Stablecoins Are Becoming Brazil’s New Dollar Pipeline, IMF Finds

A US bank employee has admitted to falsifying a loan application and handing $50,000 to himself. The DOJ says 38 year-old Jordan Andrew Hennessy was responsible for negotiating the counteroffer to his own loan request at First Interstate Bank in Montana. “His position allowed him to be on both sides of the transaction, negotiating with…

Binance will launch USDT-settled options on gold and silver through its Abu Dhabi-regulated exchange, expanding its lineup of traditional financial products alongside cryptocurrencies. The contracts will be listed through Nest Exchange Limited, Binance’s Abu Dhabi Global Market-regulated Recognized Investment Exchange (ADGM). The options allow traders to gain exposure to movements in gold and silver prices…

Authorities are charging a South Florida man after he allegedly ran a campaign that drained hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of crypto from gamers. Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins, a 21-year-old North Lauderdale resident, is accused of conspiracy to obtain information by computer for private financial gain, reports WPLG Local 10. The FBI says Wilkins…

BNY, which has more than $59tn in assets under custody and administration, is moving one of its core record-keeping businesses onto blockchain as Wall Street builds the infrastructure for tokenized funds, the Financial Times reported Thursday. “We think of BNY as modernizing a function that sits behind every single fund transaction by bringing the books…

Crypto exchanges are increasingly becoming distribution platforms for Wall Street exposure as trading in tokenized stocks and real-world asset derivatives accelerates across crypto markets. Tokenized assets became the most-listed category across major centralized exchanges in the first half of 2026, accounting for nearly one in every five new listings, CryptoRank data shows. The category represented…

Bitcoin has climbed back from its June 30 low near $58,500, trading at near $66,000 as of press time. Options traders are still paying steep premiums for protection against another leg down, and traders on perpetual futures markets have resumed paying to hold leveraged long positions. Both readings sit in a middle zone, well short…