Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

December 22, 2025 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN)  , a digital asset company that just announced multiple new offerings, says it has acquired startup The Clearing Company to help advance its ambition to become a top prediction market platform. The Clearing Company has submitted an application to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trade Republic, a Berlin-based fintech firm, has reportedly achieved a €12.5 billion valuation through a secondary share sale this past week that supported by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The recent transaction has involved early investors selling €1.2 billion in shares to a mix of new… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has resumed services in the United Kingdom following a two-year suspension, marking a seemingly calculated return to one of Europe’s most tightly regulated markets. The Dubai-based platform, which ranks as one of the largest crypto exchanges by trading volume (despite suffering a… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 12:01 am By Michael Wong  |  

The Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered Trading Point Holdings Ltd, which operates under the XM brand, to immediately stop soliciting investments, saying it was offering products to the public without the required registrations and licenses. In a cease-and-desist order, the regulator directed Trading… Read More

December 20, 2025 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinJar, one of the world’s cryptocurrency exchanges, announced its expansion into the US, building on its operations in Australia, the UK and Ireland, and marking a key milestone in the company’s growth. The U.S. launch sees CoinJar operate within federal and state regulatory frameworks. As… Read More

December 19, 2025 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dune and Keyrock teamed up to release a study of prediction markets. As explained in the detailed update shared by Dune, prediction markets may feel like somewhat of a modern invention or fairly recent development, but their roots stretch back for a long time actually…. Read More

December 18, 2025 @ 11:49 am By JD Alois  |  

xStocks says it is bringing tokenized securities to Telegram’s one billion users. According to a statement issued by the firm, tokenized securities will be available on the TON Blockchain, accessible via the non-custodial wallet in Telegram. Max Crown, President and CEO of TON Foundation, said… Read More

December 18, 2025 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize is launching the compliant, onchain trading experience for natively tokenized public stocks in Q1 2026. As clarified in the update, this is not a synthetic price tracker or an IOU against a custodian. As explained by Securitize, these are real, regulated shares: issued onchain,… Read More

December 18, 2025 @ 2:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com and international investment company Galapagos Capital announced a partnership that will see Galapagos Capital leverage Crypto.com Exchange services and capabilities to establish a new digital asset offering for its clients. Galapagos Capital will now reportedly aim to leverage Crypto.com Exchange for its trading infrastructure… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 6:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) announced a host of new products and offerings today as the digital asset firm aims to lead the future of finance. In a video presentation, Coinbase executives revealed a series of product updates, including the ability for anyone to tokenize primary offerings. Coinbase… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the world’s derivatives marketplace, launched Spot-Quoted XRP and SOL futures. According to the announcement, spot-quoted XRP and SOL futures will now aim to complement the existing Spot-Quoted Bitcoin and Ether futures, and are also available to trade “across the four major U.S. equity… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Interactive Brokers, (NASDAQ:IBKR) is rolling out the ability to accept stablecoins. Interactive Brokers reports over 4 million clients around the world and assets of more than $750 billion. Interactive Brokers is one of the largest electronic brokers based on daily average revenue trades, executing 4,273,000… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In October of this year, Grayscale reportedly became the first U.S. issuer to begin staking the ETH and SOL underlying its spot crypto ETFs. According to an update from Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), this made Grayscale one of the first asset managers in the U.S. to provide… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru has appointed Jüri Preoaim braženski as the new Head of Real Estate Financing. In this role, he will to expand the platform’s ongoing operations in key European markets. Jüri Preobraženski noted that around sixteen years ago, his professional journey in real estate began. And over… Read More

December 13, 2025 @ 2:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GoTyme Bank, which claims to be one of the fastest-growing banks in the Philippines and a JV between the Gokongwei Group and Tyme Group, announced the launch of its cryptocurrency investment feature. This launch was reportedly made possible in partnership with Alpaca, a global player… Read More

December 12, 2025 @ 11:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is expected to enter the hot prediction markets. Currently exemplified by Kalshi and Polymarket, just this past week,  Gemini Space Station (NASDAQ:GEMI) just received approval for a DCM license from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate its own prediction marketplace. While Coinbase has… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gemini Space Station, Inc. (NASDAQ:GEMI) announced that Gemini Titan, LLC (Titan), an affiliate, reportedly received a Designated Contract Market (DCM) license from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which will enable Gemini to start offering prediction markets to U.S. customers. Gemini had first applied for… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is pleased to announce an expansion of its index portfolio with the launch of the HKEX Tech 100 Index (HKEX Tech 100), the Group’s first Hong Kong equity index that underscores its ongoing investment in building further on… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) says that it is committed and focused on building the infrastructure that enables institutions as well as their clients to access and engage with digital assets. Coinbase announced that it is now expanding its partnership with PNC Bank in order to launch direct… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 2:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets platform Kraken has recently announced a new deal that further builds out their offering for institutions engaging in latency-sensitive trading strategies. Avelacom, a provider of ultra-low-latency network solutions, is now providing high-performance connectivity to their matching engine. This integration gives trading firms the… Read More