As the market watches for clues about Apple’s potential crypto asset moves, the company’s banking partner is tightening its identity verification rules for Apple Cash users while leaving crypto asset-related transactions banned. Apple has been emailing users about Green Dot Bank’s updated terms for Apple Cash, a digital prepaid card in the iPhone Wallet app. […]
Chainlink released a major interoperability update as Aave’s newest lending markets passed $1 billion in deposits. Cardano is testing a scaling design, Avalanche is operating under its September upgrade, and TRON continues to carry one of crypto’s largest stablecoin balances.…
Samsung Electronics has filed a U.S. patent application for a digital asset wallet system that uses smart contracts to let devices initiate crypto transactions without directly storing or using a private key. According to an Oct. 6 report from Digital…
A Visa-commissioned study found that stablecoin adoption has room to grow in the APAC region, with nearly 50% of those polled being open to using these digital assets in the next five years. Nonetheless, awareness of what stablecoins really are and how they work is low. Visa Survey Finds Rising Interest in Stablecoins in APAC […]
Rialo has stepped up its push to become blockchain infrastructure for financial institutions as the network discusses proof of concept projects with Korean firms and builds applications with other institutional partners. According to Bobby Zagotta, chief business officer at Rialo,…
Super Inu Force, Meme Agency and PunchCard have recorded active trading within days of launching in October, putting three new memecoins on traders’ radar during the opening week of the month. According to market and onchain data reviewed as of…
Greek police dismantled an unauthorized cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that defrauded over 10,000 investors of approximately $9 million in total by promising to double their money in 50 days via automated artificial intelligence (AI) trading. A Facade of Legitimacy Greek police have dismantled a massive alleged cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that authorities said defrauded more than 10,000 […]
XRP’s recent price recovery may be forming a bullish chart pattern, judging from a coffee cup image Peter Brandt placed beneath the cryptocurrency’s trading history. His latest post hints at a possible setup awaiting a breakout. A Coffee Cup Puts XRP’s Gain in Focus XRP investors have a possible bullish formation to assess after veteran […]
Blockchain fee revenue is a poor performance metric, according to Ripple’s David Schwartz. Responding to an XRP Ledger fee suggestion, he described transaction charges as friction the chain failed to remove and questioned whose interests the metric represents. Schwartz Questions Whose Interests Higher Fees Serve People paying to use a blockchain face costs that fee […]
Hyperliquid has rebounded toward $93 after its late-September pullback, putting HYPE within reach of $93.75 resistance as traders watch whether a flag breakout can extend the recovery toward $100 in October. TradingView’s Oct. 5 daily HYPE/USDT chart showed a price…
The planned 24/7 venue will offer dozens of tokenized U.S. stocks, with trades conducted against stablecoins through blockchain-based liquidity pools rather than a traditional order book.
S&P Global Ratings has introduced a new framework for assessing onchain lending vaults after deposits in the sector surged to $10 billion. S&P Global Brings Wall Street Risk Ratings to DeFi Vaults S&P Global is pushing deeper into crypto markets with a new framework designed to assess the risks of blockchain-based lending vaults. The firm’s […]
The payments giant is planning a major global expansion for its stablecoin cards business, and is exploring tokenized deposits and DeFi use cases, new crypto head Henri Stern said.
Unique wallets sending P2P stablecoin transactions in China grew 43-fold between Q1 2024 and Q2 2026 as crypto activity increasingly shifted toward direct wallet-to-wallet transfers.
Bitget Wallet CMO Jamie Elkaleh tells Decrypt how the platform is evolving from a crypto wallet to a everyday finance app that seamlessly integrates crypto with TradFi, building on its vision of "Crypto for Everyone." - (Sponsored post by Bitget Wallet)