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Late-stage crypto funding surged over 1,000 percent year-on-year even as overall venture dollars declined, with Rain, Alpaca, and EDX Markets all raising nine-figure rounds this year to build the compliance-grade payments and brokerage infrastructure traditional finance actually wants to plug…
Strategy sold $216 million worth of Bitcoin on July 6 to fund a preferred-stock dividend payment, a small but symbolically…
Tether's USDT still dwarfs Circle's USDC in total market capitalization, but USDC now processes roughly triple the transaction volume, a…
Tokenized real-world assets crossed $31 billion on-chain in 2026 as BlackRock, Standard Chartered, and OKX built a framework letting institutions…
The EU's single crypto rulebook became fully enforceable on July 1, but only 213 of the more than 3,000 firms…
Crypto industry M&A hit $93.7 billion in the first half of 2026, twenty-six times the prior year's pace, as traditional…
The Philippine SEC says it now has the legal and regulatory footing to oversee tokenized real estate and US equity…
A new BSP memorandum bars every licensed Philippine crypto platform from listing privacy-focused tokens and imposes a six-pillar due diligence…
Goldman Sachs disclosed $260 million in XRP and Solana ETF holdings at the end of 2025, its first crypto position…
The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Clarity Act, the US crypto industry's long-sought market-structure bill, on a bipartisan 15-9 vote…
A researcher used publicly accessible quantum hardware to break a toy-scale elliptic curve key in April and collect a Bitcoin…
A Solana-based DeFi protocol lost $285 million in 12 minutes on April 1 after North Korean state-linked hackers spent six…