Mastercard is under investigation by the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for alleged anti-competitive conduct tied to digital wallets. The news landed as the payments giant joined JPMorgan, Ripple and Ondo Finance in completing what they call the first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenized US Treasuries. Mastercard is not alone in the latest FCA
Spot bitcoin ETFs cleared crypto’s long-standing access hurdle by placing bitcoin inside brokerage and advisor accounts already used for stocks and bonds. Two and a half years in, panelists at CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference agreed that part had worked. However, they said custody concentration, modest advisor uptake and back-office plumbing all remain unresolved. Christopher Russell,
Bitcoin surges above $81K — and this time, the global stock market is watching. Bitcoin broke through the $81,000 threshold during Tuesday’s Asian trading window, posting its strongest performance since the closing days of January. The digital asset climbed from approximately $79,000 at Monday’s U.S. market close — a 5.3% weekly gain. Global stock indexes
Pavel Durov posted a chart this week that is worth looking at twice. According to Chainspect’s May 2026 data, $TON sits at 0.6 seconds to finality, beating Avalanche (1 sec), BNB Smart Chain (1.1 sec), $SUI (1.5 sec), Hedera (2.5 sec), XRP Ledger (4 sec), and Solana (13 sec). Bitcoin and Ethereum do not even
In brief Sandisk shares have surged 3,314% in the past year, from $32.11 to over $1,096, powered by a global NAND flash shortage and accelerating AI infrastructure spending. Per Sandisk’s earnings release, Q3 FY2026 revenue hit $5.95 billion—up 251% year over year—with gross margins expanding from 22.5% to 78.4% in a single year. NAND flash
An announcement about the long-anticipated U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) is coming “in the next few weeks,” Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, told CoinDesk’s Consensus Miami conference on Wednesday. The federal effort to inventory, centralize and secure U.S.-held bitcoin and other digital assets has been running in
Bitcoin is trading above $82,000 on May 6, while oil, Treasury yields, the dollar, and US stocks shift around the same volatile geopolitical and macro backdrop that has left investors exhausted after the last few months. The move reopens the inflation-hedge debate while leaving it unresolved. It also puts pressure on the claim that $BTC
AmericanFortress, a company developing a universal privacy layer for blockchain, announced it has closed an $8 million seed funding round co-led by SAVA Digital Asset Fund, Moon Pursuit Capital, and 0G Labs. Alongside the funding, the company has filed a patent for quantum-resistant cryptographic transaction signing. The announcement comes amid growing concerns around the security
The 2026 Web3 Workforce Report shows a clear shift in web3 jobs: the market is moving from execution to supervision, as AI agents take on more routine work. The adoption tipping point For years, AI was a nice-to-have in crypto hiring. However, the report says 2026 marks a tipping point, based on about 2.000 job
Miami Beach — The stablecoin universe, dominated by Tether and Circle, hampers competition that could lead to better product-market fit for some important use cases, according to Ben O’Neill, Bridge’s head of money movement. “I think it’s a net bad for the growth of stablecoins as a whole, because you have two counterparties that have