FinTech

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)
2026-6-19 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)
2026-6-18 Bitcoin Canada

Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months (slashdot.org)
2026-6-14 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)
2026-6-12 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)
2026-6-12 Blockchain

Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raised $355M, including $100M from a16z crypto (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-6-11 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)
2026-6-9 Decentralize

Criticisms Rise Before Vote on America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-7 U.S. Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Falls To $60,000 As Zcash Bug Rocks Crypto (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-6 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)
2026-6-6 Bitcoin ETF

Who Needs Bitcoin & Cryptos (-50%) amid the Semiconductor & Miracle IPO Mania? (wolfstreet.com)
2026-6-5 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)
2026-6-5 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)
2026-6-4 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)
2026-6-4 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)
2026-6-3 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)
2026-6-1 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)
2026-6-1 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)
2026-5-29 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)
2026-5-28 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)
2026-5-24 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)
2026-5-24 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

Iranian media: Iran launches “Hormuz Safe”, a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Bitcoin Iran Insurance

Russian hackers turn Kazuar backdoor into modular P2P botnet (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-17 Russia P2P

Claude Helps Recover Locked $400K Bitcoin Wallet After 11 Years (slashdot.org)
2026-5-15 Bitcoin

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