Payments giant Mastercard is partnering with crypto technology firm Bakkt to allow partner merchants, fintechs, and banks to accept cryptocurrencies at the point of sale.

Worldcoin, a new startup that’s attracted $25M in funding from big-name investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is offering users free crypto if they confirm their identities by taking an iris scan.

In a significant milestone for the crypto industry, the first bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) launched this week as the “second most heavily traded fund,” a move that sent the value of the digital currency to an all-time high at about $65,000.

James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley, said on a third-quarter earnings call that crypto is “not a fad,” but stopped short of saying it will become an integral part of financial services.

Stripe, a company whose tools allow merchants to accept payments, is looking for talent to support crypto integrations.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon clarified that he is no fan of bitcoin, this time telling an audience at an Institute of International Finance event this week that he thought the digital currency was “worthless.”

International money-transfer firm MoneyGram has entered into an agreement with blockchain network Stellar to support instant money transfers using the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin.

Revolut, a U.K.-based challenger bank with a global footprint, is reportedly planning to launch a crypto token, subject to approval from the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Twitter is adding to the menu of ways for users to reward their favorite content creators. The social media giant is rolling out Bitcoin tips, a move the company says will offer creators more ways to get paid.

Brokerage firm Robinhood will roll out a crypto wallet that will allow users to transact via cryptocurrencies, the company announced this week.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has signed an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) branch of the U.S. Homeland Security Department in an undisclosed use case for its blockchain analytics software.

With the Taliban solidifying their control over Afghanistan over the past couple of weeks, the country has plunged into a financial crisis, with a cash shortage, a currency in freefall, and rising prices of consumer goods.

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, is facing legal action over a May 19 hour-long outage that resulted in millions of dollars in traders’ money lost, claimants allege.

Poly Network is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that was the target of a hack last week resulting in $600M in stolen crypto.

In one of the biggest crypto thefts ever, nearly $600M in crypto was stolen in a cyberattack on a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform called Poly Network.