Year: 2026

Digital Asset has expanded its latest funding round to $365 million after securing an additional $10 million investment from Shinhan Financial Group and Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures, strengthening institutional backing…

Financial infrastructure startup Augustus has raised $180 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $1 billion. Summary Augustus raised $180 million at a $1 billion…

The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to forfeit more than $25 million in cryptocurrency recovered from five investigations into international fraud networks that allegedly tricked victims in the United…

The lobby representing JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup has retained counsel to challenge the regulator that approved crypto’s bank charters. No suit has been filed. The threat is doing the…

Bitget plans to enter the U.S. market regardless of whether Congress passes the CLARITY Act, according to CEO Gracy Chen.  Summary Bitget plans its regulated U.S. launch regardless of whether…

South Korea has launched a 9.6 billion won project to expand its CBDC-based deposit token payment system into everyday commercial payments, building on the Bank of Korea’s earlier pilot program.…

Twelve-plus states, criminal charges in Arizona, tribes at the Ninth Circuit, and a federal agency suing its own states’ regulators: the fight over whether a sports contract is a commodity…

BscScan, one of the main blockchain explorers used to track activity on BNB Smart Chain, has entered a scheduled maintenance window that could temporarily disrupt parts of its website and…

Coinbase has expanded plans for its “Everything Exchange” into Canada, bringing tokenized stocks, traditional financial products, and blockchain-based services closer to one platform for local users. Summary Coinbase plans to…

Ramp has expanded its business payments platform with Solana-powered stablecoin accounts, giving companies a way to hold USDC and USDT while sending cross-border payments around the clock from a single…