Opinion

December 26, 2025 @ 1:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A cryptocurrency wallet that has been associated with Aleksey Bilyuchenko, charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for involvement in the 2011-2014 Mt. Gox exchange hack, has seemingly transferred approximately 2,300 Bitcoin over the past month, according to on-chain data tracked by Arkham Intelligence analyst… Read More

December 25, 2025 @ 11:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategists at BlackRock (NYSE:BLK), Amanda Lynam and Dominique Bly, reportedly project that the Federal Reserve will implement relatively modest interest rate reductions in 2026, contingent on no significant weakening in employment conditions. This assessment aligns with recent U.S. employment indicators showing gradual cooling without a severe… Read More

December 25, 2025 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evernorth Holdings, a digital asset treasury entity that is focused on XRP and supported by executives from Ripple, is currently dealing with substantial unrealized losses exceeding $220 million (at the time of writing) amid the cryptocurrency’s recent price decline. CryptoQuant data indicates that Evernorth holds… Read More

December 25, 2025 @ 8:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the holiday season approached, U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) focused primarily on spot Bitcoin and Ethereum faced notable net withdrawals on Tuesday, potentially being influenced by seasonal market dynamics and reduced trading volumes. These latest crypto market movements highlight the impact of end-of-year strategies on… Read More

December 25, 2025 @ 7:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNB Coin (BNB) is now supported for trading and custody on digital assets platform Gemini (NASDAQ:GEMI). BNB Coin (BNB) is the native crypto token of the BNB Chain ecosystem. It had originally been issued by Binance back in 2017 and is commonly used for digital currency… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Max Levchin, Founder and CEO at Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), noted that there’s been increased attention on buy now, pay later (BNPL) over the past few weeks, raising questions about why consumers “choose these products, how they use them, and the industry’s overall practices.” Levchin added… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

The INVEST Act was recently approved by the US House of Representatives and is now in the Senate, where it will be considered to become law. The bill incorporates multiple policy changes that help smaller businesses, as well as improve opportunities for smaller investors. The… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 1:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs policy team’s Ari Redbord and Angela Ang were joined by TRM’s EMEA Compliance Advisor Luke Dufour for a review of what mattered most in global crypto policy in Q4 2025. As jurisdictions across the globe move from rule‑setting to execution, the crypto and… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 9:31 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Commission (EC) has published a fact sheet outlining its ambition to make regulations clearer and more straightforward. The EC is run by an appointed body of policymakers that aims to establish pan-European rules to build a stronger and more cohesive Europe. This includes… Read More

December 23, 2025 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NYDIG noted that DATs or digital asset treasuries are now making billion-dollar financing moves based on rather “inconsistent, loosely defined metrics, risking major strategic missteps.” NYDIG pointed out recently in a blog post that with several companies trading right around “1x mNAV,” small changes in… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 8:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has assessed a $3,500,000 civil money penalty against Paxful, Inc. and Paxful USA, Inc. (collectively doing business as, Paxful) for its (alleged) willful violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the primary U.S. anti-money laundering… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The IMF noted that despite having a market cap of about 10 percent of Bitcoin, stablecoins are growing in popularity because of their interconnections with mainstream financial markets that stem from their structure and potential use cases. The IMF has also mentioned that their use… Read More

December 21, 2025 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has reflected on what it described as a defining year for United Kingdom’s payments infrastructure ecosystem. Looking back over 2025, the team at UK Finance said that it is clear to them that this has been one of the most significant years for… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a recent exchange on X, Mike Cagney, co-founder and executive chairman of Figure Technologies (Nasdaq: FIGR), dismissed real estate as a “red herring” in the push to migrate assets onto blockchain. Responding to a query about tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs), Cagney argued thar real… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 7:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), Cambridge Judge Business School, has shared insights from Wenbin Wu, Research Associate at the CCAF. Wu noted that the need to upgrade to a post-quantum environment is “more urgent for blockchains than for almost any other digital system.”… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 12:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany’s regulatory authority BaFin has reportedly imposed stricter oversight on digital bank N26, which now includes certain limits on new business based in the Netherlands along with the appointment of a special monitor. As widely reported, this is not the first time that N26 has… Read More

December 13, 2025 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG UK has commented on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) final rules on targeted support. Sharing insights and perspective on the publication of the FCA’s final rules on targeted support, Jane Wilson, Targeted Support Lead, KPMG UK, says that this is considered to be “a… Read More

December 12, 2025 @ 9:31 am By JD Alois  |  

As was reported earlier, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a preliminary review of Debanking. The action of Debanking individuals and other organizations was a nefarious pursuit that came to light during the Biden Administration. In effect, banks would close accounts,… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 3:00 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

    Artificial intelligence is experiencing one of the most explosive investment booms in modern history. Billion-dollar seed rounds – once unthinkable – are now routine. But as former NASDAQ Vice Chair David Weild warns on the latest episode of ICAN’s Capital Ideas podcast, this… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 4:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nic Puckrin, investment analyst and co-founder of The Coin Bureau, says today’s Federal Reserve rate cut of 25 basis points was not quite as hawkish as many were expecting, with markets breathing a sigh of relief. Bitcoin and the S&P were both heading higher on the… Read More