News roundup Russia to restrict cryptocurrency trading through regulated intermediaries Russian authorities are considering a regulatory model in which cryptocurrency transactions will be allowed only through licensed intermediaries. The...
News roundup Canada introduces ban on cryptocurrencies in elections Canadian authorities are preparing new regulatory measures aimed at limiting the use of cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence technologies in election campaigns. In...
News item Fannie Mae will start taking cryptocurrency into account when issuing mortgages The American mortgage corporation Fannie Mae plans to take into account the cryptocurrency assets of borrowers when assessing their financial...
News item BlackRock: tokenization is becoming the new infrastructure of finance BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said in his annual letter to shareholders that tokenization of assets could become the new underlying infrastructure of the financial...
News item US senators agree on the parameters of the CLARITY bill In the United States, senators and representatives of the White House have reached an agreement in principle on the CLARITY bill aimed at forming a structure for regulating...
News item SEC has approved the launch of tokenized stock trading on Nasdaq The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved changes to Nasdaq's rules that allow trading of securities in tokenized form. These are digital...
News roundup Mastercard buys stablcoin startup BVNK for $1.8 billion Payment giant Mastercard has reached an agreement to buy fintech company BVNK, which specializes in infrastructure for stablecoins, at a valuation of up to $1.8 billion....
Newsblock Ethereum Foundation published a new mandate for network development The Ethereum Foundation has unveiled an updated mandate, a document that defines the role of the foundation and key principles for the development of the...
News roundup BlackRock launches Ethereum-ETF with staking BlackRock has unveiled a new Ethereum-based exchange-traded fund that includes a mechanism to generate yield through ETH staking. The instrument is aimed at institutional investors...
News item Ilon Musk launches X Money payment service Ilon Musk has announced that the X Money payment service will be available to a wide audience of X platform users as early as next month. The new product is being developed as part of...
News item Mastercard and Google develop payments infrastructure for AI agents Mastercard has announced the development of Verifiable Intent, a system designed to validate transactions made by AI agents on behalf of users. The technology...
News item Western Union Launches USDPT Stablecoin Western Union has announced a partnership with technology company Crossmint to launch the USDPT steiblcoin and a new payment infrastructure, the Digital Asset Network. The project aims to...
News item US Senate has proposed banning the launch of CBDC until 2031 A provision has emerged in the US Senate, as part of a bipartisan bill aimed at boosting housing, to ban the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital...
News item $529m in Polymarket bets on US strike on Iran Prediction platform Polymarket has attracted record trading volume amid bets related to a US strike on Iran - more than $529m on contracts linked to the likely date of a military...
News item Tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds have surpassed $1 billion in value Since the beginning of 2026, the tokenized U.S. Treasury bond segment has added more than $1 billion to its market value despite macroeconomic uncertainty and...
News roundup Hedge funds cut positions in Bitcoin ETFs by 28% Hedge funds aggressively reduced their investments in spot Bitcoin ETFs in the fourth quarter of 2025, reducing aggregate volumes by 28% compared to the third quarter. Analysts...
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Key data on the DeFi sector (▲ growth in the last 24 hours) Total blocked value (TVL) in DeFi: $98.95 billion (▲3.91%) TVL in the Lending category: $51.54 billion (▼2.23%) TVL in the Liquid Staking category:...
News roundup Capital is leaving crypto tokens for stocks According to DWF Labs research, the crypto market is witnessing a rotation of capital from crypto tokens into shares of public companies related to digital assets. According to...
News item Bank of America has increased its stake in BitMine Bank of America has nearly 17 times increased its stake in BitMine, bringing it to 3.1 million shares, according to a Form 13F filed with the SEC. We are talking about the fourth...
News item Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds have invested more than $1 billion in Bitcoin ETFs Abu Dhabi sovereign entities have disclosed large positions in BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF - IBIT. Mubadala Investment Company declared 12.7...