Elon Musk has confirmed that X Money - the long-anticipated financial services layer inside X - is now in closed internal testing.

Binance has launched its prepaid Mastercard crypto card across several countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States, marking a renewed push into everyday digital asset spending.

Boerse Stuttgart Group is accelerating its push to dominate Europe’s regulated crypto landscape, unveiling a major consolidation that positions it as a contender to become the continent’s leading digital asset powerhouse.

Coinbase has introduced Agentic Wallets, the first wallet infrastructure purpose-built for autonomous AI agents.

More than $2 billion in venture capital poured into the crypto sector in the first quarter of 2026, but the money didn’t chase Layer 1 tokens, memecoins, or retail-driven narratives.

Under the redesigned interface, all crypto-related services - including spot, futures, margin, onchain products, and earn - are consolidated under a unified Trade tab.

The American Bankers Association (ABA), the largest banking lobby in the country, has formally urged the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to slow down or pause the approval of national trust bank charters for crypto and stablecoin companies.

Malaysia is making a stronger push into digital finance as Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) confirms that three new initiatives have been accepted into its Digital Asset Innovation Hub (DAIH) to test real-world use cases involving ringgit-backed stablecoins and tokenised deposits in 2026.

Trump-family-linked crypto project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is preparing to launch a foreign exchange platform called World Swap, according to co-founder Zak Folkman, who revealed the plans on stage at Consensus Hong Kong.

The battle over who controls access to the U.S. financial system’s core payment infrastructure is intensifying, as banks, fintech firms, and crypto companies clash over a Federal Reserve proposal that could reshape how money moves across the economy.