September 7, 2026 @ 8:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Reg CF securities exemption has had a choppy 2026 so far. The smallest exemption for issuers raising funds online, the numbers are off versus their peak but activity continues to generate funds for smaller, private firms in need of growth capital. Crowdfund Capital Advisors… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 8:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A fight over Robinhood Chain’s fee design has moved past a two-person argument and now includes voices from Solana, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain. The issue is no longer only how much a single transfer costs. It is who should earn money from network activity, and… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 8:03 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Swedish private equity firm EQT has agreed to acquire a majority stake in specialty insurance and reinsurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2 billion, the companies said. The transaction will see Warburg Pincus sell its equity stake in full, while McGill and… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 6:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A long-quiet Bitcoin address that first received coins in mid-2016 moved more than a thousand coins in a single transaction, while holders of early physical Bitcoin collectibles also began unlocking a cluster of coins after years of inactivity. The sending wallet used the older P2PKH… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 4:34 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SoFi, Payward team up on multiple fronts Payward will leverage SoFi’s Big Business Banking capabilities, join the SoFi Exchange Network (SEN) and list SoFiUSD on its multi-asset trading platform. SoFi will also use Kraken Prime, Payward’s full-service prime brokerage solution, as an additional source of… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 3:02 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has warned the public to stay alert to phishing scams involving the unauthorised binding of payment cards, including ATM cards, to contactless mobile payment services. The HKMA said it recently received reports from banks of scams in which fraudsters… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 1:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) is examining a possible connection between its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement platform, known as TIPS, and Brazil’s Pix system. If the work advances, the link would be the first major cross-border expansion of Pix and one of several corridors the… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 12:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stablecoin consortium “Twenty-one banks backing a stablecoin is the clearest sign yet that the growth in blockchain rails is coming from TradFi now, not crypto. Nobody’s debating whether public chains work for settlement anymore, just who gets to own the issuer. “The real losers here… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The first public look at institutional ownership of US Hyperliquid exchange-traded funds arrived with the latest round of 13F filings. Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart compiled the reports and found that 30 firms disclosed combined holdings of about $74.9 million as of June 30…. Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wallets tied to North Korea’s sanctioned Lazarus Group have been routing tens of millions of dollars through Hyperliquid, according to on-chain work first published by Arkham analyst Emmett Gallic. The finding lands just as the Trump administration is trying to pull the same derivatives venue… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 10:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) absorbed a substantial wave of new money last week, drawing approximately $987 million in net creations and extending a rebound in regulated demand for the leading digital asset. The figure, compiled from issuer flow data, marked the third week… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has expanded its digital-asset services in the United Arab Emirates, introducing institutional spot trading in Bitcoin and Ethereum through its Dubai International Financial Centre unit. The bank said the offering makes it the first global systemically important bank to provide this… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Russian investors behind a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platform have started international arbitration against Uzbekistan, arguing that a commercial joint venture with a state-owned bank collapsed into coercion, expropriation and the detention of a local executive. Counsel for Solfy RUS LLC and its shareholder Maksim Poletaev say… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 3:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV), the firm that has built its balance sheet around accumulating Solana, has outlined plans for a new preferred-stock raise aimed at expanding that treasury. The company said it intends to offer up to $20 million of Variable Rate Series C… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 2:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Asset Management’s spot XRP exchange-traded fund has crossed a notable threshold, reaching more than $500 million in assets under management only nine months after it started trading. The firm shared the update on August 31, 2026, highlighting how quickly the product has drawn capital… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperliquid is expanding its builder-deployed perpetual market framework with an optional add-on known as HIP-3*. The change, discussed by co-founder Jeffrey Yan on September 3, 2026, is meant to let independent market operators restrict access to selected venues without rewriting the protocol’s open core. HIP-3… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenPayd has taken a step forward into the United States by folding MSB USA Inc. into its group, bringing 43 state money transmitter licenses under one corporate structure. The London-based financial infrastructure firm said the deal, completed after the necessary regulatory approvals, gives it a… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 1:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

X Money just widened its gates. The official account posted that the in-app payments product is now open to every Premium and Premium+ subscriber whose X account is marked as American. Users are told to tap the Money tab in the sidebar and begin. That… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 12:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Chain processed about $875 million in decentralized exchange volume on August 30, alongside a record 5.52 million transactions. The session put the two-month-old Layer 2 among the busiest venues in crypto that day and arrived as tokenized stocks, the products the network was designed… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 12:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hardware wallet maker Trezor has confirmed that a data incident at its fulfillment partner ShipMonk reached far more people than first announced. In a September 4, 2026 update to its official notice, the company said ShipMonk contacted it on September 2 with word that stolen… Read More