Category: Peer to Peer

Ripple has secured full authorisation under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework, clearing the San Francisco-based blockchain payments company to expand regulated crypto services across the European Economic Area.The approval, granted through Luxembourg’s financial regulator to Ripple Payments Europe S. A., gives the company a Crypto Asset Service Provider licence and allows it to passport services across 30 EEA markets. It follows a preliminary clearance in late June and places Ripple among the firms that have crossed the bloc’s

Securitize began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ after completing its merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, giving the tokenisation platform a public-market foothold at a time when Wall Street is testing blockchain rails for regulated securities.The Miami and New York-based company closed its business combination on 1 July, with trading starting the following day. The deal is expected to raise about $400 million in gross proceeds, after Cantor Equity Partners II retained 71.5 per

Bitcoin, Ether and other large crypto tokens are moving in unusually tight formation as a market worth more than $2.2 trillion tries to recover from a bruising correction, raising fresh questions over whether investors are gaining diversification or merely holding different versions of the same risk trade.Live market data showed Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, BNB, Solana, Dogecoin, Tron and Hyperliquid’s HYPE controlling roughly $1.74 trillion in combined value, close to the $1.71 trillion level tracked across the same group during the

Dubai’s virtual asset sector has reached a fresh regulatory marker after the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority issued its 50th Virtual Asset Service Provider licence to Tribe Tokenisation FZE, strengthening the emirate’s push to build a supervised digital-finance industry.The licence, recorded on VARA’s public register as VL/26/06/002 and issued on 22 June 2026, authorises Tribe Tokenisation FZE for broker-dealer services. Its addition takes the number of active licensed VASPs under the Dubai framework to 50, covering exchanges, broker-dealers, custodians, advisory firms,

Metaplanet has added 2,823 Bitcoin to its corporate treasury, taking its total holdings to 43,000 BTC and deepening its position among the world’s largest listed corporate holders of the digital asset.The Tokyo-listed company’s latest acquisition is valued at about $170 million at current market prices, while its total Bitcoin reserve is worth roughly $2.58 billion. The purchase extends a rapid accumulation strategy that has transformed the former hotel and investment business into one of Asia’s most closely watched Bitcoin treasury

Nearly 1,700 British investors have taken Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao to London’s High Court, seeking at least £150 million in damages over allegations that the crypto trading platform unlawfully sold them high-risk derivative products without regulatory authorisation.The claim, filed on Monday, marks one of the largest private actions brought in Britain against a global crypto exchange. The investors allege that Binance entities promoted and sold leveraged products, including futures, options and leveraged tokens, from late 2019, exposing retail

A broad group of payment, banking, technology and crypto firms has joined Open Standard to introduce Open USD, a US dollar-backed stablecoin designed for large-scale business payments and digital settlement.The initiative brings together more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, BlackRock, Coinbase, Stripe, BNY, Standard Chartered, Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Ripple, Fireblocks, Gemini, MetaMask, Emirates NBD and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank. Open USD, trading under the ticker OUSD, is expected to go live later this year and will be

Tether is moving to turn its multibillion-dollar bullion base into an active lending instrument, with holders of its gold-backed XAU₮ token set to borrow against their digital claims on physical gold without selling the underlying asset.The plan extends the company’s tokenised gold strategy into collateralised credit, a market structure already familiar to holders of bitcoin who use digital assets to obtain liquidity while keeping exposure to price movements. The new product is being developed with Ledn, the crypto lender known

Bitcoin slipped below $60,000 in the final week of June as digital assets endured one of their sharpest weekly reversals of the year, with Dogecoin, XRP and Solana showing relative resilience while broader market sentiment weakened under pressure from interest-rate expectations, a stronger dollar and fund outflows.The largest cryptocurrency changed hands near $59,873 after briefly falling through a level watched closely by traders for signs of deeper stress. Ether traded at about $1,564, extending a weekly fall of nearly 10

Avalanche has launched the Avalanche Payments Collective, bringing together 28 financial and technology groups including VanEck, Franklin Templeton, Anchorage Digital and Paxos in a push to build blockchain-based infrastructure for global payments, treasury management and settlement.The initiative, unveiled on Thursday, is designed to consolidate a payments ecosystem around Avalanche’s blockchain network, covering stablecoins, custody, foreign exchange, card issuance, business payments, asset management, global payouts and on-chain settlement. The group says its participating firms support payment flows across more than 150

My Wallet has moved to a broader multichain identity after MyTonWallet rebranded following its expansion from a TON-native product into an 11-blockchain self-custodial wallet serving more than 9 million users.The change marks a strategic shift for a wallet launched on The Open Network in 2022, as its developers seek to position the platform beyond a single blockchain ecosystem. The product now supports TON, TRON, Solana, Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, Avalanche and Hyperliquid, with Bitcoin identified as the

Bitcoin Suisse has secured a crypto-asset service provider licence in Liechtenstein, giving the Zug-based digital-asset group a regulated platform for expanding its services across selected European Economic Area markets as the region’s MiCAR regime reshapes competition among crypto firms.The licence, granted by the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority to Bitcoin Suisse AG, allows the company to operate under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, the European framework designed to bring crypto trading, custody and related services under common supervisory standards. The authorisation

XRP slipped towards the lower end of its three-week trading band as weak turnover, softer derivatives positioning and fading momentum left traders focused on the $1.05-$1.10 support zone as the market’s decisive near-term test.The token traded near $1.10 on Tuesday, down about 3 per cent over 24 hours and more than 10 per cent over the week, with its market value hovering around $68 billion to $69 billion. Daily turnover stood near $1.5 billion, a level that pointed to active

SpaceX’s market value has fallen by more than $600 billion in three trading sessions, a reversal that has tested investor confidence in one of the year’s biggest public listings and drawn a sharp contrast with bitcoin’s steadier performance under the same market pressure.Shares of the Elon Musk-led space and technology group extended their decline after the company moved into the bond market for the first time as a public company, seeking longer-term funding only days after a record-setting initial public

SpaceX’s market value has fallen by more than $600 billion in three trading sessions, a reversal that has tested investor confidence in one of the year’s biggest public listings and drawn a sharp contrast with bitcoin’s steadier performance under the same market pressure.Shares of the Elon Musk-led space and technology group extended their decline after the company moved into the bond market for the first time as a public company, seeking longer-term funding only days after a record-setting initial public

Tokyo-listed game developer Gumi has moved to deepen its exposure to XRP, positioning the token at the centre of a broader restructuring that shifts the company further beyond mobile games and into blockchain-linked financial infrastructure.The Shinjuku-based company is consolidating digital asset operations under a “Neo Crypto Business” pillar, alongside its “Neo Media Entertainment Business”, as it seeks to become one of Japan’s most prominent corporate holders of XRP. The strategy builds on a board-approved plan to acquire ¥2.5 billion worth

Dubai’s commodities market is preparing to launch a same-day physically settled gold contract, giving bullion dealers, refineries and institutional traders a regulated route to execute, clear and settle physical gold transactions within a single trading day.The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange will introduce its Gold Spot T+0 Contract on Monday, 22 June, positioning the emirate as one of the few global centres offering exchange-based same-day settlement for physical bullion. The product is being presented as the GCC’s first regulated spot

Cybersecurity investigators have exposed a cryptocurrency theft campaign that used fake GitHub popularity, AI-narrated YouTube videos, manipulated download figures and favourable platform comments to make malicious software appear safe before victims installed it.The operation centred on a Rust-based clipboard hijacker, known in cybercrime circles as a clipper, that monitors copied wallet addresses and silently replaces them with addresses controlled by the attacker. The malware was built for Windows and macOS and was hidden inside tools marketed to crypto traders and

BitGo has moved to position its BaFin-regulated European arm as a compliance bridge for crypto companies racing to avoid disruption when the EU’s MiCA transition period closes on 1 July.The digital-asset infrastructure group says its Crypto-as-a-Service platform can give eligible banks, fintechs and crypto businesses a way to keep offering wallet, custody and trading functions across Europe without building a full regulated stack before the deadline. The proposal is aimed at firms that can meet onboarding, customer due-diligence and operational

Uniswap’s UNI token surged more than 22 per cent on Wednesday as a long-range Standard Chartered forecast injected momentum into decentralised-finance names while bitcoin struggled to hold gains before the Federal Reserve’s policy decision.The move lifted UNI to about $3.60, extending a sharp weekly advance and making it one of the strongest performers among larger crypto assets. Bitcoin traded near $65,000–$66,000, little changed after a choppy rebound, while traders shifted capital toward tokens with clearer narratives around exchange revenue, tokenisation

Dubai’s DMCC has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, to expand collaboration in blockchain infrastructure, digital assets and tokenised finance, placing one of the world’s largest stablecoin operators deeper inside the emirate’s fast-growing digital trade ecosystem.The agreement, announced on 16 June, sets out a framework for Tether to work with DMCC on blockchain-based communication and payment infrastructure, advisory support for tokenisation, crypto payments and digital asset settlements. It also creates a pathway

Securitize has expanded its tokenised AAA CLO fund to Solana, adding a major blockchain venue to a product built with BNY for institutional structured-credit exposure.The Securitize Tokenized AAA CLO Fund, known as STAC, will now be available to eligible investors through Solana, with Ethena Labs planning a $250 million allocation. The commitment ranks among the largest planned deployments into tokenised structured credit on the Solana ecosystem and signals a broader shift by crypto-native finance platforms toward regulated, income-generating real-world assets.STAC

Ripple has joined Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines programme, placing its XRP Ledger and RLUSD stablecoin within a new effort to build payment rails for AI agents and other autonomous software systems that can transact without manual intervention.The move links one of the best-known blockchain payments companies with a global card network seeking to define how machine-to-machine commerce should work as artificial intelligence systems begin buying data, computing power, logistics services and digital tools on behalf of businesses. Mastercard launched

Morpho has secured $175 million from a group of heavyweight financial and crypto investors, strengthening its bid to turn decentralised lending into core infrastructure for global credit markets.The funding round was co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Apollo Funds, Circle Ventures, VanEck, Ledger Cathay, Variant, Wintermute Ventures, Prelude, IOSG, HashKey, Mirana, NJJ Capital, SBI Group and Bpifrance. The raise ranks among the largest private financings in decentralised finance and reflects a renewed institutional appetite for