A Bitcoin miner just figured out how to stay long on Ethereum while lending dollars to a telecom company. Bit Digital extended a $100 million loan facility to WhiteFiber, a telecom infrastructure provider, using an Ethereum-backed credit line to fund the deal.
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Geopolitics just reminded every leveraged crypto trader that the future isn't on-chain when missiles are in the air. Crypto liquidations hit $934 million in 24 hours after US airstrikes on Iranian military sites near the Strait of Hormuz, wiping out roughly 167,400 trader accounts.
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Wall Street's plumbing just picked its second public blockchain, and the choice says more about infrastructure pragmatism than crypto hype.
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The DeFi infrastructure that let you swap dog coins is now going after the bond market. Orca, a Solana-based decentralized exchange, launched a dedicated marketplace for tokenized real-world assets, joining the rush to bring traditional finance on-chain.
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The normie uncle who thinks crypto is a scam just got USDC in his Cash App, whether he knows it or not. Block is rolling out USDC stablecoin payments to Cash App's nearly 60 million users, with 25% already having access and full deployment by week's end
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The vault isn't just a product launch—it's a bet that enough Bitcoiners will finally trade hodl purity for yield. Kraken launched Bitcoin Vault, an earn product that generates BTC-denominated rewards through DeFi strategies while maintaining price exposure to bitcoin.
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Traditional finance just picked the least traditional crypto asset to win the ETF launch race. Spot HYPE ETFs absorbed 1.04% of Hyperliquid's market cap in their first 10 trading days, beating Bitcoin (0.59%), Ethereum (0.41%), and Solana (0.31%) ETF debuts
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A real bank just handed 14.7 million people a stablecoin, no crypto exchange required. SoFi launched SoFiUSD, a bank-issued stablecoin, directly inside its consumer banking app to 14.7 million members on Ethereum and Solana
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The stablecoin that accounts for 70% of crypto trading volume just got its own yield infrastructure, and it's not running on Ethereum.
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The same indexes that made MicroStrategy's Bitcoin bet institutional are about to do it for Ethereum, just as the stock is down 95% from peak.
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Burning $8 million to prove a point about scarcity is the most bitcoin thing anyone has done in years. Five unknown addresses sent 107 BTC worth $8.2 million to provably unspendable burn addresses, removing them from circulation permanently
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The gap between "AI agents can read your wallet" and "AI agents can trade your wallet" just closed on the second-largest Ethereum Layer 2.
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The race to tokenize Wall Street just got a new heavyweight: a top-ten crypto exchange is going live with 1:1 stock-backed tokens and dividend payments baked in. Bitget launched Reality, a real-world asset platform offering tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs backed 1:1 by actual shares held in custody
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While tech stocks rip on Middle East peace hopes, Bitcoin sits out the party—a divergence that reveals crypto's identity crisis between safe haven and risk asset.
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XRP Ledger's plumbing is about to get smarter, and the quiet upgrade says more about who's building real DeFi infrastructure than who's shouting about it.
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The SEC just blinked on the biggest structural shift in capital markets since dematerialization—and Wall Street's legacy plumbing just bought itself a few more years.
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The crypto wallet just became conversational, and it's happening first on Base. Base launched Base MCP, connecting Base Accounts to ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor via the Model Context Protocol for AI-managed wallet operations and DeFi interactions
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Your AI assistant can now actually execute the trade it just recommended—no copy-paste, no app-switching, no wondering if you'll remember to do it later. Liquid launched Co-Invest, an app that embeds live trade execution directly into ChatGPT and Claude conversations
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The exchange that moves $50B a day just decided your brokerage account is obsolete. Bitget launched Reality, a platform bringing tokenized stocks directly into DeFi markets, aiming to merge traditional finance liquidity with crypto infrastructure
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The financial plumbing that was supposed to make bitcoin boring just made it a lot more honest about what it actually is. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs bled $1.26 billion in their worst week since late January, with two-week outflows hitting $2.26 billion as institutions de-risk
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