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Strategy Bought $1.57 Billion in Bitcoin Last Week. It Now Holds 761,068 Coins.
Strategy's SEC filing confirms 22,337 BTC acquired between March 9-15 at an average of $70,194 per coin, funded almost entirely through S...
SEC Names Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and 13 More Crypto Assets Digital Commodities — Not Securities
The SEC and CFTC issued a joint 68-page interpretation on March 17 explicitly naming 16 crypto assets as digital commodities. Staking, mi...
ICE Has Created a Disaster in Minnesota; The Financial Services Industry Can Help
Advocates Call On Lending, Debt Collection, Credit Reporting Companies to Ease Financial Impact on Families
Elon Musk Posts Nostalgia for the OpenAI He Says Was Betrayed. His Own Emails Tell a Different Story.
Musk posted "Back when it was an open source nonprofit..." on X, around 40 days before his fraud trial against OpenAI begins. OpenAI has ...
KBC Becomes the First Belgian Bank to Offer Regulated Crypto Trading. It Chose a Swiss Custody Partner to Make It Happen.
KBC, Belgium's largest bank-insurance group, has launched regulated Bitcoin and Ether trading through its Bolero brokerage platform, with...
PayPal PYUSD Goes Global: The Dollar-Backed Stablecoin Is Now in 70 Markets.
PayPal announced today that PYUSD is now available in 70 markets. Users can buy, hold, send and earn rewards on a federally regulated dol...
The Digital Euro vs. Stablecoins: The Future of Money Is Debated at MERGE Madrid
The showdown between central banks from Europe and Latin America and crypto platforms like Ripple, Kraken, and Bit2Me will take the stage...
Elon Musk vs. OpenAI: Musk Says He Will Donate Any OpenAI Lawsuit Winnings to Charity. The Trial Starts in 41 Days.
Elon Musk posted on X that any proceeds from a legal victory against OpenAI will go to charity. The trial is set for April 27. The judge ...
The CLARITY Act Has 18 Working Weeks Left. It Has Not Completed Step One.
FintechWeekly mapped the CLARITY Act's remaining legislative steps against the official 2026 Senate calendar. The window is tighter than ...
CLARITY Act Campaign Finance: A Fintech Weekly Analysis of Who Funds the Industry Deciding Its Own Fate.
Fintech Weekly analysed FEC records for the senators deciding the CLARITY Act's fate. The direct contributions are the smaller story. Her...
Florida’s Business Leaders Launch the Gold Coast Tech Accelerator Program in the Next Global Tech Hub
Where Innovation Meets Opportunity in Southeast Florida
Tesla Terafab Project: Elon Musk Confirms Launch in Seven Days
Tesla's Terafab chip fabrication project launches March 21. Here is what the project is, what it costs, and why it matters for AI infrast...
Coinbase Bybit Partnership Talks: The World's Largest US Exchange May Be About to Back Its Biggest Offshore Rival
Coinbase is in talks to take a minority equity stake in Bybit, the world's second largest offshore crypto exchange. Neither company has c...
xAI's Superintelligence Push Just Got a Co-Founder of Mistral AI and a Member of Mira Murati's Founding Team
Devendra Singh Chaplot, robotics researcher, Mistral AI co-founder and Thinking Machines Lab founding member, is joining xAI and SpaceX t...
Majority Expands Beyond Banking With New No-Comittments Mobile Phone Plans
No commitments. No borders. MAJORITY brings mobile phone plans to the communities that move the world.
DeFi Slippage, Aave Swap Gone Wrong: A Trader Just Turned $50 Million Into $36,000. The Protocol Said It Worked Exactly as Designed.
On March 12, a wallet swapped $50.4 million in USDT for AAVE and received 327 tokens worth roughly $36,000. MEV bots took the rest.
BlackRock Launched a Bitcoin ETF That Dominated Inflows. Then It Launched a Second Product That Changes What a Crypto ETF Can Do.
IBIT pulled in $115 million on March 11. The next day BlackRock launched ETHB — its first crypto ETF to generate yield — on Nasdaq.
The Two Engineers Who Scaled Cursor to $2 Billion Just Joined the Company Musk Said He Built Wrong
Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg, who co-led product engineering at Cursor, are joining xAI and SpaceX to rebuild Grok's coding capabilit...
J.P. Morgan Markets unveils next-generation platform for institutional investors
Recent tariff-related volatility spotlights new offering’s value in markets where opportunities are fleeting and ‘every second counts’
Amazon Reviews AI Coding Practices After Outages Draw Scrutiny
Amazon investigates service outages tied partly to generative AI-assisted coding, as concerns grow about reliability risks in automated s...
What Is the CLARITY Act?
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passed the US House in July 2025. The Senate has stalled twice. Here is what the bill does, who oppo...
The Company That Wants to Be Wall Street's Crypto Backbone
Zerohash powers Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Stripe and Interactive Brokers. Its OCC charter application changes what t...
Visa Releases Money Travels: 2025 Digital Remittances Adoption Report for North America
Digital remittance apps lead the way in North America as Visa’s latest report reveals shifting consumer preferences.
Washington Froze Crypto's Legislative Future on Sunday. By Monday, the Industry Had Already Moved On.
Trump's SAVE Act ultimatum stalled the CLARITY Act on March 8. The following day, crypto's biggest names were not waiting for Washington....
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