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Australia's Payments Roadmap: Stablecoins Positioned as Future Rails
Australia's financial regulators are eyeing stablecoins and tokenized fiat as the architecture for tomorrow's domestic payments infrastructure. A dra...
Meta's Stablecoin Play Expands to Creator Payouts in Two Key Markets
Meta is pushing forward with stablecoin adoption, now enabling creators in the Philippines and Colombia to receive payouts directly in digital currenc...
Senator Tillis Ready to Force Senate Banking Committee Vote on Stalled Crypto Legislation
Republican Senator Thom Tillis is pushing for immediate action on the Senate's CLARITY Act, signaling that legislative momentum on crypto regulation i...
International Crackdown: Joint US-UAE-China Operation Shuts Down Major Crypto Fraud Network
Law enforcement agencies across three major global powers have delivered a significant blow to organized crypto crime. A coordinated operation involv...
Trump Administration Rolls Out New AI Training Hub as Labor Dept Joins Tech Skills Push
The U. S.
Senator Tillis Signals Push for Crypto Clarity Vote—Political Obstacles Still Loom
Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican whose vote could prove decisive on the Senate Banking Committee, is calling for his colleagues to finally s...
Meta's USDC Creator Payment System Is Now Live on Solana and Polygon
Meta is expanding its creator monetization toolkit by enabling stablecoin payouts through a Stripe integration that supports both Solana and Polygon b...
FTC Slaps Celsius Founder with Industry Ban and $10M Settlement—Far Below Original Judgment
Alex Mashinsky, the founder of now-defunct crypto lending platform Celsius, has been permanently barred from the cryptocurrency industry under a settl...
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LATAM Fraud Crisis Triggers First Peso-Backed Blockchain Escrow Solution
Mexico just deployed its first peso-denominated smart contract escrow system, and it's targeting a $600 million regional fraud problem head-on. Kust...
Trump Administration Pushes to Unlock Anthropic's AI for Government: Here's What It Means for Crypto
The Trump administration is quietly moving to restore federal access to Anthropic's AI capabilities—a significant reversal that could reshape the gove...
AI Companies Face First Major Legal Test on Reporting Violent Threats After BC Shooting
A landmark California lawsuit is forcing the crypto and AI industries to confront an uncomfortable question: do intelligent systems have a legal oblig...
Canada Eyes Aggressive Crackdown on Crypto Infrastructure as Government Moves Toward ATM Ban
The Canadian government is advancing legislation that would effectively eliminate cryptocurrency ATMs across the country, marking one of the most aggr...
MoonPay Goes Enterprise: Bringing Institutional Muscle to Crypto Payments With Sodot Acquisition
MoonPay is making a calculated pivot toward the institutional crypto market. The payments processor just launched a dedicated institutional division ...
Polymarket's U.S. Comeback Hinges on Single CFTC Chair's Decision as Agency Faces Staffing Crisis
Polymarket is positioning itself for a potential U. S.
Wall Street's Tokenization Push: Computershare Partners with Securitize to Digitize Equities
Computershare, the transfer agent giant handling cap tables for thousands of companies, is diving headfirst into the tokenization wave by partnering w...
KuCoin EU Strengthens Compliance Team in Vienna Following Austrian Regulatory Crackdown
KuCoin EU has appointed new leadership to its anti-money laundering (AML) division in Vienna, weeks after Austria's financial regulator effectively fr...
MoonPay's $100M Acquisition of Sodot Signals Major Pivot Toward Institutional Crypto Infrastructure
MoonPay just made a decisive move into institutional-grade crypto security with its acquisition of Sodot, an Israel-based infrastructure provider spec...
South Korean Giants Launch Live Blockchain Remittance Network—Here's What It Means for Crypto Infrastructure
South Korea's heavyweight consortium—Hana Financial, POSCO International, and Upbit operator Dunamu—has shifted their blockchain remittance system fro...
Polymarket Seeks Full US Market Access Through CFTC Negotiations
Polymarket is pushing hard for a comprehensive US relaunch, currently engaged in negotiations with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to ...
Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky Reaches $10M Settlement With FTC Over Consumer Harm Claims
The Federal Trade Commission has secured a $10 million settlement from Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky, marking a significant resolution in the ongoing...