40+ min ago  (298+ words) The judge further ordered the forfeiture of the recovered assets to the Federal Government of Nigeria. A Nigerian court has sentenced a Lagos resident to nine years in prison for laundering proceeds linked to fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions in one of…...

18+ hour, 10+ min ago  (505+ words) Nigerian Canadian fintech startup, Chimoney, has shut down after failing to raise enough capital to sustain its cross-border payments business, marking another casualty in Africa's tightening venture funding environment. Chimoney, founded in 2022 by Uchi Uchibeke, said in a May 2026 email…...

20+ hour, 18+ min ago  (282+ words) Morgan Stanley saw 0 outflows in the first month of trading on its Bitcoin ETF providing an early test case for why brand, pricing, and distribution offers a competitive edge. Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, trading under the ticker, MSBT,…...

21+ hour, 20+ min ago  (182+ words) Kraken parent company, Payward Inc. , has agreed to acquire Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies for $600 million in cash and stock as the crypto exchange operator expands deeper into Asia's stablecoin payments market, according to a report by Bloomberg. Reap provides stablecoin-focused…...

22+ hour, 38+ min ago  (240+ words) Schwab's crypto offering initially supports bitcoin and ether trading and charges a 0. 75% transaction fee. Brokerage giant, Charles Schwab, has launched direct cryptocurrency trading for an initial group of retail clients allowing them to buy and sell bitcoin and ether through…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (510+ words) The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is seeking the identities of cryptocurrency traders as it steps up efforts to pursue tax cheats and widen its revenue base amid growing digital asset adoption in the country. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (164+ words) Circle Internet Group has raised $222 million in a presale of the ARC token tied to its new Arc blockchain network valuing the project at roughly $3 billion, according to reports. The raise drew backing from investors including as Circle pushes beyond…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (301+ words) The move comes as Tether expands aggressively into AI and self-custody infrastructure alongside its core stablecoin business. Tether has said it had launched a developer grants program aimed at funding builders working on local-first artificial intelligence and payments infrastructure on…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (331+ words) Senior executives from Pay Pal and Google said at the Consensus Miami 2026 conference that the next phase of "agentic commerce" " where AI agents autonomously complete purchases and transactions on behalf of users " is likely to run on cryptocurrency payment rails…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (261+ words) The move comes as the market for tokenized real-world assets has grown sharply over the past year driven by increasing interest from traditional financial firms. Black Rock is expanding its push into on-chain finance with new tokenized fund offerings deepening…...