You never see the most important part of any of your payments. When an app says your money moved, a number changes on your screen, and the transaction looks and feels finished. But underneath those interfaces lies a separate, invisible chain of bank reserves, settlement accounts, and Fed infrastructure that determines when your funds actually
B3 registered the first guaranteed OTC flexible option tied to Hashdex’s crypto-index ETF, HASH11, in a trade between Inter and XP. B3’s clearinghouse served as the central counterparty in the trade, placing a crypto ETF-linked exposure inside the same back-office machinery that handles counterparty risk, margining, clearing, and settlement. That is the infrastructure layer that
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the financial system still needs eight key upgrades before crypto-based finance can reach wider use. His list covered RWA tokenization, 24/7 global trading, stablecoin payments, AI tools, self-custody wallets, easier capital formation, sound money, and better regulation. Armstrong said the future system will become more global, more automated, and more
Larry Fink, CEO of the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock, has publicly called for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to accelerate its approval process for tokenized stocks and bonds. Fink’s comments, coming from a firm with more than $11 trillion in assets under management, immediately ignited discussion across both traditional finance and cryptocurrency
Artificial intelligence agents settling payments have gone from concept to reality in the last 12 months, with $73 million settled across 176 million transactions from May last year through April 2026, according to crypto investment firm Keyrock. In a report released Thursday, written in collaboration with crypto exchange Coinbase and the blockchain Tempo, Keyrock researcher
Michael Burry warned this week that the U.S. may be heading toward a “Snow Crash cyber-punk future” as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prepares rules that would let crypto platforms trade tokenized versions of traditional stocks. Key Takeaways: Michael Burry cited Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash in a May 19 Substack warning
US-based media outlet Axios shared details of a possible agreement being negotiated between the US and Iran. According to the report, the parties plan to extend the current ceasefire for another 60 days and conduct comprehensive talks on energy, maritime trade, and nuclear programs during this period. According to the draft agreement, the Strait of
Crypto lender Ledn says the consumer bitcoin-backed loan market could grow nearly 300-fold to as much as $1 trillion within the next decade, as demand for borrowing against digital assets far outpaces actual usage. The forecast accompanied new research conducted by consumer insights firm Protocol Theory, which surveyed 1,244 cryptocurrency holders across the U.S. and
Over a year after the token’s demise, the Libra Trust has arranged a strategy to fund nearly 71 companies that have applied for this support. The Trust has close to $110 million to invest in this task, transferred by Hayden Davis, CEO of Kelsier Ventures and one of the faces behind Libra. Key Takeaways: The
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents autonomously spending money online is still a tiny market, but some of the world’s largest tech, payments and crypto firms are already racing to build the infrastructure for it, Keyrock said in a new report. The crypto trading and investment firm estimated that AI agents settled over $73 million across roughly