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Senate Sets Dueling January Markups for High-Stakes Crypto Market Regulation

Crypto January 10, 2026

This January is crunch time for the Senate on cryptocurrency market regulation efforts.After years of fits and starts on Capitol Hill, including key wins like the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act, two S�...

Walmart’s Retail Media Scores Wins While Amazon’s AI Goes Ambient

Crypto January 9, 2026

The holiday shopping spree has come to a close. And while returns are no doubt occupying a fair amount of time at the worlds two biggest retailers, a relatively quiet (but consumer retail-focused) we�...

World Liberty Financial Subsidiary Applies for Bank Charter for Stablecoin Operations

Crypto January 9, 2026

A subsidiary of World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance company co-founded by members of the Trump family, has submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OC�...

The Crypto CFO Playbook for Navigating Blockchain’s 3 Layers

Crypto January 8, 2026

Most organizations have a blockchain blind spot. And its in the word itself.For years, blockchain, and crypto, have been treated as a singular proposition. Companies were assumed to be either in or o�...

Fireblocks Pays $130 Million for Crypto Accounting Platform TRES Finance

Crypto January 8, 2026

Blockchain infrastructure company Fireblocks has acquired TRES Finance, a crypto accounting and financial reporting platform.The purchase, announced on the Fireblocks blog Wednesday (Jan. 7), is desi�...

The Crypto CFO Playbook for Blockchain Treasury Management

Crypto January 8, 2026

Two words typically define and rule the enterprise treasury management space: discipline and predictability.Cash flows are forecasted, liabilities are denominated in stable currencies, and transparen�...

Stripe Integrates Crypto.com to Facilitate Crypto Payments

Crypto January 7, 2026

Stripe and Crypto.com partnered to make cryptocurrency payments easier for merchants and their customers.An integration of Crypto.com with Stripe will enable businesses to more easily accept crypto p�...

Morgan Stanley Joins Wall Street Peers in Embracing Crypto

Crypto January 7, 2026

Morgan Stanley is reportedly entering the cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund (ETF) space.The Wall Street bank has submitted paperwork for a Bitcoin Trust and a Solana Trust, each of which would hold�...

Banking Startup Kontigo Promises Refunds After Stablecoin Hack

Crypto January 7, 2026

Banking startup Kontigo says it will reimburse more than 1,000 customers following a hack.That hack affected $340,905 worth of these customers stablecoins, the company said in an X post flagged by...

Tokenized Deposits Steal Stablecoin Buzz — and the Business Model

Crypto January 7, 2026

In 2026, tokenized bank deposits overtake stablecoins as the preferred on-chain dollar for institutional and wholesale money not because stablecoins disappear, but because banks turn deposits into pr�...