Cryptocurrency
Korea’s Bithumb Mistakenly Gives Away $40 Billion in Bitcoin
Sunday 8th February - 8:40 pm
A South Korean cryptocurrency exchange is facing regulatory investigation following a $40 billion bitcoin-related mistake. That ...Bitcoin Slides Below $70K as Stablecoins Gain Ground in Payments and Payroll
Friday 6th February - 11:01 am
The cryptocurrency market’s familiar boom-and-bust cycle has entered another pronounced downswing. Capital is leaving digital ...Tether Invests $100 Million in Crypto Bank Anchorage Digital
Thursday 5th February - 12:27 pm
Cryptocurrency-focused bank Anchorage Digital says it has received a $100 investment from stablecoin issuer Tether. The investment, announced Thursday (Feb. 4), ...Bitcoin to Zero? ‘Big Short’ Investor Flags Crypto’s Death Spiral Risk
Thursday 5th February - 11:07 am
Michael Burry, the investor immortalized for calling the U.S. housing collapse, has made a career ...Stripe’s Stablecoin Expansion Faces Sanctions Scrutiny
Tuesday 3rd February - 1:57 pm
Stripe’s push into stablecoins is encountering early friction as its newly acquired crypto startup Bridge ...How Banking-Grade Crypto Is Replacing Bitcoin’s Cowboy Finance
Tuesday 3rd February - 11:35 am
Crypto’s Wild West used to have a cowboy problem. For much of the sector’s nascent ...NymCard and Visa Launch Stablecoin Settlement in GCC Region
Monday 2nd February - 4:45 pm
Payments infrastructure company NymCard can now settle card transactions with Visa using USDC stablecoins in ...Digital Asset Investment Products Have Seen $1B in Net Outflow in 2026
Monday 2nd February - 11:41 am
Digital asset investment products recorded a second consecutive week of outflows during the week ended ...Bitcoin Falls Below $80K Amid Wait on Crypto Legislation
Sunday 1st February - 6:33 pm
Bitcoin fell to a nine-month low Saturday (Jan. 31) as it dipped below $80,000. The downturn ...Fipto Secures Crypto-Asset Service Provider License
Friday 30th January - 4:09 pm
Fipto, a provider of regulated payment infrastructure for stablecoins, now has both a Payment Institution ...Citi Says Crypto Bill Could Be Delayed Beyond 2026
Friday 30th January - 2:55 pm
Citi analysts said the CLARITY Act could still pass this year, although there is a ...Senate Crypto Bill Finds Common Ground on Data Standards
Thursday 29th January - 8:34 pm
U.S. federal regulators are no longer circling the crypto question. They are building the machinery ...Mastercard Leans Into Agentic Commerce and Stablecoins While Card Volumes Rise
Thursday 29th January - 12:29 pm
Card spending continued to climb in Mastercard’s fourth quarter, as the payments giant laid out ...Bitget Turns Crypto Wallet Into Payment-Centric Finance App
Thursday 29th January - 10:48 am
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said in a Thursday (Jan. 29) press release that its wallet is ...Crypto IPOs Are Getting Boring, and That’s the Point
Thursday 29th January - 10:09 am
The cryptocurrency industry’s teenage years were tumultuous, to say the least. Crypto-native investors, builders and in-crowd ...ByBit Expanding Beyond Crypto With Banking Services
Thursday 29th January - 8:42 am
Cryptocurrency exchange ByBit reportedly wants to look more like a bank. The company plans to begin offering banking ...Fidelity to Launch US Dollar-Backed Stablecoin Designed to Support Investors
Wednesday 28th January - 12:22 pm
Fidelity Investments is set to launch a stablecoin that eligible customers will be able to ...The Quantum Clock Is Ticking on Blockchain Security
Wednesday 28th January - 4:00 am
The world of digital finance has a physics deadline coming up. And few places could ...Chainalysis Says Crypto Crime Wave Fueled by Chinese Money Laundering
Tuesday 27th January - 3:07 pm
Cryptocurrency laundering was an $82 billion problem last year, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Jan. 27), ...Mesh Looks to Court FinTechs After $1 Billion Valuation
Tuesday 27th January - 11:42 am
Crypto payments network Mesh is planning to expand its network after raising $75 million. The new ...Zerohash Eyes $1.5 Billion Valuation After Exiting Mastercard Deal
Monday 26th January - 3:50 pm
Blockchain infrastructure firm Zerohash is in discussions to raise $250 million, CoinDesk reported Monday (Jan. ...Prediction Market Interest Soars as Crypto Sector Cools
Monday 26th January - 2:01 pm
As the cryptocurrency sector cools, one-time token traders are predicting big things from prediction markets. That’s ...Benchmark Analyst Says Crypto Bill Delay Slows Growth of Sector in US
Monday 26th January - 1:18 pm
The U.S. legislature’s delay in passing crypto market structure legislation is capping the valuation expansions ...Crypto Crime Hits Record Levels as Nation-States Dodge Sanctions
Monday 26th January - 4:03 am
By most headline measures, 2025 looks like a year where crypto crime exploded. An estimated $154 ...Crypto Wallet Maker Ledger Plans US IPO
Friday 23rd January - 3:58 pm
Ledger, a French company that makes hardware designed to securely store cryptocurrency, reportedly plans to ...UBS Considers Offering Crypto Trading
Friday 23rd January - 3:05 pm
Swiss banking giant UBS reportedly plans to begin offering cryptocurrency trading in response to growing ...Stablecoins Drop the Revolution and Enter the System
Friday 23rd January - 1:50 pm
The cryptocurrency industry is changing its tack. Stakeholders across the digital asset ecosystem are no ...Crypto Firm BitGo Raises $213 Million in IPO
Thursday 22nd January - 2:40 pm
Crypto custody company BitGo has raised $212.8 million in its initial public offering. The IPO, the ...Ex-Binance CEO Planning Tokenization Project With Several Countries
Thursday 22nd January - 10:57 am
Binance’s co-founder and ex-CEO is reportedly in discussion with several countries about tokenizing their assets. Changpeng Zhao ...Senate Crypto Bill Now on Hold Until Late February
Thursday 22nd January - 8:37 am
A major crypto market bill could reportedly be delayed for weeks in the U.S. Senate. The ...Davos Power Brokers Say Tokenization Is Finally Working
Wednesday 21st January - 4:24 pm
Tokenization is emerging beyond the confines of pilot programs. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...Stripe’s John Collison Says FinTech Not Racing to Go Public
Tuesday 20th January - 3:20 pmStripe has no immediate plans to go public, co-founder John Collison told Bloomberg News Tuesday ...Digital Dollars Keep Getting Stuck Outside the Real Economy
Tuesday 20th January - 2:06 pm
For millions of people paid in digital dollar stablecoins, the hardest part isn’t getting the ...Pomelo Plans Stablecoin Card After Raising $55 Million
Tuesday 20th January - 1:26 pm
Argentinian FinTech Pomelo raised $55 million in new funding. The company’s Series C round brings its ...Bermuda Aims to Make Digital Assets Part of Everyday Financial Infrastructure
Monday 19th January - 5:01 pm
Bermuda says it is set to become “the world’s first fully onchain national economy” with ...WalletConnect Pay CEO Bets Crypto Payments Can Finally Scale at Checkout
Monday 19th January - 4:03 am
Watch more: The Digital Shift: WalletConnect’s Jess Houlgrave Cryptocurrency payments have spent years hovering at the ...Bitcoin Accumulation Among Larger Investors Hits Three-Year High
Sunday 18th January - 8:28 pm
Bitcoin accumulation among medium and large investors is reportedly at a three-year high. That figure has ...This Week in Stablecoins: Card Payments, Crypto Policies and Bank Pushback
Friday 16th January - 11:43 am
Stablecoins are no longer knocking on the door of mainstream finance. As the headlines this week ...Crypto Leaders Call for Negotiations as Senate Postpones Markup of Crypto Bill
Thursday 15th January - 11:58 am
The Senate Banking Committee postponed its markup of digital asset market structure legislation after cryptocurrency ...Ripple Clears Cross-Border Payments Hurdle With EU Approval
Wednesday 14th January - 11:04 am
Ripple says it has secured an electronic money institution license in Luxembourg. The cryptocurrency company announced the approval Wednesday ...Pakistan Inks Stablecoin Deal With Trump-Connected Firm
Wednesday 14th January - 10:25 am
Pakistan signed a stablecoin deal with a company connected to the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm. The ...Legal Expert Says Bank Charters Are Crypto’s Credibility Play
Wednesday 14th January - 4:01 am
Watch more: TechReg Talks: Davis Wright Tremaine’s Steve Gannon The pursuit of bank charters by FinTechs ...Chainalysis Says AI Scams Drove Crypto Fraud up 17% in 2025
Tuesday 13th January - 2:16 pm
Crypto scams and fraud took in at least $14 billion on-chain in 2025, up from ...Kraken-Affiliated KRAKacquisition Plans to Go Public
Tuesday 13th January - 10:48 am
Kraken-affiliated company KRAKacquisition Corp is the latest cryptocurrency firm planning to go public. KRAKacquisition, a special ...Ingenico and WalletConnect Launch Stablecoin Payments Partnership
Tuesday 13th January - 9:58 am
Payments acceptance company Ingenico launched an integration with WalletConnect Pay. The collaboration is designed to allow ...Polygon Makes $250 Million Investment in Stablecoin Payments
Tuesday 13th January - 9:00 am
Polygon Labs announced a pair of acquisitions designed to boost its stablecoin payments business. The company ...BitGo Targets $1.9 Billion IPO for Crypto Custody Firm
Monday 12th January - 4:23 pm
BitGo has become the latest cryptocurrency sector company with plans to go public. The crypto custody startup ...Tether Freezes More Than $182 Million in USDT Stablecoins
Monday 12th January - 3:31 pm
Tether reportedly froze more than $182 million of its USDT stablecoin Sunday (Jan. 11), CoinDesk ...Robinhood Takes On Coinbase as Stock and Crypto Overlap
Monday 12th January - 11:43 am
Are Robinhood and Coinbase contemporaries in the digital asset space, or rivals? A report Sunday (Jan. ...Crypto ATMs Under Fire Following Wave of Fraud
Sunday 11th January - 6:30 pm
The rise in cryptocurrency-related fraud cases is leading a push to ban crypto ATMs. That’s according ...Banks, Cards and Creators Push Stablecoins Into Financial Mainstream
Friday 9th January - 7:01 pm
The stablecoin pitch has always been a digital token that maintains a stable value, usually ...UK’s FCA Helps Crypto Firms Prepare for New Regulatory Regime
Friday 9th January - 6:04 pm
The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority posted information for firms that want to offer crypto ...Senate Sets Dueling Markups for High-Stakes Crypto Market Regulation
Friday 9th January - 11:08 am
This January is crunch time for the Senate on cryptocurrency market regulation efforts. After years of ...Rain Raises $250 Million to Scale Platform for Launching Stablecoin Cards
Friday 9th January - 9:46 am
Rain raised $250 million in a Series C funding round to scale its infrastructure for ...Citi and PYMNTS Launch ‘From the Block’ Podcast: Straight Talk on Digital Assets
Thursday 8th January - 4:02 am
PYMNTS and Citigroup are launching a weekly podcast series aimed at giving corporate leaders practical ...Fireblocks Pays $130 Million for Crypto Accounting Platform TRES Finance
Wednesday 7th January - 3:26 pm
Blockchain infrastructure company Fireblocks has acquired TRES Finance, a crypto accounting and financial reporting platform. The ...The Crypto CFO Playbook for Blockchain Treasury Management
Wednesday 7th January - 4:02 am
Two words typically define and rule the enterprise treasury management space: discipline and predictability. Cash flows ...EU CBDCs Face 2026 Deadlines as Digital Shift Holds Firm
Tuesday 6th January - 6:34 pm
Central bank digital currencies have moved well beyond theoretical debate, and in the European Union ...Stripe Integrates Crypto.com to Facilitate Crypto Payments
Tuesday 6th January - 4:32 pm
Stripe and Crypto.com partnered to make cryptocurrency payments easier for merchants and their customers. An integration ...Morgan Stanley Joins Wall Street Peers in Embracing Crypto
Tuesday 6th January - 12:26 pm
Morgan Stanley is reportedly entering the cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF) space. The Wall Street bank has ...Banking Startup Kontigo Promises Refunds After Stablecoin Hack
Tuesday 6th January - 8:47 am
Banking startup Kontigo says it will reimburse more than 1,000 customers following a hack. That hack affected $340,905 ...Former OCC Chief Says Bank Charters Help Keep Crypto Compliant
Tuesday 6th January - 4:02 am
Watch more: TechReg Talks with Rodney Hood The U.S. banking charter, as the name implies, has ...The Stablecoin Wallet Playbook for CFOs and Treasury Teams
Monday 5th January - 11:26 am
It’s taken nearly 17 years, but cryptocurrency has officially gone corporate. The once-Wild-West of Web3 ...Compliance Is Crypto’s New Cost of Doing Business
Friday 2nd January - 11:25 am
The cryptocurrency industry is turning over a new leaf in the New Year. And this ...New Reporting Rules End Crypto’s Tax Secrecy Era
Friday 2nd January - 6:55 am
Tax authorities are closing in on crypto tax evasion, and the net is widening beyond ...Busy Year in Big Tech Regulation May Have Been a Warm Up for 2026
Thursday 1st January - 4:02 am
A new presidential administration in the United States and a new executive commission in the ...Trump Media Plans Shareholder Crypto Token in Deal With Crypto.com
Wednesday 31st December - 4:41 pm
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. is pushing deeper into digital assets, announcing plans to ...Money Laundering and Sanction Fines Fall 61% Amid US Deregulation
Wednesday 31st December - 2:08 pm
American regulators collected 61% less in money laundering/sanction breach fines in 2025. That’s according to a report Wednesday ...Crypto Tax Reporting Requirements Set to Begin in UK and Europe
Tuesday 30th December - 3:42 pm
Cryptocurrency users and platforms in 48 jurisdictions will reportedly begin to be impacted by the ...Bitcoin ATMs Become ‘Preferred Method of Payment for Scammers’
Tuesday 30th December - 2:46 pm
Scams involving bitcoin ATMs reportedly took $333.5 million from Americans from January through November, up ...AEON Teams With X Layer to Expand Scan to Pay
Tuesday 30th December - 12:04 pmPayment and settlement layer AEON integrated with X Layer, OKX’s Ethereum Layer 2 network. The collaboration ...Stablecoins Became Useful in 2025, Can They Become Ubiquitous in 2026?
Tuesday 30th December - 11:35 amFor all of cryptocurrency’s volatility, stablecoins made steady progress in 2025. And by any measure, be ...Cantor Fitzgerald Expects Institutional Adoption of Crypto to Continue in 2026
Monday 29th December - 3:59 pm
Cantor Fitzgerald reportedly expects institutional adoption of cryptocurrency to continue in 2026, even as the ...Zoomex Debuts Card Connecting TradFi and Crypto Rails
Monday 29th December - 1:55 pm
Cryptocurrency trading platform Zoomex is accepting registrants for its Zoomex Card, according to a Monday ...FASB to Consider Digital Assets Standards in 2026
Monday 29th December - 10:47 amTwo digital assets-related topics were reportedly among the first issues added to the Financial Accounting ...
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