DeFi

Venice Raises $65M Series A at $1B Valuation Led by Dragonfly

Erik Voorhees' privacy-first AI platform Venice landed a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion equity valuation, its first outside capital, after hitting...

Solana Launches Onchain Governance With Stake-Weighted Voting for Validators

Solana Foundation says onchain governance is now live, letting validators with at least 100,000 SOL delegated open proposals that go to a stake-weighted vote...

Robinhood Launches Robinhood Chain Mainnet, Adds Stock Tokens, Onchain Lending, and Agentic Crypto Trading

At a London keynote, the trading platform opened its Arbitrum-based Layer 2 to the public, rolled out new stock tokens and a Morpho-powered lending...

World Launches Onchain Prediction Market on Solana Through Phantom

The platform, unmasked in late June after two-plus years as an anonymous "Trade Everything" teaser account, opens trading in Phantom's CASH stablecoin and leans...

New York Life Partners with Centrifuge on Tokenized Corporate Bonds

New York Life Investment Management is tokenizing a high-yield corporate bond strategy for the first time, partnering with Centrifuge on the NYLIM Anemoy fund...

EthLabs launches as Ethereum undergoes its biggest leadership transition in years

That transition has also reshaped the Ethereum Foundation itself.Earlier this year, the foundation published a renewed mandate emphasizing Ethereum's core values: including credible neutrality,...

Europe is rewriting its landmark MiCA regulatory rulebook as hard July 1 deadline passes

Nevertheless, MiCA has achieved many of its original goals, according to Hansen. There are around 20 euro-denominated stablecoins that have been authorized by the...

Crypto claws back some losses but derivatives markets point to more pain ahead: Crypto Markets Today

Bitcoin BTC$58,638.93 rose 0.3% to $58,700 on Wednesday, showing a sliver of strength after spiking down to $57,700, the lowest point since September 2024,...

Open Standard Unveils Open USD, a Bank- and Tech-Backed Stablecoin Governed by Its Users

A consortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies introduced Open USD, a dollar stablecoin whose reserve earnings and governance are designed to...

OKX launches AI Marketplace for Autonomous Agent Economy

Cryptocurrency exchange OKX has rolled out the beta launch of its marketplace for artificial intelligence (AI) agents.The OKX AI platform enables users to list...

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SEC Proposes New Standards for US Transfer Agents

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed...

SEC proposes transfer agent rule, sets event to figure out round-the-clock U.S. trading

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an agenda...

UK Crime Agency Froze $13.5M Amid Probe into Premier League Crypto Sponsor

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Robinhood's new crypto network is printing cash, and it's sending Arbitrum's token soaring

Revenue on Robinhood Chain hit a 24-hour record of...