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MoneyGram Launches Stablecoin-Backed Visa Card in Colombia With Rain

MoneyGram has launched its first stablecoin-backed Visa card in Colombia through a partnership with Rain. The product integrates stablecoin settlement with Visa's payment network, targeting the country's $10 billion annual remittance inflows with faster settlement and lower fees than traditional...

Ibrahim Rajab18h ago

Researchers Halve Quantum Attack Benchmark for Bitcoin and Ethereum

A new study cuts the estimated quantum computing resources needed to crack Bitcoin and Ethereum's elliptic curve cryptography by roughly 50%, pushing the theoretical attack threshold below Google's benchmark and raising questions about migration timelines for post-quantum cryptography.

Ibrahim Rajab20h ago

Nasdaq Invests $100M in Kraken Parent Payward at $21B Valuation

Nasdaq invested $100 million in Payward, valuing the Kraken parent company at $21 billion. The deal represents a 58% valuation increase from Deutsche Börse's April stake and deepens a strategic partnership focused on 24/7 tokenized equity trading infrastructure.

Ibrahim Rajab22h ago

Zoomex Launches ZWTC 2026 With Record 5M USDT Prize Pool

Zoomex announced the third annual World Trading Championship with a record 5 million USDT prize pool, expanding to include stock contracts, AI-powered trading, team competition, and interactive rewards alongside crypto perpetuals.

Ibrahim RajabYesterday

Regulation

Coinbase and Moov Embed Stablecoin Rails Into 1,000 US Community Banks

Ibrahim Rajab17h ago

Nasdaq and Boerse Stuttgart Ask EU to Raise or Remove Tokenization Trial Caps

Nasdaq, Boerse Stuttgart, and other major exchanges have formally requested that the EU raise or remove caps on its tokenization trial framework, arguing current restrictions hinder innovation and risk driving activity to the US.

Hadi Ghadban18h ago

Monument Bank Delays Retail Tokenized Deposits Launch Over UK Regulatory Hurdles

Monument Bank has postponed its planned retail tokenized deposits product, citing unresolved regulatory issues in the United Kingdom. The delay marks a setback for blockchain-based deposit products targeting British retail consumers and signals material uncertainty around tokenized deposit...

Hadi Ghadban18h ago

Fnality Adds Three Former Central Bankers to Supervisory Board

Fnality Europe has appointed three former central bank officials, including former Bank of England deputy governor Jon Cunliffe, to its supervisory board. The move signals institutional validation of blockchain-based settlement infrastructure and reflects the company's expansion into continental...

Hadi Ghadban21h ago

DeFi

Alejandro Silva Ramírez18h ago

Uniswap Launches StablePair Hook for Stablecoin Pairs on v4

Uniswap Labs shipped StablePair Hook today, a new Uniswap v4 tool that applies dynamic fee mechanisms to stablecoin trading pairs, with USDC/USDT as the headline use case. The release targets inefficiencies in fixed-fee structures for low-volatility assets.

Blockchain Academics NewsroomSep 8, 2026

Visa Opens VisaNet Settlement Data to Blockchain Lenders as Stablecoin Volume Hits $20B Run Rate

Visa announced it is pairing VisaNet payment settlement data with blockchain lending infrastructure, allowing stablecoin card issuers to access credit backed by their settlement activity. Stablecoin payment volume on Visa's network has grown nearly 200% year-over-year, reaching a $20 billion...

Alejandro Silva RamírezSep 2, 2026

Nomura's Laser Digital Taps Keyring Network for Compliant DeFi Fixed Income on Euler

Nomura's crypto subsidiary Laser Digital has partnered with Keyring Network to launch institutional-grade fixed income markets on Euler Finance, positioning the Japanese banking giant as one of the first major traditional finance names to target DeFi lending infrastructure directly.

Alejandro Silva RamírezAug 28, 2026

Ethena Adds Equities and Commodities to USDe Basis Trade, Closes HIP-3 Market on Hyperliquid

Ethena is broadening the collateral strategy underpinning its USDe stablecoin to include equity perpetuals and commodities, while simultaneously shutting down its HIP-3 market on Hyperliquid and overhauling ENA tokenomics in what the protocol is framing as a push to reignite growth.

Technology

Ibrahim RajabAug 27, 2026

Nvidia Earnings Beat and $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Push Nasdaq Futures Up 1.1%

Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.

Technology

Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Beats Claude Fable on Benchmarks, Creators Unknown

A new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced with no identifiable creators, a free price tag, and benchmark scores that outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable. The model ships with a 1 million token context window, accepts video as input, and is available at no cost.

Blockchain Academics NewsroomAug 25, 2026

Technology

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown

Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.

Alejandro Silva RamírezJun 21, 2026