Peter Thiel and a coterie of tech heavyweights—including Palmer Luckey, Joe Lonsdale, and a pair of crypto-native operators—have filed for a U.S. national-bank charter for Erebor Bank, a digital-first lender built for startups and token-economy firms. If approved, the $2 billion-valued venture could become the first federally chartered bank with stablecoins on its balance sheet, rebooting the post-SVB innovation stack and pressuring legacy banks to move faster on crypto rails.
Europe’s oldest crypto exchange secures regulatory clearance in Asia’s fintech powerhouse. But what does it really mean for Bitstamp’s future?
The announcement
Bitstamp, one of the longest-standing crypto exchanges globally, has secured a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary...
1. Executive Summary
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CoinJoin: Overview and Mechanism
CoinJoin is a privacy-enhancing technique developed for Bitcoin that allows multiple users to combine their transactions into a single, joint transaction....
On 16 June 2025 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) entered a stipulated order requiring Paddle.com Market Limited, the London-based “merchant-of-record” payments platform serving...
Malta’s Financial Services Authority (MFSA) is accelerating MiCA approvals for major crypto exchanges at a pace alarming EU regulators, reviving concerns about the island’s...
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RatEx42 is expanding its scope from rating cyber finance providers to also reviewing their core products—including tokens, wallets, trading apps, and smart contracts. These...
