Fasset Funding Round Values UAE Firm at $1 Billion
A new Fasset funding round has pushed the UAE-based stablecoin neobank to a $1 billion valuation, the company said Monday, August 24, 2026. SBI Group ...
Articles by Darlene Lleno
OSL StableHub Hits $200 Million in USDC Deposits
OSL Group’s stablecoin platform StableHub has crossed $200 million in USDC deposits within roughly four months of its launch, the Hong Kong-listed firm said on ...
by Darlene Lleno
Strive Bitcoin Buy Pushes Holdings Past 21,000 BTC
Strive Bitcoin holdings crossed 21,356 BTC on August 24, 2026, after the Nasdaq-listed asset manager disclosed an $81.5 million purchase of 1,110 bitcoin in a ...
by Darlene Lleno
Term Labs Loses $8.5 Million in DeFi Governance Exploit
Term Labs lost roughly $8.5 million on Sunday after an attacker exploited a governance vulnerability in its Term vaults, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield, ...
by Darlene Lleno
Crypto Sanctions Take Effect Against 14 EU-Banned Platforms
Crypto sanctions from the European Union took effect on August 23, cutting off EU businesses from 14 crypto platforms based in Georgia, Panama, the United ...
by Darlene Lleno
Tokenized Stocks: Backpack Adds Moderna on Solana
Backpack Securities listed a tokenized Moderna stock on Solana a day after Moderna and Merck said their mRNA cancer vaccine trial met its main goals.
by Darlene Lleno
7 Cheapest Ways to Send Crypto Internationally in 2026
A $50 transfer of USDT can cost less than a cent on one network and more than five dollars on another, and the amount sent ...
by Darlene Lleno
USDG Stablecoin Support Added to Bitpace Platform
USDG stablecoin support went live on Bitpace on August 20, 2026, giving the crypto payment gateway’s merchant clients a regulated dollar-backed option for settling international ...
by Darlene Lleno
Protocol Camp Cohort 9 Closes, ShardLab-Indonesia Deal Grows
ShardLab, the blockchain innovation arm of Hashed, said on August 20, 2026 that it will close Protocol Camp Cohort 9 with a Final Demo at ...
by Darlene Lleno
VASP Registration Rules Tighten in South Korea
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission began enforcing stricter VASP (Virtual Asset Service Provider) registration standards on August 20, 2026, adding major-shareholder review, a 200 percent ...
by Darlene Lleno
5 Best Web3 Email Platforms in 2026
Web3 email uses your crypto wallet or ENS name as your login and address, which cuts down on spam. Five platforms are worth trying in 2026.
by Darlene Lleno
USDU Stablecoin Goes Live in Bitcoin.com’s Wallet
USDU stablecoin is now live inside Bitcoin.com's self-custodial wallet, letting users hold, send and receive the UAE-regulated dollar token without giving up control of their keys. Issued by Universal and backed 1:1 by audited USD reserves, USDU is the first Foreign Payment Token registered with the Central Bank of the UAE.
by Darlene Lleno
Injective SEC Registration Makes It a Transfer Agent
Injective SEC transfer agent registration is now effective for Injective Institutional Services, an affiliate of the Injective blockchain. The status lets the entity maintain official ownership records for securities, a regulated function most tokenization platforms still handle through separate offchain databases.
by Darlene Lleno
Tokenized Deposits Go Live Between HSBC, Standard Chartered
Tokenized deposits moved between two banks live for the first time on August 19, 2026, when HSBC and Standard Chartered completed a cross-border transaction on Swift's blockchain-based ledger. Swift's ledger matched and netted the obligations before settlement ran through each bank's existing systems.
by Darlene Lleno
7 Best Crypto Cloud Mining Platforms in 2026
Crypto cloud mining platform picks for 2026 favor Nasdaq-listed miners with verifiable hashrate over anonymous high-yield sites. Seven platforms passed a direct verification check after three former favorites were dropped for scams or shutdowns.
