Circle is preparing to launch USDCx, a privacy-enhanced version of USDC built on the Aleo blockchain to offer institutions encrypted transactions with regulatory-ready compliance records. The move reflects accelerating demand for tokenization and privacy-preserving financial infrastructure.

Robinhood signaled a sweeping 2026 crypto expansion, showcasing accelerating platform growth, wider U.S. and European access, and new products capped by a Layer 2 network aimed at propelling the company deeper into global tokenization and advanced digital-asset trading.

Binance’s new pact with Botim Money signals a major push to widen secure digital-asset access in the UAE, spotlighting the region’s accelerating embrace of regulated crypto services and its expanding role in global digital-finance growth.

Federal regulators revealed early evidence that major U.S. banks used internal policies to restrict lawful customers, exposing widespread debanking practices that may have shaped access to capital and economic activity nationwide.

Bitwise signals a stunning setup for 2026 as accelerating institutional flows and widening bank access drive mainstream demand and a far more bullish market foundation that is rapidly reshaping crypto’s trajectory.

Crypto markets look stable on the surface, but traders remain uneasy as the Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan (BOJ) line up back-to-back risk events. Crypto is quiet for now, though the stability feels temporary.

U.S. banks won fresh clarity as the OCC confirmed they can execute riskless principal crypto transactions, opening regulated pathways for customer trades while reinforcing safety and compliance expectations across the growing digital-asset market.

Tom Lee says the future of finance is being built on Ethereum, and he’s betting big that tokenization—not nostalgia for four-year bitcoin cycles—will drive the next decade of digital-asset growth.

The central bank lowered its target rate on Wednesday afternoon in what some are describing as a “hawkish cut.”

Soccerverse, a Polygon‑based football management game, secured a global FIFPRO license to feature 65,000 players from over 70 unions worldwide.

Swissborg announced a partnership with Mastercard to launch a crypto debit card in 2026, enabling users in 30 countries to spend digital assets at over 150 million locations worldwide.

American Bitcoin Corp. has expanded its bitcoin reserve to 4,783 BTC, even as its stock continues to slide across several timeframes.

The Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rate by a quarter point on Dec. 10, 2025, matching what CME futures, Polymarket, and Kalshi bettors had been signaling for weeks.

China has reportedly added domestic AI chips to its government procurement list for the first time. This move signals Beijing’s determination to strengthen local semiconductor capacity and reduce reliance on U.S. technology.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor used his Bitcoin MENA 2025 keynote in Abu Dhabi to lay out a sweeping vision for digital capital, digital credit, and digital money — and he did it in his trademark style.