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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...

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...

Tokenized Stocks Reach All-Time High $1.2 B While ESMA Flags “Risk of Misunderstanding”

Demand for tokenized equities has accelerated since their mainstream debut earlier this year. The trend points to a new asset class gaining traction beyond Bitcoin and stablecoins. Data from Token Terminal shows the combined market capitalization of...

Perpetual Futures Move $1.2 Trillion a Month as Crypto Spot Markets Lag

In 2025, perpetual futures shifted from a specialist tool for aggressive traders into a central mechanism for how risk, leverage, and even traditional assets move across decentralized finance. According to Coinbase, the lines between traditional mark...

Russia’s First Crypto-Backed Loan Brings Bitcoin Into Formal Banking

Sberbank has extended Russia’s first crypto-backed loan to Intelion Data, one of the country’s largest Bitcoin miners. The pilot deal uses Bitcoin mined by Intelion as collateral, positioning digital assets as working capital rather than passive hold...

Why Cyprus’ 8% Crypto Tax Comes with a Fly in the Ointment

Cyprus is set to introduce a new, dedicated tax regime for digital assets, offering brokers a competitive 8% flat tax on crypto-related profits. However, this favorable rate comes as part of a much larger overhaul that may result in dramatically high...

Crypto.com's Plan to Trade Against Users Puts "No House" Model Under Scrutiny

Crypto.com is building an internal market-making team with the stated goal of profiting from trading on its own prediction market, Bloomberg reports.This move might raise significant conflict-of-interest questions for the CFTC-regulated platform and...

Binance Affiliate Trust Wallet Hacked, but CZ Assures $7M Loss Compensation

Trust Wallet, a crypto wallet owned by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, has been compromised, resulting in the confirmed theft of at least $7 million in cryptocurrencies. Zhao, better known as CZ, confirmed that the wallet platform will cover the loss...

“UK Parliament Wasn’t Skeptical of Crypto — It Was Unfamiliar with It,” Lessons From FMLS:25

Speaking at the Finance Magnates London Summit (FMLS:25), former MP and UK-US Crypto Alliance founder Dr Lisa Cameron warned that the UK risks forfeiting its ambition to be a crypto hub unless lawmakers move faster on regulation and education. She de...

Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Defends Prediction Markets, Calling Them ‘Healthier’ Than Stocks

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has pushed back against growing criticism of prediction markets, arguing that their risks are overstated and often comparable to those already present in traditional financial markets. His comments come amid int...

Spain to Enforce MiCA and DAC8 in 2026, Ending Crypto’s Regulatory Grey Area

Spain is moving to close the regulatory gap for crypto firms. From 2026, MiCA and DAC8 will bring digital asset providers under the same licensing and reporting regime as traditional financial institutions, reshaping competition in one of Europe’s l...

Bybit Pulls Back in Japan as Crypto Regulation Forces Tough Choices

Bybit will begin restricting access to its platform for residents of Japan from next year as it moves to align more closely with the country’s financial regulations. The exchange, one of the largest globally by trading volume, attributed this step as...

“Third-Party Dependencies Are the Biggest Friction for Stablecoins,” Insight from FMLS:25

As stablecoins mature, financial institutions are exploring ways to integrate them into everyday operations, moving beyond pilot programs toward real-world applications, panelists said at the Finance Magnates London Summit 2025.The session, “Stableco...

CySEC Confirms February Deadline for Crypto Firms Seeking MiCA Approval

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission has reminded Crypto-Asset Service Providers operating in Cyprus of the deadline to apply for authorisation under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation.According to CySEC, the deadline for submitting an...

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