Bitget is trying to remove the wall between crypto wallets and the US stock market, and the way it is doing so is the part worth examining.
Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin believes crypto's real wave of adoption hasn't started yet, and that traditional finance and AI agents are about to drive it together.
Tether is winding down Alloy by Tether and its gold-collateralized aUSD₮ asset, disabling new positions immediately and giving existing users three months to redeem before a firm September 17 cutoff.
Coinbase unveiled 1:1 backed tokenized US stocks with on-chain dividends and a USDC-secured credit card on June 16, pushing its "everything exchange" ambition, each with a notable catch.
Kraken and Bybit offer tokenized SpaceX IPO access from 100 USDC - no brokerage required. Here's how both routes work and what the fine print actually says.
Ripple has launched a developer toolkit enabling AI agents to transact autonomously on the XRP Ledger, with 3–5 second settlement and no gas fees.
Two months after ICE took a $25 billion equity stake in OKX, the first concrete product from that partnership landed on Friday.
SEPA unified European payments, but the infrastructure underneath it has not fundamentally changed in decades - and a new class of digital assets is exposing exactly how much ground public payment systems have lost on speed and programmability.
Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has closed its acquisition of Bitnomial, a Chicago-based crypto derivatives exchange, for up to $550 million in a mix of cash and equity.
Ethereum mainnet holds $186.2B in stablecoins, more than 50% of the total market while TRON processes the majority of crypto card payments.
Shinhan Card signed an MOU with the Solana Foundation, to test stablecoin payments on Solana's testnet. It is one of nine Korean card issuers simultaneously running stablecoin pilots.
Four years after shutting down its Novi crypto wallet and offloading the Diem project for $182 million, Meta is making another move into digital asset payments.



