Blockchain & Digital Assets

Blockchain, distributed ledger technology, crypto, digital assets, tokenization and stablecoin news.

Blockchain.com Has New Co-CEO, Opens US HQ in Dallas

Blockchain.com has a new co-CEO. Lane Kasselman will now serve as the chief executive officer, sharing responsibilities with Peter Smith, who will remain in the London Global Headquarters acting as CEO and Executive Chairman. At the same time, the company will open a new HQ… Read More

CoinList Goes Non Custodial

CoinList, a platform for launching and trading various digital assets, says it is going full non-custodial. This means it will no longer hold crypto for its customers. In an email, CoinList said they were simply refining the process of buying and selling tokens, and the… Read More

Gemini Has Now Lost More than Half of its IPO Value

While some Fintechs that went public in 2025 have risen in value, Gemini Space Station (NASDAQ:GEMI) is not one of them. Gemini pursued an initial public offering (IPO) at $28 a share. This was preceded by the company raising its offer price several times before… Read More

Secure Digital Markets Joins BitcoinTreasuries.net as Institutional Exchange Partner

BitcoinTreasuries.net, the source for institutional and corporate Bitcoin holdings and real-time adoption data, is pleased to announce a partnership with Secure Digital Markets, an institutional trading platform specializing in high-liquidity execution for Bitcoin and digital assets. As institutional Bitcoin adoption increases, SDM reportedly stands out… Read More

Figure Introduces $YLDS on Solana, Enabling RWA Utility for DeFi

Figure Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: FIGR) announced that its subsidiary, Figure Certificate Company (FCC), plans to start minting $YLDS, a registered public debt security, natively on Solana. $YLDS is described as being a security-version of stablecoin, intended to maintain a fixed dollar price and offer a “continuous… Read More

Anchorage Digital Announces Custody Support for MON, the Native Crypto Token of Monad

Anchorage Digital, a crypto platform for investors and web3 developers, announced that it will have custody support for MON, which is the native token of Monad, upon mainnet launch. Asset holders will have a way to hold and stake the token via Anchorage Digital’s custodial… Read More

Grayscale Investments Announces Public Filing of Registration Statement for Proposed IPO

Grayscale Investments, the world’s digital asset-focused investment platform, announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to the proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. Grayscale Investments has “applied… Read More

Financial Services Organizations Now More Involved with Crypto, Showing Confidence in Digital Currencies Tech, Report Claims

Around 1 in 5 or 20% of financial services industry professionals have reported having crypto-assets as part of their firms’ main operation in a sentiment poll conducted across GlobalData’s FS media sites during the H1 of 2025. An additional 20% are expected to “follow suit,… Read More

Financial Industry Faces Increasing AI, Blockchain and Organized Crime Threats, Report Reveals

Kaspersky has introduced its Security Bulletin, which aims to examine the key cybersecurity trends of the past year and offers a glimpse into the potential future of these developments. The update from Kaspersky is dedicated to cybersecurity issues in the financial services ecosystem, offering an… Read More

UK Crypto Investors Focused on Long-Term Wealth over Short Term Gains, Report Claims

UK crypto investors are nearly twice as likely to be motivated by long-term wealth building than by short-term gains, according to research from investing and trading platform IG (LSEG:IGG). In a recent survey of more than 500 UK crypto holders, the majority or 51% stated that… Read More

Early-Stage Trends Analysis : Stablecoin Adoption Continues, Real-World AI Training Data Usage Increases

CB Insights has reportedly analyzed over 1,350 early-stage deals in October 2025 in order to identify the most promising or high-potential firms, major investors, as well as emerging categories to watch closely (all this was said to have been based on CB Insights predictive intelligence)…. Read More

Citi Announces Completion of Fiat to Digital Currency Payment Settlement Workflow Trial with Swift

Citi (NYSE: C) and Swift announced a trial that seemingly confirms the feasibility of settling payments between fiat and digital currencies, in a Payment-versus-Payment workflow. The trial now reportedly demonstrates a hybrid model for interoperability between TradFi systems and DLT networks. This was achieved by… Read More

HKMA Announces Next Phase of Project Ensemble to Enable Transactions in Tokenized Deposits

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced the launch of EnsembleTX, officially marking the start of the pilot phase of Project Ensemble.  This latest milestone unveiled by the HKMA represents an advancement in enabling real-value transactions involving tokenised deposits as well as digital assets within… Read More

Permissionless DeFi : Uniswap Announces Continuous Clearing Auctions to Help Bootstrap Liquidity

The team developing Uniswap is pleased to announce Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), which is described as being a permissionless protocol that helps teams “bootstrap” liquidity on Uniswap v4 and find “the market price for new and low-liquidity tokens.” As explained in a blog post, this… Read More

National Bank of Kuwait Targets E-Wallets with Virtual IBAN, QR Cash Services

National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has rolled out a new suite of fintech infrastructure services for licensed e-wallet providers and digital businesses, seeking to embed itself more deeply in Kuwait’s fast-evolving digital payments market, according to an announcement. The “FinTech Services” package includes virtual IBANs… Read More

Bitcoin Drop’s a Buying Opportunity

Bitcoin’s sharp fall below US$100,000 could already be shaping the next major buying opportunity for those with a medium- to long-term horizon, predicts deVere Group CEO Nigel Green. Green said the renewed slide — taking Bitcoin to its weakest level since May — has triggered… Read More

European Digital Banking Platform CaixaBank Introduces Bitcoin focused Products

CaixaBank and imagin are offering customers two investment vehicles designed to replicate the performance of Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency. The bank is said to be supporting crypto-assets investment via two ETPs (Exchange Traded Products) – financial instruments that allow participation in the so-called “evolution”… Read More

Singapore Runs First Live Issuance of Wholesale CBDC for Interbank Funding Market

Singapore’s central bank has completed a live trial of using a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) to settle overnight interbank loans, moving its experiments with tokenised assets onto an operational test network. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said the trial, conducted on its… Read More

Bitcoin Sinks, Now Below $95,000

Bitcoin, the world’s most popular crypto, has cratered in recent days. During the last week alone, Bitcoin has lost over 8% of its value. At this moment, Bitcoin is trading under $95,000. Bitcoin started 2025 at around $93,000, so it hasn’t moved much if you… Read More

FanDuel, CME Group Introduce Prediction Markets Platform

FanDuel, the online gaming firm in North America, part of Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT), and CME Group (NASDAQ: CME), the world’s derivatives marketplace, unveiled that they will launch prediction markets via the FanDuel Predicts app that will expand access to financial markets for clients in… Read More

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