Strategic partnerships, integrations, and M&A — exchange and protocol deals, and enterprise blockchain agreements.
The fake "Vladhood" post exploited Tenev's reach to flog a token on the very chain his firm launched, underscoring how memecoin rails and high-profile social accounts remain a soft target.
The x402 protocol rollout stitches agent, business, and developer rails into one stack: Coinbase is positioning itself as the payments spine of the agentic economy before a standard settles.
Coinbase Business is opening agentic payment acceptance to all clients one year in, framing the rail as a core growth bet rather than an experiment.
The structure lets a market-maker borrow stables without posting its own onchain BTC, routing the underwriting premium back to depositors as yield.
The integration lets commercial bank money move natively between Ethereum, Solana, Base, and Keeta, with USD plus eight more fiat rails slated for late-month rollout.
An Abu Dhabi sovereign-backed manager joining BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Apollo on tokenization rails, with a publicly listed crypto venue buying in on its own balance sheet, is the kind of…
Two of Korea's biggest consumer-finance names signing on for stablecoin rails is a legitimacy beat for $USDC in Asia's most-watched retail payments market.
The 11-year-old derivatives pioneer exits as offshore perp venues lose their edge and regulated competitors absorb the flow.
The first time a top Korean financial conglomerate has grabbed a controlling stake in a domestic crypto venue signals that the country's trillion-dollar retail market is now too big for traditional…
The deal marks one of South Korea's largest traditional financial institutions planting a full-scale flag in domestic crypto infrastructure, with a stake increase to 97.15% expected before the week…
The partnership shifts xStocks from a US-equity focus toward a multi-market rollout, starting with Hong Kong and extending into Europe and Asia.
Probes across 14 cities now publish round-trip latency to Hyperliquid, every Solana and SUI validator, the Arbitrum and Robinhood sequencers, and eight global exchanges, giving HFT desks real numbers…
8lends and FINMA-supervised Maclear AG split the stack: settlement stays onchain, while underwriting, collateral registration and default recovery stay inside regulated legal rails.
Payward's partnership with GTN moves tokenized stocks past their US-only phase into Asian and European blue-chips, putting xStocks in direct competition with Robinhood and Coinbase for the next leg…
The promise is another frontier in the generative-AI content race, but a feature-length, historically grounded film from a text model by December is a stretch even for frontier labs.
The bilateral agreement lands as the administration broadens its Middle East economic engagement, though specific tariff cuts, sector openings, and deal value have not been disclosed.
The crypto onramp now lets US users buy slices of 4,000+ equities with proceeds from digital-asset conversions, and the platform is prepping round-the-clock weekday hours.
TD Cowen reads LSE 24 as more than extended hours: the new overnight venue is wired into LSEG's Digital Securities Depository and built for agent-based AI trading, not just retail after-hours.
The changes separate Twenty One's leadership from Strike and leave its proposed transaction with Elektron Energy as the only merger under evaluation.
Stellar stays the core rail for the 60M-customer remittance giant, but MoneyGram is widening its on-chain stack to chase 24/7 settlement and a vertically integrated MGUSD stablecoin.
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