2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1014+ words) Blockchain users currently navigate between dozens of separate networks to access different applications. Each chain requires its own wallet, native gas token, and bridging steps that fragment the user experience. Chain abstraction protocols aim to eliminate this complexity by hiding…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (700+ words) CME Group is extending the management transition scheduled for March 2027, naming Jack Tobin as its next Chief Financial Officer while promoting John Marchese to General Counsel and Matthew Render to Chief Accounting Officer. Tobin will first become Deputy Chief Financial…...

3+ day, 35+ min ago   (624+ words) Sage Capital Management has integrated OpenPayd to add US dollar, euro and sterling payment capabilities for institutional digital-asset clients. The live connection includes USD transfers through SWIFT, euro payments through SEPA and sterling through Faster Payments and SWIFT. OpenPayd will…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (807+ words) M0, MoonPay and PayPal have launched PYUSDx, an infrastructure platform that allows businesses to issue customised stablecoins backed by PayPal USD. Saturn, Concrete and Cap are live at launch, with the companies reporting more than $100 million in processed volume across the…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (638+ words) The separation is expected to be completed by the end of 2026. The existing company will be rebranded as MetaMask and led by Joe Lubin as chairman and CEO, while a newly formed company will retain the Consensys name under CEO…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (763+ words) StoneX Group is retiring the City Index brand in the UK and replacing it with StoneX Trading, ending a 43-year run for one of the country’s longest-established leveraged trading names. The change was announced on September 9, with City Index scheduled…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (648+ words) Samsung Electronics has led a €3 billion funding round into French AI company Mistral, but the more consequential part of the deal for markets is where the capital is going: compute infrastructure and data centres that Mistral increasingly wants to own…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (655+ words) Hyperliquid’s total open interest has climbed back to levels last seen immediately before the sharp October 2025 deleveraging event, with the recovery increasingly driven by its core crypto perpetual futures markets rather than HIP-3. Total open interest reached $14.3 billion on Sunday,…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (527+ words) A consortium of eight Swiss financial institutions and project company Swiss Stablecoin AG, including UBS, SIX, and mobile-payments provider TWINT, has moved a Swiss franc stablecoin called CHFD into coordinated sandbox testing as of 8 September 2026. The token, pegged 1:1 to the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (820+ words) 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…...