Visa is accelerating its push into blockchain-based payments by joining the Open Standard consortium. A new initiative behind the Open USD stablecoin designed to bring institutional payments on-chain.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered prediction market platform Kalshi to honor and settle pending sports-related contracts placed by Michigan users.

CleanSpark has signed a 20-year lease expected to generate $6.6 billion in contracted revenue as the Bitcoin miner expands into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has selected 36 payment service providers, including major banks, fintech companies, and payment firms, to participate in a 12-month digital euro pilot scheduled to begin in the second half of 2027.