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Crypto lending turns to Wall Street credit rules to win back institutional trust after 2022 collapse
Celsius froze withdrawals in June 2022 before filing for Chapter 11 in July 2022, and Genesis froze redemptions after…
Does Botanix’s failure prove Bitcoiners don’t care about DeFi?
The failure of Botanix suggests that Bitcoiners still prefer Ethereum DeFi to Bitcoin L2s. How can Bitcoin L2s change…
Trillion-dollar asset manager Invesco looks to plant a flag in tokenized stablecoin reserve sector
The fund will invest primarily in U.S. Treasuries, repo agreements, and cash equivalents to maintain a stable $1 net …
Sophon sunsets its Layer 2 blockchain, moves to Base to build consumer apps
Sophon, which has raised $70 million in total funding, is shutting down its Layer 2 blockchain and moving to Base to …
Kraken, Maple launch onchain warehouse facility for crypto-backed institutional loans
Kraken's new facility with Maple brings a traditional warehouse financing model onchain, allowing the exchange to exp…
Tether-pegged USDT0 stablecoin crosses $100 billion transaction volume milestone
USDT0, backed 1:1 by tethers, the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, is the third-largest holder of USDT.
Kraken expands OTC lending through an onchain warehouse facility with Maple
Maple’s lenders will provide a revolving line of funding to supply USDC liquidity for Kraken's over-the-counter bor…
Pump.fun offers up to $5 million salary for chief legal officer role
The position covers everything from SEC oversight to MiCA rules and U.K. regulations, and offers a salary between $1 …
Superstate co-founder raises $3.6 million pre-seed for Ground to help fintechs access onchain yield
Ground has raised $3.6 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Bain Capital Crypto and ParaFi as it emerges fro…
a16z CSX-backed Cambrian raises $6 million seed to build blockchain data oracle network
Cambrian, a startup building blockchain data infrastructure for institutions and AI agents, raised $6 million in a se…
Cardano’s scaling overhaul hit by a user confidence gap widened by ADA’s slump and wallet exploit
Cardano has opened public testing for a major throughput upgrade and advanced a mainnet hard fork, pushing forward th…
Black Lake, Nuva Labs tokenize $25 million in mortgage loans on Provenance in RWA push
Black Lake and Nuva Labs completed the onchain minting of $25 million in mortgage loans on Provenance Blockchain.
Aave positioned to capture tokenized asset growth in DeFi: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered said tokenized assets moving into DeFi could drive deposits into Aave and help the protocol rebuil…
Trump directing ‘government dollars and time’ to quantum security could be a boon for bitcoin
Millions of bitcoins with exposed public addresses may be at risk to quantum computers, Project Eleven previously said.
Goldfinch set to shutter Prime after community vote backs wind-down proposal
The protocol facilitated roughly $100 million in loans, but a handful of borrower pools later encountered "serious pe…
New DeFi Education Fund coalition seeks to harden crypto against cybersecurity threats
The DeFi Education Fund launched a cybersecurity coalition as part of an effort to bolster itself against bad actors …
Ethereum breakaway developers turn a funding gap into a fight over who steers the network
On June 22, five former senior Ethereum Foundation researchers announced Ethlabs, an independent nonprofit R&D lab wi…
Trump signs orders for quantum computer, cryptography upgrades
“We’re going to be investing in American quantum leadership like never before to stay ahead of the pack,” says …
TurboFlow, aiming to be the ‘Kalshi of APAC,’ raises $6 million seed led by Pantera Capital
The platform offers prediction markets and perpetual futures and aims to be a localized alternative to Kalshi and Pol…
MoonPay expands into back-office financial operations with AI accounting startup Entendre acquisition
MoonPay has made at least four other acquisitions this year as it works to expand via MoonPay Trade and MoonPay Insti…
Securitize asks court to reject tZERO’s ‘meritless’ tokenization patent allegations
Securitize alleged that tZERO's actions are "nothing more than the culmination" of shareholder pressure to capitalize…
HIVE stock surges 25% as Ivy League researchers train neural networks on Paraguay GPUs
The research was submitted to NeurIPS, one of AI's leading academic conferences, to be held later this year.
Tokenized RWA market cap rises 40% to top $51 billion as industry races to define equity tokenization model: Bernstein
Tokenized RWA market cap tops $51 billion as equity tokenization grows 130% and firms race to define the winning busi…
MoneyGram becomes Solana validator, expands blockchain payments strategy
Solana is now the third blockchain where MoneyGram operates an official validator, alongside Tempo and the Midnight N…
Taiko urges users to withdraw as bridge exploit drains $1.7M
Taiko’s bridge and ERC20 Vault on Ethereum suffered a compromise in its chain state verification mechanism, allowin…
Altura winds down stablecoin vault after ‘unprecedented level’ of withdrawal requests
Altura's CEO said market speculation played a part, seemingly referring to contagion fears linked to the depegging of…
HYPE, JTO and WLD wins are looking more like exceptions than an altcoin season signal
The WLD token surged 149.6% over the past month, XLM climbed 54%, JTO posted a 46.7% gain, and HYPE set a new all-tim…
TD Cowen says CME has the upper hand in lawsuit against CFTC over crypto perpetual futures
"We expect CME will seek a preliminary injunction to block perps as the case proceeds," said TD Cowen's Jaret Seiberg.
Global $2.75B payments deal shows stablecoins moving into the rails they were meant to bypass
The $2.75 billion acquisition points to token settlement moving inside regulated payment networks before it replaces …
DeFi’s next institutional wave may come from users who never see “behind the scenes” – CEO of Katana
For years, DeFi's growth strategy was to pull users on-chain, and the next institutional wave is testing where users …