The UK Treasury chose HSBC Holdings’ blockchain-based system to develop and implement a pilot program for issuing digital government bonds labeled “DIGIT.” HSBC Holdings will utilize its own Orion system to control the issuance, management, and settlement of these securities. This program will take place inside the “digital sandbox” environment
February 12, 2026 2 mins read
A U.S. federal court ordered Paxful Holdings Inc. to pay a $4 million criminal fine for its past unlawful operations involving a cryptocurrency exchange platform. The U.S. Justice Department stated that Paxful, a peer-to-peer exchange for Bitcoin, allowed users to conduct illicit transactions for prostitution, fraud schemes, and money laundering.
February 12, 2026 3 mins read
Grayscale Investments released a research report highlighting Bitcoin’s recent correlation with technology stocks rather than precious metals. The firm said Bitcoin’s short-term price behavior resembles that of high-growth tech equities. Bitcoin’s decline below $60,000 on February 5 aligned with broader tech sector sell-offs. The research noted that Bitcoin’s peak above
February 11, 2026 2 mins read
Goldman Sachs had $2.36 billion of cryptocurrency ETFs in its Q4 2025 13F regulatory filing. The disclosure revealed that $1.1 billion was allocated to Bitcoin exchange-traded funds. At the end of the quarter, the bank held $1.0 billion of Ethereum ETF positions. For the first time, Goldman Sachs reported $153
February 11, 2026 2 mins read
Sam Bankman-Fried has filed a motion seeking a retrial in his ongoing fraud and bankruptcy case against him in a New York federal court. Bankman-Fried filed the motion on February 5, 2026, wherein it was claimed that the bankruptcy was filed improperly due to other lawyers’ intervention. In the motion
February 11, 2026 3 mins read
AAP MP Raghav Chadha addressed the Rajya Sabha, urging the Indian government to legalise Virtual Digital Assets as a formal asset class. He noted that the government has already started taxing digital assets but has failed to accord them the requisite legal classification. Chadha noted that the tax structure requires
February 10, 2026 2 mins read
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has reacted to Solana’s artificial general intelligence acceleration initiative. He did this through the establishment of his self-sovereign artificial intelligence framework. Speaking on the future of artificial intelligence, Buterin stressed the importance of direction and purpose rather than speed alone. The remarks came in response to
February 10, 2026 3 mins read
Ripple has continued to improve its institutional offering by enhancing its custody offering with strategic partnerships. Ripple transformed its custody offering with the integration of strategic partners. The company also integrated hardware security modules with its custody offering, with a view to providing digital asset protection. Ripple also partnered with
February 10, 2026 2 mins read
TON Foundation has rolled out TON Pay, a new payments SDK designed to incorporate crypto payments into the Telegram ecosystem. TON Pay’s aim is to turn Telegram into a crypto payment system for Toncoin and other cryptocurrencies. TON Pay is a wallet-agnostic payment system for merchants and Mini App developers.
February 9, 2026 2 mins read
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued that even well-designed ETH-collateralized algorithmic stablecoins still constitute genuine decentralized finance. He clarified that such algorithmic mechanisms can transfer U.S. dollar counterparty risk from users to market makers. Buterin blasted the notion that USDC deposit yield strategies are representative of true DeFi principles. He suggested
February 9, 2026 2 mins read