Visa is looking for a new stablecoin settlement partner with licensing capabilities across multiple regions, according to documents seen by CoinDesk. This would fill the role previously held by BVNK, the stablecoin firm acquired by Mastercard earlier this year. Visa’s request for product (RFP) talks about the ability to swap and support a range of […]

Similar systems, however, have been around the blockchain space for years in one form or another. Early adopters may recall the reams of banks that joined R3’s consortium effort back in 2016, for example, or the many enterprise players that flocked to the Linux-affiliated Hyperledger ecosystem. R3 didn’t make it to the end of the […]

A U.K. parliamentary group wrote to the bosses of the country’s largest lenders about the lack of banking services for crypto firms. The “Dear CEO” letter, signed by co-chairs of the Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), Gurinder Singh Josan and Ed Vaizey, asked banks to explain their approach to providing banking services […]

“They came to us highly recommended by an alumni CEO that we had already backed,” Rist told CoinDesk in an interview. “So, there was a lot of trust there, and this CEO said, ‘You got to meet these guys’. They were serial entrepreneurs coming out of South Africa. They’d never built businesses outside of South […]

Robinhood (HOOD) is introducing zero-fee crypto trading in the U.K. alongside stocks and shares ISAs, equities, options and futures, the company said on Monday. The all-in-one Robinhood app will bring U.K. customers access to over 50 cryptos including Bitcoin BTC$65,175.61, Ethereum ETH$1,924.20, XRP (XRP), Hyperliquid (HYPE), accessed via Bitstamp, the exchange Robinhood acquired in 2025. […]

“The order is intended to preserve identified stolen digital assets while the litigation continues, representing an important step in Bybit’s ongoing efforts to recover funds, support international law enforcement investigations, and reinforce accountability for large-scale cybercrime,” Bybit said in the release. “Our focus has never changed: protect our users first, recover what we can, and […]

Crypto is in a tough spot right now, and the effects of a down market are being felt across the industry. In February of this year, Nomura tightened risk limits at Laser Digital after crypto losses dragged down quarterly profit. This was read by the market as a retreat, but Nomura indicated it would be […]

BlackRock (BLK), the world’s largest asset manager, is building on its recent expansion of tokenized cash offerings in the U.S. by tapping into a combined $311 billion of assets under management in European money market funds in a sign of the growing appeal of holding real-world assets on blockchain technology. BlockRock unveiled 12 new tokenized […]

In 2024, BlackRock launched its first tokenized money-market fund, BUIDL, with Securitize (SECZ). The fund has since grown to roughly $2.5 billion in assets and is increasingly used across crypto markets as collateral for borrowing and leveraged trading. BlackRock Chief Financial Officer Martin Small said during the recent Q2 2026 Earnings Call that the financial […]

Liquidity begets liquidity, so the saying goes. Hyperliquid, as its name suggests, has become the decentralized exchange of choice for many traders, particularly those who want to trade perpetual futures or “perps,” blockchain-based derivatives contracts that allow users to speculate on the price of an asset with leverage and no expiration date. Created by Harvard […]