Robinhood Chain slowdown spreads from fees to trading as transactions fall more than 40%
Daily activity has dropped from 10.8 million transactions to 6.2 million since midSeptember even as Robinhood keeps paying network fees on customer swaps.…
SEC Proposes Expanding Securities Eligible for Cross Trading by Registered Funds
The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed amendments to the Investment Company Act “crosstrading rule,” which permits transactions in securities…
UK slaps sanctions on three crypto exchanges over alleged Russia links
Britain said the crypto platforms and two payment services may have helped Russia evade financial sanctions, with two handling transactions involving the…
Dark web drug market operator sentenced to 40 years, forfeits $101 million in bitcoin
A man from Virginia, who facilitated millions of drug transactions worth roughly $430 million, agreed to give up $100 million worth of BTC. His partner…
Crypto Long & Short: Zcash and the case for privacy in the age of AI
AI has made it cheap to link wallet addresses to the people behind them, and the permanence of the blockchain means records don’t age out. Michael Zhao of…
Better Markets says CFTC is ‘wrong agency’ to regulate retail crypto
Better Markets said the CFTC’s proposed framework to bring certain cryptocurrency transactions and exchanges under its oversight will leave investors less…
China P2P stablecoin wallets grew 43x despite crypto restrictions: Chainalysis
Unique wallets sending P2P stablecoin transactions in China grew 43fold between Q1 2024 and Q2 2026 as crypto activity increasingly shifted toward direct…
Kraken parent adds 24/7 dollar settlement with Singapore Gulf Bank
The partnership will enable select institutions in Asia and the Gulf region to instantly settle US dollar transactions through the bank’s SGB Net…
Altcoin exchange deposit count jumps 160% in 2 weeks
CryptoQuant flagged potential selling pressure as deposit transactions and depositing addresses hit their highest counts since October 2025.…
NEAR Intents says it blocked $50M tied to Bitget hackers
The crosschain protocol said it actively prevents stolen funds from being laundered, drawing a contrast with THORChain’s position that it does not selectively…
XRP Ledger’s Batch upgrade slips to Oct. 9 after validator support resets
The feature would let users bundle up to eight transactions, including assetandpayment transfers, but a brief drop below the network’s 80% support threshold…
UK’s largest banks complete world’s first interbank transactions using tokenized deposits
Barclays, NatWest, and HSBC and others used tokenized deposits for remortgages and a marketplacepayment test, taking bankissued digital cash beyond a single…