform stranded energy into digital assets, is pleased to announce a partnership with Archax, a UK based digital asset exchange, broker and custodian. Archax will become the custodian for Bitcoin generated and acquired by KryptoByte and will aim to… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the fintech shaping the future of investing, has recently announced the deployment of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to support Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Wealth Management’s alternatives business. This latest initiative is part of iCapital’s broader strategy to drive digital transformation and deliver seamless connectivity, enhancing… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Caesar, the AI co-research platform, has become the crypto-native firm to take steps towards issuing onchain equity via a partnership with Centrifuge. Such a deployment would create a precedent for how token-native startups can mature into “equity-based, investor-ready companies.” Tokenized markets have surpassed $30 billion… Read More

November 25, 2025 @ 10:45 am By Michael Wong  |  

Grab Holdings and Singapore-based stablecoin issuer StraitsX have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore building Web3-linked wallets and a stablecoin settlement network, the companies said. The partnership could let Grab users pay merchants across Asian markets using regulated digital tokens, per the announcement. Under… Read More