When your co-investor's stock craters 84%, you either double down or run for the exit—SoftBank chose the door, and Tether just became the sole owner of a Bitcoin treasury play that was supposed to change corporate finance.
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The most secretive rocket company in the world is about to show us its books, and the number everyone's looking for isn't revenue or profit, it's how much cash Starlink actually prints.
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The next big battle in AI isn't compute or data — it's who gets to touch money on behalf of your agent. Catena Labs closed a $30 million Series A and filed for a national trust bank charter, building regulated financial rails specifically for AI agents.
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Europe just handed AI agents a corporate credit card, and it speaks Swedish. Germany's AllUnity is launching SEKAU, a Swedish krona stablecoin, targeting a June debut backed by DWS and Galaxy.
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While everyone debates whether stablecoins will replace banks, someone just raised $8 million to build the pipes that make that argument irrelevant. Checker raised $8 million from Galaxy Ventures, Framework, and others to build stablecoin infrastructure
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The stablecoin giant that prints dollars is now the sole owner of a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury, and SoftBank just walked away from the table. Tether bought out SoftBank's entire stake in Twenty One Capital, giving it full control of one of the largest public Bitcoin treasuries (NYSE: XXI)
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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 Bank of England just gave the City of London its marching orders for the next decade of finance, and they're written in blockchain. The Bank of England plans to publish draft rules for systemic sterling stablecoins next month, with final regulations coming by year-end
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When the credit card giant walks away, crypto infrastructure companies don't panic—they pivot to investors who actually understand what they're building. Zerohash is raising new funding at a $1.5B+ valuation after Mastercard backed out of investment plans
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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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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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Coinbase and Tether aren't fighting over fees — they're fighting over who controls the rails of decentralized finance. Coinbase just enabled native USDC deposits and withdrawals on Hyperliquid, the decentralized perpetuals exchange that now holds $5.4B in USDC supply
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The banking lobby lost the vote but won the narrative—now crypto's watershed moment hinges on whether "clarity" means rules or roadblocks.
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Google just killed the most absurd ritual in AI: programmers walking around with laptops cracked open so their agents don't stop working. Google launched Spark, a 24/7 AI agent that runs on Google Cloud, not your device — meaning you can actually close your laptop and the agent keeps working.
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When a G7 economy starts treating blockchain rails as critical infrastructure, the "crypto is just speculation" narrative officially expires.
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The bridges connecting blockchain islands just lost $11.6 million in real time, and regulators are watching. The Verus-Ethereum bridge was drained of 103.6 tBTC, 1,625 ETH, and 147,000 USDC in an ongoing exploit flagged by security firm Blockaid and PeckShield.
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Solana just absorbed half a billion dollars of synthetic stablecoin supply in less than a week, and nobody's talking about what happens when the leverage unwinds.
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The alleged darknet marketplace operator didn't cash out to fiat like an amateur—he minted his proceeds into physical metal and shipped it overseas. US prosecutors charged Owe Andresen, alleged Dream Market administrator, with laundering approximately $2 million in cryptocurrency into gold bars
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When your whole business model is sanctions evasion, what's your pitch once the sanctions lift?
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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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