Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

September 24, 2026 @ 6:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a leading online investment platform in the UK and Europe, says secondaries have quickly become a significant part of its business. According to a blog post, Crowdcube reports that £543 million in PISCES secondaries are in the pipeline. In total, including the PISCES listings,… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A 23-year-old Sheepshead Bay resident has been sent to prison after admitting he ran a yearlong social engineering operation that drained nearly $16 million from Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) customers across the United States. Ronald Spektor received an indeterminate term of four to 12 years on… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Blockchain.com are “exploring” 24/7 trading using tokenized shares. This would include US equities and ETFs. These securities would be made available to investors worldwide. The agreement is said to include deep market intelligence as the two sides share… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle (NYSE:CRCL) says it has expanded its partnership with Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. In a post on X, Circle said it has committed to a five-year deal in which Binance will support and promote USDC, Circle’s popular dollar-backed stablecoin. The deal… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s new virtual-asset licensing regime is already beginning to thin the field. With just over a month left in the transition window, local reporting indicates that only five virtual asset service providers have submitted authorization filings to the Banco Central do Brasil. Of those five,… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance has widened access to one of its fastest-growing products, allowing a much larger group of traders to post tokenized US equities as collateral. The exchange said eligible users can now use bStocks in Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin accounts, ending an earlier limit that… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) (NYSE: ICE), parent of the New York Stock Exchange, is assessing Avalanche as a possible foundation for a regulated venue that would let tokenized US stocks and ETFs trade around the clock. The first public signal came from Avalanche’s official account, which… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Shares of Gemini Space Station (NASDAQ: GEMI) have lost most of the value they carried at the company’s public debut, and that slide has revived a familiar question among crypto industry professionals: whether the platform could become a takeover candidate if its core exchange does… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction-market platform, is facing public accusations that its crypto perpetual-futures activity is inflated. The claims originated with Beni, a former quant and co-founder of Stealth Neolab, who published a detailed thread on X after a heated exchange with Kalshi’s crypto product lead…. Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Chain’s fee boom has unwound far faster than its traffic. After a memecoin-led spike made the young Ethereum layer-2 one of the costliest networks to use, daily gas revenue has collapsed while transaction counts and trading flows have stayed close to their recent peaks…. Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KalshiEX has asked US regulators for permission to list perpetual futures tied to individual American stocks, placing the prediction-markets firm in the same race as Coinbase to bring a crypto-style derivative into traditional equities. On September 18, 2026, KalshiEX filed a proposed rule change with… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde personally pressed Greek leaders to stop Binance from receiving a pan-European crypto license, according to a Wall Street Journal account published in mid-September 2026. The report, based on people familiar with the talks and related documents, describes an… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BMLL Technologies has struck a partnership with Kalshi that brings the prediction-market venue’s historical order-book records onto BMLL’s institutional data platform. Announced on 17 September 2026 from London and New York, the deal folds Kalshi’s CFTC-regulated event-contract history into the same high-fidelity, multi-asset coverage that… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payward, the company behind Kraken, has outlined plans to give eligible U.S. customers access to perpetual futures that settle and match on a public blockchain rather than a conventional centralized venue. The first destination would be Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework, which lets a third party create,… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 10:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

X Money, the Fintech segment of social media platform X, has added a new trading pathway to its cashtag system, giving US users a shorter route from market conversation to an actual brokerage or crypto exchange. The company announced the US Cashtag Partner Program on… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 4:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a pioneer in the tokenization sector, has commented on the Innovation Exemption order published by the Securities and Exchange Commission today.  The innovation exemption supports tokenized assets or digital securities. A tokenized securities venue, or TSV, can trade tokenized NMS stocks (NYSE/Nasdaq listings) through… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Two former Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) engineers have been charged in federal court with using confidential company information about upcoming cryptocurrency listings to place trades on a separate derivatives platform, prosecutors said this week. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY)… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 5:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency trading platform CoinEx is shutting down after nearly a decade in business, citing a long stretch of weak market conditions that made continued operations unsustainable. The company, which went live on December 22, 2017, said it reached the decision after reviewing the industry’s reduced… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors in New York have moved to confiscate about $61 million in cryptocurrency they describe as revenue from unsanctioned Iranian crude and petroleum sales. The civil forfeiture complaint, filed September 14, 2026 by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) chief executive officer Vlad Tenev has restated that publicly traded companies should not automatically possess the power to block third-party stock tokens linked to their shares. The comments, published Friday on his X account, extend a public disagreement with AMC Entertainment (NYSE:… Read More