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After two decades of courtroom battles, Visa and Mastercard are offering a $38 billion settlement to resolve allegations that they conspired to overcharge merchants through credit card “swipe fees.” Yet, despite the headline figure, many business groups argue the proposal fails to solve the problem at the heart of the dispute—how much it costs to accept a card payment in the United States, Reuters reported. A Fresh Attempt to Satisfy the Court The new settlement comes months after U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie rejected an earlier $30 billion agreement as inadequate. She called the proposed relief “paltry” compared to what…

Ripple has secured a major milestone in Europe. AMINA Bank, a regulated Swiss crypto bank, is now the first European bank to officially go live with Ripple Payments. This marks a new step in connecting traditional banking infrastructure with blockchain rails. The partnership offers crypto-native clients a smoother way to move funds across borders without battling the usual frictions of old banking systems. Ripple announced the integration highlighting that this builds on AMINA’s earlier adoption of Ripple’s stablecoin, RLUSD. A New Bridge Between Fiat and Blockchain For years, crypto companies have struggled to work with traditional banking networks. Especially when…

Bitcoin miner and datacenter operator TeraWulf reported $50.6 million in revenue Monday, representing a 87% increase compared to the same period last year. Easton, Maryland-based TeraWulf attributed the gain to Bitcoin’s rising price, expanded mining capacity, and the start of high performance performance computing lease revenue. “The third quarter into the fourth has been remarkably busy for TeraWulf,” Paul Prager, TeraWulf chief executive officer, said in a statement, highlighting the a growing partnership with Fluidstack and Google. “These transactions demonstrate the strength of our platform and the trust that world-class technology partners place in our ability to execute.” He added:…

Crypto exchange Binance has added new features to its application programming interface (API), indicating that the platform is preparing to introduce stock trading capabilities. Binance’s changelog notes that on Thursday, the exchange introduced three new API endpoints, one of which — with a URL including stock/contract — allows users to “sign [a] TradFi-Perps agreement contract.” The two other endpoints introduced on the same day allow users to query “trading session schedules for a one-week period” or “current trading session information.” Together, this suggests that Binance is planning to introduce perpetual futures trading on its platform. The existing trading schedule endpoints…

Stablecoins and other forms of tokenized cash could grow to $3.6 trillion by 2030, according to a fresh report released by financial services giant BNY. The financial services giant said Monday that stablecoins alone could reach $1.5 trillion in market cap by the end of the decade, with tokenized deposits and money market funds contributing the rest. These instruments, collectively referred to as digital cash equivalents, were seen as tools to unlock faster settlement, reduce counterparty risk and improve collateral mobility across markets. Stablecoins, tokenized deposits and digital MMFs projected to reach $3.6 trillion market size (BNY) The report highlighted…

Key Takeaways Pakistan’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority granted No Objection Certificates to Binance and HTX. This clears the way for the exchanges to begin preparatory activities. Pakistan’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) has issued No Objection Certificates (NOCs) to Binance and HTX, establishing a phased path toward full licensing that aligns with Financial Action Task Force standards. Justin Sun, founder of Tron, and Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance, attended the ceremony to celebrate the regulatory milestone for crypto exchanges in Pakistan. According to PVARA, the NOCs were granted after a multi-agency review that assessed the exchanges’ governance, compliance systems, risk…

Australia-based Propanc Biopharma has announced that it has secured $100 million from a crypto-focused family office to launch a crypto treasury — a move its CEO described as “transformative” as its cancer therapy product enters human trials next year. The private placement, structured through convertible preferred stock, provides Propanc with an initial $1 million investment and up to $99 million in follow-on funding over the next 12 months from Hexstone Capital, a family office that invests in several crypto treasury companies. The cancer-treating biotech company stated that the proceeds will be used to build a digital asset treasury and accelerate…

Binance Futures has announced it will list two new USDⓈ-margin perpetual contracts on its platform. The exchange announced it will activate USUSDT and CYSUSDT perpetual contracts to offer users a wider range of trading options and enhance the futures trading experience. According to the announcement, the USUSDT perpetual contract will begin trading on December 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM UTC and will offer leverage support up to 40x. Following this, the CYSUSDT perpetual contract will open on the same day at 2:00 PM, allowing users to utilize leverage up to 20x. The underlying asset of the USUSDT contract is Talus…

Ripple is making a hard push into traditional finance, and the numbers back it up. The company has spent nearly $4 billion this year snapping up financial infrastructure companies in a bid to blend crypto with banking. In an interview with CNBC at the Swell 2025 conference in New York, CEO Brad Garlinghouse made it clear that Ripple is quite literally buying its way in right now. “I want to see Ripple invest in [the] future and get ahead of where that market’s going,” Brad said on Tuesday. The company’s entire strategy now leans on using crypto tech inside the…

While crypto gaming has long been seen as a key use for blockchain, letting gamers really own and freely trade their unique items and perhaps profit from a game’s success, developers are struggling to sustain their games and digital economies. Some games, like Gunzilla Games’ Off the Grid, have punched through to a broader audience, gaining adoption from top streamers and gamers alike—albeit ahead of full blockchain integration. But many other games and studios building with tokens are struggling to find players and maintain funding. In 2025, a number of once-promising crypto games closed up shop, with the list growing…