The man who helped build the stablecoin rails for crypto is now building the bank accounts for your AI employees. Sean Neville, Circle cofounder, raised $30M Series A for Catena Labs, an "AI-native bank" building financial infrastructure for autonomous agents
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The Senate just traded DeFi's future for two Democratic votes. The Senate Banking Committee passed the CLARITY Act 15-9 after Chairman Tim Scott reinstated a last-minute compromise on DeFi regulations to secure bipartisan support from Senators Gallego and Alsobrooks.
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Musk is building the agent economy in public, one acquisition at a time, and the 30-day timer starts the moment SpaceX goes public. SpaceX plans to acquire AI coding startup Cursor exactly 30 days after its public offering, signaling a shift from launch provider to software infrastructure company
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The world's largest stablecoins sit on $200 billion in reserves, and a German asset manager just said it won't matter when everyone wants out at once.
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The AI infrastructure build-out just minted another unlikely winner, and it's not who you'd expect. Kioxia Holdings, a Japanese memory chip maker, saw shares flooded with buy orders after reporting profit numbers driven by AI data center storage demand
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The people building the AI future are having an identity crisis about whether they matter in it. Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das says no one in Silicon Valley is happy — not the newly rich AI founders, not the $500k engineers, not the middle managers watching their jobs vanish.
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The decentralized exchange that tried to break free from Circle's stablecoin just handed the keys back to Circle's biggest distributor. Coinbase will manage USDC liquidity on Hyperliquid as the official treasury deployer, while Native Markets sunsets USDH and sells the brand assets to Coinbase.
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The money isn't for wallets. It's for proving the cloud didn't tamper with your keys. Turnkey raised $12.5 million from Circle Ventures and Sequoia Capital to fund Turnkey Verifiable Cloud, a secure computing infrastructure for digital assets
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When the bank that once called Bitcoin a fraud files to tokenize Treasuries on Ethereum, it's not capitulation—it's institutionalization. JPMorgan filed with the SEC to launch JLTXX, a tokenized Treasury fund on Ethereum, targeting the $32 billion tokenized Treasury market
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The AI model too dangerous to release widely just got its first institutional customers, and everyone locked out is scrambling to build their own.
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The banks blinked first. Senator Bernie Moreno is pushing the revised CLARITY Act through Senate markup with key amendments on stablecoin yield and tokenized securities, calling out traditional banks for "panic-lobbying" against it.
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Meta just gave its AI chatbot the one feature that might actually make people use it: the promise that the conversation never happened. WhatsApp's new Incognito Chat mode lets you talk to Meta AI without Meta (or anyone else) seeing the conversation
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A top-five European bank just put its dollar stablecoin in front of millions of retail wallets—this isn't a pilot anymore. Societe Generale is expanding its USD stablecoin to millions of crypto wallet users, marking one of the largest bank-led pushes to bring institutional digital money to retail
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Wall Street's biggest banks are now in an arms race to own the plumbing underneath stablecoins. JPMorgan filed with the SEC to launch JLTXX, a tokenized Treasury money market fund on Ethereum powered by Kinexys Digital Assets, investing in US Treasuries and overnight repos.
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The AI governance panic has arrived, and it's got $11 million in seed funding. White Circle, a Paris-based startup, raised $11 million to build real-time control tools for deployed AI systems, backed by executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral, and Hugging Face.
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The stablecoin king just built its own highway and charged everyone else for an on-ramp. Circle launched Arc, a new blockchain valued at $3B, backed by a $222M token presale that positions USDC's issuer as infrastructure owner, not just tenant.
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Wall Street's two largest asset managers just filed to tokenize money market funds on the same week—not as experiments, but as competing products aimed directly at the $200 billion stablecoin economy they spent years dismissing.
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The Sky Ecosystem just wrote a $13.5 million check to prove that stablecoin yield isn't just for crypto natives anymore. Osero raised $13.5 million in a round led by Sky Ecosystem, with the startup incubated by Stablewatch
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The world's largest asset manager just proved BUIDL wasn't a test run. BlackRock filed with the SEC to tokenize a $6.1B Treasury fund, selecting Securitize infrastructure for the second time after BUIDL crossed $2.3B.
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The stablecoin market is about to get its first proper audit trail, and institutions might actually care this time. Boundary raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Galaxy Ventures to build USBD, launching on Ethereum in early summer 2026
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