Coinbase Financial Markets has failed to secure a preliminary injunction preventing Michigan officials from applying state sports-betting laws to its event contracts, dealing the exchange another setback in the widening U.S. fight over prediction-market regulation. U.S. District Judge Shalina D. Kumar issued the ruling on August 6. Coinbase sued Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and […]
The U.S. Senate will not vote on the CLARITY Act before its August recess, pushing the crypto market-structure bill’s next realistic floor window into September. The delay leaves lawmakers with a considerably tighter calendar. The Senate’s official 2026 legislative schedule lists August 10 through September 11 as a state work period, meaning regular floor business […]
Coinbase has begun rolling out access to nearly 4,000 US stocks for eligible UK customers, expanding its main app beyond crypto and into traditional brokerage. The service supports trading 24 hours a day, five days a week, with equities, digital assets, and cash displayed under the same account. According to the company’s launch announcement, CB […]
Visa is expanding the use of stablecoins across Visa Direct through a new integration with Zerohash, giving eligible clients another way to fund cross-border transfers and send payouts directly to digital wallets. The partnership combines stablecoin prefunding and wallet-based disbursements within Visa’s global money-movement network. Visa Direct connects more than 18 billion eligible cards, bank […]
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets on August 4, introducing a programmable payment system intended to let AI agents hold stablecoins, buy digital services and receive funds. Users can reserve a human-readable cloudflare.pay handle immediately, but the company said the wallets themselves will become usable later. Introducing Cloudflare Wallets. They will allow you to store stablecoins, purchase […]
BlackRock is extending tokenization to one of Europe’s largest cash-management franchises, introducing digital share classes across selected BlackRock Institutional Cash Series funds with a combined $311 billion in assets. Each token will represent a share in an underlying money market fund and can move around the clock between approved digital wallets. JPMorgan’s Kinexys platform will […]
Apple briefly removed Telegram from its App Store on Monday, August 3, after a review identified content that violated rules prohibiting child sexual abuse material. The messaging app was restored after Telegram removed the content and banned the user responsible. According to Reuters’ report on Telegram’s App Store restoration, Apple said the company responded promptly […]
Ripple announced on August 3 that it has made strategic investments in ZILO and Licuido as part of a broader push to expand digital capital markets infrastructure on the XRP Ledger. The deals are aimed at adding regulated transfer agency, issuance, and collateral mobility capabilities to Ripple’s institutional platform. ZILO provides transfer agency and fund […]
Tether reported $1.5 billion in second-quarter operating profit while the reserve surplus backing its fiat-denominated tokens dropped by almost 50%. According to its Q2 2026 attestation, the stablecoin issuer held $187.75 billion in assets against $183.64 billion in liabilities as of June 30, leaving $4.11 billion in excess reserves. That compares with an $8.23 billion […]
Circle Internet Group said Friday that it received a limited-purpose trust charter from the New York Department of Financial Services for Circle Internet Trust Company LLC, doing business as Circle New York Trust. The approval gives the USDC issuer another regulated foothold in New York, one of the toughest US jurisdictions for digital-asset firms. The […]
