Circle Targets Bank-Grade Wrapped Bitcoin for USDC Collateral
The shift reframes wBTC from a DeFi utility into a piece of regulated collateral infrastructure — and pulls the network deeper into a quiet rivalry with Coinbase's own stack.
Strategic partnerships, integrations, and M&A — exchange and protocol deals, and enterprise blockchain agreements.
The shift reframes wBTC from a DeFi utility into a piece of regulated collateral infrastructure — and pulls the network deeper into a quiet rivalry with Coinbase's own stack.
A $480B TradFi shop investing in a DeFi governance token and mulling a yield-bearing stablecoin for treasury cash is the kind of signal that moves the sector's legitimacy needle, not just one…
A 30-firm coalition spanning a16z, Coinbase, Kraken, Uniswap, Solana, Aptos and Hyperliquid is pushing to write open-source developer immunity into the market-structure bill before a floor vote.
Cardholders keep earning yield on sequestered USDC while spending against it — a structure that turns idle stablecoin balances into a credit line for users shut out of unsecured cards.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX founder serving a 25-year federal prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy, has formally…
Google and Nvidia are both considering Intel as a backup chip manufacturer, a development that signals growing concern…
A 55-seat curated gathering of Web3 and institutional finance leaders, co-hosted with Neyro Network during one of the year's flagship Ethereum weeks.
The rescued trove spans BAYC, CryptoPunks, Azuki and others — a goodwill play that doubles as a stress test of cross-collection emergency response in the NFT space.
The Binance founder's first extended public comment on Aster frames it as privacy-native and multi-chain, not a head-to-head challenger to Hyperliquid's open-orderbook model.
The Clearing House will run a shared blockchain so bank deposits settle token-to-token instead of leaking into stablecoin rails — a defensive launch, with the first half of 2027 as the target.
SpaceX has signed a deal with Google worth $920 million per month to supply AI computing power, marking one of the…
Google has signed a deal worth up to $920 million per month to lease AI compute capacity from xAI's data centers…
Politico found Matthew Modabber paid more than 800 recipients from a personal account over 13 months — and the disclosure gap, not the dollar figure, is the regulatory hook.
A shielded-address flaw let attackers forge balances, and ZEC halved in hours. The bid from a wallet pulling 37,316 $ZEC off Binance shows some large holders see dislocation, not damage.
Visa and Brale are exploring private stablecoin settlement for institutional payments, using Brale's SBC…
The United States and Japan have announced a $1 billion joint partnership targeting four frontier technology sectors…
Cosmos Labs has acquired Mintscan, the leading block explorer for the Cosmos ecosystem, and simultaneously announced…
Coinbase and Better have jointly funded what they describe as the first bitcoin-backed mortgage in the United States…
The MoU hands Spacecoin an exclusive Vietnamese channel through DETI Technology and two of the country's largest mobile carriers — a credible on-ramp for satellite DePIN outside the usual…
Apple will power its redesigned Siri with Google's Nvidia-backed cloud infrastructure when the assistant relaunches in…