Strategic partnerships, integrations, and M&A — exchange and protocol deals, and enterprise blockchain agreements.
Equities, commodities, indices, and crypto perpetuals settle on a layer-2 that puts a US broker's rails behind a DEX orderbook, blurring the line between on-chain perps and traditional prime…
Strike drops out of the proposed combination, leaving Twenty One Capital to weigh a slimmed-down tie-up with Elektron Energy and pivot toward acquisitions, capital markets, and BTC-backed lending.
The headline number is TVL, but FalconX argues the real differentiator is tokenized real-world assets, not the memecoin volume that drives 80% of on-chain activity today.
The launch opens Europe's $30 trillion UCITS channel to CoinShares' product suite, anchored by a Bitcoin mining ETF that gives pension funds a regulated route into crypto miners.
Pollak confirms Base is building on-chain equities backed by real shares, not synthetic derivatives, putting it in direct competition with Robinhood Chain.
The 300-year-old exchange is finally responding to the structural pressure crypto venues have been applying to retail brokerage flows for half a decade, with an extended-hours rollout targeted at H1…
The joint venture is less about OKX crossing into TradFi and more about ICE confronting a market that never closes: collateral, margin, and clearing now have to survive weekends and banking holidays.
A former New York governor on a crypto exchange board is the kind of political-credibility hire exchanges make when they want Washington access, and OKX is openly chasing Coinbase's U.S. footprint.
The brokerage-backed L2 lands with Alchemy, Chainlink, and LayerZero already wired in, framing the launch as a TradFi bridge rather than a generic EVM clone.
The layoff is large but the strategic read is bigger: a publicly listed crypto wallet is rewriting itself as a full-stack payments company on the back of Monavate and Baanx.
The 500K HYPE stake is steep on purpose: it filters for operators who can run markets like a business, while Hyperliquid's validator set retains the template rules everyone must follow.
The three-day ARIA gathering reflects how crypto, AI and DeFi have stopped competing for the same conference calendar and started sharing a single stage.
Cuomo already advising the exchange since 2023 is the bigger tell than the title itself: OKX is pairing a heavyweight U.S. operator with the brand to push its regulated-institutional build.
The co-founder frames HIP-3 as proof of concept: a permissionless deployment layer the team built because nothing like it existed, and the next bet follows the same template.
The stake-and-slash model borrows the validator-template pattern from HIP-3 and applies it to a market category Hyperliquid itself frames as larger than spot and perps combined.
Five regulatory moves in one week: Japan reclassifies crypto, Seoul pilots tokenized treasuries, Russia opens USDT/USDC desks, Coinbase reopens for Chinese users, and Bybit lands in Indonesia.
Brian Trunzo argues that detection and disclosure have already lost the AI content war, and that cryptographic proofs, the same primitive that secured billions in blockchain assets, are the only way…
The pitch isn't stealing share from Deribit or CME. It's that crypto options is an underpenetrated segment and product design, not demand, has been the bottleneck.
A Hong Kong listing would land China’s highest-profile open-source AI lab on a public market still starved for domestic AI issuers, and would price off a model launch that rattled chip and software…
The planned route would give Iraqi crude exports more flexibility while reducing reliance on one of the world's most sensitive energy chokepoints.
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