Figure Technology files ‘second IPO’ to bring native equity issuance to Solana
Figure is planning a second IPO to issue blockchain-native equity on Solana, enabling onchain trading and DeFi use cases beyond traditional stock markets.
Paxos, Fidelity, Ripple, BitGo, and Circle secure US trust bank approvals
The conditional approvals clear a path for major crypto companies to operate as national trust banks under the supervision of the US OCC.
Crypto industry, trade unions clash over multi-trillion dollar retirement funds
Relaxing the current rules for traditional retirement funds and pension plans could attract trillions of dollars of capital flows into crypto.
Bitcoin wobbles at $92K as trader eyes end to ‘manipulative’ BTC price dip
Bitcoin faced troublesome resistance levels to end the Wall Street trading week as new bullish BTC price forecasts reappeared.
Europe reconsiders crypto oversight as ESMA centralization gains momentum
As MiCA enters its implementation phase, uneven enforcement across the EU is reigniting debate over whether crypto supervision should move from national regulators to ESMA.
Ripple expands European footprint with AMINA stablecoin payment partnership
Ripple Payments partnered with Swiss crypto bank Amina to plug its fiat-to-stablecoin payment infrastructure into the FINMA-regulated institution.
Phantom taps Kalshi to offer regulated prediction markets in wallet
The wallet-native feature lets users trade tokenized event contracts across politics, economics and culture without leaving Phantom.
Bitcoin decouples from stocks in second half of 2025
The gap between equities and Bitcoin got wider after Bitcoin’s post-all-time-peak correction in October.
US financial markets ‘poised to move on-chain’ amid DTCC tokenization greenlight
In comments Thursday, SEC Chair Paul Atkins doubled down on his vision for tokenized US financial markets and onchain settlement.
Binance hints at stock perps in push to join global tokenized equities race
Binance quietly rolled out API endpoints pointing to stock perpetual futures, potentially signaling a renewed push into stock trading after a failed 2021 launch.