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South Korea's Shinhan Financial Group announced Wednesday that it has signed a strategic business agreement with Visa to collaborate on stablecoins, AI, and B2B payments for its "future finance" business.Under the agreement, the two companies will prioritize building a stablecoin-based financial inf…
Prediction market platform Kalshi has raised around $1.12 billion since April, according to its latest filing.In Kalshi's Form D filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company noted that $1.12 billion worth of equity has been sold out of the total offering amount of nearly $1…
Shinhan Asset Management, one of South Korea's largest financial institutions, announced Friday that it has signed a four-party memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation, Etherfuse, and Orca.The agreement covers a proof-of-concept for the issuance and distribution of a Korean won-denomi…
Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley envisions AI agents as future "first-class economic actors" operating like "The Jetsons" across cash, card, and crypto rails, as the crypto-native bank doubles down on agentic banking.In an interview with The Block's Kelvin Sparks at the Wyoming Blockchain Sympo…
Bitcoin (BTC) has broken through the $75,000 line, a high the cryptocurrency market has not seen in over three months.According to The Block's bitcoin price page, the world's largest cryptocurrency is up more than 8.9% over the past 24 hours, currently trading at $75,560.The main driver behind this …
Chainlink Labs Head of Institutional Strategy Andrew McCormick expects AI agents and robots to become a growing source of blockchain activity as autonomous systems increasingly need ways to transact and communicate.Speaking with The Block's Kelvin Sparks at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026, McC…
Anthony Scaramucci said $100,000 became a key selling level for some longtime bitcoin holders last year, helping add to selling pressure as the market moved beyond expectations of a "super cycle.""Frankly, a lot of OGs holding positions for 10, 15 years, they saw $100,000 per coin as a magic number …
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan said investors could be significantly underestimating future blockchain transaction activity as tokenization and artificial intelligence reshape financial markets.In a note outlining what he sees as three mistakes crypto investors are making, Hougan argue…
The Blockchain Association has filed a letter in support of the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal to scrap outdated Regulation National Market System (NMS) rules, citing potential benefits for tokenization.In a Monday letter to the SEC, the industry group urged the agency to move forward…
Total value locked (TVL) in Robinhood Chain has continued to post record numbers, now standing at over $540 million, up over 45% in August. From this, tokenized RWAs on the chain stand at $32 million, a 120% month-over-month growth.Despite the growth of both TVL and tokenized RWAs, the ratio between…
Austria's financial regulator fined Bitpanda GmbH €70,000 ($81,130) last week for violations of the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, marking the first published legally binding penalty under the new framework in the country.The Austrian Financial Market Authority said in a statement that Bi…
JPMorgan Chase ended its banking relationship with prediction market Polymarket in October 2025, telling the company to find a new banking partner, the Financial Times reported on Friday.Polymarket has since moved its accounts to a different lender, whose identity the FT could not establish. The ban…