News Archive
Browse retained market reporting from the past 30 days.
Cryptopolitan
Britain's NECC ranked cryptoassets third among nine economic-crime priorities and reported £25 million seized in Operation Destabilise.
Crypto Reporter
Not long ago, holding cryptocurrency meant navigating a maze of obscure wallets and clunky trading tools. Bitcoin was the only name most people recognized, and getting hold of an altcoin often felt like a scavenger hunt through forums and thinly traded markets. Then the big exchanges stepped in.
Crypto Reporter
The rise of blockchain gaming has quietly reshaped how a lot of people spend their downtime. What started with experiments like Axie Infinity and The Sandbox has grown into a full corner of the crypto economy, where tokens, digital land, and in-game assets change hands in real wallets.
Crypto Reporter
Picture a trader in Portugal watching a Bitcoin chart at midnight, while another in Singapore reads the fine print of a fresh stablecoin bill, and a third in Argentina moves pesos into USDT just to keep pace with inflation. Three people, three legal realities, one shared currency.
Crypto Economy
Citi plans to offer Japanese businesses tokenized deposits for instant cross-border foreign currency transfers, including nights, weekends and holidays, potentially starting this year. The service would connect Japan with Citi operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong and Ireland while Citi handles administrative and risk processes.
Dailycoin
Visa will feed real-time payment data into blockchain lending protocols, helping stablecoin card issuers access working capital faster.
The Currency Analytics
Anver Yoffe is done watching banks drown in compliance paperwork.
Crypto Economy
Venture capital division a16z Crypto unveiled Lattice Jolt this Wednesday, a revamped version of its open-source zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM). This upgrade replaces traditional elliptic-curve cryptography with a lattice-based architecture specifically engineered to mitigate the impending threat of quantum computing.
Crypto Briefing
The Illinois crypto tax law's legal challenges could set a precedent for state-level taxation of digital assets, impacting future regulations. Digital asset trade groups pursue legal action against Illinois crypto tax law.
PYMNTS
ACH network operator Nacha and its Payments Innovation Alliance launched a new digital assets-focused initiative, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 9) press release.
Cointribune
Germany is ready to blow the whistle on its crypto tax haven status. A bill proposes a flat tax of 25% from 2028, compared to 0% currently after one year of holding.
CoinPedia
Germany is preparing to end its long-standing tax break for crypto investors who hold assets for more than one year. A new draft from the Federal Ministry of Finance proposes a 25% flat tax on crypto gains from 2027, putting Bitcoin and other digital assets closer to stocks and other investments.
Decrypt
Crypto advocates and community bankers are targeting lawmakers in their home states as the Senate prepares for a September 15 procedural vote.
Cointelegraph
The restructuring will separate MetaMask's consumer business from Consensys' Ethereum protocols and institutional blockchain infrastructure operations.
Crypto Economy
The Crypto Council for Innovation and Blockchain Association asked an Illinois court to suspend the state's 0.2% digital asset tax before January 1, 2027. The groups argue federal law and the Constitution preempt the measure, while companies face millions in compliance costs before the legal dispute is resolved.
Crypto Economy
Bitcoin recorded a correction after hitting highs above $93,000, retreating toward its prior consolidation zone. Bitcoin's market share dropped two percentage points over the past week, settling near 58%. Daily trading volume across major altcoins saw a 35% surge over the last 72 hours.
Crypto Economy
The blockchain-based payments ecosystem has transitioned from a phase of conceptual experimentation toward a stage of technical deployment at scale. Data from 2025 is illustrative: stablecoins processed an on-chain transaction volume of 33 trillion dollars, a figure that exceeds the 25.5 trillion dollars combined that Visa and Mastercard managed during the same period.
The Currency Analytics
Bitcoin
On Wednesday, Consensys Software Inc. announced plans to split into two independent companies, with consumer wallet platform Metamask breaking away from Consensys, which will remain focused on protocols and institutional infrastructure.
Crypto Briefing
Tokenized stocks challenge traditional investor protections, raising regulatory questions about economic exposure without ownership rights. Robinhood CEO says companies can't control how their stock gets tokenized.