Archives for August 14, 2026

President Donald Trump is expected to be in attendance when the administration’s new innovation committee — a crowd of crypto CEOs and leaders of prediction market and AI companies — sits for a White House meeting on Wednesday, said people briefed on the planning. The chief executives of companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, […]

A federal bank regulator has granted World Liberty Trust Co. a conditional bank charter, it announced Friday. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the U.S. banking agency that grants federal charters, said in a letter posted to its website that World Liberty could operate fiduciary and other trust company-related activities as a national […]

The moves followed CoinDesk’s report late Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was set to further delay its anticipated “innovation exemption,” which is expected to make it easier for companies to offer trading in tokenized securities. Concerns from the White House and Wall Street over the proposal’s legal footing and potential market impact […]

Strategy MSTR$92.54 has pushed back against MSCI’s proposed methodology for identifying “non-operating companies,” which could result in the largest bitcoin treasury company being removed from the index provider’s global equity indexes. Strategy said on X, “Digital assets are assets. Index providers should measure markets, not decide which assets companies are allowed to own,” Strategy said. […]

Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank, will offer cryptocurrency trading to customers from early 2027 becoming the first Israeli bank to announce such a service. Customers of Leumi and its mobile banking unit, Pepper, will be able to buy, hold and sell bitcoin BTC$62,880.24, ether ETH$1,875.38 and solana (SOL) through a section of the Leumi Trade […]

Scan the news and there are plenty of reasons for worry: continued U.S.-Iran escalation risks, mounting sovereign debt and rising bond yields among them. Crypto carries its own set of concerns, including regulatory disappointments, weak demand and hack risks. Yet crypto, stocks, bonds and even commodity markets remain sanguine. That is clear from implied-volatility readings […]

World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The token was planned to go on sale next year, giving investors a share of revenue from loans financing the Trump-branded resort, but this has been pushed […]

Bitcoin BTC$62,847.45 dropped below $63,000, losing 1.14% since midnight UTC as a second day of outflows from spot exchange-traded funds and a lack of bullish catalysts weighed on the crypto market. Spot bitcoin ETFs experienced the first back-to-back days of outflows since late July with $192 million exiting the products, according to SoSoValue. The largest […]

Stablecoin payments company RedotPay delayed a planned $1 billion U.S. IPO to deal with legal issues, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing people familiar with the decision. The listing, initially planned for this year, is unlikely to take place before 2027, the people told the financial news organization. “Our strategy continues to focus on global regulatory compliance […]

Crypto prices continue to drift somewhat lower ahead of the opening of the U.S. stock market on Friday. Bitcoin (BTC) is now down 1.7% over the past 24 hours to $62,600, extending its week-over-week decline to just shy of 4%. Ether (ETH) is down similarly. Bitcoin’s low for August was roughly $62,300. The S&P 500, […]