December 15, 2025 @ 4:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 community weighed in on the crypto year that was and the crypto year that will be. Read more about Bitcoin, stablecoins and price movements below. “Companies that continue positioning themselves solely as Bitcoin holders risk commoditization. The strategic advantage will shift toward those… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) and Chainlink, the self-described industry-standard oracle platform, announced the selection of Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the bridging solution for all Coinbase Wrapped Assets, “enabling cross-chain transfers and expansion.” Coinbase Wrapped Assets, which include crypto tokens cbBTC, cbETH, cbDOGE, cbLTC, cbADA, and cbXRP,… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nu Quantum, the distributed quantum computing provider, has reportedly closed its $60 million Series A round led by National Grid Partners, including participation from Gresham House Ventures and Morpheus Ventures, and support from existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners, IQ Capital, Ahren Capital, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures,… 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 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 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

The world’s most loved big tech firm, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), is under scrutiny by the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) for possible transgressions of Swiss competition laws. The Secretariat launched a preliminary investigation on December 10, 2025, to determine whether other mobile payment app providers can effectively… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 11:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

United Fintech, the fintech infrastructure and ecosystem for financial institutions, asset managers & wealth managers reportedly secured an investment from Barclays, strengthening its shareholder base of “global banks, including BNP Paribas, Citi and Danske Bank and most recently Standard Chartered, which have all joined in… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange  Commission, Crypto Task Force, is holding another roundtable today (December 15, 2025). The topic of discussion is financial privacy and surveillance. As blockchain technology can provide broad capabilities for monitoring transactions, and the US government has been known to abuse its… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital assets are quickly becoming the norm. Today, JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) announced a new tokenized money market fund –My OnChain Net Yield Fund (MONY). The Fund is available on the Ethereum blockchain and is powered by Kinexys Digital Assets. While it is available today, it… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:32 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 and Web2 communities have plenty to say about AI’s development in 2026. Read on to find out what. “Massive capacity partnerships across the value chain were what surprised me most in 2025 – AI Labs, hyperscalers, neoclouds, memory and hardware providers, real estate… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, ONCHAIN Labs announced ONCHAIN Gateway, an access and routing layer built on the ONCHAIN Protocol Network (OPN, pronounced “open”). Gateway enables anyone to buy verified on-chain assets on demand, directly from fiat or crypto, without centralized listings, custodial intermediaries, or multi-step bridging flows…. Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:55 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Pineapple Financial has launched a mortgage tokenization platform. Pineapple is now converting real-world mortgage records – historically trapped in PDFs, emails, and back-office folders – into secure and programmable digital assets on the Injective blockchain. This is an example of a publicly traded mortgage company… 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 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen Investments has reached agreement with MFS to acquire the management of closed end fund (CEF) assets totalling £1.5bn, further cementing Aberdeen’s position as the “fifth largest” asset manager of CEFs internationally. Via a series of mergers and reorganisations, nine MFS funds, in addition to… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has signed a research partnership with Privy, the wallet infrastructure platform and a Stripe company, to explore, research and co-design potential wallet solutions to power a new generation of crypto products for Klarna users. The… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, announced a partnership with AMINA Bank AG, to “support near real time” cross-border payments for AMINA Bank’s clients using Ripple Payments. AMINA Bank, a Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA-regulated crypto bank with global… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Ireland reportedly invested more than €370m in its Retail Ireland division over its current 3 year strategic cycle (2023 – 2025). The investment spans the following key areas : fraud protection, technology and telephony, mortgage services, App investment, payments and CRM. Bank of… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic noted that 2025 has marked a turning point in how governments regulated cryptocurrency. Rather than depending on enforcement actions to shape the fast-evolving industry, jurisdictions across the globe have implemented comprehensive regulatory frameworks with requirements being defined clearly upfront. Elliptic pointed… 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 15, 2025 @ 3:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL), one of the world’s internet financial platform companies, announced a regulatory milestone in the United Arab Emirates as it strengthens its presence in the region. Circle has secured a Financial Services Permission (FSP) license from the Financial Services Regulatory… Read More