Cryptocurrency

The most important line in the Senate’s sprawling 616-page digital asset market structure proposal may ...

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) released an amended draft of the Clarity Act on Wednesday (July ...

In March, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City approved a limited-purpose account for Payward ...

Cryptocurrency wallet SecondFi is shuttering after an attack drained $2.4 million from its users. The company announced Wednesday (July 22) ...

The next major digital asset product offered by a bank may not be a wallet, ...

Consumers may hear different labels for stablecoins and other cryptocurrency, but many still place both ...

Stablecoins were supposed to make payment networks less necessary. Visa’s new stablecoin platform, introduced Thursday ...

The European Central Bank is adding its voice to banks in the United States in ...

The CLARITY Act was supposed to resolve a relatively straightforward, if technically difficult, question: When ...

Bank of America has reportedly promoted new leaders to guide its artificial intelligence and crypto ...

The most important digital asset story this week was not the price of bitcoin, the ...

For years, digital assets were something to buy and hold—a bet on the future rather ...

Crypto.com secured a $400 million strategic investment from Citadel Securities, according to a Thursday (July ...

Circle’s Gateway and Circle Payments Network (CPN) are now natively accessible within Fireblocks’ stablecoin infrastructure, ...

If Stripe’s reported pursuit of PayPal signals anything, it is that the next competitive frontier ...

Explore more conversations like this From the Block. The blockchain industry has spent years promising to ...

The upcoming launch of Open Standard’s Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin could pose an “existential threat” ...

Cyclops raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the development of ...

The U.S. government has transferred approximately $288 million worth of seized cryptocurrency to Coinbase Prime, ...

Blockchain financial products are no longer merely standing at the edge of banking. They are ...

Velocity raised $38 million in a Series A funding round to expand its stablecoin payments ...

Nothing visibly changed in American payments when the clock struck midnight on Saturday (July 11). ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has introduced a debit card for British and European Economic Area customers. The Kraken Card, announced in ...

Gauntlet Networks, a digital asset risk and optimization firm, raised $125 million in a Series ...

Stablecoin advocates have argued that blockchain networks can and will solve problems traditional banking never ...

Ripple’s CEO says the blockchain company considered shuttering following an Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

The race to bring stablecoins into mainstream business finance faces the challenge of whether treasury ...

Stablecoins have drawn attention for how they move money. Custody may prove to be the ...

Sony Bank has received conditional approval to launch a U.S.-based stablecoin bank. The Japan-based financial institution this ...

Cryptocurrency-focused venture capital firm Paradigm raised $1.2 billion in a new fund to invest in ...

A payments company owned by Trump family cryptocurrency firm World Liberty Financial is up for ...

The cryptocurrency sector has reportedly begun preparations to defend against quantum computing-related threats. That’s according to ...

On June 30, an independent company called Open Standard launched a dollar stablecoin, Open USD, ...

Federal financial regulators are looking to add some know your customer (KYC) flesh to the ...

A Bitcoin address that was dormant for 15 years transferred $1.88 million on Saturday (July ...

Russia’s biggest bank reportedly plans to offer a crypto wallet and digital depository this year. That’s ...

In a winner-take-most market, firms typically want to be the ones winning and taking the ...

With Illinois’ new tax on crypto set to become effective on Jan. 1, 2027, brokers ...

Robinhood Markets has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain that the company ...

Stablecoins and exchanges once solved each other’s biggest problem. Now they are each trying to ...

Institutional memory tends to go out the window when covering crypto’s innovations. But the Tuesday (June ...

Cryptocurrency exchange OKX is launching a marketplace that lets artificial intelligence (AI) agents hire each other and ...

Several of the world’s payments and tech giants have agreed to use the money movement ...

Cryptocurrency has spent 15 years asking if regulators could catch up. Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), ...

The U.K. has introduced new digital asset regulations as part of its ongoing quest to ...

Watch more: The Digital Shift With Plasma’s Zaheer Ebtikar Start with the part nobody in the ...

As the United States works to establish a framework for digital assets, lawmakers must ensure ...

BNY’s institutional clients can now hold USDC stablecoins in digital asset custody wallets at the ...

The White House reportedly wants to speak with law enforcement organizations on their objection to ...

FundBank, an institutional banking provider for the asset management space, rebranded to IRACE Digital. The rebrand ...

Bitcoin’s largest corporate buyer, bitcoin treasury company Strategy, saw a valuation metric drop below a ...

Stablecoins entered 2026 with an ambitious narrative around disrupting card networks, replacing traditional payment rails ...

Financial regulators must adopt artificial intelligence tools to counter those already being used in cyberattacks, ...

Every industry has its defining rivalry. McDonald’s and Burger King; Walmart and Amazon; Microsoft and ...

The price of bitcoin dropped below $60,000 Wednesday (June 24), marking its first dip below ...

Cryptocurrency platform Binance reportedly has no plans to leave Europe following recent licensing issues. The world’s largest crypto ...

Blockchain company Ripple says it is closer to securing a new cryptocurrency-related license in Europe. The company announced Tuesday (June ...

Anchorage Digital launched Monday (June 22) a new tokenized deposit infrastructure aimed at enabling banks ...

U.S. banking regulators want to apply new compliance standards to stablecoin issuers. The Office of the Comptroller ...

England’s central bank is easing its stablecoin restrictions following pushback from the cryptocurrency industry. The Bank ...

Two developments this week, one in artificial intelligence (AI) and the other in financial services, ...

Explore more conversations like this From the Block.  For most of the cryptocurrency industry’s history, lawyers occupied ...

The question for banks and payment players isn’t whether crypto is becoming compliant, but whether ...

Stablecoins may be finding their lane with chief financial officers, not as a financial revolution, ...

Coinbase has launched an artificial intelligence-powered, Securities and Exchange Commission-registered investment adviser to its app. The ...

Nigeria has become sub-Saharan Africa’s leader in cross-border stablecoin payments. That’s according to an International Monetary ...

Wyoming has become the first state in the U.S. to launch its own stablecoin. And with ...

Micropayments are arguably, and so far, among the digital realm’s great unrealized opportunities. Every few years, ...

Stablecoin payments infrastructure company Rain introduced a new loyalty capability called Rewards, according to a ...

There’s a battle brewing over blockchain finance. Banks view stablecoins as a new form of private ...

Coinbase now enables the users of its exchange to connect their artificial intelligence (AI) agent ...

The announcement that major U.S. banks will launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 grabbed ...

The debate over stablecoin regulation has always had a deeper question underneath it. Do blockchain-based payment ...

Ripple has launched a new set of tools, documentation and integrations designed to help developers build ...

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced a proposed regulation that would ...