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MoonPay, Circle, and Kraken all acquired infrastructure this month, but for very different reasons.
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MoonPay, Circle, and Kraken all acquired infrastructure this month, but for very different reasons.
Bitmine's ETH treasury topped 5.78M tokens worth $11.3B, while Strategy's BTC stack went untouched again.
Ondo Finance launches its Ondo Network days after its Oasis Pro Markets arm won SEC clearance for tokenized U.S. equities.
Lido's new Core upgrade adds ETH-backed operator bonds and validator consolidation to ease congestion and boost accountability.
Fake World Assets is Ethereum's breakout NFT gacha. Here's how it works, how to play, and what to watch out for going forward.
Hester Peirce's new vaults and lending statement draws the line at human discretion.
Transparency doesn't equal legibility, so Herd is turning DeFi vaults into something humans can actually audit.
A look at the stretched ETH/gold ratio and how traders can express the long ETH, short gold bet onchain.
Morpho Midnight is aimed at powering the fixed-rate, fixed-term lending DeFi needs for institutions.
Ethereum outsourced scaling to L2s. Now native proof verification and fast finality can bring them back into the fold.
Morpho Midnight exits beta within days with fixed-term lending, multi-market offers, and a deliberately cautious rollout.
Visa's Stablecoin Platform packages OUSD access, wallet infra, and treasury integration for institutions entering crypto.
One of the EF's most versatile protocol researchers just left for Ethlabs, saying serious protocol work now has "a credible shot" outside the Foundation.
PayPal in the front, Tempo in the back?
Do trades fill better on Solana than on Coinbase? JTX's new Good Trade feature puts that to the test on every order.
Wall Street's $114T clearing backbone just executed real production trades with tokenized securities.
The CLARITY Act cleared Senate Banking, but an unresolved ethics fight, a departing White House negotiator, and a shrinking calendar threaten its passage.
Ex-Ethereum Foundation privacy researchers have launched EthSystems, a for-profit firm building privacy tech for institutional Ethereum adoption.
Galaxy's new managed lending program gives institutions one blended DeFi borrowing rate without having to go through crypto wallets.
Strategy held its 843,775 BTC steady last week while stacking dollars via MSTR.
Jupiter just teamed with Collector Crypt to launch onchain gacha packs to its millions of users.
Ethereum's OG money-streaming platform is closing up shop, though its smart contracts will live on.
AI agents are getting blocked alongside crawlers because websites can't tell them apart, so the race is on to build an ID layer for the agent economy.
Memes lit the fuse on Robinhood Chain, but DeFi's blue chips are also catching the upside as picks and shovels.
Circle's new OCC-chartered trust bank gives USDC federal custody backing, sending CRCL up 10%+ as it claws back OpenUSD selloff losses.
Empery Digital sold 1,400 BTC for debt, an AI data center deal, and legal costs, echoing Strategy's shift toward treating BTC as liquidity.
Kraken is rebuilding its app with AI in its core, joining Coinbase and Robinhood in making AI the connective tissue for their platforms.
Inference routing and premium data are working for x402. Content monetization could be what makes it essential if Cloudflare's gateway proves it can scale.
HPC and Phantom asked the CFTC to confirm code isn't a financial service.
Robinhood built its L2 for serious onchain finance, but degens had other plans.
Paradigm's $1.2B fourth fund broadens beyond crypto into AI and robotics, joining Framework Ventures and Haun Ventures in widening their scopes.
BNB Chain's new L1 removes the mempool and targets sub-50ms preconfirmation, built for AI agents as chains race for agent trading tools.
Robinhood Chain was built for tokenized stocks and agentic trading, but memecoin CASHCAT is driving its first real surge in trading volume.
Strategy sold $216M in Bitcoin to fund dividends but still reports full $1.25B reserve capacity. The build-versus-replenish loophole explained.
The SEC just published its 2026 rulemaking agenda, and crypto is a top priority.
Ondo just launched a perps platform where tokenized stocks can be used to back leveraged positions.
Lazy Summer Protocol lost $6M to a NAV manipulation exploit three months in the making.
Nearly every major piece of Ethereum is slated for transformation.
Buterin's new proposal would shrink Ethereum's validator state sharply using daily ZK proofs, part of the multi-year "Lean Ethereum" redesign.
USDC now handles 70% of adjusted stablecoin transaction volume as banks like Standard Chartered and BNY build on Circle's network.