Finance

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 […]

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has tested the XRP Ledger as part of a blockchain-based proof of concept designed to make official statistics independently verifiable. The development was documented in BIS Working Paper No. 1374, titled “Verifiable official statistics: a blockchain-based approach,” published on September 2, 2026. The paper describes a system that creates […]

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 […]

Bitfinex Securities has listed five tokenized Bitcoin treasury notes linked to publicly traded companies that have made Bitcoin a significant part of their corporate strategies. The new products provide eligible investors with economic exposure to Strategy, Metaplanet, H100 Group and Capital B, as well as Strategy’s variable-rate perpetual preferred stock, STRC. The securities began trading […]

Binance is expanding further into traditional finance with the launch of U.S. stock options on more than 1,000 selected U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds. The new product is available to eligible users outside the United States and is being offered through Nest Trading Limited, Binance’s Abu Dhabi Global Market-regulated broker-dealer. Orders are routed to Alpaca […]

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 […]

The idea of accessing Wall Street from a phone is no longer purely theoretical. In a recent Solana post, the network highlighted a growing range of financial products available through onchain applications, including tokenized stocks, commodities, Bitcoin, foreign exchange and yield products. The message was deliberately ambitious: “Everything Wall Street can do, now on Solana […]

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 […]