Day: May 3, 2025

Ripple Eyes $20B Circle Takeover

Ripple’s M&A appetite is ballooning almost as fast as the stablecoin market it hopes to dominate. Bloomberg sources say the San Francisco‑based payments company has quietly upped its offer for Circle Internet Financial—issuer of USDC—from an initial $5 billion to north of $20 billion. If consummated, the deal would hand Ripple the keys to the industry’s second‑largest stablecoin […]

Goldman Eyes Crypto Lending, Tokenization Push

Goldman Sachs is quietly writing its next Wall Street playbook—and blockchains sit at the centre of the page. Speaking at TOKEN2049 Singapore, Mathew McDermott, the bank’s global head of digital assets, confirmed that Goldman plans to launch crypto‑lending facilities and double down on tokenization over the next 18 months. McDermott, who steered Goldman’s first Bitcoin‑backed loan in 2022, […]

Google Wallet Rolls Out Zero‑Knowledge Age Checks

Google just too a decisive step toward mainstreaming privacy‑preserving cryptography. In a Wednesday update, the tech giant revealed that Google Wallet now supports zero‑knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for age verification, letting users confirm they’re over 18 without disclosing their name, birth date or any other identifying detail. The feature debuts in the United Kingdom and across an […]