The SEC is preparing to roll out one of the most pro-innovation shifts in decades, and blockchain companies are unexpectedly at the heart of it.

Sony is preparing to take a major leap into digital money — not inside Japan, but in the United States.

Uzbekistan is preparing to redesign its financial system — and instead of fighting stablecoins, the country plans to build around them.

Visa is no longer treating stablecoins as a crypto experiment. The company has begun using them as core settlement infrastructure across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEMEA), marking one of its most aggressive blockchain deployments yet.

The digital ruble is moving from pilot phase to real government usage, with Russia preparing to bring its CBDC into the core of its public-finance system.

Robinhood is making one of its most aggressive moves yet into derivatives and prediction markets, and its latest acquisition signals that the retail trading giant wants a seat at the very top of the sector.

Securitize is accelerating the global rollout of tokenized real-world assets, confirming that its next major infrastructure upgrade will debut in Europe — and it’s happening on Avalanche.

Coinbase Ventures is positioning itself for what it believes will be a structurally different phase of the crypto market in 2026, with a focus on projects that sit at the intersection of real-world assets, market infrastructure, privacy, and artificial intelligence.