Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has added over 200 U.K. and European stocks to its tokenized equity platform, xStocks. The expansion features all 40 constituent equities of Germany’s DAX index, including prominent firms such as SAP, Siemens, and Allianz. Despite the integration of European assets, access to the tokens remains ...
Key Highlights: CoreWeave shares surged 10% in premarket action following a 168% year-over-year revenue increase in the third quarter and an increased full-year forecast of up to $13.3 billion. The strong print sparked a broader rally across AI infrastructure names, lifting IREN, Galaxy Digital, and Cipher Digital, while Nasdaq 100 futures gained over 1.5%. Macro ...
Key Highlights: Institutional platform Membrane Labs has integrated USDM1, a tokenized U.S. sovereign bond issued by M1X Global, into its lending and collateral infrastructure. Backed 1:1 by short-term U.S. Treasury instruments, USDM1 operates under New York law and offers 24/7 availability alongside a sovereign coupon. The integration enables institutional participants to leverage USDM1 across secured ...
Key Highlights: Business payment infrastructure firm Coinflow has teamed up with licensed custody platform Bastion to power domestic payouts for Samsung Wallet. The integration enables Galaxy device users across the United States to convert stablecoins into U.S. dollars and transfer funds directly to bank accounts or debit cards. Samsung first launched its stablecoin functionality on ...
Key Highlights: The FTX bankruptcy estate previously offloaded its stake in Anthropic for roughly $1.34 billion, securing an $800 million profit across 38 buyers. Anthropic has filed an updated S-1 to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, targeting a price range of $70 to $78 per share, which implies a fully diluted valuation reaching ...
Key Highlights: Moody’s has conducted a multi-chain trial alongside Chainlink to explore delivering credit analysis across disparate blockchain ecosystems, building upon its earlier infrastructure work on Canton Network. The initiative serves as a controlled technical demonstration using representative test data rather than live, commercially deployed credit ratings on public networks. Moody’s has evaluated over 70 ...
Key Highlights: MARA has sold over 40,000 BTC across 2026, marking a complete shift away from its former policy of holding every coin mined. Debt repayments have successfully unlocked 17,477 BTC previously held as collateral, reducing encumbered reserves from 57% to under 5%. Proceeds are being redirected into AI data centers, power infrastructure acquisitions like ...
Key Highlights: Project Faro is preparing to launch bank-backed stablecoins pegged to G7 currencies, beginning with a U.S. dollar token followed potentially by a euro-denominated asset. A coalition of 21 international financial institutions has committed $270 million to establish the enterprise, which is expected to be based in the United States. The initiative aims to ...
Key Highlights: Binance Futures has announced the listing of new USDC-margined perpetual contracts for Hyperliquid (HYPE) and TRON (TRX). The derivative instruments use USD Coin (USDC) as collateral, enabling traders to take long or short positions without holding the spot tokens. Technical specifications—including maximum leverage limits and funding rate thresholds—remain unspecified, while contract execution will ...
Key Highlights David Schwartz disclosed that his personal XRP reserves have dropped from a peak of approximately 26 million to roughly 3 million tokens. The executive also liquidated the vast majority of his other top cryptocurrency positions, reducing his Bitcoin from roughly 1,500 BTC to 1 BTC, and his Ethereum from around 40,000 ETH down ...
Key Highlights: Representative Tom Emmer continues to champion digital asset policy and regulatory clarity from his prominent perch in House Republican leadership. Emmer’s legislative track record includes co-founding the bipartisan Congressional Crypto Caucus with Representative Ritchie Torres, co-sponsoring the CLARITY Act, and introducing the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. Key congressional allies such as Senator Cynthia ...
Key Highlights: Representative Tom Emmer has established himself as a central figure in shaping Republican digital asset policy, earning recognition from Senator Cynthia Lummis for opposing state-controlled central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and supporting American innovators. In March 2025, Emmer partnered with Democratic Representative Ritchie Torres to launch the bipartisan Congressional Crypto Caucus to advance ...