FinTech

A US judge sentences Noah Urban, a member of Scattered Spider, to 10 years in prison in connection with a string of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts (www.bloomberg.com)
23 hours ago Cryptocurrency

Wyoming launches a stablecoin, FRNT, marking the first time a US state has issued a blockchain-based, fiat-pegged token to be used by retail and enterprises (www.theblock.co)
1 day ago Blockchain Retail

Blockchain-based lender Figure files for a US IPO, reporting H1 revenue up 22.4% YoY to $191M and a profit of $29M, compared with a loss of $13M in H1 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2 days ago Blockchain IPO

Google increases its stake in bitcoin miner and datacenter operator TeraWulf from 8% to 14%, bringing its total investment to ~$3.2B; WULF jumps 10%+ (www.cnbc.com)
3 days ago Bitcoin Google

The Federal Reserve continues its relaxation of crypto oversight by ending a program created in 2023 to scrutinize fintech and crypto activities by banks (www.coindesk.com)
5 days ago Fintech

Fintech, Crypto CEOs Urge US President To Block Banks' Data-Access Fees (news.slashdot.org)
7 days ago Fintech

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and 80+ fintech and crypto CEOs urge Trump to block US banks from charging fees to access customer data (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Trump Fintech Shopify

Arkham Intelligence: SpaceX now holds 8,285 bitcoin, valued at ~$1.02B, down from 28,000 bitcoin worth $1.8B in April 2021 after cutting its holdings in 2022 (www.theblock.co)
7 days ago Bitcoin Intelligence SpaceX

Sources: Stripe appoints Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang to serve as CEO of its planned Layer-1 blockchain Tempo; a source says Huang will remain at Paradigm (fortune.com)
8 days ago Blockchain

Crypto mogul Do Kwon, known as ‘the cryptocurrency king,' pleads guilty to fraud charges (indianexpress.com)
8 days ago Cryptocurrency

Qubic, a layer-1 blockchain project that pools mining resources, has been trying a 51% attack on Monero and says it succeeded, causing Monero's price to fall (cointelegraph.com)
8 days ago Blockchain Monero

Circle reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $658M, USDC circulation up 90% YoY to $61.3B, a $482M net loss, and unveils Arc, a stablecoin-focused Layer-1 blockchain (www.theblock.co)
9 days ago Blockchain

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago VR Fintech Tencent

Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Fintech Startup

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (variety.com)
19 days ago Trump Bitcoin

Subzero Labs, which is building Rialo, a blockchain designed for non-crypto developers to build “real-world” apps, raised a $20M seed led by Pantera Capital (fortune.com)
19 days ago Blockchain

Filings: crypto industry donated $26M+ to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H1, including $5M from Blockchain.com; Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz gave $3M each (www.axios.com)
19 days ago Blockchain Trump

Tether reports Q2 net profit of $4.9B, a quarterly record, and says it held nearly $9B in bitcoin at the end of the quarter (www.theblock.co)
21 days ago Bitcoin

Stable, which is building a new Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $28M seed co-led by Bitfinex and Hack VC (www.theblock.co)
21 days ago Blockchain

JPMorgan Chase and Coinbase signed a deal to directly link customers' bank accounts to their cryptocurrency wallets, with the feature expected to launch in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago JPMorgan Cryptocurrency Coinbase

FBI seizes $2.4M in Bitcoin from new Chaos ransomware operation (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
23 days ago Bitcoin FBI

PayPal unveils Pay With Crypto for merchants to accept bitcoin, ether, USDT, and more via Coinbase, OKX, and other wallets, rolling out in the coming weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Bitcoin Coinbase

Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused crypto exchange Gemini's onboarding after he criticized the bank's data access fees for fintech and crypto companies (cointelegraph.com)
25 days ago Fintech JPMorgan

Public companies are loading up on crypto tokens, including $TRUMP, HYPE, and litecoin, as they expand beyond bitcoin to boost their own share prices (t.co)
27 days ago Trump Bitcoin Litecoin

Goldman Sachs and BNY partner to let institutional investors purchase tokenized money market funds, with ownership recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform (www.cnbc.com)
28 days ago Blockchain Goldman

Poseidon, an AI-focused decentralized data layer built on the Story protocol, raised a $15M seed led by a16z (www.theblock.co)
29 days ago AI Decentralize

Analysis: nearly 70 Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selection (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-7-18 Blockchain Trump Asset

Sources: Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would open up 401(k) plans to cryptocurrency and other alternative investments (t.co)
2025-7-18 Trump Cryptocurrency

Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (www.theblock.co)
2025-7-18 Equity Decentralize

The US House clears a key procedural hurdle on cryptocurrency legislation after Trump intervened, setting the stage for likely passage of several crypto bills (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-17 Trump Cryptocurrency

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