Lightspark aims to become global payments infrastructure for stablecoins, Visa and AI agents — not just Bitcoin and Lightning Network.

European ETP issuers are moving beyond bitcoin and ether. Virtune launched two new products on the same day — tracking Hyperliquid and SUI.

Western Union and MoneyGram are building stablecoins into the core of their infrastructure. The international payments market is shifting.

On Friday 24 April 2026, 12:00–13:00 CET, Kaupr TV Live is back with its third live show from the studio in Stockholm,

Four European major banks and two Nordic ones put stablecoins and tokenised deposits on the agenda at the Nordic treasury conference in Gothenburg.

Norway Fintech Festival puts crypto, tokenisation and digital finance on the agenda. Here is an overview of the key sessions on 22 April in Bergen.

An international Bitcoin conference heads to Bodø — inspired by North Norwegian culture and the belief that nothing is impossible.

One of the biggest DeFi attacks of 2026 leaves Aave with an estimated $200 million in bad debt after KelpDAO's cross-chain bridge was exploited.

Bitcoin was the gateway. In one week in April 2026, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Charles Schwab all went all in on crypto.

HYPE is up 108 percent since January. Kaupr took a closer look at what is driving the rally.

eToro is paying around $70 million for Israeli crypto wallet ZenGo, marking its entry into chain-based finance.

Societe Generale has partnered with Consensys to integrate the bank's stablecoin USDCV directly into the MetaMask wallet.

Yesterday, Banking Circle, with roots in Danish Saxo Bank dating back to 2013, received its MiCA licence in Luxembourg

Stockholm-based startup SolvaPay has raised 2.4 million euros in pre-seed funding and is launching an infrastructure for agent payments.

OKX is launching regulated crypto derivatives with up to 10x leverage for retail and institutional traders in Europe.

With veteran hedge fund manager Russell Thompson as its new Chief Investment Officer, Swedish Hilbert Group is in the middle of "Hilbert 2.0".

Deutsche Börse's investment in Kraken this week is the latest in a series of deals between stock and crypto exchanges.

World Liberty Financial — the crypto project headed by Donald Trump and his family — is facing scrutiny.

German exchange operator Deutsche Börse has acquired a 1.5 percent stake in crypto exchange Kraken for $200 million.

Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin USDT, is launching tether.wallet – a self-custodial wallet built on open-source technology.

Bitwise, the world's largest specialised digital asset manager, has listed seven crypto exchange-traded products on Nasdaq Stockholm.

The board of Norwegian Block Exchange states in its 2025 annual report that the company expects to achieve a positive operating result

More than 3 million adults across the Baltics and Nordics own cryptocurrency today. The new figures from the Baltic Crypto Adoption Survey.

175,000 Latvian adults own cryptocurrency today – equivalent to 11.5 percent of the population.