DeFi

Movement Labs files for Chapter 11 months after token scandal

An April 2025 CoinDesk investigation found that Movement was examining whether it had been misled into signing a market-making agreement that handed a single...

Stablecoin bank Augustus raises $180 million to build a clearing bank for the AI era

Augustus, a startup building a federally chartered clearing bank for fintechs and financial institutions, said it raised $180 million to expand its dollar payment...

Morpho Launches Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol on Base

Lending protocol Morpho has launched Morpho Midnight on Base, adding fixed-rate, fixed-term loans to its onchain credit network alongside the variable-rate markets offered through...

BTC price rally has broad-based support as institutions, whales, options traders pile in: Crypto Daily

"Large Bitcoin whales have been building up their positions over the last two months, while medium-sized wallets have been selling. This divergence in behaviour...

Bitcoin ETFs post a fifth straight day of inflows in a first since April

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $227 million on July 20, a fifth consecutive day of net inflows for the first time since...

Hut 8, IREN land billions in new contracts, lifting AI compute stocks MARA, RIOT, WULF

Shares of bitcoin miners turned AI infrastructure providers surged Monday after Hut 8 (HUT) and IREN (IREN) announced billions of dollars in new contracts,...

Hyperliquid sets 500,000 HYPE stake for permissionless prediction market deployers

Hyperliquid plans to require developers to stake 500,000 HYPE, worth about $30.4 million, to deploy permissionless prediction markets under HIP-4.

Bank of Korea prepares for live CBDC transactions with 9 banks in September

The Bank of Korea's central bank digital currency (CBDC) plans are moving forward with nine participating banks.The second phase of BOK's CBDC program is...

Hyperliquid plans to introduce decentralized prediction markets in HIP-4 upgrade

Hyperliquid said its HIP-4 upgrade, which introduced “outcome trading” to the decentralized exchange, will support permissionless deployment of the contracts in a future enhancement.Once...

Amazon Japan distributor AZ-Com Maruwa to adopt yen stablecoin JPYC for payments

A Japanese logistics company that counts Amazon Japan as a client plans to settle payments in the regulated yen stablecoin JPYC with business partners,...

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Citi, Goldman, other global banks and asset managers team up on stablecoin venture

The group will focus first on a U.S. dollar...

Blockticity Moves Trade Records Tied to $7.7 Billion in Assets Onchain

Blockticity is moving more than 1 million authenticated trade...

Gate AI, XYO Launch Head-to-Head Crypto Prediction Game

Gate AI and XYO launched Crypto Cards, a head-to-head...

Japanese regulator requests tax filing exemption for trust-type stablecoins in 2027 reform

Japan’s FSA requested to exempt trust-type stablecoins from mandatory...

Singapore Weighs Recognizing Foreign-Regulated Stablecoins under MAS Framework

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is reconsidering its...