TL;DR WisdomTree is integrating MoonPay into its tokenized-fund platform. MoonPay says its ecosystem reaches more than 30 million registered accounts. The partnership includes access to WisdomTree’s WTGXX tokenized money market fund. WisdomTree is making it easier for retail users to reach its tokenized investment products by plugging MoonPay’s payment infrastructure directly into WisdomTree Prime. The…
TL;DR S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin. OpenZeppelin is one of the best-known smart contract security and auditing firms in crypto. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal has not yet closed. One of traditional finance’s biggest risk-data companies is buying one of crypto’s best-known security firms. S&P Global has entered into a…
TL;DR Singapore payments company dtcpay has completed a $25 million Series A. Vertex Ventures led the original round, with SBI Group joining as a strategic investor. The capital will support expansion of stablecoin and merchant payment infrastructure. Singapore-based digital payments company dtcpay has completed a $25 million Series A, bringing Japan’s SBI Group onto its…
TL;DR Binance is moving into round-the-clock FX perpetual futures. The first announced contract is USD/BRL against USDT. Trading is scheduled to begin September 21 with leverage of up to 100x. Binance is taking the crypto perpetual model into another traditionally closed market: foreign exchange. Binance Futures has announced a new line of 24/7 FX perpetual…
TL;DR Coinbase Financial Markets has submitted a CFTC product filing for single-stock perpetual futures. Initial contracts cover Apple, Tesla and Nvidia. Trading is not live yet; the products remain in the regulatory process. Coinbase is taking another run at bringing a product long associated with offshore crypto exchanges into the regulated U.S. market. Coinbase Financial…
TL;DR Bastion has received conditional OCC approval to form a national trust bank. The charter is non-depository and geared toward custody and digital asset services. The company still has pre-opening conditions to satisfy before it can fully operate. Bastion is moving closer to operating under a federal banking charter after receiving conditional approval from the…
TL;DR VanEck has taken a closer look at dilution inside Metaplanet’s Bitcoin treasury strategy. Its analysis points to executive option capacity equal to 22.4% of shares. The issue is not Metaplanet selling Bitcoin, but how much shareholder dilution could accompany the strategy. Metaplanet has become one of the most closely watched corporate Bitcoin buyers outside…
TL;DR Parts of the EU Cyber Resilience Act’s vulnerability-reporting regime are now applicable. Manufacturers must issue early warnings for actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours. Commercial crypto wallets can fall within the broader category of products with digital elements. One of the more practical pieces of Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act is starting to matter for…
TL;DR Coinbase is partnering with Stablecore to bring crypto services into existing bank technology. Stablecore’s infrastructure reaches more than 3,000 U.S. banks and credit unions. The integration covers custody, trading and stablecoin payments. Coinbase is trying to make crypto considerably easier for smaller U.S. banks to offer without asking them to rebuild their technology stack.…
TL;DR U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Iranian digital asset exchange BitBank. OFAC says the platform was part of a network tied to sanctioned financier Babak Zanjani. Treasury alleges the infrastructure helped move hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin connected to the IRGC. The U.S. Treasury has targeted another part of Iran’s crypto infrastructure, this time…