FinTech

Wyoming launches a stablecoin, FRNT, marking the first time a US state has issued a blockchain-based, fiat-pegged token to be used by retail and enterprises (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-20 Blockchain Retail

Blockchain-based lender Figure files for a US IPO, reporting H1 revenue up 22.4% YoY to $191M and a profit of $29M, compared with a loss of $13M in H1 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-19 Blockchain IPO

Google increases its stake in bitcoin miner and datacenter operator TeraWulf from 8% to 14%, bringing its total investment to ~$3.2B; WULF jumps 10%+ (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-19 Bitcoin Google

The Federal Reserve continues its relaxation of crypto oversight by ending a program created in 2023 to scrutinize fintech and crypto activities by banks (www.coindesk.com)
2025-8-16 Fintech

Fintech, Crypto CEOs Urge US President To Block Banks' Data-Access Fees (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15 Fintech

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and 80+ fintech and crypto CEOs urge Trump to block US banks from charging fees to access customer data (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-14 Trump Fintech Shopify

Arkham Intelligence: SpaceX now holds 8,285 bitcoin, valued at ~$1.02B, down from 28,000 bitcoin worth $1.8B in April 2021 after cutting its holdings in 2022 (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-14 Bitcoin Intelligence SpaceX

Sources: Stripe appoints Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang to serve as CEO of its planned Layer-1 blockchain Tempo; a source says Huang will remain at Paradigm (fortune.com)
2025-8-13 Blockchain

Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,' pleads guilty to fraud charges (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-13 Cryptocurrency

Qubic, a layer-1 blockchain project that pools mining resources, has been trying a 51% attack on Monero and says it succeeded, causing Monero's price to fall (cointelegraph.com)
2025-8-13 Blockchain Monero

Circle reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $658M, USDC circulation up 90% YoY to $61.3B, a $482M net loss, and unveils Arc, a stablecoin-focused Layer-1 blockchain (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-12 Blockchain

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 VR Fintech Tencent

Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Fintech Startup

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (variety.com)
2025-8-2 Trump Bitcoin

Subzero Labs, which is building Rialo, a blockchain designed for non-crypto developers to build “real-world” apps, raised a $20M seed led by Pantera Capital (fortune.com)
2025-8-2 Blockchain

Filings: crypto industry donated $26M+ to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H1, including $5M from Blockchain.com; Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz gave $3M each (www.axios.com)
2025-8-2 Blockchain Trump

Tether reports Q2 net profit of $4.9B, a quarterly record, and says it held nearly $9B in bitcoin at the end of the quarter (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-1 Bitcoin

Stable, which is building a new Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $28M seed co-led by Bitfinex and Hack VC (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-1 Blockchain

JPMorgan Chase and Coinbase signed a deal to directly link customers' bank accounts to their cryptocurrency wallets, with the feature expected to launch in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-31 JPMorgan Cryptocurrency Coinbase

FBI seizes $2.4M in Bitcoin from new Chaos ransomware operation (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-30 Bitcoin FBI

PayPal unveils Pay With Crypto for merchants to accept bitcoin, ether, USDT, and more via Coinbase, OKX, and other wallets, rolling out in the coming weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-28 Bitcoin Coinbase

Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused crypto exchange Gemini's onboarding after he criticized the bank's data access fees for fintech and crypto companies (cointelegraph.com)
2025-7-27 Fintech JPMorgan

Public companies are loading up on crypto tokens, including $TRUMP, HYPE, and litecoin, as they expand beyond bitcoin to boost their own share prices (t.co)
2025-7-25 Trump Bitcoin Litecoin

Goldman Sachs and BNY partner to let institutional investors purchase tokenized money market funds, with ownership recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform (www.cnbc.com)
2025-7-24 Blockchain Goldman

Poseidon, an AI-focused decentralized data layer built on the Story protocol, raised a $15M seed led by a16z (www.theblock.co)
2025-7-23 AI Decentralize

Analysis: nearly 70 Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selection (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-18 Blockchain Trump Asset

Sources: Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would open up 401(k) plans to cryptocurrency and other alternative investments (t.co)
2025-7-18 Trump Cryptocurrency

Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (www.theblock.co)
2025-7-18 Equity Decentralize

The US House clears a key procedural hurdle on cryptocurrency legislation after Trump intervened, setting the stage for likely passage of several crypto bills (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-17 Trump Cryptocurrency

New York-based Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, says it acquired blockchain data provider Coin Metrics, a source says for over $100M (fortune.com)
2025-7-17 Blockchain Asset New York

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