Year: 2026

Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin last week for $105 million, reduced its holdings to 842,138 BTC, and began tracking the 200-week moving average on its website, marking the clearest shift yet…

BlackRock has expanded tokenized money market funds to Europe with Ethereum share classes covering $311 billion in institutional liquidity assets. Summary BlackRock has launched tokenized share classes for European institutional…

Flare’s FXRP token has been approved as collateral in an institutionally curated Morpho vault on Ethereum, letting XRP holders borrow Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin without selling. It is the first time…

Ripple President Monica Long said on Aug. 4 that financial institutions are moving tokenized assets “from bank pilots to production,” creating demand for the operational infrastructure needed to issue, manage…

India has expanded its global tax reporting framework to include specified crypto-assets, central bank digital currencies, and digital money products under updated FATCA and Common Reporting Standard rules. Summary India’s…

Lawson has expanded its stablecoin payment pilot to include USDC, USDT and JPYC through a second point-of-sale test at two Tokyo stores, while continuing to evaluate the technology for future…

Italy’s largest banking group, Intesa Sanpaolo, sharply reduced its reported position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust during the second quarter while increasing its exposure to BlackRock’s staked Ethereum fund. Summary…

Apple has restored Telegram to the App Store after briefly removing the messaging platform over content that violated its child sexual abuse material policies, while the Telegram-linked Gram token has…

Coinbase will transfer institutional clients’ International Exchange accounts, balances and open positions to Deribit on Sept. 9, with trading expected to pause for about 30 minutes during the cutover. Summary…

TRON surpassed 15 billion total transactions on Aug. 4, extending a period of network growth driven largely by stablecoin transfers and payment activity. Summary TRON surpassed 15 billion lifetime transactions,…