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BitGo Takes the First Swing for Crypto Custody IPOs, Chasing Nearly $2B Valuation

BitGo’s push to list its shares in New York marks a fresh test of how much confidence US investors still place in crypto infrastructure after a volatile stretch for digital assets. The crypto custody company aims to raise up to 201 million dollars in...

Bakkt to Acquire Stablecoin Infrastructure Provider DTR Following Sale Speculation

Bakkt Holdings, backed by Intercontinental Exchange, has agreed to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, a stablecoin payments infrastructure provider. The deal marks a shift in strategy following earlier reports that Bakkt had explored a potent...

Scam-Yourself Attacks Are Spreading - and AI Is Making Them Harder to Spot

Cybercrime is increasingly targeting people, not devices. Attackers are using so-called “scam-yourself” techniques across everyday channels such as SMS, email, and social media, walking users into taking harmful actions themselves. According to late...

Coinbase to Use Cyprus License to Offer Crypto Perps and Futures, Closes BUX's CFD Accounts

Coinbase appears to be launching its services under its Cyprus-regulated entity, as its website has recently gone live and shows “perpetual-style and traditional expiry futures contracts” as part of the offering.Coinbase Puts Its MiFID II Licence to...

Elon Musk’s X Teases In-App Crypto Trading, but How Will It Work?

Elon Musk’s X is planning to add a Smart Cashtags feature for cryptocurrencies next month, which could allow users to buy and sell crypto directly from the social media platform. However, details about the in-app trading feature remain unclear.You ma...

Report: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Moved $1 Billion Through UK Crypto Exchanges

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shifted roughly $1 billion in cryptocurrency through two exchanges registered in the United Kingdom between 2023 and 2025, according to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, which published its finding...

Ripple Gets FCA Green Light for UK Payments via Local Unit, but with Tight Limits

Ripple has secured a key regulatory approval in the UK that lets its local subsidiary offer regulated payment services, while the country moves toward a full licensing regime for crypto assets. The decision gives Ripple a clearer base in one of the w...

BingX Expands TradFi Futures as Crypto Platforms Move Closer to Broker Territory

Crypto exchange BingX has launched BingX TradFi, a new feature offering futures tied to traditional assets. The move reflects a broader industry shift toward building one-stop financial platforms rather than single-purpose trading venues. With this...

Crypto Firms Must Apply for FCA Authorisation Starting September This Year

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has outlined requirements for firms seeking to undertake new regulated cryptoasset activities, with the application period expected to open in September 2026. Firms will need authorisation under the Financial Serv...

After Securing MiCA Licence, StoneX Digital Partners with EDG for Structured Products

StoneX Group Inc. and Enhanced Digital Group Inc. announced a partnership to expand their digital asset offerings. As part of the agreement, StoneX led EDG’s Series A funding round and acquired a minority stake in the company.The development follows...

Turkmenistan Opens Its Crypto Market to Miners and Exchanges — But Will They Come?

Turkmenistan’s new Law on Virtual Assets, which came into force on January 1, 2026, has formally legalised cryptocurrency mining and digital asset exchanges in a country with some of the world’s lowest energy costs. While the move is designed to attr...

Ripple Doesn’t Want Wall Street—And Its $500 Million War Chest Explains Why

Ripple is dialing down expectations of a near-term Wall Street debut as it leans on a fresh war chest and a burst of deal-making to drive its next phase of growth. The company signals that it prefers to build out a broader enterprise crypto platform...

Ripple Doesn’t Want Wall Street, and Its $500 Million War Chest Explains Why

Dow Jones Brings Polymarket Prediction Markets to Newsroom, Turning Headlines Into Probabilities

Dow Jones has signed an exclusive agreement to use real-time prediction market data from Polymarket across The Wall Street Journal and its other consumer platforms, bringing market-implied probabilities into the daily news experience for millions of...

Lloyds Runs First UK Tokenised Deposit Deal on Public Blockchain Network

Lloyds has completed its first digital assets transaction using Tokenised Deposits. The bank said this was the first time in the UK that tokenised deposits had been issued on a public blockchain. It also said this was the first global use of sterling...

Cambodia Arrests Tycoon Tied to DOJ’s Record $15B Bitcoin Seizure, Extradites Him to China

Police reportedly detained Chen Zhi, the founder and chairman of Prince Group, before deporting him to China for investigation by Chinese authorities. According to Bloomberg, Zhi left Cambodia under escort to face questioning over alleged financial c...

Polymarket Introduces Dynamic Fees to Curb Latency Arbitrage in Short-Term Crypto Markets

Prediction market platform Polymarket has introduced a dynamic taker-fee model for its 15-minute crypto markets. This change aims to neutralise latency-based arbitrage strategies that had emerged under the platform’s previous zero-fee structure. The...

Forex.com Owner StoneX Adds Crypto Offering Under MiCA Licence

StoneX Digital has received a Crypto-Asset Service Provider licence under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. It was granted by the Central Bank of Ireland.StoneX Group also operates the retail trading brand Forex.com, which bec...

U.S. Home Prices Become Tradeable Events as Polymarket Taps Parcl Data

Polymarket and Parcl are moving real estate into onchain prediction markets, creating a new venue where traders can speculate on the direction of housing prices without touching physical property or long-term mortgages. The integration links Polymark...

How Venezuela’s Long Reliance on Crypto Turned a Geopolitical Shock into a 24/7 Headache for Brokers

The crypto market staged a surprise rally of more than $100 billion following the U.S. military operation in Venezuela. With traditional financial markets closed at the time, digital assets became the primary venue where global risk was repriced in...

“Thanks to Trump’s Law”: $4B Bitcoin Hacker Credits Regulations for Early Prison Release

Ilya Lichtenstein, who hacked crypto exchange Bitfinex and stole nearly 120,000 Bitcoin, said he has been freed from prison early. His wife, Heather Morgan, who also pleaded guilty as part of the Bitcoin laundering scheme, celebrated her husband’s ap...

Liquidity, Clearer Regulations and More: Crypto Executives Are Bullish for Bitcoin in 2026

Bitcoin ended 2025 with a negative return. However, industry insiders are now bullish on the cryptocurrency’s performance in 2026. Bill Barhydt, CEO of crypto exchange and wallet company Abra, believes that easing monetary policy would inject “massiv...

Unregistered Crypto Mining in Russia May Soon Come With Up to 2 Years of Forced Labor

Russia’s crypto mining industry has grown into a major consumer of cheap domestic energy, but the state now wants far tighter control over who mines, where, and on what terms. After legalizing mining in late 2024, the government has quickly moved to...

Binance Users in Ukraine Pushed to Swift and P2P as Bifinity Halts Fiat Services

Ukrainian crypto users who relied on Binance to move funds straight from exchange to bank cards now face a sudden gap in their withdrawal toolkit. The platform has reportedly paused direct fiat payouts to Visa and Mastercard for affected customers, t...

How a Single Threat Actor Stole $2M in a Coinbase Support Impersonation Scheme

An on-chain investigation has detailed how a single threat actor allegedly stole more than $2 million from Coinbase users over the past year by impersonating customer support and manipulating victims into granting access to their accounts. The case...

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