Payments
Payments

G20 Endorses Digital Assets as a Growth Tool, Defer to FSB on Stablecoins

The Chair’s statement from the Asheville meeting commits the group to “clear pathways” for digital asset innovation, but leaves the…
Sep 2, 2026
Institutional

Bitfinex Securities Lists Five Tokenized Bitcoin Treasury Company Notes

The notes track Strategy, Metaplanet, H100 and Capital B, plus Strategy’s STRC preferred stock, and trade against dollars, Tether and…
Sep 2, 2026
DeFi

Robinhood Chain DEX Volume Jumps to $1.6 billion

Trading on the Ethereum Layer 2 climbed 61% in a matter of days as DeFi deposits and stablecoin holdings approached…
Sep 1, 2026
Infrastructure

Citi, Goldman and 19 Other Financial Firms Commit to Issuing a Dollar Stablecoin

The group has more than doubled since October and now includes Fidelity and WisdomTree, and it is targeting the first…
Sep 1, 2026
Infrastructure

Arbitrum Jumps 25% on Robinhood Chain Fees as Bitcoin Holds $78,000

ARB led the 108 largest non-stablecoin tokens after chain fees on Robinhood’s network doubled in a day, taking the Arbitrum…
Sep 1, 2026
Institutional

Citi, Goldman, other global banks and asset managers team up on stablecoin venture

The group will focus first on a U.S. dollar stablecoin for payments and digital asset settlement, with a euro token…
Sep 1, 2026
DeFi

Russia's Sberbank Sees $46 Billion in Crypto Trading, Plans Ethereum and USDT-Backed Loans

Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov told state media that trading could hit 4 trillion rubles in its first year, as the…
Aug 31, 2026
Payments

Traders Make a September Rate Increase the Favorite as Bitcoin Holds $78,000

Polymarket prices a quarter-point hike at 55.5% after Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, against 28% on Friday afternoon. Bitcoin is…
Aug 31, 2026
Payments

Circle Becomes Chelsea’s Front-of-Shirt Sponsor in Premier League First for Crypto

Circle takes over the Premier League shirt slot Chelsea left empty for three years. The post Circle Becomes Chelsea’s Front-of-Shirt…
Aug 31, 2026
Payments

CEO Jeremy Allaire says Circle built “the platform for the internet financial system”, but cirBTC has only 40 BTC

Circle’s wrapped Bitcoin was overcollateralized at its Aug. 27 snapshot, yet WBTC and cbBTC remain thousands of times larger as…
Aug 30, 2026