Open USD, a bank-backed group developing a dollar-pegged stablecoin, is the most credible threat yet to Circle Internet's (CRCL) USDC because it targets the economics at the heart of the company’s business, crypto asset…
Surging volumes on Robinhood Chain could be very good for Ethereum, but only if the “ETH is money” crowd turn out to be right.
The big rally in small caps has the Russell 2000 easily outpacing the S&P 500 this year. While large-cap tech titans dominate the headlines, small companies have been quietly making noise with investors who have already…
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the February jobs report revealed an unexpected contraction in employment, with the healthcare industry showing significant job losses.
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest added $13.9 million worth of Circle shares on Tuesday, extending its July buying spree to 725,517 shares amid a steep stock decline.
The U.S. and UK have laid out a joint roadmap for aligning how they regulate stablecoins, tokenized assets, and digital money, a coordinated push by two of the world's largest financial centres to let blockchain-based f…
A major UK review of fraud has recommended that judges and magistrates be trained to handle a coming wave of cases involving cryptocurrency money laundering and fraud powered by artificial intelligence.
The race to zero defined a generation of product strategy, and index funds built on dirt-cheap beta became the dominant force in asset management. That playbook still works, but it no longer tells the whole story.
Bitcoin held near a three-week high and ether steadied around its highest since June 3 as U.S.-Iran hostilities capped gains from a softer-than-expected U.S. inflation report on Tuesday.
BTC price upside predictions include $68,000 within two weeks and up to $80,000 next month, contrasting with warnings of a 2022 bear-market rerun for the rest of 2026.
Payments giant Stripe offered to buy PayPal (PYPL) in a deal worth $53 billion, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Coinbase’s Head of Platform, Rob Witoff, said 95% to 100% of the company’s code is now written by or with the assistance of AI, up from about 40% in February, according to a Cointelegraph interview. He said nearly all e…
South Korea’s Economy Ministry plans to include digital assets and intellectual property under the country’s new state-asset management framework.
The Czech Finance Ministry added Polymarket to its blacklist of unauthorized online gambling websites, requiring internet providers to block access within 15 days.
Canada’s housing market is showing growing signs of recovery following a challenging winter and spring amid high economic uncertainty from the global trade war.
Trade tariffs and related uncertainty contributed to strong fluctuations in economic activity during the first half of 2025, with frontloading of activity, especially in Ireland. The unwinding of these factors in the se…
Bitcoin climbed to near $64,800 on Wednesday, its best session in weeks, after U.S. inflation cooled by more than economists expected and traders abandoned bets that the Federal Reserve would raise rates this month.
Norges Bank’s Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Committee decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 4.5% at its meeting on 18 September. Based on the Committee’s current assessment of the outlook, the policy ra…
Every major card network has signed on to a payment standard built so that software can pay software without a human involved.
“We are disappointed by this decision and believe it is unfair to Kalshi,” the company’s legal counsel said on X.
China's economy grew at a faster-than-expected rate in the second quarter, keeping the country on track to meet its full-year target of 5% and easing some pressure on policymakers to step up stimulus to underpin growth.
The miss against forecasts underscores how the Iran-linked oil shock is now compounding, rather than merely coinciding with, China's long-running property downturn, adding a fresh external drag to an already unbalanced …
“US Treasury is committed to disrupting and degrading Iran’s illicit financial activities, including its abuse of digital assets,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.
Even with the Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) acquisition out of its hair — leaving Paramount Skydance (PSKY) to hold the bag — Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) is struggling this year.