PayPal is expanding access to PYUSD stablecoin to 70 countries: report
PayPal is expanding access to statcoin PYUSD to 70 countries, including regions across South America, Africa and Asia, where previously...
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MasterCard to acquire stablecoin company BVNK for up to $1.8B
Global financier MasterCard announced on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to buy BVNK, a stablecoin payment infrastructure provider,...
Robinhood Ventures Fund I will invest in Stripe and ElevenLabs
Robinhood Ventures Fund I, Robinhood's first publicly traded closed-end fund, has invested in payments giant Strip and artificial intelligence audio...
GSR Moves to Build One-Stop Crypto Capital Market Platform with $57M Acquisition
GSR has bought and acquired Architech in a $57 million deal, according to the company's announcement as the crypto trading...
Ironlight will raise $21 million to promote its infrastructure
Ironlight Group has raised $21 million in a Series A round to expand the infrastructure for tokenized securities, joining the...
Crypto wealth manager Abra lists on Nasdaq in blockbuster $750 million valuation
Abra, a digital asset management platform, will merge with New Providence Acquisition Corporation III to become a publicly traded company....
After blocking withdrawals and deposits, BlockFills files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Crypto trading platform BlockFills has announced today that the company has entered Chapter 11 after ceasing trading amid market volatility....
Former JP Morgan and Dresdner Kleinworth traders launched a crypto prop platform
Hong Kong-based Velotrade, founded by former institutional derivatives traders from JPMorgan and Dresdner Kleinwort, has unveiled a crowdfunded trading platform...
Elon Musk will remove additional xAI founders during restructuring before the IPO
Elon Musk fired more xAI founders and employees as the startup restructured after being acquired by aerospace company SpaceX. xAI...
Eightco Holdings shares float after $125M funding round led by Bitmine and ARK Invest
Eightco Holdings ( ORBS ) shares traded sharply higher after the company announced a $125 million round of funding led...
Tim Draper-backed Ark Labs Raises $5.2 Million From Tether And Investors To Scale Bitcoin Infrastructure
Tim Draper-backed Bitcoin infrastructure startup Arc Labs has secured $5.2 million in seed funding to build a programmable financial infrastructure...
OP Labs cuts 20 employees as Ethereum L2 developer shifts strategic focus
OP Labs, the development company behind Ethereum's Layer 2 network Optimism, has laid off 20 employees as part of an...
Papa John’s Weighs in on $1.5 Billion Takeover Offer from Irth Capital, Shares Rise 20%
A Qatar-backed fund has made a $47 offer to acquire Papa John's and take the company private, The Wall Street...
Ripple Labs launched a $750M share buyback, valuing the company at $50B
Ripple Labs has launched a share buyback program that could value the company at around $50 billion, consolidating its position...
Wells Fargo files “WFUSD” trademark, marks launch of dollar-backed stablecoin
Wells Fargo has filed a trademark application for "WFUSD," indicating the bank's plans to enter the growing stable coin market,...
Ripple to acquire BC payments to accelerate growth in the APAC region
Ripple has announced plans to acquire BC Payments, Australia's European-based payments and fintech infrastructure provider Bank Circle, which is planning...
Billionaire Bill Ackman filed for a public offering of Pershing Square on the NYSE
American billionaire Bill Ackman is moving to dual-list Pershing Square Capital Management with its PSUS closed-end fund on the NYSE....
Meta expands AI agent push with Moltbook purchase
Meta has acquired MoltBook, the viral social network designed for autonomous AI agents, bringing its founders to the company's Meta...
Belgian giant KBC taps Taurus to back country’s first regulated Bitcoin, Ether trading
Major Belgian bank-insurer KBC Group has partnered with Swiss fintech company Taurus SA to provide institutional protection services for a...
Trump-backed US bitcoin investor buys 68,000 ABTC shares in new share buyback
American Bitcoin ( ABTC ) board member Richard Bush acquired 68,000 shares of the Nasdaq-listed bitcoin mining company at an...
Nasdaq partners with Bourse Stuttgart Group to launch tokenized securities in Europe
Nasdaq will connect European markets with Seturion, a pan-European blockchain-based settlement platform operated by the Boerse Stuttgart Group, in a...
Kalshi and Polymarket weigh funding at $20B valuations.
Prediction markets platforms Kalshi and Polymarket are each exploring fundraising rounds worth about $20 billion, according to a Wall Street...
