Gate marked a regulatory and market milestone this week, as its US operation, Gate US, celebrated its one-year anniversary. Since launching on August 1, 2025, Gate US has expanded its state-level Money Transmitter Licenses from 23 to 36, now working compliantly throughout 47 US jurisdictions. Over the previous yr, the platform rolled out a buying…
Stablecoins have lengthy occupied an ungainly center floor — too speculative for mainstream finance, too gradual to scale for the funds trade. That rigidity is now breaking open. With the GENIUS Act reshaping the U.S. regulatory panorama, main banks transferring towards tokenized deposit networks, and stablecoin transaction quantity hitting file highs at the same time…
BitMEX co-founder and head of crypto funding agency Maelstrom, Arthur Hayes printed a brand new essay, Situationship, arguing that the AI funding growth resembles an actual property buildout reasonably than a standard know-how cycle. He mentioned extreme funding in knowledge facilities and associated infrastructure might make an eventual AI bubble burst extra just like the…
Anthropic has signed a $10 billion, six-year contract with Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud infrastructure startup backed by Nvidia that was based solely months in the past, to safe computing capability for its synthetic intelligence merchandise, in line with individuals aware of the matter. The settlement marks one of many largest infrastructure commitments by an…
Cryptocurrency alternate Coinbase introduced plans emigrate institutional purchasers from its International Exchange to Deribit on September 9, 2026, consolidating its world derivatives enterprise onto a single platform following its acquisition of the crypto choices alternate. The transition is predicted to take roughly half-hour, throughout which all open orders shall be canceled, positions settled at mark…
Users of the Bitcoin self-custody pockets Coldcard have suffered massive losses after hacker teams exploited a software program vulnerability in current days. Industry estimates point out that roughly 1,400 to 1,816 bitcoin, valued at roughly $90 million to $116 million, have been drained from greater than 5,200 affected wallets. The incident marks a notable setback…
Financial expertise firm Mastercard introduced that it has accomplished its acquisition of BVNK, an enterprise-grade stablecoin fee infrastructure supplier, in a deal valued at as much as $1.8 billion. The transaction, initially agreed upon in March, contains $300 million in contingent funds and represents a serious development within the fee community’s efforts to combine conventional…
HashKey Exchange, the licensed buying and selling platform operated by Hong Kong-listed HashKey Holdings Limited, has obtained approval from JPMorgan to open a consumer funds account. The firm described HashKey Exchange as the primary licensed digital asset change in Asia to safe one of these association with the main international financial institution, although this characterization…
Every few years, the crypto trade rediscovers the identical uncomfortable reality: figuring out the place the cash was shouldn’t be the identical as figuring out the place it’s. Quarterly attestations, the inherited ritual of conventional finance, have been designed for markets that shut on the finish of the day. They have been by no means…
Financial expertise agency and operator of the USDC stablecoin, Circle secured a limited-purpose belief constitution from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), considerably increasing its regulatory footprint throughout each state and federal jurisdictions. The NYDFS granted the constitution to Circle Internet Trust Company LLC, which is able to function as Circle New York…