A forex startup just raised $94 million to replace correspondent banking with stablecoins, and the implications for B2B payments are bigger than the round suggests. OpenFX raised $94 million to scale stablecoin-powered cross-border payments for businesses
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Standard Chartered just led a $1.1 billion valuation round for a crypto market maker most people have never heard of. SC Ventures and Ripple are backing Keyrock's open Series C at a $1.1 billion valuation, with the round expected to close soon
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Japan's biggest corporations just made a $147 million bet that Africa's startup ecosystem matters more than Silicon Valley thinks.
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Consensus 2026 just marked the moment crypto stopped being an industry and became infrastructure. Consensus 2026 in Miami drew massive institutional presence after a decade of building, with deep focus on agentic commerce
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Visa and Coinbase just showed you two futures for AI agent payments, and only one of them lets you own the rails. Visa and Coinbase are both building payment infrastructure for AI agents, but Visa's is traditional card rails while Coinbase is building on crypto
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Stablecoins are having a regulatory identity crisis while institutions quietly build the rails underneath them. Regulatory pressure is mounting on stablecoins as prediction markets face new compliance requirements, but institutional adoption continues accelerating
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The first crypto company to get a Fed master account just got Washington's attention, and not in a good way. Kraken's Wyoming-chartered bank became the first crypto-native company to secure a Federal Reserve Master Account in March, a milestone for crypto banking
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The UK just sanctioned a crypto marketplace you've never heard of, and the reason why should worry anyone who thinks digital money makes fraud harder to track.
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Bitget Wallet just built a bridge between crypto's oldest promise and its newest infrastructure, and the names on the roster tell you everything about where stablecoin rails are heading.
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Solana is claiming its blockchain has become the rails for autonomous AI agents to transact, coordinate, and build on the internet without asking permission.
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Elon Musk just hired someone who helped build Base and Aave to design X Money, and that tells you exactly what kind of payments product is coming. X hired Benji Taylor, former Chief Product Officer at Aave Labs and design lead at Coinbase's Base, to lead design for X Money
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Visa just did something it's never done before: its legal team said yes to running blockchain infrastructure. Visa is now a Super Validator on Canton Network, the first blockchain governance proposal approved by its legal and compliance divisions
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Zuckerberg just bet that the next billion-dollar business won't be built by a team of twenty, it'll be built by one person and their AI.
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A British bank just turned customer deposits into blockchain tokens, and regulators said yes. Monument Bank is tokenizing £250 million in retail deposits, making them programmable while keeping FSCS protection and interest payments intact.
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Singapore just opened a sandbox for programmable money in trade finance, and Ripple walked in with a live stablecoin ready to settle cross-border payments. Ripple joined Singapore's Monetary Authority BLOOM initiative to test RLUSD and XRP Ledger for automated trade settlement
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Australia's central bank just said the quiet part out loud: stablecoins and bank tokens aren't competitors, they're infrastructure layers for a $17 billion tokenization push.
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Tether just hired a Big Four accounting firm for its first real audit, and the fact that this is news tells you everything about crypto's trust problem. Tether announced a Big Four firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, or KPMG) will conduct its first full audit of USDT reserves, but won't say which one
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Tether just hired a Big Four firm to audit its reserves, ending a decade-long credibility fight that's haunted the stablecoin that moves more value than Visa. Tether has hired a Big Four accounting firm for its first full audit of USDT reserves after years of regulatory and market scrutiny
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Circle just put USDC on the ground in Africa through Cassava, and this isn't another pilot program, it's infrastructure play in a continent where dollar access is survival, not speculation.
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Solana just gave Wall Street the training wheels it needed to stop talking about blockchain and start building on it.
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