Hong Kong-based stablecoin issuer First Digital says it is ready for its stock market debut. The Nasdaq listing is designed to help First Digital fund the expansion of Finance District, “ecosystem for the agentic economy,” the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 7) news release. Vincent Chok, First...
Anchorage Digital has acquired payments company Routable in a bid to extend its rails to the world’s biggest companies. Founded in 2017, Routable helps businesses onboard payees, automate compliance, and orchestrate high-volume payouts globally, Anchorage said in a news release Tuesday (Oct. 6). “Behind every...
Stablecoins have spent the past year and a half acquiring nearly everything an emerging payments technology is supposed to need to go mainstream. Clearer regulation, check; more institutional backing, check; better infrastructure and growing support from banks, FinTechs and payment providers? Check, check, and check....
Rain is the latest digital asset company seeking to launch a national trust bank. The stablecoin payments infrastructure company announced Monday (Oct. 5) that it has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish Rain National Trust Bank (RNTB). If...
October 01, 2026
Wall Street’s embrace of digital assets has reached the point where saying a bank is “doing blockchain” reveals almost nothing about what it can actually do on-chain. One bank may be experimenting with tokenized securities inside an innovation lab. Another may let corporate customers move tokenized commercial-bank deposits around the clock, while a third may […]
September 28, 2026
There’s a changing of the guard taking place across crypto. The Sept. 15 failure of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act to advance in the Senate has coincided with a...
September 24, 2026
Stablecoins spent years trying to prove they could move money better than banks, and they have succeeded. Announcements this week from banks, card networks, cryptocurrency exchanges and central banks show...
September 17, 2026
Washington’s attempt to advance comprehensive crypto market-structure legislation stalled out on Tuesday (Sept. 15). That, in effect, leaves stablecoins as the presumptive standalone regulated U.S. digital asset. And it makes...
October 07, 2026
Noah, a stablecoin payments infrastructure provider focused on cross-border transactions, closed its seed funding round at $38 million, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release. Noah closed the round after raising an additional $16 million from new and existing investors, according to the release. The company raised $22 million earlier in the […]
October 07, 2026
Hong Kong-based stablecoin issuer First Digital says it is ready for its stock market debut. The Nasdaq listing is designed to help First Digital fund the expansion of Finance District, “ecosystem for...
October 06, 2026
Anchorage Digital has acquired payments company Routable in a bid to extend its rails to the world’s biggest companies. Founded in 2017, Routable helps businesses onboard payees, automate compliance, and...
October 06, 2026
Rain is the latest digital asset company seeking to launch a national trust bank. The stablecoin payments infrastructure company announced Monday (Oct. 5) that it has applied to the Office...
