DeFi

Franklin Templeton Wires BENJI Money-Market Fund Into MoonPay Trade for Onchain Stablecoin Swaps

The $1.74 trillion asset manager is letting institutions move directly between stablecoins and shares of its tokenized US government money fund through MoonPay's new...

Bullish crypto bets lose $1.6 billion as ETH, SOL, DOGE drop 9%

Crypto traders hoping the market would catch up to the global stock rally were left nursing tears on Wednesday as a sharp price drop...

Bitcoin (BTC) faces an ‘identity crisis’ and DeFi devs need to stop acting like tech bros

The cryptocurrency market is enduring a sharp narrative shift, but the real growth is happening away from the spotlight, according to the co-founder of...

Bitcoin’s compute power dwarfs top 100 supercomputers by 600k times, says Bittensor co-founder

The infrastructure supporting global computing is undergoing a massive shift. True computing power no longer belongs to isolated corporate data centers, but to open,...

Coinbase Ventures Buys ENA on the Open Market as Coinbase and Ethena Strike Distribution Deal

The exchange's venture arm bought ENA tokens directly on the open market rather than through a private round, the first such disclosed purchase, alongside...

Bad Sentiment, Strong Fundamentals: the Institutional Turn | Chris Perkins, Franklin Crypto

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BTC may face deeper losses as capital chases AI stocks, K33 says

Bitcoin BTC$67,160.49 tumbling to $67,000 may signal a challenging summer ahead as investor capital continues flowing into artificial intelligence (AI) stocks and away from...

EdgeX Blames Outsider for EDGE Token Crash as ZachXBT Alleges Insider Manipulation

Decentralized exchange edgeX has attributed a more than 40% collapse in its EDGE token to ‘deliberate’ market manipulation by an unnamed external party, a...

Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane’s HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network

The tokenized Senior Credit Opportunities feeder fund — already live on Polygon, Ethereum and three other chains — becomes the inaugural Securitize-issued asset on...

Radiant Capital Winds Down to a $2M Husk, 20 Months After DPRK-Linked $50M Heist

The cross-chain lender that once held more than $300M in deposits now has $2.21M in total value locked, a sub-$2M market cap, and no...

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Midnight’s NIGHT token rebounds 19% after Wanchain bridge hack

Midnight's NIGHT token staged a sharp recovery after crashing...

Balance stablecoin collapses 99% after $1 million exploit drains its bitcoin vaults

Balance Coin, a low-circulation algorithmic stablecoin meant to hold...

Bitcoin under $66,000 as traders await Alphabet earnings to gauge AI trade

Bitcoin traded near $65,900 on Wednesday, holding just below...