Blockchain News

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spicenet raises $5M in a Series A led by dao5, bringing total funding to $8M to expand its on-chain brokerage network....

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CF Benchmarks, the leading regulated cryptocurrency index provider, today launched CFB Oracle, a service that gives exchanges and application developers access to CF Benchmarks indices with signed delivery and onchain verification. CF Benchmarks is an FCA-authorised benchmark administrator under the UK Benchmarks Regulation. Its indices already underpin products from CME Group, BlackRock and Kalshi. CF Benchmarks is part of Payward, the unified financial infrastructure...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ripple, the leading provider of blockchain solutions across traditional and digital finance, and Robinhood, a global leader in financial services, today announced a strategic partnership that provides one of the industry’s largest consumer and institutional trading platforms with a single, trusted entry point to Ripple’s infrastructure across stablecoins, institutional markets and treasury management. Ripple USD (RLUSD) will be a key stablecoin across Robinhood’s...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Janus Henderson, a leading global asset manager, and Centrifuge, a financial technology company specializing in tokenizing real-world assets, today announced the launch of JQQQ, the first blockchain native fund offering exposure to the Nasdaq-100 Index® through an issuer-sponsored investment strategy. The fund is built for issuance and operation on public blockchain infrastructure, combining the investment standards of a leading global asset manager with new distributio...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, concluded last Wednesday Oct 21, at The Venetian in Las Vegas, bringing together ~11,000 attendees from 85+ countries, 3,000+ companies, 450 sponsors and over 600 speakers from across the global financial ecosystem. Against a backdrop of rapid technological change and evolving regulation this year’s show explored how the forces reshaping money are moving from experimentation to execution. Money20/20 USA examined four defi...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ripple, the leading provider of blockchain solutions across traditional and digital finance, and BNY (NYSE: BNY), a global financial services company, today announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration to broaden institutional digital asset custody capabilities and explore new institutional use cases for blockchain technology, including tokenized trade finance. The collaboration brings together Ripple’s digital asset solutions and the XRP Ledger (XRPL), a p...

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Empower, the nation’s second-largest retirement plan provider by total participants, is calling on federal regulators to embrace the potential of blockchain, tokenization and smart contracts to fundamentally modernize how Americans move their retirement savings.In comments submitted to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Empower outlined how these technologies could transform the retirement rollover process, potential...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RIPPLE SWELL 2026 - C2FO, the world’s largest platform for working capital and Ripple, the leading provider of blockchain solutions across traditional and digital finance, today announced an initiative to bring the financing and settlement activity supporting the new C2FO Instant Pay solution™onto the XRP Ledger (XRPL), a public blockchain. Across global supply chains, businesses can wait 30, 60 or even 90 days after delivering goods and services to be paid, tying up...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association (“BitGo Bank & Trust”), an OCC-regulated digital asset trust bank and a subsidiary of BitGo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BTGO) (“BitGo”), the digital asset infrastructure company, today announced that eligible institutional clients will be able to access the WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund (“WTGXX” or the “Fund”) directly through BitGo Mint. The integration brings a tokenized, yield-bearing government money marke...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced that Ripple, the leading provider of blockchain solutions across traditional and digital finance, has been granted final approval for chartering Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), a federally supervised national trust bank. The approval marks the culmination of RNTB’s organization process following conditional OCC approval in December 2025 and reinforces the company's longstanding commitment to b...