Nate Kostar

The USDt-settled contracts allow traders to speculate on the price movements of the two companies’ shares around the clock without owning the underlying stocks.

The integration allows institutions to stake Ether held in Anchorage custody and receive Puffer’s liquid restaking token while earning staking and restaking rewards.

The startup’s smartphone-based biometric system aims to help crypto platforms detect AI-generated accounts while preserving user privacy through onchain verification.

The funding will support development of a programmable execution layer designed to enable faster issuance and settlement of digital assets on the network.

The program connects crypto companies, banks and payment providers to explore blockchain-based payment and settlement infrastructure.

The digital asset infrastructure company plans to launch the pool in April as it expands beyond Bitcoin mining services.

The investment makes Strive the latest company to add the yield-generating security to its balance sheet as companies explore Bitcoin-linked treasury instruments.

The collaboration will provide custody and trading infrastructure as StableX builds a $100 million digital asset treasury focused on stablecoins.

The French banking group’s digital asset arm expanded its MiCA-aligned euro-backed stablecoin as part of a multichain strategy for regulated digital asset infrastructure.

The move to revive Solana ecosystem journalism comes after a $40 million treasury wallet breach at parent Step Finance led to its shuttering.

The partnership aims to reduce fragmentation in European capital markets by enabling blockchain-based settlement of tokenized securities.

The crypto brokerage said increasing demand across West Africa is driving its expansion as user activity grows across the Sub-Saharan region.

A pilot involving the central bank and major financial institutions tested whether distributed ledger infrastructure could streamline bond issuance, trading and settlement.

The new onchain trading engine from the xStocks platform enables trading of more than 70 tokenized equities across Ethereum and Solana.

The Nasdaq-listed miner sold nearly all of its February production while expanding power capacity in Texas and maintaining a treasury of more than 13,000 BTC.

The Bitcoin miner and data center operator said the financing will support infrastructure tied to high-density computing workloads, including artificial intelligence and HPC.

The infrastructure provider will support the planned launch of Western Union’s USDPT stablecoin on Solana, linking blockchain payments to its global payout network.

The investment includes a strategic partnership that will connect Tradeweb’s institutional trading network with Crossover’s CROSSx platform for spot crypto liquidity.

The crypto exchange added 17 tokenized stock pairs and seven defense and energy equities through its partnership with Ondo Finance.

In an interview with Natalie Brunell on Coin Stories, Masie described Bitcoin as functional currency in parts of Africa amid rapid inflation and currency debasement.

SoFi will enable Mastercard issuers to settle card transactions in its cash-backed SoFiUSD stablecoin across the global payments network.

Bitfinex Securities will restart USDt-denominated bond issuances on Bitcoin’s Liquid Network, following four previous tokenized offerings totaling $6.2 million since 2023.

Chainlink’s protocol enables Coinbase’s cbBTC to move from Base to Monad, boosting Bitcoin-backed liquidity into the layer-1’s DeFi ecosystem.

The US-based asset manager debuts a blockchain-enabled structure for its liquidity fund as onchain US Treasurys exposure nears $11 billion.

The system enables AI agents to automatically pay for blockchain data and compute credits in USDC, as autonomous crypto applications gain traction.

The blockchain-based lending platform beat revenue estimates but fell short on earnings, even as annual profit reached $134 million.

The proposal would allow a US exchange to trade shares of a fund holding JitoSOL, representing the first SEC exchange filing for a liquid staking token ETP.

The GIF ETF combines nine leveraged single-stock strategies into a fund designed to generate weekly income through covered call options.

The crypto exchange’s new Flexline product lets Pro users borrow against digital assets at fixed rates of 10%–25% APR for terms of up to two years.

The Bitcoin miner's digital asset losses mounted, even as it advanced a 15-year, $7 billion AI data center lease.