Ripple taps Mastercard to trial RLUSD in card settlement flows
Ripple has announced a landmark pilot program with Mastercard, WebBank, and Gemini to test the use of its RLUSD stablecoin for credit card settlement...
Kalshi selects Coinbase Custody to secure USDC reserves
Kalshi Partners With Coinbase Custody to Strengthen U.S. Event-Based Trading InfrastructureKalshi, the largest regulated prediction market platform in the United States, has announced a...
North Korea weaponizes banned Nvidia GPUs in push to steal more...
North Korea has been working on artificial intelligence for almost 30 years, and a new report from South Korea’s Institute for National Security Strategy...
Bitcoin bulls navigate ‘bullish neutrality’ as shorts fuel upside pressure
Bitcoin is moving in a calm but quietly positive way right now. Prices aren’t exploding, but the market isn’t weak either. It’s what analysts...
Crypto cronies: SEC looks the other way, especially for Trump pals
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes even the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission takes a step back and says, “Let’s ease up a bit.”...
Rwanda central bank warns against crypto use after Bybit adds franc...
Rwanda’s central bank has made it clear again: crypto activity linked to its local currency is not allowed.This response came quickly after Bybit added...
Trump to name new Fed chair soon? Crypto bulls hope so...
The timeline for when President Trump will announce the next Federal Reserve chair is still uncertain, even though Jerome Powell’s term ends in May...
WLFI breach raises eyebrows for Trump-backed crypto firm
World Liberty Financial Recovers Funds After Pre-Launch Wallet BreachWorld Liberty Financial (WLFI), the DeFi platform linked to President Donald Trump and his family, revealed...
Standard Chartered, Bernstein revise Bitcoin price targets amid shifting institutional demand
Two big Wall Street banks have updated their Bitcoin forecasts as institutional investment patterns change.Standard Chartered lowers short-term outlookStandard Chartered has reduced its near-term...
Franklin Templeton launches XRP ETF on NYSE Arca
Franklin Templeton has officially launched its new XRP exchange-traded fund, the Franklin XRP Trust, on NYSE Arca. This gives U.S. investors a fully regulated...
Saylor hints at Strategy’s 101st Bitcoin purchase as price slips amid...
NYDIG is pushing back against a common narrative among investors that Bitcoin behaves like a high-growth software stock, arguing that the digital asset operates...
UK fintech Stratiphy restores access to tax-free crypto ETNs via IF...
Stratiphy has launched a new way for U.K. investors to get tax-free exposure to crypto investment products again, after recent rule changes made that...
Iraqi News
Iraq’s Central bank denies US suspension of cash flows
The Central Bank of Iraq has pushed back on reports claiming the United States suspended dollar flows tied to Iraq’s oil revenues.Financial expert and...
Digital IQD Proposal targets $7-12bn Economic Gains
Cylinder Seal presents a very ambitious idea: use a digital Iraqi dinar not just as a payment tool, but as an engine to push...
Basrah crudes lead regional oil benchmarks
Iraq’s Basrah crude prices slipped slightly on Thursday, with both Basrah Heavy and Basrah Medium down about 0.5%.Basrah Heavy fell 56 cents to $111.94...
Al-Tamimi: Freezing Iraqi funds in New York violates sovereignty and contravenes international conventions.
Legal expert Ali al-Tamimi said reports about the US withholding Iraqi funds raise serious concerns about financial sovereignty and legal agreements governing those funds.He...
30 MPs in the Sudanese bloc threaten to withdraw if Al-Awadi is nominated for...
An informed source says tensions are rising inside Iraq’s Reconstruction and Development bloc over the choice of the next prime minister.According to the source,...