Payward is expanding across banking, lending and asset management, with mortgages a future possibility.
The firm hopes that passage of the Clarity Act will help open the door for it to offer tokenized products in the U.S.
During a private Oval Office meeting, President Trump appeared “bullish” on passing the Clarity Act, one source said.
McCormick expects a multi-chain future as AI lowers the cost of creating new blockchain networks, increasing the need for interoperability.
OpenLedger core contributor Ram Kumar sees agentic payments as a major crypto use case as AI agents lack traditional banking access.
The XRP-focused digital asset treasury firm plans to put its holdings to work as it also moves through the process of going public.
The idea of mass tokenization of equities is "exciting," said Andy Baehr, managing director of asset management at GSR.
While DCG is in discussions to contribute ~200,000 ZEC to the Grayscale fund, the potential transaction is nonbinding.
Nethermind said it is joining Chainlink as a node operator, where it will help secure CCIP and Data Feeds.
Scott Shay said big banks could use blockchain payments to take market share from smaller rivals as N3XT expands globally.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said investors may be underestimating blockchain transaction activity by 10 to 100 times as tokenized markets expand.
John Darsie, CEO of SALT and partner at SkyBridge, said bitcoin's changing holder base is part of a broader maturation process.
Rain CEO Farooq Malik said more than 100,000 merchants accept stablecoins unknowingly, with transactions settling through Visa in three days.
Kalshi has filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to offer perps tied to the MerQube US Large Cap Index and copper.
Metaplanet is taking its bitcoin treasury strategy to the U.S. with a controlling stake in Super League, which surged 80% on the news.
HINC will be available across Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana and Sui, as Securitize expands its push to bring fixed-income strategies onchain.
The platform also includes real-time asset servicing, instant settlements, liquidity tools, and AI-powered market intelligence.
Cypherpunk Mining is online as of today with roughly 4.2 GSol/s of Equihash hashrate deployed across the US.
Kraken has launched US stock trading for eligible customers across all European Economic Area member countries.
The Jeonbuk Bank collaboration marked Ripple's third Korean partnership this year, following those with Kyobo Life Insurance and Kbank.
Stablecoin market cap on the chain has reached $640 million, the bulk of which has come from USDe.
IREN is targeting 480 MW of AI cloud capacity in 2026 and 1.2 gigawatts by 2027 as it continues to pivot away from bitcoin mining.
CleanSpark is up 6.4% year to date, while BitFuFu and Canaan have fallen more than 50% and 70%, respectively.
Bitmine added 9,926 ETH last week, taking holdings to 5.82 million tokens while buybacks reached 20.8 million shares since July.
Strategy's total holdings account for around 4% of the 21 million bitcoin supply cap — worth roughly $53.4 billion.
HIVE's BUZZ HPC signed a five-year, $350M GPU cloud deal, adding $70M in ARR, its second large NVIDIA cluster deal in two months.
Novig, which recently announced a partnership with the New York Mets, has sued officials in five states including Wisconsin since Aug. 4.
SafePal said it found the root cause of the breach recently, though customers had posted online about being targeted by phishing attempts as early as July.
Polymarket has moved its accounts to a lender the report could not identify but says it still maintains a "close, active relationship" with JPMorgan.
President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial secured preliminary approval to become a national trust bank on Friday.