Blockchain & Digital Assets

November 14, 2025 @ 6:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

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

November 14, 2025 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

November 14, 2025 @ 2:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins spoke at the 9th Annual Fintech Conference held at the Philadelphia Fed this week. He shared that he expects the Commission to establish a “token taxonomy” based on existing securities law, while acknowledging that the current regime has limitations. Atkins said… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 2:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Government action, including the shutdown and a welcome IRS decision, along with market analysis and stablecoin talk, dominated Web3 minds this week. Growing Ethereum stablecoin volume a good sign “While we continue to see some negative sentiment around ETH due to its decline from nearly… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 1:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave Labs is reporting that it will soon roll out regulated on and off-ramping for its native stablecoin GHO and other stablecoins integrated into Aave Labs products across the European Economic Area via its service, called Push. This service is made possible by Push Virtual… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 1:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Public has announced the acquisition of Alto’s CryptoIRA business, further expanding how investors are able to build “long-term” wealth via crypto in tax-advantaged accounts. For Alto clients, this marks a new phase in their journeys. The transition is expected to take place by early next… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Pundi AI, a decentralized protocol transforming AI training data into community-owned assets, this week announced a new collaboration with Spheron Network, a decentralized compute platform. This collaboration is set to create an end-to-end pipeline that enables developers to build and ship real AI products faster… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, a digital asset platform for tokenizing real-world assets, and Cantor Equity Partners II (Nasdaq: CEPT), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, revealed that on November 12, 2025, Securitize Holdings, Inc. (Pubco), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Securitize, confidentially submitted… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY (NYSE: BK), a financial services company, announced the launch of the BNY Dreyfus Stablecoin Reserves Fund (BSRXX), a money market fund intended to support institutional adoption of digital assets in the liquidity ecosystem. The fund is meant to enable U.S. stablecoin issuers and other… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 1:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, the provider of institutional digital asset technology and data for trading and portfolio management, has recently announced it is operating as a Super Validator on the Canton Network, focused on supporting its mission of connecting institutions to the digital asset ecosystem. After its acquisition… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 12:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, announces it is enabling the launch of savings accounts with crypto-native exchange, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN). via its Embedded Banking solution. This launch marks a significant milestone in the UK’s financial ecosystem as it is the first time savings… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, which claims to be one of the largest companies in the digital asset ecosystem, is taking a step forward to advance open, freedom-first AI and cloud services. Tether has signed an agreement to lease a share of a 20,000+ GPU network to power its… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) announced a breakthrough pilot enabling businesses and platforms to send payouts directly to recipients’ stablecoin wallets. For businesses using Visa Direct, payouts may now be funded in fiat money, while recipients can choose to receive their funds in USD-backed stablecoins such as… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 8:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AURAS Technologies MENA FZCO, a Dubai-based firm that is specialized in Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) services, has recently announced the launch of AURAS Pay, which is described as a non-custodial decentralized payments platform that allows various merchants to accept and manage digital asset transactions directly… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 2:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has granted its first DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, license. According to a release, DerivaDEX has received a Digital Asset Business License for a DAO-governed decentralized derivatives exchange. Honourable E. David Burt, JP, MP, Premier of Bermuda, said the future… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 2:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chorus One is pleased to announce a partnership with Copper, a key player focused on digital asset custody, prime services and collateral management, to bring enterprise-ready staking to global clients, starting with The Open Network (TON). This collab reportedly combines Copper’s custody platform with Chorus… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

In comments delivered today at the Treasury Market Conference, held at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent speculated about the looming growth of the stablecoin market. “Payment Stablecoins,” as defined under the GENIUS Act, are expected to boost… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitMEX is announcing a new partnership with FKViking, which is said to be a professional-grade arbitrage trading platform built to deliver “fast” as well as automated trading across various markets. Via this new integration, BitMEX users are reportedly able to gain access to “institutional-grade” tools… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 8:26 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Humanity Protocol, an on-chain digital identity solution provider, this week announced a new integration that brings together Mastercard’s open finance connectivity with Humanity Protocol’s identity verification platform Human ID. Rolling out first in the United States, the enhanced platform will enable users to tap into… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 11:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com announced a partnership with IP Strategy (Nasdaq: IPST), the first company to hold $IP tokens as a primary reserve asset. IP Strategy provides public market investors with regulated equity “exposure to the $80 trillion programmable intellectual property economy.” As part of the collab, Crypto.com… Read More