FinTech

A profile of Ant International, Ant Group's cross-border payments unit using AI and blockchain for treasury management, which handled $1.1T in cash flow in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Blockchain AI

China's central bank opens a digital yuan hub in Shanghai; a Chinese state media report says the hub will oversee cross-border payments and blockchain tech (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Blockchain China Central Bank Shanghai

Source: cryptocurrency exchange Kraken quietly closed a $500M funding round at a $15B valuation, including from co-CEO Arjun Sethi's Tribe Capital (fortune.com)
25 days ago Cryptocurrency

Sources: Flipkart is investing $30M in its fintech unit Supermoney, after a $20M 2024 spin-off round; Supermoney disbursed $700M+ in loans via lending partners (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Fintech

Bitcoin-treasury company Strive, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, will acquire Semler Scientific, a medical device company that has a bitcoin treasury, for $1.34B (www.reuters.com)
28 days ago Bitcoin

Ethereum's “low-risk DeFi” applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business (vitalik.eth.limo)
29 days ago Google Ethereum

The London Stock Exchange launches a blockchain-based platform, marking its push into digital assets, initially focused on private funds (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-15 Blockchain Asset London

Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat spiked to 48K+ in Nepal during recent protests, according to Bitchat developer “callebtc” (www.forbes.com)
2025-9-13 P2P Nepal

Blockchain-based lender Figure and some of its backers raised $787.5M in an IPO, selling 31.5M shares at $25 each, valuing the company at about $5.3B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-11 Blockchain IPO

Blockchain-based lender Figure upsizes its US IPO and now plans to sell 31.5M shares priced between $20 and $22, aiming to raise up to ~$693M, up from $526M (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-10 Blockchain IPO

Sources: Ant Group's Ant Digital Technologies is quietly working to link ~$8.4B of energy infrastructure and other real-world assets to its AntChain blockchain (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-9 Blockchain Energy Asset

A look at Ross Ulbricht's return to public life after receiving a pardon in January, including speaking at Bitcoin 2025 and accepting millions in donations (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-8 Bitcoin

Dealroom: European VC deals are set to rise 3-4% YoY in 2025 to $57B, about the same as in 2023, driven by rising startup valuations in AI, fintech, and defense (t.co)
2025-9-7 Europe Fintech Startup AI

Christian Catalini, co-creator of Meta's Libra stablecoin project, reflects on Libra's failure, what Stripe's Tempo blockchain can learn from it, and more (www.forbes.com)
2025-9-7 Blockchain

Source: Balderton Capital, one of Revolut's earliest VC backers, has sold ~$1B in shares through multiple transactions that valued the fintech company at $45B (t.co)
2025-9-6 Fintech

Stripe and Paradigm unveil Tempo, a Layer-1 blockchain for stablecoins; a source says Tempo will not launch with its own token and there is no launch timeline (fortune.com)
2025-9-5 Blockchain

Lead Bank, a 97-year-old Missouri bank rebuilt to serve fintech and crypto firms, raised $70M from a16z, Khosla Ventures, and others at a $1.47B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-5 Fintech

American Bitcoin closed up 16.5% in its Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, valuing Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.'s stake in the bitcoin mining company at $1.5B (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-4 Trump U.S. Bitcoin

Etherealize, which develops products and infrastructure for financial institutions on Ethereum, raised $40M in a round co‑led by Electric Capital and Paradigm (fortune.com)
2025-9-4 Ethereum

Hackers breach fintech firm in attempted $130M bank heist (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-9-3 Fintech

Blockchain-based lender Figure plans to sell 26.3M shares priced between $18 and $20 to raise up to $526.3M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of ~$4.13B (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-3 Blockchain IPO

El Salvador has split its 6K+ bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now (cointelegraph.com)
2025-8-31 Bitcoin Quantum

The Ethereum Foundation pauses its grants program, which awarded $3M+ to 100+ projects since 2018, to rethink its spending strategy and reduce its burn rate (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-30 Ethereum

US To Publish Economic Data On Blockchain, Commerce Chief Says (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Blockchain

The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-29 Bitcoin GDP Ethereum Coinbase

Google Cloud says its Universal Ledger, a layer-1 blockchain for financial products, is in a private testnet, and more details will be revealed at a later date (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-28 Blockchain Google

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US plans to publish GDP and economic data on the blockchain, but gave no details on the blockchain or timeline (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-27 Blockchain GDP

Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital euro plans, and considering Ethereum or Solana over a private blockchain after the US passed the Genius Act (t.co)
2025-8-22 Blockchain Ethereum

The DOJ says it will no longer target developers who create decentralized crypto platforms without criminal intent, as part of a regulatory retreat on crypto (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-22 Decentralize

A US judge sentences Noah Urban, a member of Scattered Spider, to 10 years in prison in connection with a string of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-21 Cryptocurrency

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