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Wall Street giant Apollo follows BlackRock in DeFi push with Morpho token deal

Apollo Global Management (APO) is moving deeper into crypto, striking a deal that could make the $938 billion asset manager a major token holder...

BlackRock Enters DeFi Via UniSwap, Bitcoin Stages Modest Recovery

BlackRock made its first formal move into decentralized finance this week, listing its tokenized Treasury fund on Uniswap, with Bitcoin and Ether staging only...

DeFi Education Fund calls on UK FCA to narrow definition of control in crypto regulation

The DeFi Education Fund (DEF) has urged the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority to adopt a narrow, functional definition of “control” as it finalizes new...

Spark Launches Institutional Lending Suite to Channel DeFi Stablecoins

Spark announced the launch of Spark Prime and Spark Institutional Lending on Wednesday to channel more of its decentralized finance (DeFi) stablecoin reserves into...

Lombard Launches Bitcoin Smart Accounts Linking Custody to DeFi

Lombard unveils Bitcoin Smart Accounts to recognize custodied BTC as onchain collateral, enabling decentralized finance ( DeFi) access without moving custody. Lombard announces Bitcoin...

Lombard Launches Smart Accounts to Connect Institutional Bitcoin to DeFi

The new system lets institutions earn yield and access liquidity without moving Bitcoin out of custody.Lombard on Wed., Feb. 11, launched Bitcoin Smart Accounts,...

Spark pushes DeFi stablecoin liquidity into institutional crypto lending

EMB: Feb. 11, 06:00 UTCDecentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Spark is pushing one of DeFi’s deepest pools of stablecoin liquidity further into institutional markets, unveiling...

Ledger Wallet Adds OKX DEX for On-Device DeFi Swaps

Ledger, the French digital asset security company known for its hardware wallets, has integrated OKX DEX into its Wallet app, enabling users to execute...

XRP at center as Ripple lays out institutional DeFi blueprint for XRPL

Ripple and XRPL contributors have outlined a growing set of “institutional DeFi” building blocks on the XRP Ledger that aim to make the network...

Stacks and Fireblocks Partner To Bring Bitcoin-Based DeFi to Institutions

Update (2-4-26 at 6:49 UTC): This article has been updated to show the correct Stacks block time as 5 secondsFireblocks, an institutional-grade crypto infrastructure...

Survey Shows Crypto Investors Favor Infrastructure Over DeFi

A survey of senior crypto investors and executives suggests capital priorities are shifting away from decentralized finance (DeFi) and toward core infrastructure, as decision-makers...