dydx executives founded Crypto trading platform Fomo has announced a major acquisition. It has acquired Mobula’s technology and team as it scales its spot trading business. Fomo announced the acquisition in a LinkedIn post, saying the deal will allow it to own and improve “critical infrastructure” as the platform continues to grow. “We are excited

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Boardroom transitions happen all the time in crypto. But every once in a while, a board appointment says much more about where a company is headed next. That is what makes Anthony Armstrong’s arrival at Coinbase different. A new director can influence what an exchange builds, which markets it enters and how aggressively it expands

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A major leadership departure has happened in Metaplanet. Phil Geiger, who served as Head of Business Development at the leading Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet, has announced his departure from the company as he takes on new roles across the Bitcoin ecosystem. Geiger shared the update on LinkedIn, saying he had “wrapped up” his time

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In a major milestone, the digital asset infrastructure company BitGo has announced a remarkable physical expansion. It has opened a new office in Singapore as the company expands its business and products across Asia Pacific. The new office strengthens Singapore’s role as BitGo’s regional hub. It also comes as the company reports strong growth in

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The blockchain company and the RWA leader Figure Technology Solutions has completed its $717 million acquisition of Kiavi. It has added one of the biggest residential real estate investor lenders in the U.S. to its blockchain-based financial marketplace. The deal was first announced in June but it just got closed on September 1. Figure has

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The French-based tech company Capital B is stepping up its Bitcoin treasury strategy with a fresh €7.6 million capital raise backed by Adam Back. The company announced the private placement on September 2. The funding will be used to support its plan to buy more Bitcoin. This marks a big raise for Capital B which

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Ethena has entered the crypto neobanking race. It is taking its synthetic dollar USDe one step closer to everyday money. The company has launched the beta of Ethena Pay, a self-custodial financial app that combines savings, payments and global transfers. This puts a banking-style interface around Ethena’s existing digital-dollar ecosystem. Built on Avalanche, Ethena Pay

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Crypto exchange Luno is expanding its institutional and B2B footprint beyond Africa and Asia-Pacific. This comes after its international arm has secured a Class F Digital Asset Business (DAB) license from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA). The license gives Luno International a regulated base in Bermuda as the company looks to scale its Crypto as

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The past 48 hours have been tough for Polymarket traders. The exchange’s CLOB has faced multiple outages within just 24 hours. Trading was temporarily halted for many a times as the team worked to resolve recurring issues. The latest disruption has been linked to delayed responses when users tried to read unfilled orders. Polymarket moved

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Tether is putting fresh focus on Asia-Pacific as it expands its push into real-world asset tokenization, with Jed Nazif joining the company as Expansion Manager, Tokenization. Nazif announced the move on LinkedIn, saying he will focus on driving RWA initiatives and expanding Tether’s tokenization platform, Hadron by Tether, across APAC. “I’m excited to drive RWA

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Metaplanet is taking its Bitcoin treasury strategy into the U.S. capital markets. Its planned American subsidiary has already raised $2.3 million through its first financing. Super League Enterprise has raised about $2.23 million through its first at-the-market (ATM) offering. This is shortly after Metaplanet announced plans last week to transform the Nasdaq-listed company into its

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Stripe is putting fresh leadership behind its stablecoin card push, with Drew Turchin joining the company to lead its stablecoin card business. Turchin announced the move on LinkedIn, saying he is joining Henri Stern, Max Segall and the Stripe team to lead the next phase of the company’s stablecoin card business. Max Segall, Stripe’s COO,

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SimpleSwap recently published 26 weeks of swap data that revealed that the market stopped reacting to bad news partway through the half. We talked to SimpleSwap’s Head of Infrastructure Stefan Lauer to understand the intricacies of the report, and what they found and what they did not show. SimpleSwap took the market by storm this

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In a major move in the growing $300 billion stablecoin market, Revolut has launched its first euro-backed stablecoin, EURR. This puts the fintech giant into an increasingly competitive European stablecoin market, currently led by Circle’s EURC. The launch comes as euro-denominated stablecoins gain traction under Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework. The market remains

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Mastercard’s $1.8 billion acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK has done more than expand its digital-asset capabilities. It has also changed the competitive landscape for stablecoin payments. That is by putting pressure on Visa to secure new infrastructure partners. Mastercard completed the BVNK acquisition on August 3 after agreeing to pay $1.5 billion upfront, with

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Jackson McGonagle has spent his career moving between traditional finance and crypto. Now, he is back at the heart of Wall Street’s market infrastructure – the NASDAQ. He is set to help the American stock exchange Nasdaq advance its digital asset and tokenization strategy. McGonagle has joined Nasdaq as AVP, Capital Markets Digital Assets Strategy,

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The leading US crypto asset manager Bitwise is set to move deeper into tokenized equities. Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley has teased a new product built on top of Coinbase’s newly launched tokenized stocks on Base. This comes just days after the asset manager reported more than $1.8 billion in net inflows during the first half

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The stablecoin infra company Crossmint has expanded its regulatory footprint into Canada. It has secured registration as a payment service provider with the Bank of Canada under the Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA). It has also registered with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) as a Money Services Business (MSB). The

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SharpLink is getting deeper into the institutional spotlight. Institutional ownership of the Ethereum treasury company has climbed to around 60%, according to the company, with major names including Fidelity, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Vanguard, State Street, Invesco and Highbridge Capital Management among its institutional holders. The increase comes as SharpLink continues to build its Ethereum treasury

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In a major update, the leading oracle provider Chainlink has picked up another notable institutional use case. The Wyoming Stable Token Commission has moved its Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) away from LayerZero. It has now selected Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as its exclusive cross-chain infrastructure. The reason for the switch is what makes the

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Popular cryptocurrency exchange Toobit is no stranger to introducing new crypto-based competitions, to bring vigor into the act of trading assets. This time around, it has embraced a racing theme, creating Toobit TIFT 2026, an event featuring a prize pool of 3,000,000 USDT. A near month-long competition, Toobit TIFT 2026 features multiple events, comprising both

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River Markets, a prediction market infrastructure startup founded by former professional traders, has raised $8.5 million in a seed round led by Haun Ventures. The company looks to improve execution and risk management for professional traders. What River Markets is for Prediction Markets River Markets is founded by Oscar Levy and his co-founder, who previously

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In a major update, Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office has made a notable move into publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies. It has added exposure to four major miners as the billionaire investor reshuffles his portfolio. According to the latest portfolio disclosures, Duquesne has opened positions in Bitdeer Technologies, Riot Platforms, Hut 8 and IREN. The

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The premium crypto financial services provider’s European subsidiary, Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG, is strengthening its European growth strategy a few weeks after securing its MiCA CASP Licence. It has appointed Ammy Edberg as General Manager for Sweden and the Nordics. This puts a fresh focus on one of Europe’s increasingly mature digital asset markets. Edberg

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The Prediction market platforms are booming as evident in the recent FIFA world cup event. But now the leading prediction market platform Polymarket is looking for further growth, For the same, it has appointed Travis VanderZanden as Chief Growth Officer as the company looks to expand its business and bring prediction markets to a wider

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Bitcoin treasury firm, Twenty One Capital CEO Raphael Zagury has laid out an ambitious plan to take the company beyond its Bitcoin treasury, just weeks after taking over from former CEO Jack Mallers. In a shareholder letter published on August 11, Zagury said the company needs to build businesses around its large Bitcoin holdings rather

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2026 has been a defining, and at times volatile, year for the crypto market. While the turbulence has tested companies across the industry, it has also made one thing increasingly clear. Institutional adoption is no longer a future narrative. It is happening now. Banks, asset managers, exchanges, payment giants and traditional financial institutions are moving

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In a major partnership update, Galaxy Digital and Sharplink have launched a new $125 million fund that will deploy capital across onchain yield strategies and selected crypto investments. As part of the partnership, Galaxy Sharplink Onchain Yield Fund has started with $125 million in committed capital. Sharplink is providing $100 million from its staked Ethereum

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Crypto exchange Kraken has rolled out a new security feature Kraken Support in order to help fight crypto scams. The feature, announced on August 6, extends the exchange’s existing in-app call verification system to standard phone callbacks. Users will now see a verification banner inside the Kraken app when a legitimate support agent calls them.

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For years, crypto exchanges were largely seen as platforms to buy and sell digital assets. Today, that definition is expanding. The industry’s largest players are building products that extend well beyond trading. From stock trading, stablecoin payments, tokenized equities to AI infrastructure and global financial services, crypto exchanges are expanding beyond just crypto. Coinbase is

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In a major product expansion, the leading DEX Uniswap has unveiled Pools, its first dedicated token launchpad platform to launch new crypto tokens. Continuing its momentum with the new blockchain, Uniswap’s Pools is built on Robinhood Chain, allowing users to launch, discover and trade tokens through Uniswap’s v4 liquidity infrastructure. While developers have used Uniswap

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Trump’s crypto ventures are often the talks of the town. From Senate debates over potential conflicts of interest to reports estimating billions in paper gains tied to digital assets, the President’s growing footprint in crypto has remained under the spotlight. One of those ventures, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), has been at the center of that

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Europe’s institutional crypto market has a new heavyweight. Boerse Stuttgart Digital, the digital asset subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart Group, Europe’s sixth-largest stock exchange group, has completed its merger with institutional crypto trading firm Tradias. This creates what the companies describe as Europe’s largest regulated digital asset infrastructure provider. Here’s How: What Boerse Stuttgart Digital-Tradias Merger

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As crypto trading volumes continue to decline amid market volatility, Binance is yet again expanding into offering another asset class’s trading. This time it is Gold. The crypto exchange has announced that it will launch regulated options contracts on gold and silver through Nest Exchange Limited, its Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)-regulated Recognized Investment Exchange.

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The Eric Trump-led American Bitcoin has announced a major leadership transition while reporting second quarter results with record Bitcoin production. It has appointed Paul Sacks as Interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) following the resignation of President and Interim CFO Matthew Prusak. The announcement coincides with American Bitcoin’s second-quarter earnings. It has reported continued growth in

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Coinbase’s commercial partnership with stablecoin issuer Circle will automatically renew on the same terms after both companies met the contractual renewal conditions. CFO Alesia Haas revealed this during the crypto exchange’s second-quarter 2026 earnings call. This puts to rest speculation that Coinbase could renegotiate its lucrative USDC agreement following its recent entry into the Open

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Wall Street has embraced tokenization like no other trend of crypto. The total RWA market has now crossed over $37 billion but one debate continues to shape the industry’s future: Should financial assets be tokenized on private or public blockchains? For now, banks appear to have made their choice. A recent analysis by tokenization research

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When Bitcoin launched in 2009, most banks saw it as a curiosity. John O’Neill saw something else. Not a currency. Not an investment. But the beginning of a new market infrastructure. Few digital asset executives arrive from crypto. O’Neill arrived from market infrastructure. His career began in 2001 at LIFFE, (The London International Financial Futures

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Canada’s crypto market is showing signs of becoming one of the most mature digital asset ecosystems globally. A new survey by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) found that 25% of Canadians now own cryptocurrency or crypto-related investment products, more than doubling from 10% in 2023. The jump comes as the country combines early regulatory clarity,

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As crypto companies race to secure banking licenses in the United States, stablecoin infrastructure firm Dakota has become the latest to apply for a national trust bank charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The application marks another step in the industry’s effort to bring crypto businesses under federal banking

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The ongoing race to become the blockchain of choice for institutional finance is increasingly shifting beyond stablecoins to tokenized Treasury products. The latest entrant is Stripe’s blockchain  Tempo, which has integrated BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) into its ecosystem. It gives eligible users access to the world’s largest tokenized money market fund and

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When Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), acquired a digital asset custody business in May 2025, it wasn’t simply adding another crypto product. It was buying into what could become one of digital finance’s most valuable infrastructure businesses. Just over a year later, ICE is today openly pitching

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The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has announced a significant change to its board. It has appointed longtime security researcher and ecosystem contributor pcaversaccio (pc) to its board, The appointment places pc alongside Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation President Aya Miyaguchi, and Swiss legal counsel Patrick Storchenegger on the Foundation’s four-member board. For now, he will

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Morpho, one of the largest decentralized lending protocols by total value locked (TVL), has announced a major expansion move. It is entering the Asia-Pacific market through Hong Kong. Today, its APAC head Shan Shan Sui announced a strategic partnership with HashKey Group and HSK Chain to develop what the companies describe as Asia’s leading on-chain

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Ethereum’s largest liquid staking protocol, Lido, has begun migrating more than 8 million ETH worth nearly $16.5 billion to a new staking architecture. This could reduce Ethereum’s validator count by almost one-third without reducing the amount of ETH securing the network. The upgrade, dubbed Curated Module v2 (CMv2), is Lido’s biggest infrastructure overhaul since launching

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The prolonged crypto bear market continues to reshape the digital asset industry. With market volatility continuing to hit hard, crypto firms are now being pushed to rethink their business models beyond trading revenues. While some companies such as BitMEX, BitMart have shut down operations altogether, others are others are trimming their workforce. They’re now pivoting

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Brevan Howard Digital, one of the world’s largest institutional crypto hedge funds, is now looking to shift capital allocation. The fund is considering the shift after suffering heavy losses last year. This was alongside leadership changes and a decline in assets under management. According to a Financial News report citing people familiar with the matter,

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Over the weekend, another crypto exchange, BitMart, announced that it would wind down its operations after what it described as a “careful evaluation.” While the company did not elaborate extensively on the reasons behind its decision, the announcement adds to the list of crypto exchanges and companies that have shut down in recent months. Against

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Paolo A led Bitfinex exhcnage has added another service into its Latin america portfolio. It has secured a Digital Asset Service Provider (DASP) licence in El Salvador, adding its core spot trading business to the company’s existing regulated operations in the country. This gives the exchange a broader foothold in one of Latin America’s most

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