The report notes that UPI has fully entered the mainstream. In FY25, the network accounted for 83% of India’s digital payment volumes and processed a staggering 185.8 billion transactions. This represents a 41.7% increase year-on-year.
If accepted by member states, this would mark the first formal effort by the bloc to explore interoperable digital currency systems for cross-border trade and tourism payments, according to a Reuters report.
Ethereum is heading into 2026 at a rare intersection of deep protocol change and market tension. As zero knowledge proofs and cross chain interoperability move closer to production, traders face short term volatility from a multi billion dollar options expiry.
Arthur Hayes argues that quiet liquidity expansion by the Federal Reserve and Japan’s central bank could push Bitcoin beyond $124,000 and toward $200,000 in 2026, while fueling selective altcoin rotation.
The proposed consent judgments, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, pertain to former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, former FTX Chief Technology Officer Gary Wang, and former FTX Head of Engineering Nishad Singh.
Kwon, 34, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud. US District Judge Paul Engelmayer delivered the sentence at a New York hearing, calling the case “a fraud of epic generational scale.”
The government said Maharashtra accounted for ₹293 crore of the FY25 TDS total, followed by Karnataka with ₹133 crore, underscoring the concentration of trading activity in India’s major technology and financial centres.
CoinSwitch said the handbook will be distributed across police stations and cybersecurity units to offer practical clarity on asset tracing, crime typologies, and compliance frameworks.
One of the most notable trends is the broadening scope of investor portfolios. The average Indian investor now holds five tokens instead of the two or three common in 2022, reflecting a shift toward research-driven diversification.
Crafted over four years with contributions from 128 artists across 37 countries, the First Edition traces Bitcoin’s arc from cypherpunk roots to a worldwide technological movement.
“This is a historic milestone with Aramco,” Pasqal CEO Loïc Henriet said. “The deployment of our most powerful quantum computer yet is a piece of history and a landmark for the Middle East’s quantum future. Pasqal continues its expansion, delivering practical quantum power to industry.”
Before the 2021 prohibition on cryptocurrency trading and mining, China was the world’s leading hub for bitcoin mining. Following the crackdown, the country’s share of global activity plunged to zero.
The launch marks a milestone in Pi Squared’s pursuit of an infinitely scalable decentralized payment network capable of processing transactions faster than any existing blockchain.
The decision in Rhutikumari v Zanmai Labs & Ors (2025), delivered by Justice N. Anand Venkatesh, held that crypto assets are intangible property, not legal tender, but assets that can be “possessed, enjoyed and held in trust.”
In this edition of Expert Insights, we speak with Pradhi AI’s CEO, Vijayalakshmi Raghavan, on building empathetic AI that listens, not just hears—and how decentralization could redefine trust in intelligent systems.
According to ARK’s latest disclosure, the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) now holds about 3.25% of its assets in Securitize, making the company the fund’s eighth-largest position after major AI players such as xAI and Anthropic.
Speaking at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, Tenev said that in the future, “everything will be on-chain in some form, and the distinction [between crypto and traditional finance] will disappear.”
Among the exchanges named are some of the industry’s best-known platforms, including Paxful, Poloniex, BitMex, BTCC, CEX.IO, LBank, CoinEx, BingX, PrimeXBT, Remitano, AscendEx, Phemex, Probit Global, Bitrue, BTSE, YouHodler, and Huione.
“A specialist taskforce, hell bent on breaking games into the $121bn mobile market,” Ferguson wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Since April, we’ve already taken three games to the No. 1 rank on mobile stores. Now we want the charts to be dominated by Immutable.”
“By linking Bitcoin’s strength with Ethereum’s flexibility, and eventually with other networks, we are creating a framework where communities can grow together,” he said. “This is how Bitcoin becomes more accessible, more useful, and more impactful for the entire crypto economy.”
“The civilizations that gained the most from new waves of technology are not the ones who consumed the technology, but the ones who produced it,” he noted. “Openness and verifiability can fight against global balkanization.”
The investment was made through PayPal Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm, as part of Stable’s recent $28 million seed round that also included backing from Bitfinex and Hack VC.
Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) conferences have multiplied across the globe, often promising big stages, bigger crowds, and the chance…
The Crypto Gaming Recovery Fund, unveiled this week, will allocate half a million dollars’ worth of tokens and assets over seven years. Eligible players from shuttered titles such as Pirate Nation, Tokyo Beast, and The Walking Dead: Empires can apply by creating a Splinterlands account, purchasing a $10 item that doubles as in-game credits, and submitting proof of their holdings in the defunct games.
