Corporate treasurers are about to get a reason to care about crypto that has nothing to do with speculation. Velocity closed a $38M funding round led by Dragonfly, FirstMark, and Coinbase Ventures to build software that integrates stablecoins into enterprise treasury and payment workflows.
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The $33 trillion U.S. Treasury market and London's financial machine are building the same rails at the same time, and that's not an accident.
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The two biggest financial powers just agreed on what stablecoins should look like — but forgot to make anyone actually do it. US and UK released a 10-point roadmap for tokenized asset oversight, with a core requirement that stablecoins be fully backed by liquid assets
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Banks want blockchain's settlement speed but can't stomach showing their trades to competitors—so Ethereum just built them a backdoor. EthSystems launched as an Ethereum Foundation spinout to build privacy infrastructure for institutions, backed by Bitmine and SharpLink
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The middlemen who've moved stock certificates for decades just asked regulators to keep their jobs in the tokenized future. The Securities Transfer Association lobbied the SEC to give preferential treatment to company-authorized stock tokens over third-party tokenized versions
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A retail brokerage just outpaced Ethereum's DEX volume in two weeks, which tells you more about where real money is moving than any VC pitch deck ever could.
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The no-nonsense open-source AI lab that built one of the most downloaded agent models just got a $1.5B price tag — and the investors writing the check are the same ones who understand that owning the models means owning the future.
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The first real correction in the AI chip boom just erased a year's worth of hype in two trading days. SK Hynix ADRs fell as much as 9.3% in US trading after the stock plunged a record 15% in Seoul, triggering a market-wide trading halt when the Kospi dropped 9%
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A country that banned crypto two years ago just hit $430 million in annual transaction volume and now wants to wire stablecoins into the national payment rails. Bolivia is considering integrating USDT into its national payments system as dollar liquidity tightens domestically
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The British government just bet £35 billion per year that the permissionless networks crypto built for speculation can handle sovereign debt.
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Japan's largest financial conglomerate just picked Solana over its own blockchain projects to build the country's tokenized economy.
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A brokerage known for gamifying stock trading just built a blockchain that's moving $3 billion a week in DEX volume, and it only took them a few months to crack the top five.
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When your regulator sits down with the scholar who just declared your whole industry haram, you're either building a bridge or watching one burn. Pakistan's virtual-assets regulator met with an Islamic scholar who backed a ruling declaring crypto payments impermissible under Shariah law
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Eight weeks of steady bleeding just stopped, and the question isn't whether institutions are back—it's whether they're early or late. BlackRock's IBIT led a $292M single-day inflow, ending an 8-week outflow streak across Bitcoin ETFs
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The World Cup isn't just moving the ball anymore — it's moving markets worth billions, and most of the players have no idea their names are being traded. World Cup semi-finals drove $3.9B in crypto prediction market volume, while fan token trading spiked across Argentina, England, and Norway matches
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The retail brokerage that taught a generation to buy stocks with their lunch money just built a blockchain, and it crossed $130M in locked value faster than most Layer 2s manage in a quarter.
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The company that's been fighting the SEC for four years almost didn't fight at all. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen considered shutting down the company in 2020 and distributing its XRP holdings to shareholders rather than fight the SEC lawsuit
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The same share, traded two ways, on the same day — this is what the merge of TradFi and DeFi actually looks like. SK hynix raised $26.5B in a record ADR listing on Nasdaq, the largest South Korean company to list on a U.S. exchange
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The most expensive souvenir from this World Cup isn't a jersey — it's a token that moves faster than Messi.
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The Bitcoin treasury playbook just got its first high-profile defector, and the market rewarded the pivot. Empery Digital sold roughly half its Bitcoin holdings to fund an AI data center project and tackle debt, with shares rising on the news.
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