Archive 2026

Sam Bankman-Fried is seeking to reopen his criminal case tied to the collapse of FTX. The former crypto executive has requested a new trial, arguing that newly surfaced witness testimony could weaken key aspects of the prosecution’s case. Convicted on multiple fraud-related counts, Bankman-Fried now claims jurors did not see a complete and accurate picture of certain evidence. His filing frames the issue as one of fairness in the trial process rather than a disagreement with the verdict itself.

Tokenized money market funds and digital bank deposits are moving beyond experimentation and into early financial infrastructure, executives said Wednesday at Consensus Hong Kong 2026. Speakers from Franklin Templeton, SWIFT and Ledger described an industry shifting from pilot programs to real-world deployment. Adoption remains small relative to global capital markets, but institutions are increasingly building systems designed for round-the-clock settlement and on-chain access.

Crypto: Trump wants to disrupt global transfers with an international exchange platform. All the details in this article!

Despite recent volatility and bitcoin falling below its production cost, the American investment bank maintains an optimistic outlook for crypto assets. Institutional flows are expected, according to it, to revive the market this year, provided the regulatory framework clears up. Will these expected flows be enough to reverse the trend?

Ondo Finance integrates Chainlink to bring live pricing to tokenized U.S. stocks, allowing them to serve as collateral in Ethereum DeFi.

The boundary between traditional and decentralized finance continues to erode. This time, it is BlackRock that is shifting the lines. The global asset management giant has connected its tokenized fund BUIDL, backed by US Treasury bonds, to the Uniswap infrastructure. An initiative that goes beyond simple technological experimentation, as it materializes the entry of a major institutional player onto the operational rails of DeFi.

Coinbase loses 667 million. Yet, its subscribers are booming. Its stablecoins generate revenue. So do its loans. So? It's the trading that coughs. And Washington that sleeps in.

Crypto ETFs were supposed to mark the definitive entry of institutional investors into the ecosystem. A few months later, the reality is more mixed. While the market tries to identify a bottom, a clear gap is widening between bitcoin and Ethereum. The latest figures show that ETH ETF holders find themselves in a significantly more exposed position than their counterparts invested in Bitcoin ETFs. An imbalance that raises questions about the relative strength of the two assets during this correction phase.