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Exodus Wallet Acquires Uruguay’s Grateful to Boost Latin America Stablecoin Payments
11.11.2025
Exodus acquires Uruguay-based Grateful to expand stablecoin merchant services and faster, lower-cost payouts. Exodus Movement, Inc. (NYSE American: EXOD) announces the acquisition of Grateful, a Montevideo-founded stablecoin payments orchestrator that enables merchants to accept wallet-to-wallet...
Bank Survey: Institutional Investors Shift to Diversification, Embrace Crypto as Strategic Allocation
11.11.2025
Global institutional investors now prioritize diversification over speculation and increase crypto allocations despite near-term caution. Sygnum’s Future Finance 2025 report surveys 1,000+ institutional and professional crypto investors across 43 countries and finds 61% plan to increase...
Japan PIP Stablecoin Experiment Backed by Financial Services Agency
9.11.2025
Japan’s Financial Services Agency backs a PIP stablecoin experiment with multiple banks. Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) announces support for the Payment Innovation Project (PIP) stablecoin experiment beginning November 2025 in Japan, involving Mizuho Bank, MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui...
Italy Banks Back Digital Euro CBDC, Seek Staggered Implementation Costs
9.11.2025
The Italian Banking Association supports a digital-euro central bank digital currency (CBDC) while urging that investment costs be spread over time. Italian banks, led by the Italian Banking Association (ABI), say they support the European Central Bank’s (ECB) digital euro project, ABI General...
Russian Authorities Arrest Suspects Over Crypto Investor Couple’s UAE Murder
9.11.2025
Russian police arrest multiple suspects accused of kidnapping and killing a St. Petersburg crypto investor and his wife in the UAE. Russia’s Interior Ministry announces arrests across several regions on 8 November 2025 of suspects allegedly linked to the October kidnapping and murder of...
Bitcoin Banknote-ATM Network Pilot Launches in El Zonte, El Salvador
7.11.2025
Satnotes to dispense 500 satoshi‑denominated banknotes via a community ATM pilot on Jan 1, 2026. The Satnotes El Zonte Experiment announces in El Zonte, El Salvador on 6 November 2025 a pilot launch of the world’s first physical bitcoin banknote ATM network, with the inaugural dispensing of 500...
OKX Launches Stablecoin Payments and Mastercard Debit Card in Brazil
7.11.2025
OKX rolls out OKX Pay and OKX Card in Brazil to offer USD stablecoin access, up to 10% APY, and no IOF tax on international spending. OKX announces in São Paulo the launch of OKX Pay and OKX Card in Brazil, enabling instant PIX‑linked conversion of reais to USD‑denominated stablecoins, domestic...
Future Raises Strategic Funding to Build Swiss Bitcoin Treasury Platform
6.11.2025
Swiss Bitcoin Treasury Company Future raises $34.6 million to scale institutional bitcoin services from Zurich. Future Holdings AG announces in Zurich on 5 November 2025 the successful close of a $34.6 million (CHF 28 million) strategic funding round anchored by Fulgur Ventures, Nakamoto and TOBAM...
CMT Digital Closes $136M Fund IV to Back Next Phase of Crypto Adoption
6.11.2025
CMT Digital raises $136 million for Fund IV to invest in blockchain infrastructure and re‑architecting global finance. CMT Digital announces the close of its fourth venture fund at $136 million, bringing the firm’s assets under management to over $600 million and targeting early‑stage founders...
BoE Says UK Stablecoin Rules Will Roll out ‘Just as Quickly as the US’
6.11.2025
Bank of England deputy governor vows UK stablecoin regime will be implemented promptly, with temporary holding limits. Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden tells a London conference on 5 November 2025 that the UK will unveil a proposed stablecoin regime on Monday and aims for it to be...
UBS Completes First Live Tokenized Fund Transaction Using Chainlink
5.11.2025
UBS executes the first in‑production onchain subscription and redemption for a tokenized money‑market fund. UBS announces in New York and Zurich the first live, end‑to‑end tokenized fund workflow using the Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard, completing on‑chain subscription...
Pig‑Butchering Crime Syndicate Sentenced to Death in China
5.11.2025
Shenzhen court sentences leaders of a “pig‑butchering” fraud syndicate to death amid large‑scale criminal findings. The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong convicts leaders of the Bai family criminal syndicate—linked to “pig‑butchering” romance scams—and sentences Bai Suocheng,...
Zerohash Secures Dutch Authorization to Serve European Clients
5.11.2025
Zerohash Europe obtains AFM MiCAR authorization to provide regulated crypto and stablecoin infrastructure across the EEA. Zerohash Europe announces in Amsterdam that it has received authorization under the EU’s Markets in Crypto‑Assets Regulation (MiCAR) from the Dutch Authority for the Financial...
Google Launches Project Suncatcher to Put AI Compute in Space
5.11.2025
Google announces Project Suncatcher to test space‑based TPUs, optical links, and scalable artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Google unveils Project Suncatcher on 4 November 2025, announcing plans to test Trillium‑generation tensor processing units (TPUs) in space and to launch...
HKMA Unveils “Fintech 2030” With Tokenization‑First Roadmap
3.11.2025
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority launches Fintech 2030 to accelerate tokenization, AI adoption, payments and resilience. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority in Hong Kong on 3 November 2025 unveils “Fintech 2030” during Hong Kong FinTech Week 2025, setting a DART strategy—Data and Payment...
AMINA Bank Achieves First MiCA Crypto‑Asset Service Provider License Via Austrian Subsidiary
3.11.2025
Swiss crypto-banking group AMINA’s Austrian unit secured a MiCAR crypto-asset service provider license from the Austrian regulator. AMINA Bank AG announces in Zug, Switzerland on 3 November 2025 that its subsidiary AMINA (Austria) AG (AMINA EU) has received a Crypto‑Asset Service Provider (CASP)...
CZ Highlights Gambaryan Detention in Nigeria as Trump, US War Secretary Call for Action
2.11.2025
CZ reminded that Nigeria detained ex‑Binance employee Tigran Gambaryan, responding to Trump and War Secretary Hegseth. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) tweeted that “Nigeria also basically kidnapped Tigran Gambaryan, an ex‑Binance employee and an ex‑US federal agent, for 8 months without cause...
Nordic Bank Nordea to Offer Bitcoin‑linked Synthetic ETP on Its Platforms
31.10.2025
Nordea will allow customers to trade a Coinshares‑manufactured bitcoin synthetic ETP on its platforms from December 2025. Nordea announced on October 30, 2025, that it will permit customers in the Nordics to trade an externally manufactured crypto‑linked product — a synthetic exchange‑traded...
Flutterwave Selects Polygon as Primary Blockchain Partner for Cross‑border Payments
31.10.2025
Flutterwave partners with Polygon PoS to power instant, low‑cost cross‑border payments across 30+ African countries. Polygon Labs and Flutterwave announced a multi‑year partnership making Polygon PoS the default blockchain for Flutterwave’s new cross‑border payments product, with a pilot for select...
Mastercard Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Zerohash for up to $2 Billion
30.10.2025
Mastercard is in late‑stage talks to acquire Zerohash for roughly $1.5–$2 billion, according to sources. Sources tell Fortune that Mastercard is negotiating to buy Chicago‑based Zerohash, a 2017‑founded stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure provider, in a deal valued between $1.5 billion and...