FinTech

Hackers steal $3.6 million from crypto ATM giant Bitcoin Depot (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago Bitcoin

NYT Claims Adam Back Is Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto (slashdot.org)
6 days ago Bitcoin

Iran Demands Bitcoin For Ships Passing Hormuz During Ceasefire (slashdot.org)
6 days ago Bitcoin Iran

Iran warns oil tankers will be destroyed if they try to travel along the Strait of Hormuz without permission as regime demands huge cryptocurrency fees (www.dailymail.co.uk)
6 days ago Iran Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin inventor is 'unmasked as 55-year-old British encryption expert after his writing style gave him away' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
6 days ago U.K. Bitcoin

An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto (www.nytimes.com)
6 days ago U.K. Bitcoin

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Russia Ukraine Africa Cryptocurrency

Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in Iran and Uganda, from China's App Store following CAC's demands (cointelegraph.com)
8 days ago China Apple Iran P2P Uganda

Permalink to Automating KYC: Why Your Fintech Needs a Zero-Retention Architecture (sdtimes.com)
17 days ago Fintech Architecture

Tazapay, which builds cross-border payment infrastructure for fintech and web3 firms, says it closed a Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to $36M (cointelegraph.com)
18 days ago Fintech

Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago Bitcoin mortgage Coinbase

Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, raised a $63M Series A from SBI and Sony (www.coindesk.com)
20 days ago Blockchain Singapore Sony

A profile of Chinese bitcoin mining company Bitmain, now allied with Eric Trump's American Bitcoin and previously the target of a DHS espionage-risk probe (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Trump China U.S. Bitcoin

Stripe and Paradigm-backed startup Tempo launches the Machine Payments Protocol and its blockchain to facilitate autonomous AI agent transactions (fortune.com)
27 days ago Blockchain Startup AI

Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-12 Blockchain

The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement “highly effective age checks” to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-12 ICO

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valuation, up from $1.5B in August 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-10 Fintech Equity

US federal regulators say banks don't need extra capital against losses when dealing with blockchain-based securities, calling their rules “technology neutral” (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-6 Blockchain

Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at 1% of ordinary levels (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-3 Iran Decentralize

Vitalik Buterin outlines a two-part plan to overhaul Ethereum's execution layer with a binary state tree and eventually move beyond the Ethereum virtual machine (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-2 Ethereum Vitalik Buterin

The UK ICO fines Reddit £14.47M for unlawfully using children's personal information; Reddit began verifying user ages in July 2025 to comply with the UK OSA (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-24 Reddit ICO

Crypto lending firm Ledn sold $188M in securitized bonds backed by bitcoin loans, making it the first deal of its kind in the market for asset-backed debt (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Bitcoin Asset

Data breach at fintech firm Figure affects nearly 1 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-19 Fintech

Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-14 Blockchain

A US court sentences Ramil Ventura Palafox, CEO of Praetorian Group, to 20 years in prison for operating a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded 90K+ people (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-13 Bitcoin

Grab agrees to acquire US fintech company Stash Financial in a deal initially valued at $425M and forecasts FY 2026 revenue of $4.04B-$4.1B, below $4.13B est. (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-12 Fintech

Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-12 Ethereum

JPMorgan exec Naveen Mallela, global co-head of blockchain division Kinexys, steps down after 11 years at the bank; Kinexys handled $5B transactions per day (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 Blockchain JPMorgan

KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 Fintech KPMG

LayerZero Labs unveils a new Layer 1 blockchain called Zero, in collaboration with Citadel Securities, DTCC, Google Cloud, and Intercontinental Exchange (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-11 Blockchain Google

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