FinTech

Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after a breach involving $46M+ in assets, per Arkham; Tether froze 4.5M+ USDT in response (www.theblock.co)
1 day ago Bitcoin Asset Brazil

Fintech platform Sageworks taken offline after suspected cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
1 day ago Fintech

Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple raised up to CA$425M led by GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$13.8B, up from CA$10B in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
7 days ago Fintech Toronto

Chinese man extradited for role in $36 million cryptocurrency scam (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
8 days ago China Cryptocurrency

Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares (fortune.com)
12 days ago Blockchain Microsoft Alphabet

Source: a16z plans to drop “crypto” from its flagship blockchain fund, rebranding it to “a16z frontier” and broadening its investment strategy beyond crypto (www.theinformation.com)
13 days ago Blockchain

Mercury CEO Immad Akhund says the fintech hit $1B in annualized revenue, up ~50% YoY, has more than 450K customers, and is launching a payroll service (www.newcomer.co)
15 days ago Fintech

An OpenAI Research Agent 'Stole' Test Ethereum to Finish a Coding Task (slashdot.org)
18 days ago Ethereum

OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases (www.coindesk.com)
19 days ago Ethereum

Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital, a bitcoin miner snarled in FTX's bankruptcy (www.wsj.com)
23 days ago Bitcoin

Blockchain.com seeks CFTC approval to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives in the US; it already offers some prediction markets internationally (www.cnbc.com)
25 days ago Blockchain Cryptocurrency CFTC

Meanwhile, a Sam Altman-backed bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $37.5M led by Bain Capital, sources say at a $350M valuation, up from $190M in April 2025 (www.axios.com)
26 days ago Bitcoin Insurance

Vitalik Buterin says “we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously”, backing a “bunker mode” call for the blockchain industry (cointelegraph.com)
27 days ago Blockchain AI Mathematics Vitalik Buterin

Sources: Singapore distances itself from regulating Hyperliquid, citing its “decentralized nature”, even as the crypto futures DEX confirms it is based there (www.ft.com)
28 days ago Singapore Decentralize

Tether's USDT stablecoin is set to return to the Bitcoin network through Tether-backed Utexo, which will keep most transaction data off Bitcoin's public ledger (www.coindesk.com)
2026-10-2 Bitcoin

Miami-based Doxx.net, whose platform enables serverless P2P calling, messaging, and file transfers for humans and AI agents, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (www.axios.com)
2026-10-2 AI P2P

Sources: Blockchain.com tells prospective investors it wants to go public this year, seeking to raise about $500M in an IPO targeting a $4B to $6B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-29 Blockchain IPO

Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals after $387.5 million crypto heist (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-28 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Surges to $86,455, an 8-Month High, After America's SEC Announces Tokenized Stock Experiment (slashdot.org)
2026-9-24 U.S. Bitcoin

Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky says the fintech is exploring a dual stock market listing in NYC and London, after previously being dismissive about listing in the UK (www.ft.com)
2026-9-20 Fintech London

Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-13 Trump Bitcoin AI

Nasdaq invests $100M in Kraken parent Payward, valuing the cryptocurrency exchange at $21B; Kraken will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-10 Cryptocurrency

Sources: Nasdaq is investing $100M in Kraken parent Payward, valuing the cryptocurrency exchange at $21B; Kraken will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-10 Cryptocurrency

Consensys plans to split into two companies: MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO, and a new Consensys focused on Ethereum and institutional infrastructure (www.theblock.co)
2026-9-10 Ethereum

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme to steal and launder $245M in cryptocurrency (www.theblock.co)
2026-9-9 Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin-based Liquid Network Says $320 Million Withdrawn in Hack (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-7 Bitcoin

Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (www.coindesk.com)
2026-9-7 Bitcoin

Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-6 Blockchain

Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B (www.moneycontrol.com)
2026-9-5 India Fintech Credit Card

Cronos blockchain restarts after $74 million Tectonic exploit (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-1 Blockchain

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