Robinhood Markets is taking a minority stake in Crypto.com as part of a broader strategic partnership that will expand the brokerage’s prediction-markets business ahead of the U.S. football season and November midterm elections. The companies announced the multi-year agreement on September 8. Robinhood will receive equity stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com, the prediction-market platform
What Has Bybit Added To Its Derivatives Platform? Dubai-based crypto exchange Bybit has expanded its traditional finance derivatives offering with USDT-settled perpetual contracts tracking three of the world’s most heavily traded foreign exchange pairs.The new contracts cover EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/JPY, giving traders exposure to movements in the underlying currency pairs without requiring them to
Why Is Circle Buying Tazapay? Circle has agreed to acquire Singapore-based payments platform Tazapay, adding a cross-border network with more than $25 billion in annualized payment volume as the USDC issuer pushes deeper into global payments infrastructure.The deal is expected to close in 2027 and remains subject to customary conditions and approval from the Monetary
How Much Was Actually Affected In The Tectonic Exploit? Cronos said $9.19 million left its blockchain before validators halted the network during the Aug. 30 Tectonic exploit, providing the clearest accounting yet of the funds that could not be recovered through the chain’s rollback.The Layer-1 blockchain said manipulated collateral values enabled about $120.4 million in
Two numbers are moving in the same direction on Ethereum (ETH) right now, and they pull in opposite directions on how much of the asset can actually trade. US spot Ethereum ETFs drew $218.4 million last week, a third straight week of net inflows, while the share of all ETH locked in staking has climbed
Crypto tax non-compliance may exceed 90% in some markets, according to research highlighted by Chainalysis, as France prepares for a reporting regime that will give authorities substantially more information about cryptocurrency transactions from 2027. The figure does not represent an estimate of French non-compliance.Instead, Chainalysis cited evidence from Sweden, where the country’s tax authority previously found
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter in a deal reportedly worth at least $7 billion, making one of its largest bets yet on becoming the financial and operational infrastructure behind the artificial-intelligence economy. Stripe and OpenRouter formally announced the agreement on August 19 but did not disclose financial terms.Multiple reports nevertheless put the transaction well above
Bitcoin is moving more closely with gold than at any point in roughly nine years of comparable data, while its relationship with U.S. technology stocks has weakened sharply, providing fresh support for the cryptocurrency’s “digital gold” narrative. Bitcoin’s 90-day Pearson correlation with gold has risen to +0.56, according to data reported by Protos on September
The Philippines is proposing a 12-month freeze on new payment-system operator registrations as its central bank undertakes a broader review of the country’s rapidly expanding payments sector and tightens controls around cryptocurrency-linked transactions.Under a draft circular, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas would suspend the acceptance and processing of new applications to register as an Operator
Chainlink has broken through the $12.50 level we flagged four days ago, with LINK trading around $12.92 at approximately 5:05 p.m. UTC on September 7, up about 5.1% over the previous 24 hours, according to CoinGecko.The move completes the setup FinanceFeeds identified on September 3, when LINK had rebounded from the $10.80 support zone and