More than 8,000 people in Kazakhstan have participated in Web3-related training over the past year, according to figures presented by Talgat Dossanov, head of Superteam Kazakhstan, at a government meeting, as reported by local media outlets. This was the government meeting (cabinet meeting) of Kazakhstan held on 15 September 2026 chaired by the Prime Minister[…]

AI funding made headlines this week, with Cognition AI raising $2 billion in the US and France’s Mistral AI securing €3 billion. The two deals come with very different stories: Cognition is developing autonomous coding agents, while Mistral is investing fresh capital in computing capacity and it pursues greater European AI sovereignty. Crypto markets also[…]

Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, has announced that $LAPTOP, a memecoin based on the controversy surrounding the laptop associated with him, is scheduled to launch on 9 September 2026, on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 network, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The token is planned to have a 1[…]

Liquid Network, a blockchain network tied to Bitcoin and used by several cryptocurrency exchanges has suffered a $320 million hack, marking the latest major breach to rattle confidence in digital-asset security. Attackers stole about 4,000 Bitcoin, worth roughly $320 million, from its federation wallet. The amount represented about 95 per cent of the approximately 4,200[…]

The founder of Moneyviz and coordinator of Casa Sanremo Invest tells AIBC News why AI, blockchain and digital finance cannot be separated from education, trust and the ability to recognise credible operators and to distinguish between credible operators and misleading promises. Digital finance has multiplied the number of tools, platforms, content formats, and access points[…]

The G20 (Group of 20) has backed the development of responsible regulatory and supervisory frameworks for digital assets and other forms of financial innovation, as artificial intelligence (AI) and digital finance reshape the global financial system. Finance ministers and central bank governors from the G20 met in Asheville, North Carolina, on 31 August and 1[…]

Radosław Piesiewicz, president of the Polish Olympic Committee, was detained on 27 August 2026, as part of an investigation into alleged improper financial benefits linked to sponsorship arrangements involving cryptocurrency platform Zondacrypto. Polish prosecutors are investigating the possibility of illicit financial transactions involving business, sports, and politically linked individuals. The accusations have not been proven[…]

BlackRock has reduced the minimum transaction size for eligible Bitcoin holders using in-kind creations for its iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) from $25 million to $1 million, as reported by Bloomberg. The change, made in July 2026, represents a 96 per cent reduction in the minimum threshold. The change does not affect ordinary investors buying[…]

IBM and the United States Tennis Association (USTA) have introduced new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital features for the 2026 US Open across USOpen.org and the official US Open app. The tools use live match data, AI, computer vision and conversational AI to provide match analysis, personalised content and other information for fans. The 2026 US[…]

The investigation into crypto investor Harry Yeh’s death continues, with Paraguayan police examining whether a substance, medication or a possible mental health episode may have played a role in his fatal fall from the 30th floor of the Jade Park complex in Asunción on 7 August. Autopsy findings reported by local media indicated that Yeh[…]

Europe’s flagship crypto law is barely six weeks old and already facing revision. The US Senate pushed its vote on crypto legislation to September. A Bitcoin miner just signed one of the largest AI infrastructure deals on record. And Harmony’s ONE token took a hit after an attacker minted four billion coins out of thin[…]

The General Manager at Blockchain Italia explains how Varla aims to bring lending, borrowing, and capital efficiency to prediction markets, while regulators and industry players debate whether these instruments should be treated as finance, information, or betting. Prediction markets have entered a phase of rapid acceleration. Originally designed as markets where users can take positions[…]