FinTech

Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams (www.coindesk.com)
2 hours ago Blockchain AI Decentralize

Chinese Woman Convicted After 'World's Biggest' Bitcoin Seizure (yro.slashdot.org)
6 days ago China Bitcoin

Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data; the ICO calls Imgur's move a “commercial decision” (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago ICO

Swift To Build a Global Financial Blockchain (news.slashdot.org)
6 days ago Blockchain

UK convicts "Bitcoin Queen" in world's largest cryptocurrency seizure (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
7 days ago Bitcoin Cryptocurrency

A judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had (www.cnbc.com)
7 days ago Fintech JPMorgan

A Chinese woman pleads guilty in a London court to laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B Chinese investment scheme in which UK police seized 61,000 bitcoin in 2018 (t.co)
7 days ago China Bitcoin London

Swift says it is building a blockchain-based ledger with over 30 financial institutions and the first prototype will be built in partnership with Consensys (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Blockchain

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)
9 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)
9 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)
11 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)
12 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)
14 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)
14 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)
21 days ago 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)
23 days ago 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)
25 days ago 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)
27 days ago 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)
27 days ago 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)
29 days ago 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)
29 days ago 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)
30 days ago 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)
30 days ago 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

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