World has begun rolling out World Money in more than 150 countries. The service supports payments, stablecoins and investing, while allowing users to manage funds, transfer assets and track their portfolios. World Money supports eight currencies and lets users send assets using a World username. Users can also track portfolios, transactions and set price alerts.
Virtuals Protocol has officially launched on the Arc Chain, allowing users to tokenize assets and share co-ownership. This announcement, made via their official tweet, highlights a significant development in the platform’s capabilities. The launch could potentially attract a broader audience of builders and agents interested in decentralized applications. The Story So Far The broader cryptocurrency
Strategy has repurchased nearly 9.96 million STRC preferred shares for $950.8 million since July 20 as the security recovered toward Strategy’s targeted $99-to-$100 trading range. Strategy said in its Sept. 14 SEC filing that it bought another 1,420,467 shares of its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock between Sept. 8 and Sept. 13
Bitcoin has stayed above $76,000 despite several negative developments this week. On September 15, the U.S. Senate voted 50–49 against moving forward with the Clarity Act, which aimed to create clearer rules for crypto. The next day, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to 3.75%–4%. Officials also suggested that another rate
H100 CEO Eirik Grøttum has increased his exposure to the Swedish Bitcoin treasury company through purchases totaling 407,163 shares for SEK 621,887, while H100 continues to report 3,506.4 $BTC on its balance sheet. H100 Group said in its Sept. 17 primary-insider disclosure that Kode Oslo AS carried out the purchases, with 405,663 shares acquired on
S&P Global (SPGI) said Thursday it has agreed to buy OpenZeppelin, a smart-contract security firm whose open-source code library is used across much of the stablecoin and tokenized-fund market. S&P said contracts built with the library have moved more than $37 trillion over time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal gives S&P
The number of crypto millionaires worldwide has fallen to 135,694 as the digital asset market contracted to $2.6 trillion, while Bitcoin still accounts for more than two thirds of people holding at least $1 million in crypto. Henley & Partners said in its Crypto Wealth Report 2026 that 92,272 people now hold at least $1
While tensions surrounding the Clarity Act continue in Bitcoin and altcoins, the Fed yesterday raised its policy interest rate by 25 basis points to the 3.75-4.00% range, as expected. This decision marks the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate hike since July 2023, driven by inflation remaining above the Fed’s 2% target and strong economic activity.
Hong Kong has laid out plans to expand regulated stablecoin trading, tokenized real world assets and digital bond infrastructure as part of its 2026 Policy Address, while preparing round the clock central bank digital currency settlement under EnsembleTX by the end of the year. The Hong Kong SAR Government said in the policy document released