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DTCC Executes First Live Trades With Tokenized Wall Street Assets
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DTCC Executes First Live Trades With Tokenized Wall Street Assets

Wall Street's $114T clearing backbone just executed real production trades with tokenized securities.

1 day ago

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Galaxy Debuts GOFR to Pipe Institutions Into DeFi Credit
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Galaxy Debuts GOFR to Pipe Institutions Into DeFi Credit

Galaxy's new managed lending program gives institutions one blended DeFi borrowing rate without having to go through crypto wallets.

2 days ago

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Ethereum Foundation Privacy Team Spins Out as EthSystems
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Ethereum Foundation Privacy Team Spins Out as EthSystems

Ex-Ethereum Foundation privacy researchers have launched EthSystems, a for-profit firm building privacy tech for institutional Ethereum adoption.

2 days ago

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Sablier Is Winding Down Development of Its Token Streaming Protocol
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Sablier Is Winding Down Development of Its Token Streaming Protocol

Ethereum's OG money-streaming platform is closing up shop, though its smart contracts will live on.

3 days ago

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Jupiter Partners with Collector Crypt on New Pokémon Card Gacha
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Jupiter Partners with Collector Crypt on New Pokémon Card Gacha

Jupiter just teamed with Collector Crypt to launch onchain gacha packs to its millions of users.

3 days ago

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Strategy's New MSTR Sale Pushes Its Cash Reserves to $3B
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Strategy's New MSTR Sale Pushes Its Cash Reserves to $3B

Strategy held its 843,775 BTC steady last week while stacking dollars via MSTR.

3 days ago

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Empery Digital Sells Half Its Bitcoin Treasury for $87M
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Empery Digital Sells Half Its Bitcoin Treasury for $87M

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.

6 days ago

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Circle Wins OCC Approval for National Trust Bank
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Circle Wins OCC Approval for National Trust Bank

Circle's new OCC-chartered trust bank gives USDC federal custody backing, sending CRCL up 10%+ as it claws back OpenUSD selloff losses.

6 days ago

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Written by Bankless • 1 day ago • 1 min read DTCC Executes First Live Trades With Tokenized Wall Street Assets Wall Street's $114T clearing backbone just executed real production trades with tokenized securities... News 0 0 DTCC Executes First Live Trades With Tokenized Wall Street Assets Written by Bankless • 2 days ago • 1 min read Galaxy Debuts GOFR to Pipe Institutions Into DeFi Credit Galaxy's new managed lending program gives institutions one blended DeFi borrowing rate without havi... News 1 0 Galaxy Debuts GOFR to Pipe Institutions Into DeFi Credit Written by Bankless • 2 days ago • 2 min read Ethereum Foundation Privacy Team Spins Out as EthSystems Ex-Ethereum Foundation privacy researchers have launched EthSystems, a for-profit firm building priv... News 0 0 Ethereum Foundation Privacy Team Spins Out as EthSystems Written by Bankless • 3 days ago • 1 min read Sablier Is Winding Down Development of Its Token Streaming Protocol Ethereum's OG money-streaming platform is closing up shop, though its smart contracts will live on.... News 0 0 Sablier Is Winding Down Development of Its Token Streaming Protocol Written by Bankless • 3 days ago • 2 min read Jupiter Partners with Collector Crypt on New Pokémon Card Gacha Jupiter just teamed with Collector Crypt to launch onchain gacha packs to its millions of users. ... News 0 0 Jupiter Partners with Collector Crypt on New Pokémon Card Gacha Written by Bankless • 3 days ago • 1 min read Strategy's New MSTR Sale Pushes Its Cash Reserves to $3B Strategy held its 843,775 BTC steady last week while stacking dollars via MSTR. ... News 0 0 Strategy's New MSTR Sale Pushes Its Cash Reserves to $3B Written by David Christopher • 6 days ago • 2 min read Empery Digital Sells Half Its Bitcoin Treasury for $87M Empery Digital sold 1,400 BTC for debt, an AI data center deal, and legal costs, echoing Strategy's ... News 0 0 Empery Digital Sells Half Its Bitcoin Treasury for $87M Written by David Christopher • 6 days ago • 2 min read Circle Wins OCC Approval for National Trust Bank Circle's new OCC-chartered trust bank gives USDC federal custody backing, sending CRCL up 10%+ as it... News 0 0 Circle Wins OCC Approval for National Trust Bank Written by David Christopher • 6 days ago • 1 min read Kraken Rebuilds App Around Embedded AI Intelligence Kraken is rebuilding its app with AI in its core, joining Coinbase and Robinhood in making AI the co... News 0 0 Kraken Rebuilds App Around Embedded AI Intelligence Written by Bankless • 1 week ago • 1 min read Hyperliquid Policy Center and Phantom Ask CFTC to Pave Way for Onchain Infra HPC and Phantom asked the CFTC to confirm code isn't a financial service.... News 0 0 Hyperliquid Policy Center and Phantom Ask CFTC to Pave Way for Onchain Infra Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read Paradigm Raises $1.2B Fourth Fund, Expands Into AI Paradigm's $1.2B fourth fund broadens beyond crypto into AI and robotics, joining Framework Ventures... News 0 0 Paradigm Raises $1.2B Fourth Fund, Expands Into AI Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read BNB Chain Builds New L1 for Agentic Trading BNB Chain's new L1 removes the mempool and targets sub-50ms preconfirmation, built for AI agents as ... News 1 0 BNB Chain Builds New L1 for Agentic Trading Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read Robinhood Chain's First Big Traction Comes From Memecoins Robinhood Chain was built for tokenized stocks and agentic trading, but memecoin CASHCAT is driving ... News 0 0 Robinhood Chain's First Big Traction Comes From Memecoins Written by Bankless • 1 week ago • 1 min read SEC Tees Up "Regulation Crypto" in New Rulemaking Agenda The SEC just published its 2026 rulemaking agenda, and crypto is a top priority.... News 0 0 SEC Tees Up Written by Bankless • 1 week ago • 1 min read Lazy Summer Protocol Drained of $6M in Vault Price Exploit Lazy Summer Protocol lost $6M to a NAV manipulation exploit three months in the making.... News 1 0 Lazy Summer Protocol Drained of $6M in Vault Price Exploit Written by Bankless • 1 week ago • 1 min read Ondo Unveils Perps DEX With Tokenized Stocks as Collateral Ondo just launched a perps platform where tokenized stocks can be used to back leveraged positions.... News 0 0 Ondo Unveils Perps DEX With Tokenized Stocks as Collateral Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read USDC Extends Lead Over USDT to 70% of Volume in 2026 USDC now handles 70% of adjusted stablecoin transaction volume as banks like Standard Chartered and ... News 0 0 USDC Extends Lead Over USDT to 70% of Volume in 2026 Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read Buterin Proposes 'Extremely Lean' Ethereum Overhaul Buterin's new proposal would shrink Ethereum's validator state sharply using daily ZK proofs, part o... News 0 0 Buterin Proposes 'Extremely Lean' Ethereum Overhaul Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read Strategy Sells $215M More BTC as Bitcoin Holds Steady Strategy sold $215M in BTC over two weeks to fund dividends, and BTC closed the week higher, testing... News 1 0 Strategy Sells $215M More BTC as Bitcoin Holds Steady Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read eToro Leads $12.5M Round for Onchain Perps Platform Extended eToro led a $12.5M round for Extended, a perpetuals exchange it will integrate into its recently acq... News 1 0 eToro Leads $12.5M Round for Onchain Perps Platform Extended Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read Africa's Largest Centralized Exchange Integrates Hyperliquid Perps VALR will become the first major regulated exchange to natively integrate Hyperliquid, sourcing onch... News 0 0 Africa's Largest Centralized Exchange Integrates Hyperliquid Perps Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 1 min read Solana Launches Onchain Governance With 100K SOL Entry Solana's new governance system lets validators with 100,000 SOL staked propose network changes, whil... News 0 0 Solana Launches Onchain Governance With 100K SOL Entry Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read Tokenized Trading Card Gachas Blow Past $300M in June June marked a new ATH for onchain gacha spending volume, the category's fourth record month running.... News 0 0 Tokenized Trading Card Gachas Blow Past $300M in June Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read Ethereum Institutional Launches as Ecosystem's New Wall Street Liaison Ethereum Institutional has arrived as a nonprofit liaison for institutional adoption.... News 0 0 Ethereum Institutional Launches as Ecosystem's New Wall Street Liaison Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read Venice Joins the Unicorn Club, Now Valued at $1B Venice just raised a war chest for its mission to bring private AI into the mainstream. ... News 1 0 Venice Joins the Unicorn Club, Now Valued at $1B Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read SEC Starts Comment Period on Rules for Crypto and "Novel" ETFs The SEC is asking the public whether its current rulebook can keep pace with novel funds covering di... News 0 0 SEC Starts Comment Period on Rules for Crypto and Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read NFTX Teases v4 Relaunch With New Whitepaper NFT trading protocol NFTX is relaunching with a next-gen design atop Uniswap v4. ... News 0 0 NFTX Teases v4 Relaunch With New Whitepaper Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read Dozens of Major Companies Become Open USD Launch Partners Some of the biggest names in finance and beyond are joining forces to back the Open USD stablecoin. ... News 2 0 Dozens of Major Companies Become Open USD Launch Partners Written by David Christopher • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read Galaxy Cuts Clarity Act 2026 Passage Chances to "50-50" Galaxy lowered its Clarity Act passage odds to 50%, citing Senate calendar constraints and stalled n... News 0 0 Galaxy Cuts Clarity Act 2026 Passage Chances to Written by David Christopher • 2 weeks ago • 2 min read Strategy Authorizes Up to $1.25B in BTC Sales for Dividends Strategy's new framework authorizes selling up to $1.25B of Bitcoin to fund preferred dividends, ret... News 0 0 Strategy Authorizes Up to $1.25B in BTC Sales for Dividends Written by David Christopher • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read BlackRock Adds Ethena’s USDe to Risk Management Platform BlackRock is adding Ethena’s USDe to Aladdin while making BUIDL the main reserve asset for Ethena�... News 0 0 BlackRock Adds Ethena’s USDe to Risk Management Platform Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read Spark Unveils Stablecoin FX Layer on Uniswap v4 Spark announced DualPool, a new hook made in collaboration with Uniswap that keeps idle LP capital e... News 0 0 Spark Unveils Stablecoin FX Layer on Uniswap v4 Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read Sophon Is Shuttering Its L2 and Doubling Down on Apps Sophon is shutting down its L2 and pivoting to building apps on Base.... News 0 0 Sophon Is Shuttering Its L2 and Doubling Down on Apps Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 1 min read Base Hit a Brief Chain Stall Prior to Beryl Upgrade Base just faced a consensus issue that caused an invalid block to be sequenced.... News 0 0 Base Hit a Brief Chain Stall Prior to Beryl Upgrade Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Fairshake's $5.5M Powers Boafo to Maryland Primary Win Fairshake spent $5.5M backing Maryland Democrat Adrian Boafo's primary win, marking another win for ... News 0 0 Fairshake's $5.5M Powers Boafo to Maryland Primary Win Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Kalshi Sues Illinois Over Prediction Market Law Kalshi is suing Illinois over its new prediction market licensing law, arguing federal CFTC jurisdic... News 0 0 Kalshi Sues Illinois Over Prediction Market Law Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Kraken's Ink Moves to Optimism's Fully Managed Stack Ink is upgrading to OP Enterprise Fully Managed, letting Optimism run its infrastructure while the I... News 0 0 Kraken's Ink Moves to Optimism's Fully Managed Stack Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read DeFi Education Fund Launches Security Coalition OPSeC The DeFi Education Fund, SEAL, and Asymmetric Research launched OPSeC to strengthen crypto cybersecu... News 0 0 DeFi Education Fund Launches Security Coalition OPSeC Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Allium Raises $40M as Crypto Data Sector Consolidates Allium raised $40M led by Amplify Partners, betting that institutional demand and agentic payments m... News 0 0 Allium Raises $40M as Crypto Data Sector Consolidates Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Zuckerberg Directs Meta to Build a Prediction Markets App Meta is building a prediction markets app called Arena to rival Polymarket and Kalshi, likely starti... News 0 0 Zuckerberg Directs Meta to Build a Prediction Markets App Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Ethereum Foundation Cuts 20% of Staff in Restructuring The Ethereum Foundation cut 54 staff and reorganized around five clusters, one day after former EF r... News 0 0 Ethereum Foundation Cuts 20% of Staff in Restructuring Written by Bankless • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Kraken App Adds Support for Onchain Trading Kraken is bringing onchain token trading in-app for users across dozens of countries.... News 0 0 Kraken App Adds Support for Onchain Trading Written by Bankless • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read CME Group Sues CFTC Over Perpetual Futures Approval The world's largest derivatives exchange is taking the CFTC to court over its decision to greenlight... News 0 0 CME Group Sues CFTC Over Perpetual Futures Approval Written by Bankless • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Hsiao-Wei Wang Departs Ethereum Foundation After Nearly a Decade One of the Ethereum Foundation's longest-serving contributors, co-ED Hsiao-Wei Wang, has announced s... News 0 0 Hsiao-Wei Wang Departs Ethereum Foundation After Nearly a Decade Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Illinois Enacts First State Crypto Transaction "Privilege Tax" Illinois' new 0.2% digital asset tax takes effect January 2027, assessed on transaction value rather... News 0 0 Illinois Enacts First State Crypto Transaction Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Zama and Morpho to Launch 1st Confidential DeFi Yield Vault Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse will launch a confidential USDC yield vault for institutions and retail ... News 0 0 Zama and Morpho to Launch 1st Confidential DeFi Yield Vault Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Plasma One Neobank Goes Live with Tiered XPL Membership Stablecoin chain Plasma launched Plasma One today, its stablecoin banking app with a tiered membersh... News 0 0 Plasma One Neobank Goes Live with Tiered XPL Membership Written by Bankless • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Report: World Liberty Financial Slated to Receive Federal Banking Charter World Liberty Financial is likely to land a federal banking charter soon.... News 1 0 Report: World Liberty Financial Slated to Receive Federal Banking Charter Written by Bankless • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read ETH's Underwater Supply Has Matched Its Post-FTX Capitulation Low ETH's supply-in-loss has hit levels not seen since the FTX crash bottom.... News 0 0 ETH's Underwater Supply Has Matched Its Post-FTX Capitulation Low Written by Bankless • 3 weeks ago • 1 min read Binance Could Lose E.U. Access Amid Licensing Hurdle Greece's capital markets regulator just threw a wrench into Binance's E.U. plans. ... News 0 0 Binance Could Lose E.U. Access Amid Licensing Hurdle Written by Bankless • 1 month ago • 1 min read USD1 Stablecoin Covers Fighter Bonuses at White House UFC Event World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin paid $250K in fighter bonuses at a White House UFC event.... News 0 0 USD1 Stablecoin Covers Fighter Bonuses at White House UFC Event Written by Bankless • 1 month ago • 1 min read Strategy and Bitmine Continue Their Crypto Buys Strategy's BTC stack hits 846,842 as Bitmine's ETH treasury tops 5.62M tokens.... News 0 0 Strategy and Bitmine Continue Their Crypto Buys Written by Bankless • 1 month ago • 1 min read Kraken Unveils CFTC-Regulated Perps Kraken now offers CFTC-regulated perps on Kraken Pro.... News 0 0 Kraken Unveils CFTC-Regulated Perps Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 1 min read Hyperliquid Passes AQA v2 to Fund More HYPE Buybacks 90% of USDC yield on Hyperliquid will fund HYPE buybacks starting Oct. 3, creating a revenue stream ... News 0 0 Hyperliquid Passes AQA v2 to Fund More HYPE Buybacks Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 1 min read Coinbase Launches High Yield USDC Vault with Ethena Coinbase's new vault lends USDC against Ethena-backed collateral for higher yields, marking the firs... News 0 0 Coinbase Launches High Yield USDC Vault with Ethena Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 1 min read Blockworks Acquires Messari to Unify Crypto Data Infrastructure Blockworks acquired Messari to unify crypto's data layer, merging issuer-side disclosure tools with ... News 0 0 Blockworks Acquires Messari to Unify Crypto Data Infrastructure Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 1 min read Bitmine Launches $300M Preferred Offering at 9.5% Bitmine's preferred stock offering follows Strategy's playbook though with weekly fixed dividends in... News 0 0 Bitmine Launches $300M Preferred Offering at 9.5% Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 1 min read Pump.fun Launches GO, a Bounty Platform for ANY Task Pump.fun's new GO platform lets users post paid bounties with rewards held in escrow, with moderatio... News 0 0 Pump.fun Launches GO, a Bounty Platform for ANY Task Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 1 min read Coinbase Launches SpaceX Pre-IPO Perp Ahead of June 12 IPO Coinbase's SpaceX pre-IPO perp runs on USDC and auto-converts after IPO, joining a wave of exchanges... News 0 0 Coinbase Launches SpaceX Pre-IPO Perp Ahead of June 12 IPO Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 1 min read Mastercard Adds Stablecoin Settlement for 24/7 Card Payments Mastercard is using regulated stablecoins to enable intraday, weekend, and holiday settlement, with ... News 0 0 Mastercard Adds Stablecoin Settlement for 24/7 Card Payments
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