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Paxos Proposes USDH Stablecoin to Anchor Hyperliquid Ecosystem and Fund Buybacks
7.9.2025
Paxos proposed issuing USDH, a Hyperliquid‑first regulated stablecoin, aimed at accelerating adoption and enterprise integration across the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The Paxos Labs initiative, backed by Paxos’s decade of regulated stablecoin issuance and recent acquisition of Molecular Labs, would...
Boerse Stuttgart Launches Seturion, Pan‑European Blockchain Settlement Platform for Tokenized Assets
7.9.2025
Boerse Stuttgart Group launched Seturion, a pan‑European, blockchain‑based settlement platform aimed at unifying fragmented cross‑border settlement for tokenized assets and cutting costs for market participants. Open to banks, brokers, traditional and digital trading venues, and tokenization...
Canadian Solana Treasury Firm SOL Strategies Gains Nasdaq Access
6.9.2025
SOL Strategies is charting a course to the Nasdaq. The green light arrived Friday, with trading slated to begin Sept. 9. Headquartered in Canada, the solana ( SOL) treasury firm currently lists its shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the ticker HODL. That will soon change: its Nasdaq...
Abu Dhabi Grants GFO‑X Approval to Launch Digital Asset Exchange and Clearing House
5.9.2025
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has granted GFO‑X Group in‑principle approval to establish a digital asset exchange and clearing house, the two parties announced. The approval positions GFO‑X to offer regulated venues for trading, clearing and settlement of tokenized securities and digital assets...
ECB Pushes Digital Euro to Enhance Strategic Autonomy, Counter Foreign Stablecoins
5.9.2025
On September 4, 2025, ECB Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone addressed the European Parliament, advocating for a digital euro to strengthen Europe’s payment system resilience and strategic autonomy. Speaking in Brussels, Cipollone highlighted the digital euro’s role in reducing reliance...
Coinbase Boosts Max Leverage to 50x on International Perpetual Futures
5.9.2025
Crypto derivatives trading took a step forward as Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared on social media platform X on Sept. 3 that the exchange raised its maximum leverage on international perpetual futures from 20x to 50x. Armstrong posted: “We just bumped up the max leverage from 20x to 50x...
Chainlink Adds 43,937 LINK to Reserve, Total Tops 237K
4.9.2025
The Chainlink Reserve now holds more than 237,000 LINK tokens after its latest update, according to data published Sept. 4. According to the team’s latest X post, the Chainlink Reserve has grown to a total of 237,014.07 LINK as of Sept. 4, with 43,937.57 LINK added in the most recent update...
Polymarket Poised to Return to US After CFTC Staff Grants QCX No-Action Relief
4.9.2025
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight and Division of Clearing and Risk issued a no-action position Sept. 3 allowing QCX LLC and QC Clearing LLC to be exempted, under narrow conditions, from certain swap-related recordkeeping and swap data reporting requirements...
Sam Altman Says Rise in Twitter Bots Lends Credence to Dead Internet Theory
4.9.2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that “i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now,” prompting renewed debate about the prevalence of AI-generated accounts and content online. X platform observers noted...
Putin and Xi Overheard Discussing Life Extension, Sparking Global Buzz
4.9.2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were briefly overheard discussing life extension during a live broadcast of Beijing’s Sept. 3 military parade, when comments about biotechnology, organ transplants and the possibility of greatly extended lifespans were captured on...
Crypto Traders Brace for Disruption as Russia Tightens Cash Controls
4.9.2025
Russia’s new law, effective Sept. 1, 2025, reportedly allows banks to cap ATM withdrawals at $600 (50,000 rubles) for 48 hours if transactions appear suspicious—a move aimed at curbing financial fraud. However, experts warn that the legislation will significantly disrupt cryptocurrency trading...
Kite Raises $18M Series A to Build Agentic Web Infrastructure With Stablecoin Payments
3.9.2025
Kite has raised $18 million in a Series A round led by Paypal Ventures and General Catalyst, bringing total funding to $33 million, the San Francisco–based startup announced. Formerly Zettablock, Kite builds foundational trust infrastructure for the “agentic web,” and today launched Kite AIR,...
Swiss Crypto Bank Sygnum Expands Institutional Investment Solutions to Germany and Liechtenstein
3.9.2025
Sygnum has expanded its asset management offerings to institutional and wholesale investors in Germany and Liechtenstein, providing access to selected crypto investment solutions including exclusive, non‑directional, low‑volatility yield strategies. The Zurich‑based group said the move follows...
Real-World Asset Tokenization Firm Figure Seeks $526 Million in IPO
3.9.2025
Figure Technology Solutions Inc. and certain backers are seeking to raise $526 million in an initial public offering (IPO), planning to offer 21.5 million shares and sell 4.9 million more at a proposed range of $18 to $20 per share, the company said in an SEC filing. At the top of the range...
Despite Community Criticism, Ethereum Foundation Says It Will Convert 10,000 ETH via Centralized Exchanges
3.9.2025
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced it will convert 10,000 ETH through centralized exchanges over several weeks this month to fund research and development, grants, and donations, saying the sales will be executed as multiple smaller orders rather than a single large transaction to reduce market...
Strategy Adds $449M in BTC, Now Holds 636,505 Coins
2.9.2025
Strategy has added another 4,048 bitcoin for $449.3 million, lifting its holdings to 636,505 BTC worth roughly $70 billion. Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, disclosed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it purchased 4,048 bitcoin between...
RAK Properties Lets Buyers Use Crypto for UAE Beachfront Homes
2.9.2025
RAK Properties, Ras Al Khaimah’s leading publicly listed real estate developer in the United Arab Emirates, announced a partnership with Hubpay to let international buyers purchase units in its Mina beachfront community using major digital assets such as USDT, BTC and ETH, with payments instantly...
Coincheck to Acquire European Crypto Prime Broker Aplo
2.9.2025
Coincheck Group N.V. (Nasdaq: CNCK) said on September 2, 2025, it has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire Paris‑based Aplo SAS, a registered crypto prime brokerage serving more than 60 institutional clients, with the transaction expected to close in October pending customary conditions....
EU Regulator Warns Tokenized Stocks May Cause Investor Misunderstanding
2.9.2025
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) warned on Monday that blockchain-based “tokenized stocks” risk causing investor misunderstanding because they generally do not confer shareholder rights despite tracking a company’s share price. ESMA executive director Natasha Cazenave told...
Binance Invests Over One Billion Pesos to Expand Fiat Services in Mexico
2.9.2025
Binance announced on September 1, 2025, the launch of Medá, a newly authorized Electronic Payment Funds Institution (IFPE) in Mexico, backed by a planned investment of more than one billion pesos ($53 million) over four years. Medá, operated by an independent vertical within Binance, will provide...