February 19, 2026 @ 12:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Anchorage Digital has announced the launch of a new service called Stablecoin Solutions. The service offers minting, redemption, custody, fiat treasury management, and settlement on a single integrated platform. Clients, such as legacy banks, can easily enter the stablecoin market through a federally… Read More

February 19, 2026 @ 12:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tokenized money, either stablecoins or central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), are on the forefront of the digital asset sector. Stablecoins were initially the go-to digital asset for crypto traders seeking to exit a holding and hold value in something safe. Today, stablecoins are growing rapidly,… Read More

February 19, 2026 @ 11:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Artificial intelligence firm World Labs has raised $1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5 billion. World Labs is a spatial intelligence AI firm that enables the generation of 3D environments from text or image inputs. Its flagship product, Marble, allows users to create,… Read More

February 19, 2026 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Disclosure is at the heart of the US securities regulatory regime. Providing salient information to investors is key to ensuring decisions are based on recent, accurate data. Yet, over the years, the number of rules and compliance requirements has expanded, adding high cost to the… Read More

February 18, 2026 @ 3:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investing in early-stage ventures is not for the impatient nor risk-averse. However, in recent years, technological developments and regulatory changes have made this market segment more accessible to investors, including smaller ones. While still in early development, online capital formation is clearly the future, yet… Read More

February 18, 2026 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong joined Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno on CNBC today, as both appeared at the World Liberty Forum at Mar-a-Lago. Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is the first crypto exchange to go public and one of the largest marketplaces of its kind. Moreno, at one point, was… Read More

February 18, 2026 @ 11:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Unicity Labs has raised $3 million in a Seed round led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Tawasal, a Middle East-based communications super app, and Outlier Ventures. Unicity Labs is creating an Artificial Intelligence (AI) autonomous marketplace as software evolves from concept to actual tools…. Read More

February 18, 2026 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Caption has chosen Mangopay to help scale its investment infrastructure platform. Caption is licensed in France as an asset management company regulated by the AMF (Clint Capital) and by the ACPR. It operates a proprietary technology platform that supports private and professional investors, issuers, and… Read More

February 18, 2026 @ 10:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Shares of Fiserv (NASDAQ:FISV) received a bid yesterday after news that Jana Partners had purchased 2.2 million shares of the Fintech company for approximately $151 million. Jana Partners is an activist hedge fund that will push for strategic or operational changes at Fiserv. Jana was… Read More

February 17, 2026 @ 3:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR), a leading AI, data integration, and analytics firm used by large corporations and the federal government, has relocated its headquarters to Miami. The move is part of a broader migration away from high-tax, less business-friendly jurisdictions to the booming South Florida market. It has been widely… Read More

February 17, 2026 @ 2:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

A battle line has been drawn between states that want to maintain control over wagering and betting and prediction markets that offer event-driven markets for a wide range of binary outcomes. Earlier today, CFTC Chairman Mike Selig threw down the gauntlet, declaring that the Commission is ready… Read More

February 17, 2026 @ 2:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Elemental Royalty (TSX-V: ELE, NASDAQ: ELE) is now offering its investors the option to receive dividends settled in Tether Gold (XAU₮). The  company expects to declare an annual cash dividend to its shareholders of US $0.12 per common share, to be paid in quarterly instalments… Read More

February 17, 2026 @ 2:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anchorage Digital and B2C2 are expanding their partnership as the latter firm joines Chanorage’s  Atlas platform. Atlas is a two-way settlement platform for institutions that supports crypto transactions on a regulated platform. B2C2 will custody assets with Anchorage and settle trades directly through Atlas. B2C2’s… Read More

February 17, 2026 @ 2:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

ZeroLend is the next DeFi platform to cease operations. In a post on X, the platform stated that its protocol is “no longer sustainable.” ZeroLend is a DeFi lending market that offers carry trades that enable yield leveraging. The website touts, Here Today. Here Tomorrow…. Read More

February 17, 2026 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

A wealth confiscation tax has never been widely successful anywhere it has ever been attempted. Yet, some policymakers and pundits continue to support the concept of taxing unrealized gains and wealth thresholds. As the Laffer Curve explained decades ago, excessive taxation will have the opposite… Read More

February 17, 2026 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is supporting the fast emerging prediction markets. Following an onslaught of state-based lawsuits, CFTC Chairman Mike Selig has issued a statement defending these marketplaces and filed a friend-of-the-court brief advocating federal oversight rather than piecemeal state regulation. Chairman Selig… Read More

February 17, 2026 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Polynomial Chain and Polynomial Trade have issued a statement announcing their cessation of operations. The company stated they were “shutting down instead of launching a token for a dying product.” Polynomial is a DeFi platform for onchain derivatives. The company claims to have served over… Read More

February 17, 2026 @ 8:05 am By JD Alois  |  

An AI-enabled venture platform Venture capital firm Sentinel Global has issued a statement announcing an expansion of its platform, which it says is “built for today’s venture market.” Sentinel says that it is focusing on three innovation themes: AI Enterprise: The trust layer for autonomous… Read More

February 13, 2026 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Netherlands is the next jurisdiction that seeks to punish investors by taxing unrealized capital gains. The state of California has been in the news quite a bit recently in regard to its possible confiscation tax that targets wealth investors and shareholders. The obtuse policy,… Read More

February 13, 2026 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

In what is being described as a first-of-its-kind tri-party custody model, Anchorage Digital, Kamino, and Solana Company are collaborating to enable institutions to stake SOL. According to a release, the service will support institutions to access onchain borrowing without moving assets out of regulated custody,… Read More