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Democrats are railing against Trump’s $1.4 billion in crypto income. Will his financial disclosure derail a key crypto bill in Congress?

After the release of the president’s disclosure, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that the CLARITY Act must prevent Trump and his family from...

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The sell-off in Strategy’s preferred stock has investors questioning everything

The Bitcoin bull said in 2025 that Strategy’s newest stock offering had no “downside,” but investors beg to differ.

29.06.2026 2

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Exclusive: Framework Ventures raises $400 million for fourth fund as firm expands beyond crypto

The VC joins a growing list of crypto investors moving beyond digital assets.

26.06.2026 3

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Exclusive: Crypto analytics startup Allium raises $40 million to tame blockchain data for Wall Street

Amplify Partners led the Series B fundraise, which included participation from Kleiner Perkins and Theory Ventures.

23.06.2026 9

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Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo to co-chair joint venture between NYSE owner and crypto exchange OKX

“This blockchain has potential that we have not even realized,” said Cuomo, who has advised OKX since 2023.

22.06.2026 6

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Crypto’s most controversial governance idea is making a comeback

DAOs promised governance without rulers, but mostly delivered drama. Now some investors want to try again.

22.06.2026 10

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Exclusive: Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures back trading app Fomo at $550 million valuation

The startup previously raised $17 million in a round led by Benchmark.

22.06.2026 10

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Exclusive: Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange

Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.

18.06.2026 9

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Exclusive: Mastercard launches protocol to let AI agents pay each other, send micropayments

Agent Pay for Machines is one of a slew of recent attempts from big companies to build payment networks optimized for AI.

10.06.2026 6

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Exclusive: The startup that’s dressing up crypto for Wall Street raises $175 million in a round led by a16z crypto, Paradigm, and Ribbit Capital

Morpho’s founders want to bring DeFi mainstream.

09.06.2026 4

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I bought peptides with crypto. How my purchase helped fuel a $100 million gray-market, ‘looksmaxxing’ economy

Some of the China-based sellers have pivoted from fentanyl to peptides.

04.06.2026 10

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Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones

The crypto VC Framework Ventures led two fundraises for the robotics startup, which projects $100 million in annual run rate.

01.06.2026 5

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Exclusive: Airwallex launches billing product as $8 billion fintech continues to compete with rival Stripe

The new product will help companies generate invoices and bill customers for how much they’ve used a software developer’s platform.

27.05.2026 10

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Exclusive: Circle cofounder raises $30 million for Series A ‘AI-native bank’ Catena Labs

Sean Neville’s startup aims to build banking tools especially designed for AI agents.

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Michael Saylor says remarks about selling Bitcoin were intended to jam short-sellers and ‘haters’

Saylor, the chairman of Strategy, told Fortune that his comments about selling Bitcoin sought to protect his stock from crashing.

08.05.2026 5

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Exclusive: Kraken to let customers cash out crypto at MoneyGram locations in more than 100 countries

Once a legacy cross-border payments firm, MoneyGram has revamped itself to become more crypto-native over the past three years.

05.05.2026 10

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Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm raises $2.2 billion for fifth venture fund, promotes CTO Lazzarin to general partner

The venture titan raised the capital despite an ongoing downturn in the crypto market.

05.05.2026 10

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Trump’s World Liberty Financial countersues crypto billionaire Justin Sun for defamation in response to allegations of fraud

Justin Sun invested $75 million into a Trump-linked cryptocurrency but alleged the project wrongfully froze his tokens.

04.05.2026 6

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Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Rain is worth $1.95 billion and plans to issue cards with Mastercard in a push to woo institutional customers

The company previously only worked with Visa to create stablecoin-backed cards.

04.05.2026 4

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Exclusive: Startup Fun raises $72 million for the serious business of converting crypto and cash

The crypto investor Multicoin Capital and the tech VC SignalFire led the Series A fundraise.

01.05.2026 20

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Trump-tied public crypto company buys startup from one-time ‘cannabis king’ who serves as current advisor in deal worth up to $43 million

The public company, AI Financial, struck a deal in August with a Trump family crypto outfit to stockpile $1.5 billion in Trump-linked cryptocurrency.

30.04.2026 9

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Exclusive: Senator presses DOJ and Treasury over status of Binance monitors after $1.7 billion in Iran-linked crypto flows

As part of its 2023 plea deal, the world’s largest crypto exchange agreed to have two separate firms oversee its operations for three years.

17.04.2026 10

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Exclusive: Top crypto VCs like Paradigm and a16z see portfolio values shrink amid market downturn and distributions to investors

Paradigm’s holdings dipped about 6%, while a16z’s dropped almost 40% as the venture giant gave back capital from its first three funds.

16.04.2026 10

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Bitcoin, Ethereum approach two-month highs as markets grow optimistic over U.S.-Iran peace negotiations

The rally has seen Bitcoin price rise to around $75,000 after falling as low as almost $60,000 in recent months.

14.04.2026 10

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Exclusive: Paxos Labs raises $12 million after startup spins off from veteran stablecoin issuer

Charles Cascarilla, the CEO of the stablecoin issuer Paxos, is also the CEO of Paxos Labs.

14.04.2026 10

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Iran is demanding tankers in the Strait of Hormuz pay tolls in crypto: What we know so far

The Iranian regime has increasingly resorted to digital assets to evade U.S. sanctions.

10.04.2026 6

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Exclusive: Crypto hedge fund Split Capital winds down as its founder nabs new gig as an exec at stablecoin startup Plasma

Zaheer Ebtikar believes that crypto hedge funds are things of the past.

07.04.2026 10

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Robinhood Ventures has rebounded 30% since its lackluster debut. Can the new private markets fund now withstand the mega IPOs?

Shareholders in private companies are holding their breath as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic look to make big splashes in the public markets.

06.04.2026 9

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I knew about North Korean hackers—they still tricked me and got into my computer

A source reached out to me over Telegram. I didn’t realize his account was compromised until it was almost too late.

02.04.2026 10

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Exclusive: Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal, say sources

The longtime crypto venture firm has invested three times over into Kalshi, and Paradigm’s managing partner Matt Huang is on the startup’s board.

01.04.2026 30

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Exclusive: Former a16z crypto investor raises $10 million to launch stablecoin clearinghouse Better Money

The crypto arm of Andreessen Horowitz led the fundraise, with participation from BoxGroup and Sunflower Capital.

31.03.2026 10

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Ex-Blackstone staffers raise $25 million for startup Valinor, which aims to put private credit on the blockchain

Castle Island Ventures led the fundraise, with participation from Maven11, Susquehanna Crypto, and the founders of the Bitcoin mining-turned-AI...

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Foreign exchange startup XFX raises $17 million to help businesses go between cash and stablecoins

Castle Island Ventures led the round, with participation from Haun Ventures and Coinbase Ventures.

26.03.2026 10

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Exclusive: Early Kalshi employees raising up to $35 million for a prediction market VC fund with backing from the CEOs of both Kalshi and Polymarket

Other investors include Marc Andreessen through the fund Moneta Luna and Micky Malka of the fintech investment firm Ribbit Capital.

23.03.2026 30

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Trump’s lunch for his biggest memecoin holders is going ahead. One attendee plans to come back despite ‘Walmart steak’ at previous meal

The White House said Trump’s attendance at the “most exclusive crypto and business in the world” is not confirmed.

19.03.2026 10

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Stripe-backed crypto startup Tempo releases AI payments protocol, launches blockchain

Tempo, incubated by Stripe and the venture firm Paradigm, raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation in 2025.

18.03.2026 10

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Mastercard to acquire crypto startup BVNK for up to $1.8 billion in largest stablecoin deal to date

BVNK was previously in talks with the U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase for an acquisition price of about $2 billion.

17.03.2026 20

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Exclusive: PayPal expands stablecoin access to 68 more countries

The fintech giant had previously only let users in the U.S. and U.K. send and receive PYUSD from their accounts.

17.03.2026 20

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Want to bet on oil prices this weekend? Traders are rushing to this hot crypto platform amid the war in Iran

: Hyperliquid is one of the most popular exchanges to trade cryptocurrencies—and increasingly bet on real-world assets like oil.

14.03.2026 20

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Exclusive: Accounting startup Cryptio raises $45 million to help big firms keep track of digital assets

BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global led the Series B fundraise, which closed three weeks ago.

12.03.2026 10

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Exclusive: NYSE parent company invests in crypto exchange OKX at $25 billion valuation as part of push into blockchain-based stocks

Intercontinental Exchange said in January that it planned to build a blockchain-based platform for tokenized equities.

05.03.2026 10

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Exclusive: Venture giant a16z crypto targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund amid blockchain market downturn, sources say

The Chris Dixon-led outfit is planning to close the fundraise in the first half of 2026.

04.03.2026 20

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Exclusive: Visa to expand card partnership with Stripe’s Bridge to over 100 countries

The two firms previously launched stablecoin-backed cards for 18 countries in April.

03.03.2026 20

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Senator opens inquiry into Binance over allegations it fired investigators who flagged that more than $1 billion flowed to Iranian entities

The probe comes after a Fortune investigation raised questions about the crypto firm’s compliance program.

26.02.2026 20

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Exclusive: Crypto trading platform raises $30 million from CMT Digital and Kraken

The fundraise for STS Digital, whose product is aimed at institutions, also included Arrington Capital and an investment arm of Fidelity.

26.02.2026 10

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Crypto VC Framework Ventures to take $45 million stake in Better.com as mortgage issuer plans to launch ’Home Token’

The tie-up comes as Better.com becomes the latest firm to dabble in the emerging field of tokenization.

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Bitcoin and Ethereum are off to their worst start of the year in a decade—but some see a rebound in sight

The year-to-date performances of the world’s two largest cryptocurrencies are some of the most bearish on record, according to data from CoinGecko.

20.02.2026 30

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Exclusive: Kraken acquires token manager Magna as crypto exchange prepares for IPO

Over the past year, Kraken has struck deals for five other companies, including a blockbuster $1.5 billion deal for futures platform NinjaTrader.

18.02.2026 20

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The Trump family’s crypto portfolio is getting battered with the rest of the industry—but Melania’s memecoin has fared surprisingly well

A recent collapse in the price of Bitcoin has spurred weakness across the sector.

10.02.2026 10

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Epstein’s crypto ties: Documents reveal early Coinbase investment, publicist’s view of ‘complete creep’ Michael Saylor

A new trove of documents disclosed details on Epstein’s relationship with key figures from the early days of Bitcoin development.

06.02.2026 20

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