September 24, 2026 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s roughly 10% advance through September 2026 has put the largest cryptocurrency on course for three straight monthly gains, a July-to-September run last recorded in 2012. July finished higher, August delivered a sharp rebound, and September has so far stayed in the green after bitcoin… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has published a new research paper examining how artificial intelligence and digital assets are starting to reinforce one another. Titled, The Machine-Native Economy, the note from the firm’s digital-assets team argues that widespread AI adoption could become an underappreciated source of demand… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 1:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube has just listed an offering of shares in Veremark, a screening and background-check firm that supports employers. According to the offering page, Veremark is offering shares at £6.34. The Series B funding round in February valued the company at about $100 million and raised… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 12:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anchorage Digital says it now offers Bitcoin staking to Bitcoin holders. Anchorage Digital is a federally regulated bank with a mission to support the digital asset sector. Bitcoin staking is its newest service, enabling clients to stake BTC held at Anchorage and benefit from staking… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA) has adopted a policy objective to ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to “deliberately compare exemptions” and avoid a “disjointed patchwork of regulations.” The new “Presumptive Parity” advocacy was distributed by the CfPA board of directors this week. The… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jamie Dimon, the longtime chief executive of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), told an audience in India this week that outlays on artificial-intelligence infrastructure are on track to cross the $1 trillion mark in 2027. The remark, delivered on the sidelines of the bank’s annual India… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto investment firm Keyrock has announced the launch of Keyrock Securities, a subsidiary that supports tokenized securities and institutional derivatives. According to a release, Keyrock Securities is a dealer registered in the Cayman Islands via the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority under the Securities Investment Business… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 9:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) could be considered one of the largest Fintechs in the world due to its massive install base and its popular wallet features. One of Apple’s services pays interest on a savings account managed by partner Goldman Sachs. This week, Apple notified savings account… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) research suggests that familiar banking-style safeguards could sharply lift US consumer interest in stablecoins, even though most Americans still know little about the category. The payments company released its Money Travels 2026 report on September 23, 2026. The US portion of the… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s (BTC) latest rebound has cleared several cost-basis hurdles that capped the market through much of 2026, and on-chain researchers at Glassnode now frame the $95,000–$97,000 band as the first genuine stress test if the advance continues. The firm notes that BTC price has moved… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A 23-year-old Sheepshead Bay resident has been sent to prison after admitting he ran a yearlong social engineering operation that drained nearly $16 million from Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) customers across the United States. Ronald Spektor received an indeterminate term of four to 12 years on… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether’s refusal to seek authorization under Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework was driven by one reserve rule rather than a general objection to oversight. MiCA requires issuers of significant stablecoins to keep at least 60 percent of backing assets as deposits with commercial banks. Chief… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), issued a concise public reply after venture capitalist Jason Calacanis posted a lengthy critique that treated Bitcoin as a technology whose cultural moment had passed. The comments appeared as the cryptocurrency recovered toward the $80,000 level. Calacanis… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 3:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethical researchers appear to have done what many Coldcard victims had hoped for: they reached 52.37 bitcoin before thieves could empty the exposed wallets. Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s (NASDAQ: GLXY) head of firmwide research, said those coins have now been gathered into a single address… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 12:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic has reportedly taken a first step toward the safety framework its chief executive outlined earlier this month, naming Accenture (NYSE: ACN) as an on-site independent reviewer of its most advanced systems. The arrangement is meant to put outside scrutiny inside the lab itself, rather… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has surfaced as a leading candidate to serve as President Donald Trump’s next artificial intelligence coordinator, according to people familiar with internal discussions. The reports come days after Trump said he would name an “AI czar” and stand up an “AI… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent investigation has revealed how a Kremlin-linked payments company allegedly moved more than $6.9 billion through major international banks by exploiting gaps in compliance controls and using a large-scale document-forgery operation. The reporting from the FT is said to be based on hundreds of… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An iOS whale-watching app that never asked users for a seed phrase has been tied to nearly $580,000 in stolen cryptocurrency after researchers found it could reach secrets stored by other apps on the same iPhone. Blockchain security firm SlowMist, working with OKX’s security team,… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hashed, the global crypto venture firm, has agreed to serve as the anchor investor in a new private credit vehicle aimed at digital-asset institutions. The fund is targeting $300 million and will be managed by Thoro Capital Management, a platform set up by Abu Dhabi-based… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Portals, a new type of intermediary created by the JOBS Act of 2012, were established to facilitate online capital formation through Reg CF, or Regulation Crowdfunding. Reg CF allows a firm to issue or sell securities to anyone, raising up to $5 million in… Read More