February 19, 2026 @ 9:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Entrust’s new report, 2026 Global State of Post-Quantum and Cryptographic Security Trends, brings both good and bad news. The good news is that more organizations are aware of the increasingly emerging threat, but the bad news is that fewer are preparing for it. The survey polled 4.149 senior IT,… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 6:02 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Levl, a unified platform powering fiat and stablecoin global payments, announced this week it has closed $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Galaxy Ventures with participation from Protagonist, Deus X, Blockchain Builders Fund, OpenFX, FalconX, CMCC, Variant Fund, and a strategic… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 4:32 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Webull (NASDAQ: BULL), owner of the Webull online investment platform, this week announced the global launch of its consolidated market data feed for overnight trading, designed to give investors greater transparency into liquidity and price discovery during the growing overnight U.S. equities trading session. Traditionally,… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Maestro AI, a vertical artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform built for mortgage origination, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by New Stack Ventures, with participation from Family VC, ZFO, Roark’s Drift, and a group of local angel investors. The capital will… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 2:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Rezolve Ai (NASDAQ:RZLV), a global facilitator of AI-driven commerce and payments infrastructure, has acquired Reward, a provider of customer engagement and commerce media, for $230 million. The acquisition brings together Reward’s engagement, intelligence and activation capabilities with Rezolve Ai’s conversational commerce and agentic AI platform… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 1:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

MoonPay, a facilitator of crypto payments, this week announced the launch of MoonPay Deposits, a solution that allows users to fund applications using crypto from an existing wallet, regardless of the token or blockchain. Users choose a token they would like to send, and MoonPay… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 12:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance welcomed Polygon Labs, Ethena, and Nethermind as members. The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is the institutional coordination layer for Ethereum – the neutral table where enterprises, infrastructure providers, and protocol teams align on how Ethereum is used in regulated, large-scale environments…. Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 11:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitwise Asset Management, a crypto asset manager, and WealthRabbit, a digital retirement plan platform for small businesses and individuals, have introduced diversified crypto portfolios to WealthRabbit clients. The new offering is available to all WealthRabbit clients on the firm’s investing portal, which allows investors to… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 10:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Provenir, a provider of AI risk decisioning, this week announced the launch of its comprehensive decision intelligence platform with new agentic AI features. Provenir’s Decision Intelligence platform brings together data, models, decisioning, and optimization in one continuous system. With the platform, organizations can transform raw… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fipto, a B2B payments and treasury firm, has partnered with Avenia, a Brazilian financial infrastructure provider, to launch a dedicated, two-way stablecoin corridor for EUR-BRL flows. Brazil is a global leader in digital payments, but the link to European markets is often a bottleneck for… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 4:21 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Truth Social Funds announced this week that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for two exchange-traded funds: the Truth Social Cronos Yield Maximizer ETF and the Truth Social Bitcoin and Ether ETF. In connection with the proposed… Read More

February 16, 2026 @ 2:01 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Latest US inflation data shows the Federal Reserve has the space to cut US interest rates, but despite the figures the central bank is unlikely to do so at its next meeting, says the CEO of global financial advisory giant deVere Group. The analysis from… Read More

February 15, 2026 @ 10:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bottomline, a global provider of business payments and cash management, and Koxa, an ERP-banking company, this week announced a partnership to deliver embedded banking capabilities directly inside ERP systems. The collaboration enables Bottomline’s bank clients to offer a fully integrated ERP banking experience to their… Read More

February 15, 2026 @ 12:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, ZeroDrift emerged from stealth alongside a $2 million pre-seed round to automate compliance in real time, unlocking business velocity while giving compliance teams infrastructure to scale oversight. The pre-seed round was led by a16z speedrun. The capital will support the company’s go-to-market launch,… Read More

February 15, 2026 @ 11:41 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Hex Trust, a digital assets financial service provider specializing in markets services, custody, and staking, this week announced its official partnership with Jito Foundation, a Solana-focused protocol building network infrastructure. As part of the partnership, Hex Trust has integrated JitoSOL, a liquid staking token on… Read More

February 15, 2026 @ 5:48 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Singapore Gulf Bank, a fully licensed bank backed by Whampoa Group and Mumtalakat, has announced what it claims is a GCC and Asian industry first bank-operated network delivering full interoperability between fiat and stablecoins. This represents an evolution of SGB Net, its proprietary real-time clearing… Read More

February 15, 2026 @ 12:56 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Lydian has built an application to allow Clover merchants worldwide to accept digital assets as a form of payment. Clover merchants can download the Lydian app and offer a “Pay with Crypto” option at checkout. This announcement marks the first all-inclusive digital asset payment solution… Read More

February 14, 2026 @ 5:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

New research from AutoRek fins that 80% of payments organizations experience moderate to significant operational disruption from fragmented data. Despite heavy investment in front-end innovation like AI and instant payments, back-office operations remain stuck in manual processes – creating a critical gap that undermines growth,… Read More

February 14, 2026 @ 5:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Entrust, a global provider of security solutions, this week announced a strategic collaboration with Google to accelerate innovation in identity verification and AI-driven security. The integrated solution will help organizations strengthen security defenses against the rapid rise and sophistication of fraud while improving onboarding efficiency… Read More

February 14, 2026 @ 5:02 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SCRYPT, a Swiss-licensed institutional crypto partner for trading, custody, and investment access, has partnered with Gauntlet, a provider of quantitative risk and optimization models for DeFi, to provide institutional access to transparent and risk-managed DeFi strategies at scale. DeFi has become one of the most… Read More