The approval places Strike among a small group of firms authorized to operate in the state under NYDFS supervision.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has recently given conditional approval to several stablecoin issuers to become banks.
Truckers will now be able to exchange TCS utility tokens for PYUSD on the INX-Republic exchange, providing them with quicker cash flows.
Even as crypto sentiment remains weak, JPMorgan analysts see the possible mid-year approval of U.S. market structure legislation as a positive catalyst.
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Newity has raised $11 million in new funding led by CMT Digital as it explores taking its small business lending platform onchain.
World Liberty Financial plans to launch a foreign exchange and remittance platform as scrutiny of its foreign investment ties continues.
BlackRock is bringing its tokenized Treasury fund BUIDL to Uniswap through Securitize, marking its first direct DeFi trading integration.
Stripe launched x402-based USDC agent payments on Base as CoinGecko enabled $0.01 pay-per-request crypto data access.
The structure lets institutional traders keep assets in regulated custody while still deploying them in crypto markets.
Sberbank reportedly plans crypto-backed corporate loans after a pilot, while asset issuance on its platform has reached $5.3 billion.
TD Cowen analysts said Strategy remains structurally positioned to endure a prolonged bitcoin downturn despite MSTR's pullback.
Ripple secured full Luxembourg EMI approval on Feb. 2, finalizing a licensing process that began with preliminary authorization last month.
Digital financial services firm SoFi reported its first $1 billion revenue quarter, with GAAP net income reaching $173.5 million in Q4 2025.
Fidelity Investments plans to launch its own Ethereum-based stablecoin, FIDD, as U.S. stablecoin regulation comes into focus.
Four in 10 surveyed merchants already accept crypto at checkout, with roughly three-quarters reporting an increase in crypto sales last year.
Revolut has abandoned plans to buy a US bank and is preparing a de novo licence application, the Financial Times reported.
UBS has planned to make crypto trading available to select private banking clients in another digital asset push, Bloomberg reports.
The fintech company believes a de novo banking license under the Trump administration will be faster than acquiring an existing bank, avoiding the need to maintain physical branches.
The fund will allocate 30% to crypto tokens and 70% to financial services stocks, taking both long and short positions to capitalize on market shifts.
Etherfi dominates the crypto card space, accounting for roughly half of all transactions, though the landscape includes multiple providers.
The integration is powered by Zerohash, a B2B crypto and stablecoin infrastructure provider backed by Interactive Brokers.
LSEG launched its Digital Settlement House enabling 24/7 settlement of tokenized commercial bank deposits across currencies and networks.
Oobit's DePay solution will enable Phantom users to make one-tap payments from their non-custodial wallets using Visa rails.
Bitnomial noted that regulated futures are “a prerequisite for spot crypto ETF approval under the SEC’s generic listing standards."
The updates allow traditional money market funds to plug into blockchain-based settlement and record-keeping systems.
Ripple has secured approval from the UK’s top financial regulator, clearing the way for an expansion of its platform in the country.
SoFiUSD is a fully reserved U.S. dollar stablecoin issued by SoFi's nationally chartered bank for payments and settlement.