A key figure in the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTXis nearly set to leave prison.Caroline Ellison, a key prosecution witness during the fraud trial of FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, is scheduled â...
JPMorgan Chase reportedly froze accounts used by stablecoin startups BlindPay and Kontigo because they did business in Venezuela and other places subject to sanctions or other restrictions.Both compa...
The story of digital transformation across the Connected Economy is becoming inextricably tied to expectations around uptime.Whether the system in question is a cloud platform, a payments network or â...
Snow falls soft on legacy rails,Paper checks stuck in the mail.We gather round the dashboard glow,Watching how payments flow.AI agents take the stand,Walking in a payments wonderland. Gone are bots â...
The number and value of acquisitions and initial public offerings (IPOs) in the cryptocurrency sector surged in 2025, driven by the Trump administrations favorable stance toward the industry.The numbâ...
If 2025 felt like the year the future stopped arriving and started showing up in production, you are not imagining it. In payments and commerce, the most important shifts rarely announce themselves wâ...
For cryptocurrency markets, 2025 was a year that went full circle.Digital assets are ending the year with nearly all of their gains over the past 12 months having been erased by market volatility. Hâ...
An investment scam allegedly took $14 million from retail investors by connecting with them on social media and convincing them to fund accounts on fake crypto asset trading platforms.The Securities â...
These novel platforms, which let participants trade contracts tied to the outcomes of real-world events, entered a decisive phase of commercial and regulatory expansion over the past year. Formerly fâ...
Ex-FTX executive Brett Harrison raised $35 million for his perpetual futures exchange startup, The Information reported Tuesday (Dec. 23).The new funding round values Architect Financial Technologiesâ...