June 23, 2025 @ 5:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A comprehensive new study by DECTA reveals that the vast majority of digital banking users are reluctantly maintaining multiple financial apps due to feature gaps in their primary platform, with 91% stating they would consolidate to a single app if it met all their needs…. Read More

June 23, 2025 @ 9:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Donald Trump’s Truth Social, part of Trump Media (NASDAQ:DJT)  has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a dual Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded fund (ETF), sparking concern from one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations. The proposed fund, the Truth… Read More

June 23, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Grifin, an app that links investing to daily spending, has announced a $11M Series A investment funding round led by Nava Ventures, with participation from TTV, Draper Associates, Gaingels, Nevcaut Ventures and Alloy Labs. Freddie Martignetti, Partner at Nava Ventures, will join Grifin’s board. Martignetti’s… Read More

June 23, 2025 @ 2:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Allfunds Asia and Quinlan & Associates have co-published a thought leadership report that examines the wealthtech landscape in Hong Kong and Singapore and how financial institutions are leveraging wealthtech solutions to capture new market opportunities. Titled Rich Pickings: Unpacking the WealthTech Revolution in Hong Kong… Read More

June 23, 2025 @ 1:21 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new global poll by deVere Group reveals that 73% of investors aged 24 to 45 favour Bitcoin over gold as a long-term investment. The survey of 730 clients worldwide captures a dramatic shift in mindset among younger investors, even as central banks quietly amass tonnes of… Read More

June 22, 2025 @ 9:58 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) recently announced that its MineralTree business, which provides AP and payment automation solutions, and Sage, a provider of accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), launched a vendor payments solution built directly within Sage Intacct…. Read More

June 22, 2025 @ 8:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Matera, a technology provider for the financial system, has partnered with Circle (NASDAQ:CRCL), a global issuer of USDC through its regulated affiliates, a dollar-backed stablecoin. This alliance offers native integration between a real-time banking infrastructure and a fully reserved, transparent stablecoin. Rather than treating stablecoins… Read More

June 22, 2025 @ 5:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

From AI energy hypocrisy to predicting future Fed movement and serious risks to Bitcoin from quantum computing, Web3 minds had plenty to share over the past few weeks. Those burning more energy on AI once panned crypto miners “Big tech can’t keep up with the… Read More

June 17, 2025 @ 7:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Quantum technology is in an interesting period. It’s being discussed more often, but outside of some tech circles, it’s not well understood. What is quantum technology, where is it right now, and where is it headed? Is its future dominance of society guaranteed? Anders Indset… Read More

June 15, 2025 @ 6:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polymath is reaping the rewards from years of careful preparation and forethought. Now, as asset tokenization prepares for takeoff, Vince Kadar’s company is front and center. Its origins date back to 2017-18, when Polymath became the first organization building an app on Ethereum. That app… Read More

June 12, 2025 @ 9:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

While President Donald Trump’s goal of making the United States “The Crypto Capital of the World” is laudable, cybersecurity experts warn that the pursuit will have unintended consequences. They include a proliferation of tech-enabled strategies, such as Fraud-as-a-Service (FaaS). AU10TIX chief business development officer Ofer… Read More

June 9, 2025 @ 9:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Grigore Roșu is a big believer in blockchain and Web3, but knows fragmentation and trust issues are holding it back. His response is Pi Squared, an advanced verifiable settlement layer for AI and crypto. With $12.5 million in seed funding, Pi Squared enables verifiable, cross-chain computation and settlement…. Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 9:01 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Over his 30-plus years in business and venture capital, Tal Elyashiv has learned how to spot important trends, and he believes we’re in the early stages of a Quantum Revolution that will change the world. Elyashiv explains why in Investing in Revolutions, which is interesting… Read More

June 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Trulioo, an identity platform for person and business verification, today announced its partnership with Trust Payments, one of Europe’s fastest-growing payment technology providers. Trust Payments will use Trulioo Workflow Studio, Business Verification, Person Match, Identity Document Verification and Watchlist Screening to unify its onboarding processes,… Read More

June 3, 2025 @ 8:33 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Dimitra, a provider of agriculture technology and sustainability solutions that leverage blockchain and artificial intelligence, has partnered with MANTRA, a layer 1 blockchain platform focused on real-world assets (RWAs). This collaboration aims to bring green agricultural assets on-chain, offering innovative ways for farmers to finance… Read More

June 2, 2025 @ 12:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Transcard has announced a strategic partnership with Thredd to support the rapid global expansion of the SMART Suite, a fully embedded and automated AI payment orchestration platform. Now live in Canada and soon in the UK, the partnership expands payment method optionality for customers and recipients for… Read More

June 2, 2025 @ 8:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nymbus, a full-stack banking platform for U.S. banks and credit unions, has launched Nymbus Levels: an enterprise-grade loyalty and rewards framework that empowers financial institutions to elevate their brand through bespoke loyalty experiences and dynamic pricing. Seventy percent of Americans cite loyalty programs as a… Read More

June 2, 2025 @ 6:19 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Hashgraph Association and Exponential Science Foundation have launched the Hedera Africa Hackathon 2025. Its goal is to enable the next generation of Web3 developers and empower economic inclusion in Africa. The Hashgraph Association is a Swiss non-profit organization driving global adoption of Hedera-powered solutions… Read More

June 1, 2025 @ 7:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Even with the short week, Web3 was busy discussing cybersecurity disclosure, stablecoins and security vulnerabilities with AI agents. Read more below. Repealing cybersecurity incident public disclosure requirements is a big mistake “It would be a huge mistake for the SEC to repeal the cybersecurity incident… Read More

June 1, 2025 @ 6:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Quranium, an infrastructure built to incorporate quantum security, AI-native intelligence, and blockchain trust, has launched its testnet. The Convergence Layer combines: Quantum security: Uncrackable by quantum computers, using NIST-approved SLHDSA signatures and ML-KEM encryption. AI-native design: On-chain autonomous agents that audit, deploy, govern, and evolve… Read More