Altcoins

The modern office of the chief financial officer is undergoing a profound structural evolution. For years, corporate leadership viewed digital assets primarily through the lens of speculation and high market volatility. However, that perception has shifted dramatically toward tangible utility. As corporate finance departments face the constraints of legacy banking hours and sluggish cross-border settlement […]

Ripple is challenging the idea that all “regulated” stablecoins operate under the same level of oversight. In a September 2026 statement, the company argued that a money transmitter license, a state trust charter and federal prudential supervision are materially different regulatory structures, with different reserve, verification and failure-resolution requirements. Ripple says its RLUSD stablecoin was […]

Zebec Network and MoneyGram are expanding enterprise payroll infrastructure on the Stellar blockchain, giving employees and contractors a route from stablecoin-denominated earnings to local-currency cash through MoneyGram’s international retail network. The partnership connects Zebec’s enterprise payroll platform on Stellar with MoneyGram Ramps, which supports USDC cash-in and cash-out through participating MoneyGram locations. According to MoneyGram’s […]

Altcoin perpetual futures open interest has moved above Bitcoin’s for the first time since December 2024, highlighting a major shift in leveraged positioning across the cryptocurrency derivatives market. According to data tracked by Coinalyze, aggregate open interest in altcoin perpetual contracts overtook Bitcoin’s on September 6. The move comes as cryptocurrencies outside the top 10 […]

Ripple has partnered with South Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank to deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border remittances, making the lender the first regional bank in Korea to adopt the payments platform. Announced on August 18, 2026, the partnership is designed to give Jeonbuk Bank’s business customers access to near real-time international settlement. Ripple says transfers can be […]

Ripple and SettleMint have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping financial institutions across Asia Pacific issue, custody, manage and service tokenized assets through a more integrated digital infrastructure stack. The partnership combines Ripple Custody, Ripple’s institutional custody infrastructure, with SettleMint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP). The companies say the integration is designed to reduce […]

Charles Schwab is preparing to expand its direct cryptocurrency offering with Chainlink LINK, alongside Solana (SOL) and Avalanche (AVAX). The U.S. brokerage announced on August 27 that the three assets will become available to eligible Schwab Crypto clients in the coming months. The expansion follows the May 2026 rollout of Schwab Crypto, which initially gave […]

Ripple is taking another major step into institutional finance with the launch of Delta One, a new business within Ripple Prime that enables institutional clients to execute Total Return Swaps across U.S.-listed equities, indices and digital assets. The new service went live on August 27, 2026, and is designed for hedge funds, asset managers and […]

Mastercard has joined the XRP Ledger Hackathon as a sponsor, adding one of the world’s largest payment networks to an event focused on developers building financial applications on the XRP Ledger. The announcement was made by the XRP Ledger Foundation, which said Mastercard will support the hackathon being co-hosted by XRPL Commons and the XRP […]