Ripple had one of its busiest weeks in months, rolling out regulatory, institutional, and tokenization developments even as XRP’s price struggled alongside the broader crypto market.

South Korean online lender Kbank has filed 13 trademark applications tied to stablecoin wallet services, pointing to a broader push into digital assets.

Stablecoins are often marketed as instant, borderless money. In practice, that speed is the final output of a deep and carefully layered financial stack.

Stablecoin usage reached a new milestone in January, with total onchain transaction volume surpassing $10 trillion, according to data from Artemis.

Card payments often look identical at the checkout, but what happens behind the scenes can be very different.

Jupiter Exchange has secured a $35 million strategic investment from ParaFi Capital, marking a significant vote of confidence in the project’s long-term role within onchain financial infrastructure.

Ripple has been granted a full Electronic Money Institution license in the European Union through Luxembourg, marking a significant regulatory milestone for the blockchain-based payments firm’s expansion across Europe.

A project long associated with decentralized trading is now pushing far beyond swaps and liquidity pools. Jupiter has unveiled a payments-focused expansion that aims to make blockchain balances usable in daily life, without forcing users back into traditional banking workflows.

A previously undisclosed foreign investment tied to the Gulf is now casting a long shadow over a Trump-linked crypto venture, after new details surfaced about a massive ownership transfer completed just before Donald Trump returned to office.

Tether ended 2025 with around $10 billion in profit, a sharp but controlled pullback from the record-breaking results it posted a year earlier, even as the company moved ahead with plans that could elevate it into the top tier of private global firms.

Brazilian fintech giant Nubank, the largest digital bank in Latin America with more than 127 million customers, has taken a major step toward the U.S. market after receiving conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national bank in the United States.