The VC playbook broke, and ten billion-dollar bets are now worth lunch money. Ten crypto projects with private billion-dollar valuations now trade at $7M to $294M market caps, a 88-99% collapse according to CryptoRank data
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Europe's banks aren't asking if stablecoins work anymore—they're picking vendors. MoonPay, WalletConnect, and Ingenico partnered to enable stablecoin payments at physical retail locations globally, using MoonPay Virtual Accounts for fiat settlement
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The biggest Ethereum treasury play to hit public markets just imploded, and "unfavorable market conditions" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Ether Machine terminated its $1.5B SPAC merger with Dynamix Corporation on April 8, citing market conditions
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The economy didn't break in 2022, it split in two, and most investors are still trading the wrong half. Jordi Visser says we're living through unprecedented market volatility driven by AI reshaping economic structures since 2022
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Bitwise just filed the paperwork that usually comes right before an ETF launches, and this one's for Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetuals exchange most people still haven't heard of.
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AI agents can now reason through DeFi strategies, but until this week they couldn't execute them without risking $127 million race condition failures.
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Flare just proposed capturing MEV at the protocol layer and slashing inflation by 40%, which is either the smartest tokenomics pivot of 2026 or a desperate play to save a sinking ship.
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Ethereum derivatives just flashed a buy signal that hasn't appeared in three years, and it's happening the same day $2.2 billion in crypto options expire.
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TON just went from slow-motion blockchain to blink-and-you-miss-it fast, and if you're still thinking of it as "that Telegram token," you're about to miss the point. TON's Catchain 2.0 upgrade dropped transaction finality from 10 seconds to under 1 second, a 10x speed boost that went live April 10.
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An Ethereum developer who thinks most crypto politicians are grifters just threw his hat in the ring for Congress. Joe "CupOJoseph" Schiarizzi, an Ethereum developer, is running as a Democrat in Virginia's new 7th district
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The first Wall Street bank just launched a Bitcoin ETF, and it's trading like a top 1% debut. Morgan Stanley became the first major Wall Street bank to launch its own Bitcoin-tracking ETF, with the firm's head of digital-asset strategy calling it their "best-ever" launch
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Tom Lee's Bitmine just moved 4% of Ethereum's total supply onto the NYSE balance sheet with a $4 billion buyback war chest, and the stock is still eating dirt.
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Meta just bet $21 billion that renting compute beats owning it, and that changes the economics of the entire AI race. CoreWeave expanded its AI compute deal with Meta to $21 billion, up from $14.2 billion in September, a 48% increase in seven months
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Wall Street wants to sell you a fund that tracks a cartoon frog, and that tells you everything about where crypto infrastructure is headed. Canary Capital filed an S-1 with the SEC for a spot PEPE ETF, joining a growing wave of memecoin fund applications beyond Dogecoin
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Polygon is spinning off a stablecoin payments business and raising up to $100 million to do it, betting that the real money in crypto isn't speculation but boring old transactions. Polygon Labs is in early fundraising talks to raise $50-100 million by selling equity in a new stablecoin payments unit
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Bitcoin keeps teasing breakouts it won't deliver, and that tells you more about the market than any price target. Binance data shows aggressive buying pushing toward a $90K technical target, but BTC remains stuck in a two-month range around $69K
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The Ethereum Foundation just announced it's converting $11 million of ETH to stablecoins, and for once they're showing their work. The EF is swapping 5,000 ETH into stablecoins using CoW DAO's time-weighted average price feature to fund research, grants, and donations
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A startup just convinced investors it's worth $1 billion before launching its network, betting everything on a simple premise: the financial system's infrastructure can't handle what's coming.
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A Nasdaq-listed company just put its actual shares on-chain, not a derivative or a wrapper, the real thing. Securitize is tokenizing Currenc Group's ordinary shares on both Ethereum and Solana, making them tradable on public blockchains
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Coinbase just won the right to sell stock derivatives in Australia, and it's not about crypto. Coinbase secured an Australian Financial Services License, planning to offer both crypto and equity perpetuals in the region
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