Australia's financial regulator is drawing a hard line on how the crypto industry should be governed — and it has little patience for firms trying to use technological jargon to sidestep existing rules.
Alexander Stefanov
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A French couple in their late 50s was robbed of nearly one million euros in Bitcoin after three armed men forced their way into their home in Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, a quiet suburb near Versailles, in a calculated act of physical extortion that is becoming disturbingly routine in France.
Bitwise Asset Management's Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has laid out a detailed - and deliberately provocative - case for Bitcoin reaching $1 million per coin.
The amount of Ethereum sitting on exchanges just hit a multi-year low. At 12% of total supply, ETH is being steadily pulled off trading platforms and into self-custody wallets, staking contracts, and cold storage.
Mastercard has formally expanded its Crypto Partner Program to more than 85 companies, pulling together some of the biggest names in both traditional finance and the blockchain industry - Binance, PayPal, Ripple, JPMorgan Chase, Coinbase, Stripe, and others - in what amounts to one of the most coordinated efforts yet to wire crypto into the everyday payment infrastructure consumers already use.
Goldman Sachs has emerged as the dominant institutional player in the nascent spot XRP ETF market, holding roughly $153.8 million in exposure as of its Q4 2025 13F filing - a position that dwarfs every other disclosed institution in the space.
Bybit and Tether aren't subtle about what they're doing. With gold prices drawing fresh attention from investors rattled by market swings, the two crypto heavyweights launched a joint promotional campaign this week that puts physical gold - or at least a tokenized version of it - front and center.
Lawrence McDonald spent years inside Lehman Brothers before watching it collapse from the inside. Now, as founder of The Bear Traps Report, he's raising alarms that much of Wall Street would rather not hear - that the current market, as of early 2026, is tracing a familiar and dangerous path.
The financial system wasn't built for machines. That's becoming a problem. As autonomous AI agents move from experimental tools to active economic participants, a structural mismatch is emerging: the infrastructure powering global finance - correspondent banking, card networks, ACH transfers - operates on timelines and fee structures designed for humans.
The United Arab Emirates has crossed a threshold that most financial markets are still debating. Blockchain is no longer a pilot project sitting in a bank's innovation lab. It's live infrastructure, and it's generating revenue.
Societe Generale-FORGE, the digital asset arm of French banking giant Societe Generale, has deployed its EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) stablecoin on the Stellar network - the latest move in a multichain push that now spans four major blockchains.
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has put a number on what he sees as one of crypto's more straightforward trades of 2026: $150 for Hyperliquid's native token HYPE by August, roughly five times its current price around $30.
