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.

European policymakers are intensifying their push for a digital euro as concerns grow over the region’s dependence on non-European payment providers.

Stablecoins are increasingly being viewed as a direct competitor to traditional bank deposits, and new forecasts suggest the impact on the US banking system could be significant over the coming years.

The United Arab Emirates has taken a decisive step toward regulated digital finance with the launch of its first officially approved USD-backed stablecoin for digital-asset settlement.

Bybit is taking a decisive step beyond pure crypto trading and moving closer to a bank-like financial model.

Coinbase has announced a major shift in how centralized exchanges interact with blockchain infrastructure, confirming that it has integrated Jupiter directly into its onchain trading stack.

Crypto payments are steadily moving into the U.S. retail mainstream, according to new data from the National Cryptocurrency Association, which shows that a growing share of merchants now accept digital assets at checkout as customer demand continues to rise.