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Hong Kong taps JPMorgan, HSBC for expert group to scale tokenized bonds
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced the formation of an expert group to advance the development of tokenized b…
A 2011 physical Bitcoin loaded with 25 BTC was just unlocked during the $62k selloff
A Casascius coin tied to 25 BTC moved this week, converting a 2011 physical Bitcoin artifact into spendable BTC durin…
Senate Republicans urged financial regulators to rework bank capital rules for digital assets
A group of Senate Republicans is pressing key financial regulatory agencies to clarify capital standards for digital …
Travala debuts agentic AI travel protocol with gasless USDC payments on Base
Travala launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base supporting gasless USDC hotel bookings and AI-assisted payment…
Cosmos Labs acquires block explorer Mintscan, forms Korea subsidiary to expand ecosystem
Cosmos Labs has acquired Cosmos block explorer Mintscan and formed a new Korea-based subsidiary, Cosmos Labs Korea.
Vitalik wants DeFi price crashes to stop triggering automatic liquidations
Vitalik Buterin is challenging one of DeFi's most familiar safety mechanisms: the automatic liquidation that closes a…
House of Lords committee urges UK regulators to ease stablecoin rules that could stifle market growth
A UK House of Lords committee warned that Britain lags the U.S. and the EU on stablecoins, calling on the BoE and FCA…
Ethena taps Anchorage for secure offchain collateral in institutional lending push
Ethena began pivoting toward overcollateralized institutional lending in April as part of a major overhaul of USDe re…
Veda brings the vault stack behind Kraken DeFi Earn to Privy’s 2,000-plus developer teams
The same vault stack powering Kraken DeFi Earn and EtherFi's Liquid will be available via a self-serve API for develo…
Failed Ethereum ICO from 2016 just unlocked 1,003 ETH by exploiting itself
A whitehat and HongCoin's original multisig used a preserved overflow bug to reopen refunds trapped since 2016. The p…
Digital euro is key to counter stablecoin risks, says ECB’s Schnabel
Isabel Schnabel, an ECB board member, said Monday that central banks should respond to stablecoin risks with strong r…
Base launches Azul on mainnet, pushing Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 toward full decentralization
Base has deployed its Azul upgrade on mainnet, with multiproofs and a new client stack advancing decentralization.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reiterates ‘no CBDC’ commitment under Trump admin
During a Thursday press briefing, Bessent also urged the House and the Senate to get the Clarity Act to the finish line.
VanEck’s tokenized VBILL US Treasury fund can now be used as collateral on Euler
Securitize launched VanEck's VBILL as a collateral asset in an Euler lending market curated by KPK on Thursday.
DeFi’s automated yield protocols were built for retail, now they just add another layer of risk
Automated yield protocols built DeFi's most persuasive retail pitch that depositing into a vault was all a user neede…
BIS says tokenization can improve wholesale cross-border payments
Project Agorá found tokenization could improve wholesale cross-border payments through atomic settlement across mult…
Aztec Labs acquires ZKPassport, pledges to keep privacy protocol and iOS mobile app open-source
The Obsidion team, including co-founders Michael Elliot and Theo Madzou, will join Aztec Labs to continue developing …
Tiny x402 payments expose the approval gap holding AI agents back
Agentic payment protocol x402 volume collapsed roughly 77% from its November 2025 peak of $5.15 million to $1.19 mill…
Aave is bank-sized, but $2.9T in corporate loans reveals the risk DeFi still can’t price
US commercial and industrial lending reached $2.89 trillion at commercial banks for the week ending May 13, up roughl…
What To Expect In The Latest XRP Ledger Update And How It Affects Holders
The XRP Ledger is moving through another important update process, and this one is not only about adding new features…
Coinbase-incubated Base blockchain rolls out MCP gateway to AI interfaces like Claude, ChatGPT
With the integration, users will now be able to use natural language prompts to swap tokens, transfer funds, and inte…
CLEAR token tanks 48% as Everclear winds down protocol, foundation and labs unit
Everclear achieved $500 million in monthly volume, but "never developed the commercial depth," the team said on Thurs…
MoonPay announces fourth acquisition of the year with Decent, as it launches MoonPay Trade
This Decent deal comes on a wave of acquisitions by MoonPay, including DFlow and Sodot, which all support MoonPay Trade.
Cosmos co-founder’s new multilateral clearing startup Cycles raises $6.4 million
The round, led by Blockchange Ventures, with support from Coinbase Ventures, among others, brings Cycle's total fundi…
Fed seeks input on expanding master account access following Trump’s executive order
Trump signed an order on Tuesday requesting the Fed to review and update regulations to integrate digital assets into…
Kik founder’s latest app Flipcash first to tap Coinbase’s stablecoin-as-a-service platform
Coinbase rolled out its Custom Stablecoin platform in late 2025 to enable companies to launch branded stablecoins.
Bank of England outlines tokenization, stablecoin vision for UK finance
The central bank plans to publish draft rules for systemic sterling stablecoins next month and finalize them by the e…
Trump orders Fed to review giving crypto firms access to master accounts
The order urged the federal government to remove regulations that may be 'overly burdensome' to fintech innovation.
Deloitte absorbs Blocknative team as crypto infra firm winds down APIs and Gas Network
The Blocknative website now returns a post noting that the firm is “now in the process of ceasing operations."
Wintermute enters DeFi vault space with Armitage, supporting ‘collateral types that other curators cannot’
Vault curators allow institutions to take a hands-off approach to crypto by allocating capital along pre-set risk par…