Tagged: us

September 21, 2026 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prediction market operator Polymarket came under fresh scrutiny after a reported wave of stolen-card activity on its US platform coincided with leadership pressure to keep expanding, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. In February 2026, shortly after the regulated U.S. venue began… 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 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US spot bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) closed the week of September 14–18, 2026, barely in positive territory after a late surge in demand. Data compiled by SoSoValue showed that investors allocated $433 million to these listed bitcoin funds on Friday, September 18, 2026. That single session… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 2:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zurich-based ETF data specialist ETFBook has closed a €4 million Series A round led by BlackFin Capital Partners, with participation from former Amundi ETF head Arnaud Llinas. The capital is intended to support product development, talent hiring, and geographic growth into the United States and… 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 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A bipartisan proposal to put the federal government’s Bitcoin holdings on firmer statutory footing has moved into the House Financial Services Committee, where lawmakers can amend the text before it advances any further. The measure, H.R. 8957, known as the American Reserve Modernization Act of… 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 16, 2026 @ 4:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enova International (NYSE:ENVA) has stepped away from its planned purchase of Grasshopper Bancorp, withdrawing the regulatory filings needed to complete the transaction. The Chicago-based online lender said on September 14 that it had pulled applications submitted to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A Bank of England official has suggested that the rapid rise of dollar-linked digital tokens could support broader use of the US currency and add to demand for American government debt, while also introducing new vulnerabilities if large numbers of holders seek to cash out… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU), which has become one of Latin America’s largest digital banks, has begun offering deposit accounts and a broader set of everyday banking products to customers in the United States. The company, which operates under the parent name Nu Holdings, said the U.S. rollout started… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, the issuer of the world’s most widely used dollar-linked stablecoin, has been publicly thanked by the US Department of Justice for helping investigators disrupt a sprawling marketplace accused of supporting crypto fraud and money laundering. The company said on September 11, 2026, that the… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 1:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

President Donald Trump has publicly backed efforts to bring Hyperliquid, a fast-growing offshore cryptocurrency trading venue, into the United States under federal rules. Speaking at a White House gathering of crypto, technology, and finance executives on August 19, 2026, Trump said Commodity Futures Trading Commission… 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 @ 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 @ 12:05 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

September 5, 2026 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Connecticut officials have issued a public warning about the dangers of using unregulated overseas decentralized finance platforms after one state resident transferred a large sum that could not be retrieved. Attorney General William Tong released the consumer alert on September 3, 2026, together with Banking… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 9:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has taken a major step toward operating as a fully licensed bank in the United States. On September 3, 2026, the company said the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval for a national bank charter that would allow… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A Michigan circuit court has extended restrictions that keep Kalshi from offering sports-related prediction contracts to people in the state, converting an earlier short-term freeze into a preliminary injunction that remains in place while the underlying lawsuit proceeds. Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie E. Aquilina… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payward Inc., the parent of crypto exchange Kraken, has not confirmed a new public-listing date, and the company has not issued a statement postponing its IPO. The latest reporting, based on people familiar with internal planning rather than an official announcement, says the firm is… Read More