EDX Markets, an institutional-only crypto trading venue with its own central clearinghouse, closed a $76 million Series C funding round led by SBI Holdings, the firm said in a press release. The Tokyo-listed financial group becomes a strategic investor in the...
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Richard Heathcote, who until earlier this year served as Tether Holdings SA's chief investment officer, is planning to sell a small stake in the stablecoin issuer, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Heathcote is working with in...
NEAR's on-chain governance body, House of Stake, passed proposal HSP-027 to eliminate the protocol's developer gas rebate, a change that will send all network gas fees to be burned rather than partly rebated to smart-contract owners. NEAR co-founder Illia Pol...
Aave founder Stani Kulechov called the DeFi access point 'an OG' as its team said it would sunset the UI.
BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR), the Ethereum treasury company chaired by Fundstrat's Tom Lee, bought 42,197 ETH worth roughly $73 million over the past week, according to the company's own holdings update posted Monday. The purchase lifts BitMine...
eToro has become a strategic investor in Extended, an onchain perpetual futures exchange, and said the round begins a partnership with Zengo, the self-custody wallet eToro acquired earlier this year. Neither company disclosed the investment size.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong set his X profile picture to the artwork behind a Base memecoin, then replaced it with a newly acquired CryptoPunk. The $BRIAN token round-tripped from obscurity to millions and back, a stark test of how far one social cue can mov...
The exchange routes every issuer's version of a stock into one market backed by Backed Assets' xStocks, and bars US and EU traders.
Token Terminal data shows QQQ and SPY trackers gaining onchain trading and collateral use, but the totals remain a rounding error next to broader DeFi.
The Robinhood Chain memecoin's slide has erased most of a 4,000% run, even as its spot price held through a 60% perp wick that liquidated leveraged traders.
Crypto head Cuy Sheffield unveiled the platform, which Fortune reported will bring stablecoin services to more than 200 million merchants, initially through Open USD.
CEO Marc Boiron said the reductions, the company's second round in 2026, accompany a shift from a blockchain foundation to a blockchain-enabled payments company.
The onchain research, which 1inch commissioned, estimates out-of-range positions forgo about $150M a year in fees across seven chains.
The deal routes distribution through SBI's ecosystem and settles in the group's JPYSC yen stablecoin, connecting Japan's capital markets to onchain finance.
A joint Visa and Artemis analysis finds roughly 4,000 wallets drive about 90% of x402's adjusted spending, with Base accounting for the bulk of activity.
The regulator stayed a Kalshi rule change and invoked emergency authority, calling the first state attempt to void executed derivatives trades unprecedented.
The Coinbase executive is refocusing the largest Ethereum Layer 2 on trading, payments and AI agents after conceding its onchain-social push failed
Bukov says he was fired and no longer oversees the architecture and security he ran; 1inch disputes the account, saying he contributed to a team effort and was never an employee it could fire.
The co-founder who led 1inch's architecture and security says he was pushed out in November, still owns half the company, and is now building an infrastructure startup
The company that settles most US stock trades is running its first production trades of tokenized real-world assets, with a full service launch set for October.
The unsolicited offer from Stripe and Advent International, if PayPal accepts, would consolidate two of the mainstream payments industry's stablecoin operations.
The order targets holders at Binance, Bybit, OKX and Bitfinex, but analyst Fernando Molina says no funds have actually been frozen yet.
A pseudonymous team is redeploying the Uniswap v4 token that pays fees to everyone who holds it, after a bad actor created 2,500 'phantom' fee positions. The original token has crashed more than 90% in a day.
The venue's HIP-3 markets for stocks, commodities and indices first topped its native crypto volume on July 8 and have led on several trading days since — though they fade on weekends, and single-name stocks alone still trail crypto
Robinhood pays only the gap between organic yield and a 7% target for a year; Coinbase pays market rate plus token rewards with no ceiling and no end date.
The stablecoin issuer's latest strategic bet targets payroll, wage access and everyday payments rails for its US-focused USA₮ token.
The Wyoming senator says the bill will focus on fighting illicit finance, consumer protections and keeping crypto markets onshore in the US.
Bitmine and SharpLink backed the launch, and the founding team spent the past year running the Ethereum Foundation's Institutional Privacy Task Force.
An onchain vote to grant the DAO's veto power to a freshly elected eight-member council is passing, with the current council's mandate set to lapse on July 24
The stablecoin protocol's founder apologized for committing to a figure 'before the funding to back it was fully secured,' and denied that he steered rewards to a wallet tied to his former employer
The token-streaming protocol's smart contracts, used by over 345,000 Ethereum addresses, will keep running onchain even as the company behind them steps back.
Brian Armstrong says Base pivoted away from creator tokens early in 2026 but pushed back on criticism that its new focus on AI agents is a mistake.
The bitcoin treasury company's cash reserve climbed to $3 billion even as its 843,775 BTC holdings stayed frozen for a second straight week.
Trump tied the crypto market structure bill to beating China and AI competition, days after Senate Banking Committee chair Lindsey Graham's death.
The filing would let Polymarket users open positions without posting full collateral, following Kalshi's FCM-backed perpetuals launch.
Cumulative sUSDS yield payouts topped $250 million as Grove launched its GROVE governance token and a new Fixed Yield product crossed $44.1 million in TVL.
Temp check would extend the fee switch to Uniswap's newest architecture, drawing an early warning that the move "risks killing the protocol."
Stablecoins are no longer just a crypto trading tool — they're becoming the new payment rails for banks, fintechs, and money movers worldwide.
Optimism says Toss is the fourth regulated financial institution in a year to pick the OP Stack, after Bitpanda, Kraken and Mitsui.
Molly Abraham is set to take over as general counsel as Grewal shifts to a three-month advisory role through October.