The U.S. Senate has drawn a hard line on the digital dollar. With an 89-10 vote, lawmakers passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act - a sweeping bipartisan housing package that buried within its text a significant financial policy decision: a temporary prohibition on the Federal Reserve issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency, effective through December 31, 2030.
The crypto bear market has a habit of separating projects that are actually building from those that were riding price momentum. On Solana, the latest development activity rankings from Santiment tell a clear story: a handful of projects are putting in serious work on GitHub while the broader market sorts itself out.
South Korea's National Tax Service is building one of the more aggressive crypto surveillance systems seen anywhere.
Binance Research's latest cycle analysis covers U.S. midterm election years going back to 1939 for equities and across all three Bitcoin midterm cycles on record.
A French couple in their late 50s was robbed of nearly one million euros in Bitcoin after three armed men forced their way into their home in Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, a quiet suburb near Versailles, in a calculated act of physical extortion that is becoming disturbingly routine in France.
Wells Fargo has quietly moved to stake its claim in the digital dollar race. On March 9, the bank submitted a trademark application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for "WFUSD" - a name that, by most analyst readings, telegraphs the development of a proprietary stablecoin or deposit token backed by the U.S. dollar.
Blockchain payments company Ripple is acquiring BC Payments Australia as part of a strategy to strengthen its regulatory footprint and expand cross-border payment capabilities across the Asia-Pacific region.
Fintech giant Revolut has officially become a fully licensed bank in the United Kingdom, marking a major milestone in its expansion into traditional financial services.
Mastercard has formally expanded its Crypto Partner Program to more than 85 companies, pulling together some of the biggest names in both traditional finance and the blockchain industry - Binance, PayPal, Ripple, JPMorgan Chase, Coinbase, Stripe, and others - in what amounts to one of the most coordinated efforts yet to wire crypto into the everyday payment infrastructure consumers already use.
The European Central Bank’s Eurosystem has unveiled Appia, a strategic initiative designed to support the development of a European tokenized financial ecosystem while maintaining central bank money at the core of the system.
Antalpha Platform Holding Company (NASDAQ: ANTA) closed fiscal year 2025 with a $13.4 million floating profit on its Tether Gold holdings = a figure that has circulated online with significant inflation, with some sources incorrectly citing unrealized gains as high as $100 million.
Over $38 billion in humanitarian aid moves through traditional banking channels every year. Much of it arrives late, eroded by fees, and occasionally never at all. The United Nations thinks distributed ledger technology can change that — and it's no longer just theorizing.
