Uniswap Foundation just showed its books: $85.8 million in assets, runway through January 2027, and a rare glimpse at how DeFi's infrastructure actually gets funded. Uniswap Foundation disclosed $85.8 million in treasury assets with projected funding through January 2027
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A $1.7 trillion asset manager just stopped dipping its toe in crypto and jumped in with both feet. Franklin Templeton is launching Franklin Crypto, a dedicated digital asset division built around its acquisition of 250 Digital
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Prediction markets didn't kill crypto—crypto killed itself, and now the smart money is betting on reality instead of vibes. Bitcoin crashed from $126K in October to $63K today while prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket doubled in value to $22B and $20B respectively.
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A $1.5 trillion asset manager just bought its way into the institutional crypto market, and it's not calling it blockchain or digital assets. Franklin Templeton is acquiring a CoinFund spinoff to create Franklin Crypto, a dedicated arm targeting institutional crypto investors.
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CoinShares just became the latest crypto firm to choose public markets over private control, valuing itself at $1.2 billion through a SPAC deal that says more about where institutional crypto is going than the deal itself.
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China's AI tokenization market is already outpacing what OpenClaw showed the world three months ago, and the West isn't paying attention.
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OpenAI just pulled $3 billion from retail investors in a $122 billion raise that values the company at $852 billion, and if you think that number sounds insane, you're paying attention.
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Bitcoin just got a credit rating for a public bond deal, and that changes everything about how institutions can use crypto as collateral. A New Hampshire state authority is issuing the first bitcoin-backed bond rated by Moody's, receiving a Ba2 rating (non-investment grade, but rated nonetheless)
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OpenAI just raised $122 billion at an $830 billion pre-money valuation, making it the largest funding round in tech history and crowning it the world's most valuable private company.
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OpenAI just raised $122 billion, the largest tech fundraise in history, and the money isn't going where you think. OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round to expand frontier AI research, build compute infrastructure, and scale ChatGPT and enterprise tools globally
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Coinbase just told you exactly what Web4 infrastructure looks like, and most people missed it. Base announced a strategic pivot toward tokenizing major asset classes, scaling stablecoin infrastructure, and supporting AI agent commerce
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Aztec just shipped Ethereum's first privacy-focused L2 with full smart contract capabilities, and they're doing it with known critical bugs still unfixed. Aztec's Alpha Network is now live, bringing private smart contracts to Ethereum L2 for the first time, backed by a16z's deep pockets.
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A16z just bet $10 million that stablecoins need middleware, and the partner list suggests they're right. A16z crypto led a $10 million round in The Better Money Company, building what they call stablecoins' "missing layer"
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Google just mapped the quantum attack surface of Ethereum and found five separate entry points worth over $100 billion in exposure.
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SpaceX is about to weaponize index funds against professional investors who think it's overvalued. SpaceX is planning an IPO at a $1+ trillion valuation, forcing institutional investors into a binary choice: buy in or miss what could be the largest tech listing in history
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Google just published a 57-page technical autopsy on how quantum computing could crack Ethereum like a piggy bank, and the target is $100 billion. Google's new whitepaper maps five distinct quantum attack vectors against Ethereum's infrastructure, with combined exposure over $100 billion
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A forex startup just raised $94 million to replace correspondent banking with stablecoins, and the implications for B2B payments are bigger than the round suggests. OpenFX raised $94 million to scale stablecoin-powered cross-border payments for businesses
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Standard Chartered just led a $1.1 billion valuation round for a crypto market maker most people have never heard of. SC Ventures and Ripple are backing Keyrock's open Series C at a $1.1 billion valuation, with the round expected to close soon
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A crypto market-maker just hit unicorn status with banking money leading the round. Keyrock, a Brussels-based crypto market maker, raised a Series C at a $1.1 billion valuation led by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's innovation arm
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The cryptography protecting your crypto wallet just got easier to break, and Google quietly moved up the timeline. Google updated its quantum computing estimates for breaking elliptic curve cryptography, the math securing most blockchain wallets and transactions.
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