Future Raises Strategic Funding to Build Swiss Bitcoin Treasury Platform

Swiss Bitcoin Treasury Company Future raises $34.6 million to scale institutional bitcoin services from Zurich. Future Holdings AG announces in Zurich on 5 November 2025 the successful close of a $34.6 million (CHF 28 million) strategic funding round anchored by Fulgur Ventures, Nakamoto and TOBAM to build Europe’s premier Bitcoin Treasury Company. The round backs … Read more

CMT Digital Closes $136M Fund IV to Back Next Phase of Crypto Adoption

CMT Digital raises $136 million for Fund IV to invest in blockchain infrastructure and re‑architecting global finance. CMT Digital announces the close of its fourth venture fund at $136 million, bringing the firm’s assets under management to over $600 million and targeting early‑stage founders building infrastructure and applications for the next phase of crypto adoption. … Read more

BoE Says UK Stablecoin Rules Will Roll out ‘Just as Quickly as the US’

Bank of England deputy governor vows UK stablecoin regime will be implemented promptly, with temporary holding limits. Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden tells a London conference on 5 November 2025 that the UK will unveil a proposed stablecoin regime on Monday and aims for it to be “up and running, just as quickly … Read more

UBS Completes First Live Tokenized Fund Transaction Using Chainlink

UBS executes the first in‑production onchain subscription and redemption for a tokenized money‑market fund. UBS announces in New York and Zurich the first live, end‑to‑end tokenized fund workflow using the Chainlink Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) technical standard, completing on‑chain subscription and redemption requests for the UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund Token (uMINT) built on … Read more

Pig‑Butchering Crime Syndicate Sentenced to Death in China

Shenzhen court sentences leaders of a “pig‑butchering” fraud syndicate to death amid large‑scale criminal findings. The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong convicts leaders of the Bai family criminal syndicate—linked to “pig‑butchering” romance scams—and sentences Bai Suocheng, Bai Yingcang, Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang and Chen Guangyi to death, with additional defendants receiving death with two‑year … Read more

Zerohash Secures Dutch Authorization to Serve European Clients

Zerohash Europe obtains AFM MiCAR authorization to provide regulated crypto and stablecoin infrastructure across the EEA. Zerohash Europe announces in Amsterdam that it has received authorization under the EU’s Markets in Crypto‑Assets Regulation (MiCAR) from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), enabling the company to offer regulated crypto‑asset and stablecoin infrastructure services, including … Read more

Google Launches Project Suncatcher to Put AI Compute in Space

Google announces Project Suncatcher to test space‑based TPUs, optical links, and scalable artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Google unveils Project Suncatcher on 4 November 2025, announcing plans to test Trillium‑generation tensor processing units (TPUs) in space and to launch two prototype satellites with Planet by early 2027 to validate optical inter‑satellite links, radiation tolerance, and clustered … Read more

HKMA Unveils “Fintech 2030” With Tokenization‑First Roadmap

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority launches Fintech 2030 to accelerate tokenization, AI adoption, payments and resilience. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority in Hong Kong on 3 November 2025 unveils “Fintech 2030” during Hong Kong FinTech Week 2025, setting a DART strategy—Data and Payment Infrastructure, AI2Strategy (Artificial Intelligence x Authorized Institutions), Resilience, and Tokenization—backed by a … Read more

AMINA Bank Achieves First MiCA Crypto‑Asset Service Provider License Via Austrian Subsidiary

Swiss crypto-banking group AMINA’s Austrian unit secured a MiCAR crypto-asset service provider license from the Austrian regulator. AMINA Bank AG announces in Zug, Switzerland on 3 November 2025 that its subsidiary AMINA (Austria) AG (AMINA EU) has received a Crypto‑Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) under the Markets in Crypto‑Assets … Read more

CZ Highlights Gambaryan Detention in Nigeria as Trump, US War Secretary Call for Action

CZ reminded that Nigeria detained ex‑Binance employee Tigran Gambaryan, responding to Trump and War Secretary Hegseth. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) tweeted that “Nigeria also basically kidnapped Tigran Gambaryan, an ex‑Binance employee and an ex‑US federal agent, for 8 months without cause a year ago,” posting the remark in reaction to a Truth Social post … Read more