Blockchain & Digital Assets

November 12, 2025 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinMENA FZE, a digital asset platform licensed and regulated as a broker-dealer by VARA, and botim, Astra Tech’s fintech-first, AI-native platform, have signed a partnership. The agreement will now aim to allow for easier, compliant funding into CoinMENA accounts for millions of users in the… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com announced a partnership with Sui Foundation, the organization dedicated to the advancement and adoption of Sui. This partnership will advance the ability to provide the Foundation and Ecosystem with “institutional-grade” custody and liquidity solutions for Sui’s native token. Crypto.com Custody provides digital assets custody… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 7:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, the so-called Smart Superhighway to move money across the globe, recently introduced Account Top Up and Withdrawal solutions for digital asset platforms in order to connect with traditional finance and scale effectively. The enterprise-grade solutions give exchanges, infrastructure providers, networks and issuers the ability… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Texas is in the running for Wall Street 2.0, and Coinbase’s (NASDAQ:COIN) decision to move from Delaware to Texas is emblematic of the migration from less business-friendly jurisdictions to places like Texas and Florida. Today, Coinbase made it official, stating they see “greener pastures” in the… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI) announced the launch of SoFi Crypto, becoming the nationally chartered bank where consumers can bank, borrow, invest — and now purchase, sell and hold crypto-assets. With SoFi Crypto, members will be able to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), a top crypto exchange, has decided not to purchase BVNK , a money service business that enables stablecoin usage. Shares of Coinbase are currently higher in a day when markets are bullish. It has long been rumoured that Coinbase was in advanced discussions to purchase… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Canary XRP ETF has reportedly received approval for its Nasdaq listing as the issuer submitted an 8-A filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The spot XRP ETF is now set to begin trading soon. The XRP price has also begun gaining some… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) confirmed recently that it has listed various spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This move could potentially lead to their official rollout in the foreseeable future. As indicated on DTCC’s website, ETFs from Bitwise (XRP), Canary (XRPC), CoinShares (XRPL),… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FalconX announced support for World Liberty Financial‘s USD1, which is described as a USD-backed stablecoin, across FalconX’s institutional trading, credit, and custody product offerings. Customers are now able to trade USD1 through FalconX, use it as a form of collateral for certain derivatives and financing… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Episode Six and Fireblocks announced the co-development of a unified payments solution. The payments solution integrates traditional and digital finance, bringing together fiat, stablecoins, loyalty points, and other digital assets onto a single, programmable platform—allowing FIs to effectively operate across asset classes. The collab combines… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 3:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Cagney, the executive board chairperson and the co-founder of Figure (NASDAQ:FIGR), has said that blockchain wallets are going to completely disrupt how existing financial services actually work. Cagney also mentioned that today, we have an account at a firm like SoFi. They offer clients… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital is reportedly expanding institutional access to the Mantle ecosystem by introducing custody support for MNT on Ethereum. MNT is the native token of Mantle, which is an Ethereum Layer 2 that intends to bridge decentralized and traditional finance. Institutions are now able to… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

eToro Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: ETOR), the trading and investing platform, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2025. The update seems to have been received well as the company’s stock surged over 8% and was trading at around $41.56 at the… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 1:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last month, Europol announced that it had arrested seven individuals who were allegedly perpetrators in a SIM Swap scam operation. Described as a Cybercrime-as-a-Service operation, enforcement agencies took down five servers and seized 1,200 SIM box devices and 40,000 active SIM cards. Thousands of SIM… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) aims to be the one financial platform to rule them all. Powered by blockchain and delivering a superior digital service that provides access to public securities, private securities, crypto, and everything a bank does but better. Coinbase will also be offering online capital formation… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 8:42 am By JD Alois  |  

While the CLARITY Act passed the US House of Representatives eons ago, the legislation has been parked in the Senate as policymakers hash out their version of the digital asset market infrastructure bill. Yesterday, the Senate Agriculture Committee posted a bipartisan “discussion draft” of the… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The 4-week long trial of two brothers (who attended MIT) that have been accused of carrying out a $25 million fraud scheme on Ethereum (ETH) has culminated in a mis-trial. The charges and allegations were brought by US federal prosecutors but the mistrial happened when… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and altcoins have again been surging due to  seemingly renewed optimism and positive investor sentiment in financial markets, supported by an update that the US government shutdown could soon come to an end. Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency, has surged around 5%… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, a digital asset banking group, revealed the results of its Future Finance 2025 global institutional investor report. The late-Q3 survey examines the interests, market sentiment and behavior of 1000+ institutional and professional investors currently active in the crypto market across 43 different countries. The… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The INX Digital Company, Inc. (Cboe CA: INXD) recently confirmed the completion of its previously announced plan of arrangement pursuant to which OpenDeal Inc. (doing business as Republic) acquired, via a wholly-owned subsidiary, all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the corporation, other… Read More