FinTech

Meta invests $900M into Indian fintech startup Cred, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the new leader of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart (www.bloomberg.com)
19 hours ago India Fintech Startup WhatsApp

Microsoft Discovers Cryptocurrency Stealer That Spreads Through USB Drives and Uses Tor (it.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Microsoft Cryptocurrency

DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025 (www.theblock.co)
3 days ago Cryptocurrency

John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (www.bbc.com)
3 days ago AI ICO

Hive stock jumps 10% in premarket trading after announcing a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots from bitcoin mining (www.coindesk.com)
4 days ago Bitcoin Canada

Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months (slashdot.org)
8 days ago Bitcoin

New York City-based Current, which manages a consumer fintech platform, raised an $80M Series E at a $1.5B valuation led by Springcoast Partners (www.finsmes.com)
10 days ago Fintech New York

Citigroup launches a blockchain-based platform for wealthy and institutional clients to trade tokenized shares of private firms, initially for foreign investors (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Blockchain

Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raised $355M, including $100M from a16z crypto (news.bloomberglaw.com)
11 days ago Blockchain Asset

Decentralized lending protocol Morpho raised $175M led by Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, and a16z Crypto in a token sale valuing Morpho at up to $2B (fortune.com)
13 days ago Decentralize

Criticisms Rise Before Vote on America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' (yro.slashdot.org)
16 days ago U.S. Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Falls To $60,000 As Zcash Bug Rocks Crypto (it.slashdot.org)
17 days ago Bitcoin

Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (www.cnbc.com)
17 days ago Bitcoin ETF

Who Needs Bitcoin & Cryptos (-50%) amid the Semiconductor & Miracle IPO Mania? (wolfstreet.com)
18 days ago Bitcoin IPO

Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months (www.theblock.co)
18 days ago Bitcoin mortgage Coinbase

Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to “despotification”; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals (www.liberalism.org)
19 days ago Decentralize

Sources: OnePay, a fintech app backed by Walmart and valued at $4B+, has 6M MAUs and $50B in annualized payments, double the figures from the previous year (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Fintech Walmart

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Bitcoin

SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal (www.coindesk.com)
21 days ago Bitcoin

Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (www.coindesk.com)
21 days ago India P2P Coinbase

A look at strains in the UK's fintech sector, as former industry darlings are forced to overhaul their operations or merge under pressure to reach profitability (www.ft.com)
25 days ago Fintech

SoFi says SoFiUSD, its US dollar-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Solana, is now available for members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app (www.theblock.co)
26 days ago Ethereum

Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking its stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Bitcoin

Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin (www.ft.com)
30 days ago Bitcoin Quantum

Crypto exchange Blockchain.com confidentially files for a US IPO; the UK-based company founded in 2011 was once valued at $14B (decrypt.co)
2026-5-22 Blockchain IPO

Variational, which has built a protocol for decentralized derivatives trading aimed at gathering liquidity from traditional markets, raised a $50M Series A (fortune.com)
2026-5-21 Decentralize

Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fed to review policies that could support fintech growth, including expanding fintech access to payment accounts (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-20 Trump Fintech

Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted “formal verification” could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flaws (decrypt.co)
2026-5-19 Blockchain AI Vitalik Buterin

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming “increasingly stringent compliance obligations” (www.coindesk.com)
2026-5-19 U.S. Bitcoin

Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~$2.01B at an average price of $80,985 between May 11 and May 17, taking its holding to 843,738 BTC, or 4% of total supply (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-18 Bitcoin

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