Institutional

Kraken moves to acquire $181 million European bank in major push beyond crypto trading

Kraken's parent company, Payward, has agreed to acquire a European bank as it expands beyond cryptocurrency trading into traditional financial services. On Oct. 14, the company announced a definitive agreement to purchase Saldo Finance Oy, a Finnish holding company that……
Oct 14, 2026 • Editorial Desk
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Institutional

Ripple targets trillion-dollar securities markets with new US brokerage and South Korean deals

Ripple calls Meritz its fourth Korean institutional partner this year, with custody and tokenization cooperation to widen as regulation develops.…
Oct 14, 2026
Infrastructure

US authorities dismantle crypto scam network that stole tens of millions

Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI seized 112 servers and shut down 241 websites linked to investment scams that targeted Russian-speaking…
Oct 14, 2026
AI

Ethereum’s quantum race takes a new turn as zkSync courts banks and Starknet weighs exit

ZkSync announced Airbender Prime, a prover that Matter Labs says handled 99% of 7,200 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks in under…
Oct 14, 2026
Institutional

Standard Chartered Opens Bitcoin and Ethereum Trading to Wealthy UAE Clients

The British bank won Dubai regulatory approval to let affluent clients buy BTC and ETH straight from their bank accounts,…
Oct 14, 2026
DeFi

Rocket Pool Voters Back rETH Withdrawals, Keep 4 ETH Bonds

Voters chose random megapool exits and deferred an onchain governance expansion. The full Saturn 2 upgrade package still needs ratification.…
Oct 14, 2026
Markets

Bubblemaps Alleges Anglio-Linked Wallets Traded Ahead of Pump.fun Calls

The analytics firm estimates $50,000 in trading profits and $80,000 in callout rewards, as Pump.fun shifts payouts toward followers’ returns.…
Oct 14, 2026
Markets

OCC report finds debanking efforts tied to crypto activities

The report from the US banking regulator did not include specific examples of debanking related to crypto, but mentioned it…
Oct 14, 2026
Regulation

Kalshi CEO says state-led oversight of U.S. prediction markets would push them out

CEO Tarek Mansour said he feels “pretty good” about the pending outcome of the current legal fight over who has…
Oct 14, 2026
DeFi

UNCX Vesting Pool Exploited for About $86,000, Blockaid Says

The identified transaction took five different tokens, while the affected Ethereum contract still held about $3.25 million in assets. Read…
Oct 14, 2026