On Sunday the Financial Times reported, and Fortune relayed, that Saudi Arabia had withdrawn from mBridge, the cross-border central bank digital currency platform built by the central banks of China, Hong Kong, Thailand and the UAE with the Bank for International Settlements. The Saudi Central Bank’s response, given to Asharq Al-Awsat, was that this had
Base has highlighted a significant trend with institutions increasingly adopting stablecoins on its platform, indicating a shift in the crypto landscape. The tweet, which has garnered over 168 likes and 22 retweets, reflects growing institutional engagement in the crypto space. This trend could lead to greater stability and trust in the crypto market as institutional
Circle executive Nikhil Chandhok has argued that resistance to dollar stablecoins could keep the United States from drawing as much as $1 trillion in overseas demand for dollars. Moonshots LIVE brought Chandhok together with $ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood, Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque and host Peter Diamandis for a discussion about the agentic economy.
Blockchain.com is targeting a valuation of between $4 billion and $6 billion in a potential US initial public offering this year, as the crypto brokerage looks to take advantage of an improving market for digital assets. The company is seeking to raise about $500 million through the listing, according to people familiar with the plans
Goldman Sachs is putting one of its largest Treasury funds within reach of digital-asset firms without creating a tokenized version of it. The bank’s roughly $100 billion Treasury fund, FTIXX, is getting a new distribution channel aimed at institutional crypto firms. The fund will be offered through Lynq, a settlement network used by digital-asset companies,
More $USDT was issued without a sustained rise in balances held by smart-contract accounts on Ethereum, according to a Bank for International Settlements working paper published Sept. 15, 2026. On Tron, those accounts held about 1% of $USDT through most of the study’s historical series. Together, the findings challenge the assumption that a larger stablecoin
D3 has launched Frontier, a program that lets users deposit eligible assets in Solana and Hyperliquid vaults to earn points toward priority access to new internet domain names. D3, the core contributor to Doma Protocol, announced Frontier at Korea Blockchain Week on Sep. 28. Under the program, members deposit eligible assets with supported vault providers,
FireblocksHQ has revealed that 81% of corporates are committing their budgets to digital asset infrastructure. Additionally, 90% of transaction banks are following suit, suggesting a robust shift towards digitalization in finance. This development highlights an emerging trend in the financial sector, where digital assets are becoming a priority. For further details, see the source here.
Moving an investment onto a blockchain does not mean anyone can buy it. Some assets come with restrictions on who can hold them, where investors can live and when they can sell. Metaplex wants to make those rules part of the token itself. The Solana tokenization platform announced MPL-3643 on September 28, ahead of Korea
Ondas, a stock at the center of a heated short-selling and manipulation debate, became Wall Street’s most failed-to-deliver security during the most recent SEC reporting period. A failure to deliver occurs when a party responsible for delivering shares to complete a trade doesn’t deliver them. High fails-to-deliver rates are often fodder for debate about stock