News Archive
Browse retained market reporting from the past 30 days.
Crypto Briefing
Robinhood Chain's rapid growth in tokenized value highlights the potential for decentralized finance to reshape traditional equity markets. Robinhood Chain total tokenized value surpasses $88M just weeks after mainnet launch.
CryptoSlate
Corporate political donations hit a record $646 million over the 18 months through June, according to Public Citizen's analysis of FEC filings. Crypto political spending led every other corporate sector at $206 million, while crypto, AI, and online betting together accounted for $344 million, more than half the total.
Cointelegraph
Officials in the G20, under the US' presidency, recognized that digital assets could support “broad-based economic growth” and called for improvements in cross-border transactions.
Crypto Briefing
The shift towards safer bets in crypto VC funding risks stifling innovation and reducing potential high returns from early-stage investments. Crypto VCs are all making the same ‘safe' bet, and that's the real risk.
Coindesk
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Varun Datta of Truth Ventures writes that crypto venture capital's retreat to later-stage deals is a consensus trade dressed as discipline. With proven companies taking 57% of last quarter's capital, he argues the founding-stage gap is where the returns are, and lays out three things to look for.
Crypto Briefing
The launch of a bank-backed stablecoin could reshape financial markets, challenging existing players and enhancing cross-border transactions. Goldman Sachs, BofA, and 19 other banks plan to launch a dollar stablecoin in 2027.
Crypto Briefing
Universal deposit addresses simplify crypto transactions, potentially boosting user adoption but raising concerns about transparency and trust. Universal deposit addresses are quietly fixing crypto's most annoying problem.
Finbold
The number of cryptocurrencies tracked globally has surged by more than 150% over the past year amid heightened market volatility.
Blockonomi
Thailand's SEC mandates wallet ownership checks and transaction data sharing under new crypto rules by 2027.
CryptoSlate
CME and ICE told Washington in May that Hyperliquid's pseudonymous, always-on markets could let sanctioned state actors circumvent enforcement. On Aug. 31, an Arkham analysis reviewed by CoinDesk found that wallets linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group had sold more than $30 million of Bitcoin through Hyperliquid over the prior three weeks.
Crypto Economy
KuCoin and other DeFi platforms are grappling with a 2026 marked by 32 price manipulation exploits, a historical record according to TRM Labs. The most prominent case was the Tectonic exploit on August 30: an attacker inflated the price of TONIC roughly 100 times in 20 minutes and borrowed approximately $75 million.
The Daily Hodl
The Justice Department seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency donations for Hamas's Al Qassam Brigades and took control of related domains and servers used for fundraising. The post Justice Department Seizes Over $560,000 in Crypto Donations to Hamas appeared first on The Daily Hodl.
Coingape
HashKey Group has joined a DTCC digital assets working group, becoming its first Asian digital asset service provider as major financial firms expand their work on institutional tokenization. Ad Ad HashKey Joins DTCC Digital Assets Group HashKey Group has become the first Asian digital asset service provider to join the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's
TheNewsCrypto
Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi and 18 other firms plan a U.S. dollar stablecoin launch in the first half of 2027. The 21 financial institutions aim to use the bank-backed stablecoin for blockchain payments, settlement and cross-border transactions.
CrowdFundInsider
Singapore's central bank has taken a further step toward turning its long-planned stablecoin regime into law. On 1 September 2026 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a consultation on proposed changes to the Payment Services Act 2019.
Crypto news
Crypto argument against traditional finance has remained ideological, with banks acting as gatekeepers, centralized institutions restricting access, and money seen as something that should flow freely through open networks.
Crypto Economy
Grayscale, a16z and CCI urged the SEC to preserve existing classifications and avoid blanket restrictions for novel ETFs and exchange-traded products. a16z wants product-specific reviews, coordinated registration and listing processes, and predictable timelines, while Grayscale and CCI support optional confidential pre-filing discussions.
Coinpaper
Banks want stablecoins for faster payments, reserve income and blockchain settlement while defending deposits from USDT, USDC and fintech rivals.
Coingape
The crypto market has retreated today, indicating that investors are treading cautiously ahead of the major economic data releases in the coming days. For context, US job data is scheduled this week, followed by the US CPI and PPI inflation data next week, which might provide insights on the potential Fed rate move ahead.
Crypto Briefing
Coinbase's move into Canadian crypto derivatives could reshape the market, offering regulated options and potentially expanding retail access. Coinbase enables crypto derivatives trading for Canadian investors.