Bitfire Group has expanded its real-world asset business and launched what it calls Hong Kong’s first compliant crypto asset quantitative strategy after its profit-contributing assets under management climbed above HK$2 billion. According to a press release shared with crypto.news, Bitfire Group said that the new strategy will use real-world assets as a core part of
City Protocol, a provider of on-chain structured products infrastructure, has raised $11 million in a combined seed and pre-Series A funding round. The company announced the investment on Wednesday, with participation from Dragonfly Capital, Jump Crypto, CMT Digital, Stratified Capital, Adaverse, and Mirana. What City Protocol Does City Protocol is developing structured products on blockchain
South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group has signed a strategic agreement with Visa to build stablecoin payment infrastructure while expanding its work into AI-powered payments and business transactions. Shinhan Financial Group said Wednesday that the partnership will initially focus on testing the infrastructure needed to issue, transfer and redeem stablecoins using Visa’s existing stablecoin technology, with
Coinbase’s stock is on a tear again, and the reason is no secret: Bitcoin just pushed past $80,000. But the more interesting story sitting underneath that rally is how tightly — or loosely — Coinbase shares actually track the world’s largest cryptocurrency. The Coinbase Bitcoin correlation turns out to be real, but far from perfect,
Daily trading volume for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on Robinhood Chain, the proprietary blockchain of U.S. stock and crypto trading app Robinhood (Nasdaq: HOOD), reached a record $85.1 million on Aug. 25, according to data reported by Cryptopolitan. Stock token trading accounted for the vast majority of the total, at $66 million. Shift in Market
Kalshi’s push into Kalshi prediction markets funding has reached a new peak, with the New York-based operator pulling in roughly $1.12 billion through a private equity offering that started on April 3, 2026. The raise, disclosed through a Form D filing made public on August 26, shows just how fast a company built on betting-style
Europe’s leading fintech firm Revolut has unveiled its own euro-backed stablecoin, EURR, which will be built into the platform’s retail apps. Revolut, whose app boasts over 80 million retail customers, said the stablecoin’s rollout will start with a select group of customers within Denmark, Poland, and Portugal in an emailed announcement on Wednesday. The token
Nasdaq-listed StablecoinX’s debt restructuring covers $6.879 million of defaulted former-SPAC notes with about $344,000 in cash and two warrant tranches representing approximately 7.62 million potential Class A shares, according to an Aug. 24 regulatory filing. The deal shifts roughly $6.535 million of near-term repayment pressure away from cash and into a claim on future equity.