AIR and Minds are partnering with Reap and Pivota to let agents use verified customer benefits and complete purchases within approved spending limits. The collaboration will begin with a single-merchant demonstration.
Project Eleven introduces Strongpoint with the Zcash Foundation as an initial development partner, preparing institutional custody for changing cryptographic standards.
Ondo Finance has launched the Ondo Network, replacing Ondo Chain with a new execution layer designed to bring centralized exchange speed to tokenized real-world asset markets.
World Foundation has raised $52.5 million to expand World ID, its proof-of-human infrastructure, as AI adoption accelerates across enterprise platforms and the wider internet.
Venezuelan BNPL platform Cashea has raised $100 million from global investors, signaling renewed confidence in the country's fintech ecosystem and consumer credit market.
MoonPay has acquired crypto deposits startup Glide, adding cross-chain deposit technology to its growing infrastructure stack in its sixth acquisition of 2026.
Tokenized stocks reach a record $2.3 billion market cap as Binance, Kraken, Coinbase and other crypto platforms accelerate the shift toward blockchain-based equity trading.
Stripe's proposed $53 billion acquisition of PayPal could create a payments giant serving over 400 million consumers, accelerating Bitcoin, stablecoins and Web3 adoption, says The Hashgraph Group CEO Stefan Deiss.