Mark Zuckerberg is pushing Meta straight back into the AI fight with Mango, a new image and video model that sits beside Meta’s next text model, Avocado, all built to take on Google’s new Gemini tools and OpenAI’s image systems. Meta wants both models in the first half of 2026, according to Alexandr Wang, the […]

NASA’s new boss Jared Isaacman walked into the job on Thursday and wasted no time shaking both SpaceX and Blue Origin, saying the agency will choose the company that builds a working moon lander first. He said the faster team will take Americans back to the lunar surface for the first time in more than […]

The momentum building up for Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is expected to reach one of the most critical points in the initial stages of its fast-tracked growth trajectory, leading to predictions that it might very well be the next big crypto in this cycle. Now that the funding has reached close to $20 million and MUTM […]

The Polymarket platform recently experienced some downtime in response to the issues Polygon, the blockchain it operates on, was facing around the same time.  While no official statements have been made, a Discord post by a member addressing the downtime has claimed that the platform will now focus on creating its own L2 to prevent […]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Danh C. Vo, founder and chief executive officer of defunct Bitcoin mining company VBit Technologies, with misappropriating $48.5 million from investors and using portions of the funds for gambling and family gifts. The complaint was filed on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, in the US District Court […]

Small cap tokens wiped out over 83% of their value in 2025. Only top assets survived at breakeven, as investors lost confidence in tokens.

PayPal has announced plans to utilize PYUSD, a stablecoin, to support USD.AI’s artificial intelligence-driven credit and finance developments.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has dismantled a money laundering platform that provided cashout services to cybercriminals using cryptocurrency. The illegal exchange, operated by a Russian national, is believed to have processed the staggering $70 million in illicit proceeds, American judicial authorities revealed. USA disrupts Russian-led virtual money laundromat The United States Attorney’s […]

Twenty-four AI-centered companies have joined the US federal government’s new Genesis Mission under Donald Trump, according to the White House. The list includes OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, Google, and nineteen more companies that either signed memorandums of understanding, already work with the Energy Department or national labs, or told the White House they […]

The market pullbacks that have occurred within the past have managed to offer some of the most attractive risk-reward entries for investors within the financial market and the crypto market at that. However, with the retreat of prices on all the major assets within the market and the re-entry of investors into the buy-the-dip culture, […]

The UK Treasury is cutting back its rules for financial benchmark providers in a move aimed at making the country look more attractive to US investors, according to the Financial Times. The government is rolling out a lighter system that lets asset managers buy a wide range of benchmark products without waiting for providers to […]

SoFi Bank has unveiled SoFiUSD, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, to power financial transactions for banking institutions and fintech businesses.

Before they even had their morning coffee, Wall Street economists were saying they don’t trust November’s consumer inflation report that was released earlier today. That is reportedly because it was built on shaky ground, as the government shutdown blocked real data collection for six straight weeks, forcing the Bureau of Labor Statistics to guess its […]

The latest inflation report released on Thursday in the United States (US) sparked a wave of volatility in the crypto markets.

Chainlink has partnered with 24 financial institutions to launch an infrastructure that seeks to improve corporate actions processing.

Jarett Dunn, former Pump.fun developer has been sentenced to six years in prison by a London judge. He was sentenced more than a year ago after seizing about $2 million worth of Solana (SOL) from Pump.fun He had previously pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position and transfer of criminal property. The former Pump.fun […]

UAE-regulated, AI and Blockchain-powered digital bank Zand becomes the first Bank in the Middle East to achieve ISO certification for Information Security Management Systems (ISO 27001) and for Privacy Information Management Systems (ISO 27701). In terms of significance, Zand Bank is now the first bank in the MENA region to meet these internationally recognized standards […]

New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is going to invest an undisclosed amount of money in crypto’s MoonPay, according to claims made by Bloomberg.  MoonPay is close to wrapping up the fundraising and is pushing for a $5 billion valuation. One person familiar with the round allegedly said the talks are private, which […]

The newly appointed CEO of ALT5 Sigma Corporation, a fintech company operating institutional-grade global payments, trading, and settlement infrastructure, Tony Isaac, has addressed investor worries regarding the valuation disconnect of its crypto reserve and its business’s market cap.  The letter issued to stockholders by the recently appointed CEO, Tony Isaac, began with Isaac highlighting his return […]

While Bitcoin (BTC) continues its evolution as a macro asset that has slower and more measured upside, whales in the crypto market are scanning for early-stage projects that promise asymmetric upside. While this change in capital dynamics is casting a light on new projects that offer asymmetric upside and low entry price points with a […]

The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Trading and Markets has released comprehensive guidance addressing how existing federal securities laws apply to cryptocurrency activities.  The newly published document addresses questions regarding broker-dealer financial responsibility, transfer agents, and the trading of security and non-security crypto asset pairs by National Securities Exchanges and […]

The year 2025 is almost over and the crypto market has definitely left the people with a far more realistic feeling than the “get-rich-quick” myth that many of them had imagined. This feeling is mainly confusion, the market is changing very fast and it is quite difficult to make the right decisions. Market fluctuations have […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) held its deposit rate at 2% today after eight cuts from the 4% peak, with officials saying the cycle is now “most likely” finished, according to its latest end-of-year outlook. Board officials said the rate can stay at this level unless the economy faces another major shock, and they also […]

Nobody can show up earlier than the headlines. The activity increases, allocations become tighter and bigger players start moving urgently. Once such an event occurs it usually points to the changing of a project that had been in silent development into a more overt phase of development. That attention is currently based around an Ethereum-based […]

The crypto industry celebrated big victories this year after backing Donald Trump’s return to the White House, but trouble ahead could dampen the party atmosphere. Crypto executives popped champagne and danced to Snoop Dogg at a Washington party before Trump took office in January. Since then, the industry has seen friendly regulators drop lawsuits and […]

Near Protocol (NEAR) is trading at $1.58 at the time of writing on Thursday amid widespread relief rebounds across the cryptocurrency market. NEAR’s intraday gains can be attributed to a key network upgrade that has paved the way for cross-chain interoperability for direct asset swaps.

Circle achieved 66% year-on-year revenue growth in 2025, becoming the fastest-expanding fintech company. USDC usage increased in the past year, on a mix of crypto-native payments and fintech usage.