Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar

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Stablecoin platform VelaFi secures $20M to scale cross-border settlement rails

Crypto January 13, 2026

VelaFi, a stablecoin-based financial infrastructure company under Galactic Holdings, has raised $20 million in a Series B round to support the expansion of its enterprise payments and settlement servοΏ½...

Colombia advances crypto tax rules as global reporting standards take shape

Crypto January 10, 2026

Colombias tax authority, DIAN, has introduced a mandatory reporting regime for crypto service providers, requiring exchanges and intermediaries to collect and submit user and transaction data as partοΏ½...

Nexo to offer zero-interest crypto lending for BTC and ETH holders

Crypto January 9, 2026

Nexo has launched a zero-interest crypto lending product that allows Bitcoin and Ether holders to borrow against their assets through fixed-term loans. According to a company announcement, the produοΏ½...

Temple Digital Group launches 24/7 institutional trading built on Canton

Crypto January 9, 2026

Temple Digital Group has launched a private, institutional trading platform built on the Canton Network, offering continuous, 24/7 trading of digital assets using a central limit order book and non-cοΏ½...

Coincheck to acquire digital asset manager 3iQ in $112M stock deal

Crypto January 9, 2026

Coincheck Group, the Nasdaq-listed holding company behind one of Japans largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has agreed to acquire a 97% stake in Canadian digital asset manager 3iQ from its majority ownοΏ½...

Gate becomes latest crypto exchange to embed AI market intelligence

Crypto January 8, 2026

Cryptocurrency exchange Gate has added an AI-powered market analysis tool, called GateAI, to its trading app, offering automated summaries and explanations of market data. GateAI is available in verοΏ½...

Babylon receives $15M from a16z Crypto to expand Bitcoin-native lending

Crypto January 8, 2026

Babylon, a decentralized protocol focused on enabling native Bitcoin staking and lending, received $15 million in funding from a16z Crypto through the sale of Babylon's native BABY (BABY) tokens to tοΏ½...

Riot Platforms offloads $161M in Bitcoin in December amid strategy shift

Crypto January 8, 2026

Riot Platforms sold 1,818 Bitcoin in December for $161.6 million at an average net price of $88,870, as part of a strategy shift from Bitcoin mining to monetizing its power and data center infrastrucοΏ½...

Flow details December exploit that led to $3.9M in losses due to counterfeit tokens

Crypto January 7, 2026

The Flow Foundation on Tuesday published a technical post-mortem detailing a protocol-level exploit that occurred on Dec. 27, when an attacker was able to counterfeit tokens on the network, resultingοΏ½...

Jupiter launches JupUSD stablecoin backed by BlackRock’s BUIDL fund

Crypto January 7, 2026

Jupiter, a Solana-based DeFi protocol and trading platform, has launched JupUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued natively on Solana and developed in partnership with Ethena Labs. In an X post on MοΏ½...