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Sony Bank gets conditional OCC approval for US trust bank to issue dollar-backed stablecoin
The trust bank subsidiary, Connectia Trust, is expected to issue and manage a dollar-backed stablecoin, pending final…
Binance Wallet adds Plume’s yield vault offering access to Invesco and Bitwise funds
Binance Wallet has added Plume's yield vault, giving users access to tokenized funds managed by Invesco and Bitwise.
‘Best course of action:’ DeFi dashboard Zapper to shut down after 7 years
Zapper, which started as a portfolio tracker, raised a $15 million Series A led by Framework Ventures in May 2021.
Pump Fun is unlocking $127M insider tokens worth double PUMP’s recent daily volume
The July 12 unlock is large enough to test whether trader demand can absorb insider supply without forcing a deeper r…
Paradigm raises $1.2 billion fourth fund, expanding beyond crypto into AI and robotics
Crypto venture firm Paradigm has raised its fourth fund, a $1.2 billion vehicle that will invest in crypto, AI, robot…
European Commission looks to expand MiCA to cover emergence of tokenization, non-EU stablecoin issuers: report
The European Commission is reportedly seeking comment from stakeholders on expanding MiCA rules until Sept. 30.
Cardano founding entity EMURGO steps down from Pentad governance role after wallet exploit
The exploit, which leveraged a flaw in the wallet's address generation system, drained roughly 16 million ADA worth a…
BNB Chain is building a new layer-1 for high-frequency trading and AI agents
The network aims to process over 100,000 transactions per second by streaming them directly, eliminating public queue…
Ethereum is losing ownership of crypto payments as Base moves $565B in stablecoins
Visa's adjusted June data shows L2s competing for the dollar flows that could define crypto payments. The post Ethere…
Russia’s legal crypto on-ramp to arrive with a state-owned bank holding the keys
The reported December launch matters because Russia’s new rules may make custody, limits, and compliance the price …
BonkDAO’s estimated $20M drain exposes how memecoin treasuries can be raided by a simple vote
The malicious proposal shows how token-weighted votes can become a treasury access path when DAO review controls are …
SBI Holdings is sole investor in crypto platform EDX Markets’ $76 million Series C
Institutional crypto platform EDX Markets has closed a $76 million Series C funding round, with Japan's SBI Holdings …
Ondo Finance says tokenized stocks can now be used as collateral for perp trading
Last year, the tokenized real-world asset issuer launched 24/7 onchain access to more than 100 U.S. stocks and ETFs.
1kx, Blockchain Capital back $7.5 million KOR Protocol Series A at $100 million valuation
KOR Protocol is building an onchain clearinghouse that helps register and route creative works and pay out rights hol…
Tether puts $20 million behind Mercado Bitcoin amid Latin America’s tokenization boom
Mercado Bitcoin has grown from an early crypto exchange into a regulated digital financial services platform.
Cardano’s 9.0.1 Hotfix Shows Why Last-Mile Upgrades Matter Before A Hard Fork
Hard forks are usually discussed in big-picture terms, but the final approach is often decided by smaller technical c…
Bernstein maintains $36 TeraWulf target after $19 billion, 20-year Anthropic lease
Bernstein held its $36 TeraWulf price target after the miner's $19 billion Anthropic lease and $530 million sale of i…
New SummerFi DeFi exploit shows AI automation now sits above smart contract risk
Blockaid estimated about $6 million drained as Summer.fi paused Lazy Summer vaults and investigated the cause. The po…
Galaxy delivers 133 MW of critical IT load to CoreWeave as Helios bitcoin mine turns AI hub
Galaxy delivered 133 MW of critical IT load to CoreWeave at its Helios campus, completing Phase I of the West Texas s…
Paradigm leads $5.5 million seed round in M1X Global to expand tokenized sovereign debt platform
M1X Global, which worked with the Republic of the Marshall Islands on the issuance of the onchain sovereign bond USDM…
BonkDAO loses $20 million following ‘malicious governance proposal’ attack
The funds have been tracked to crypto exchanges, and South Korea-based Upbit said it has suspended BONK deposits and …
Vitalik Buterin proposes ‘Extremely Lean’ Ethereum, shrinking the chain to near-zero state with ZK proofs
Buterin outlined a two-step plan to shift Ethereum's state management to validators and replace per-epoch balance upd…
TeraWulf signs 20-year data center lease with Anthropic expected to generate $19 billion in revenue
Anthropic will lease at TeraWulf's Justified Data site in Hawesville, Kentucky, which is expected to provide 401 MW o…
DeFi protocol Summer.fi halts Lazy Summer vaults after $6 million exploit
The protocol’s SUMR token fell by over 18% after the incident.
How MiCA brings banks closer to controlling Europe’s stablecoin access
The EU’s post-transition crypto regime is deciding who controls the compliant rails for stablecoins, wallets and re…
Why Binance’s reported $2B Mesh investment could decide who controls stablecoin payments
The signal is about who controls the wallet-to-merchant path that makes tokenized dollars spendable. The post Why Bin…
Bitcoin experts split over plan to freeze Satoshi's 1.1 million bitcoin as quantum threat grows
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin should be frozen before quantum computers can steal it…
OpenUSD’s partner mix-up puts its stablecoin alliance under scrutiny
A stablecoin built around a giant partner list now faces the question every coalition coin must answer: who is actual…
IMF says policy choices will determine whether tokenization strengthens or fragments the financial system
The IMF's Tobias Adrian said risks could shift from banks toward market infrastructure providers and smart contracts …