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, […]
Freight Tech Bets $20M on TRUMP

Freight Technologies Inc. (Fr8Tech), a Nasdaq‑listed logistics firm that shepherds freight across the United States–Mexico border, just took an unlikely detour into crypto politics. In an April‑30 filing the company said it will raise up to $20 million in fresh equity and convert the proceeds into TRUMP, the Solana‑based meme coin endorsed by President Donald Trump. […]
2025’s Wave of Dead Tokens Shocks Crypto

When the market woke up to CoinGecko’s latest industry snapshot, even veterans took a breath. The research platform counted 1.8 million tokens that flat-lined in the first three months of 2025—an eye-watering figure equal to 49.7% of every project failure recorded since 2021. In other words, half the graveyard appeared in just one quarter. CoinGecko’s […]
Circle Wins Abu Dhabi’s Green Light for USDC Expansion

Circle’s push to transform USDC into a truly global digital dollar just cleared one of its most important regulatory hurdles yet. On April 29 the company announced an In-Principle Approval from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority inside Abu Dhabi Global Market, putting it on track to become a fully licensed money-services provider in the United […]
Trump Media Plots Truth Social Utility Token

Donald Trump’s media empire is courting crypto once again, this time with a native utility token designed to power payments inside Truth Social. In letters sent to shareholders late last week, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) outlined a plan to roll out a “Truth digital wallet” that will house the new token and let […]
GeeFi Wallet Adds Multi-Chain Swaps, Bridges

GeeFi’s engineers have spent the past year on a singular mission: erase the friction that still forces everyday users to juggle multiple wallets, centralized exchanges and nerve-racking copy-pastes of long addresses. This week the Singapore-based team flipped the switch on its most ambitious upgrade yet, baking direct swaps and one-click bridging into the GeeFi Wallet. […]
Lummis Blasts Fed’s “Crypto Pivot” as Empty Gesture

The champagne corks were barely out of the bottle before Senator Cynthia Lummis poured cold water on the party. On Apr. 24 the U.S. Federal Reserve quietly scrapped its 2022 supervisory letter—the memo that had warned banks off stablecoins and most crypto dealings. Within hours, Bitcoin evangelists cheered the “green light” for traditional finance. Strategy’s […]
Hashdex Debuts First XRP Spot ETF in Brazil

Brazil’s B3 exchange added a new ticker to its boards this week, and it could redefine how institutions gain exposure to Ripple’s native asset. XRPH11, the world’s first XRP spot exchange-traded fund, opened for trading on April 25 under the stewardship of Hashdex, with Genial Investimentos acting as administrator and Genial Bank SA as custodian. […]