Mark your calendars for WIKIEXPO CYPRUS 2026, taking place on November 6, 2026 at the prestigious Parklane, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa. As one of Europe’s most influential gatherings for the foreign exchange and fintech services industry, the event is set to welcome over 5,000 professionals, 50+ distinguished speakers, and 50+ exhibitors from more than 30 countries.
The Senate's 49-50 vote on September 15 stalled the Clarity Act. Within 48 hours, the SEC issued an Innovation Exemption for tokenized stocks, and the CFTC sent a crypto markets rulemaking to the White House and broadened no-action relief for passive software providers.
ECB President Christine Lagarde asked Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis not to approve the Binance MiCA license, the WSJ reports. Greece had signaled approval to ESMA in early June before Binance withdrew on June 24. Greek officials deny interfering, and Binance declined to comment on speculation.
Canadia Impact Fund has invested in the seed round of Newwave, a Cambodian AI and software firm with most of its clients overseas. The deal is the Canadia Group venture arm's second, following Jalat Logistics in 2025.
The US Senate blocked the CLARITY Act in a 49-50 procedural vote on September 15, 2026. This explainer covers what the crypto market structure bill would do, who introduced it, how it passed the House, and why ethics, banks, and Democrats stalled it in the Senate.
Crypto startup funding hit a 12-month low in April 2026, yet a16z crypto, Haun Ventures, Dragonfly, and Framework Ventures closed billions in new funds. Polina examines why LPs kept writing checks and how stablecoins, tokenization, and AI agents became the pitch that worked.
Trezor has switched on Clear Signing across its hardware wallets, using the open ERC-7730 standard. Devices now decode raw Ethereum calldata and display the action, token, amount, and destination in plain language. Coverage includes 1inch, Aave, Lido, Tether, LiFi, and Hyperliquid.
Fundly.ai raised $4 million in an early-stage round led by existing backers Accel and Multiply, with former RBL Bank executive Rajeev Ahuja and angels joining, plus $0.9 million in venture debt. The Mumbai startup is scaling B2B commerce, payments, and embedded credit in pharma distribution.
MENA crypto volume climbed to an estimated $350 billion by 2025-2026 from about $100 billion in 2022, according to the Bitcoin Policy Institute. Turkey leads by transaction value, the UAE by institutional flows, and Saudi Arabia by growth, as conflict and regulation reshape demand.
India's invoice financing debate has centered on MSME working capital. Vinod Varma, Co-Founder and CEO of UpTik, argues the investor side deserves equal attention. Every financed invoice puts private capital behind a business that has already delivered, and awareness is now the binding constraint.
CoinDCX has listed Tether Gold (XAUT) for trading and launched a systematic investment plan on the token starting at ₹100. The listing brings the largest tokenized gold product by market cap to Indian investors, with gains falling under India's 30% virtual digital asset tax.
Bitcoin crossed $80,000 on August 24 for the first time since May 15, backed by $1.92 billion in weekly ETF inflows and over $4 billion in liquidated shorts. One trader maps a path back to $45,000, while Bernstein holds $150,000 and Citi's base case sits at $82,000.
Pi Network began deploying Protocol 27 to Testnet 1 on August 21, with September 15, 2026 as the Mainnet target. The Core Team calls it the final planned upgrade in the current sequence, adding smart-contract authentication and groundwork for RPC servers, DEX functions, and AMM pools.
Strategy returned to an unrealized gain of about $1.4 billion on its 840,447 BTC after bitcoin cleared the company's $75,385 average cost. Spot ETFs took in $606 million on Thursday, Standard Chartered flagged a possible run at $126,000, and Coinbase's CEO looked to 2030.
Crypto India Magazine released NARRATIVE Issue 2, The Institutional Era of Crypto, on August 15, 2026. Marc Liew of Jito Foundation fronts the cover story, with features on custody, market infrastructure, and DeFi, three HER Story profiles, and four contributor essays.
Workato has opened its third AI Collaboration Hub in Hyderabad, after San Francisco and Singapore. The site at Aurobindo Orbit puts customers, GSI partners, and Workato engineers in one room to co-build agentic AI against live enterprise systems. Workato India employs more than 200 people.
MetaMask opened Agent Wallet to all users on August 6, 2026, giving AI agents a scoped wallet across 22 EVM chains and Hyperliquid. Francesco Andreoli, Head of Developer Relations at Consensys, walks through the policy engine, the $10,000 Transaction Protection, and where users get it wrong.
Boltz has disabled its Bitcoin, Lightning, and Liquid swaps indefinitely after months of automated, AI-assisted probing of its infrastructure. The non-custodial bridge says no user funds were at risk, though attackers now iterate faster than its team can patch.
WebX 2026 Tokyo concluded its fourth edition with 13,641 participants from more than 90 countries and over 70 side events. Discussions across three stages covered yen stablecoins, megabank tokenization and rising institutional confidence. WebX returns on 25 to 26 August 2027 at Tokyo Big Sight.
Crypto SIPs across major Indian exchanges grew more than 60% year-on-year in 2025, and monthly participation has held through a steep 2026 drawdown. Prateek Gupta, Head of Business at Mudrex, argues that India's retail investors are now treating crypto as a portfolio allocation rather than a trade.
Deal Day, the Bitcoin for Corporations Symposium and Enterprise focus experience give companies, investors, and operators a dedicated business environment at Asia's largest Bitcoin conference — August 27–28 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX will shut down on September 23, 2026, following a strategic review by parent company HDR Global Trading. Users have been asked to close open positions and withdraw their assets ahead of the closure as the platform begins an orderly wind down.
Nine leading financial and crypto firms, including BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy, have launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium with a combined $15 million commitment over three years. The initiative will fund Bitcoin security research and open source development while preparing for future quantum computing risks.
Alpaca has raised $135 million led by Peak XV, with participation from Elefund, Opera Tech Ventures, and Unbound. Total new financing hits $435 million with debt from Kraken parent Payward and BMO, as the broker scales infrastructure for tokenized markets and AI-native finance.
