October 28, 2026 @ 9:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of England has required an external examination of the procedures Revolut uses to clear new financial products, according to reporting by the Financial Times. The central bank’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) issued a section 166 order earlier this year, shortly after the fintech obtained… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 8:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoin funded debit cards have crossed a key threshold: spending through them in a single recent month reached roughly $1.1 billion, already matching or exceeding the roughly $1.08 billion recorded across the entirety of 2024. This is not the launch of a new blockchain or… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 8:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cancore, the Canton-native platform developing a Liquidity OS for Tokenized Finance, has closed a $7.2 million seed round. The capital was raised entirely through Simple Agreements for Future Tokens (SAFTs) tied to the project’s planned CNRX token, implying a $60 million fully diluted valuation. Paper… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 5:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) posted earnings yesterday, which unfortunately did not match investor expectations. Shares of Robinhood closed at $94.56 but opened this morning at under $90. Today, shares regained the $90 level. Robinhood reported $1.4 billion in revenue for the quarter, up 12% year-over-year. At the… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) escalated its defense of federal oversight of prediction markets on October 27, 2026, by filing a lawsuit against the State of Utah and Attorney General Derek Brown. The action was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global asset manager Janus Henderson and real-world asset tokenization firm Centrifuge announced the launch of JQQQ, the first blockchain-native fund designed to deliver exposure to the Nasdaq-100 Index through an issuer-sponsored strategy. Rather than wrapping an existing security, the product was built from the ground… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Shares of Datavault AI Inc. (Nasdaq: DVLT) tumbled nearly 50 percent on Tuesday after the company revealed in a regulatory filing that it has been unable to withdraw bitcoin associated with a large equity financing, forcing a restatement of multiple periods of financial results. The… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 2:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a ten-to-two vote, the US Federal Reserve held benchmark rates steady just as insiders anticipated. Committee members Lisa D. Cook and Beth M. Hammack voted against the decision, preferring to raise rates by 25 basis points. Markets were steady as the policy decision was… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 1:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A proposed class-action lawsuit has been initiated in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against Toronto-based Bitcoin hardware and security company Coinkite Inc., along with its co-founders Rodolfo Novak and Peter D. Gray. The proceeding, issued electronically on September 11, 2026, under court file number… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 12:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital (NASDAQ: GLXY) shares advanced after the company reported a sharp return to profitability in the third quarter of 2026 and authorized a fresh share repurchase program. The digital asset and infrastructure firm posted net income of $323 million for the three months ended… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has messaged European users that they must exit non-compliant stablecoins by this Friday (October 30). According to an update on the Coinbase website, digital assets that do not adhere to the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) will no longer be supported. The assets… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 9:07 am By JD Alois  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Tokenization Service (DTS) is now live. According to a note the firm distributed, 20 Depository Trust Company (DTC) Participants have signed agreements to access DTS, including JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Fidelity Investments. DTC has… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

The US Federal Reserve is meeting this week to set benchmark rates, and the consensus is that the Fed will hold rates for now, with the possibility of a rate hike before year-end. The decision comes at a key political moment, with midterm elections next week…. Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Seattle-based Luxor Technology, a provider of full-stack infrastructure services originally built around Bitcoin mining, has closed a $16 million strategic funding round led by CMT Digital. The investment, which mixes newly issued preferred equity with secondary sales of existing shares (a combination of preferred and… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA), the two dominant global payment networks, found themselves targeted by a pair of proposed collective proceedings in the United Kingdom’s Competition Appeal Tribunal. The actions, initiated by Commercial and Interregional Card Claims I Limited and Commercial and Interregional… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) released its third-quarter 2026 financial results on October 27, reporting a sequential increase in cryptocurrency revenue even as conventional trading activity softened. Overall crypto transaction-based revenue rose 20 percent from the second quarter to $120 million. The gain stemmed almost entirely… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) has recently rejected claims of a direct systems compromise, attributing the exposure of certain customer contact details to a security incident at its analytics provider Amplitude. In statements issued through its official support channel on X, the company emphasized that its own… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 2:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Holders of digital assets may soon find a more streamlined path into real estate ownership through a newly announced collaboration between blockchain firm Ripple and settlement specialist CryptEscrow. The arrangement focuses on enabling large-scale property transactions funded by cryptocurrency while leaving the familiar workflows of… Read More

October 28, 2026 @ 2:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Research commissioned by Ripple and conducted by Boston Consulting Group indicates that carefully chosen digital asset services and custody arrangements could lift the financial performance of a mid-sized regional bank by as much as $100 million. The analysis focuses on institutions with balance sheets in… Read More