Venice raises $65M Series A at $1B valuation in VVV
Dragonfly-led round hands Series A investors both 8.98% equity and 6.5M VVV in grants and warrants, leaving public holders weighing whether buy-and-burn volume can absorb token-linked dilution.
Dragonfly-led round hands Series A investors both 8.98% equity and 6.5M VVV in grants and warrants, leaving public holders weighing whether buy-and-burn volume can absorb token-linked dilution.
The brokerage unveiled Robinhood Chain, an Arbitrum-based L2 for tokenized real-world assets, alongside a 7% yield USDG lending product, just as analysts say its prediction-market revenue is on track…
The structure matters more than the headline number: tying equity to AI deployment puts a sovereign capital partner inside the company that defines the consumer AI stack.
The proposal, raised by Sam Altman in early talks with Trump administration officials, would tether federal AI policy leverage to public ownership and almost certainly require an act of Congress.
The launch gives token holders, not just validators, a recorded vote on the network's direction through Solana Governance Proposals, with delegators able to override the validator they delegate to.
The speed of the recovery is the story: every depositor restored in under two weeks, a full post-mortem incoming, and a 136% TAIKO rally signaling that the market treats containment as legitimate…
SGP turns core ecosystem decisions into stake-weighted validator votes, letting 100K-SOL delegations drive proposals and a 15% stake threshold gate any formal vote.
Developers can now charge directly for any webpage, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare, with settlement in stablecoins over the open x402 protocol, no payments stack required.
The EU perps launch is the headline, but the layered product rollout across lending, AI trade execution, tokenized equities and a proprietary L2 points to a broker that is rebuilding itself as a…
The relaunch puts a consumer-facing model back into Anthropic's lineup, sharpening competition in the consumer AI assistant market where ChatGPT and Gemini have set the baseline.
A retail-broker-built L2 is the first credible signal that Wall Street's bridge to public chains has shifted from custody pilots to owning infrastructure itself.
The Coinbase CEO argues AI, robotics and crypto can outrun the debt and inflation the US has failed to structurally guard against, a populist-fiscal frame from one of crypto's loudest CEOs.
An Arbitrum-based L2 from a US retail giant flips the switch with Uniswap live day one, while 24/7 stock tokens, Robinhood Earn, and crypto agentic accounts queue up behind it.
The stunt reuses the agentic-trading story that's defined 2026, but the headline is the brand play, not the volume: Robinhood wants retail to associate agents with its app.
The brokerage-to-DeFi leap is the bigger read than any single product: a Wall Street brand is now shipping its own L2 plus a 7% lending yield, and HOOD jumped 5% on the day.
For Voorhees' crypto-AI bet, the structure is the story: investors bought equity, VVV tokens, and warrants, signaling that VVV is being priced as a long-dated bet on private inference, not a typical…
The nonprofit arrives one day before major EF layoffs and weeks after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang's resignation, positioning itself to fill the adoption-engineering gaps the foundation is…
The restaking protocol ditches its single-purpose design for vault infrastructure that can back insurance, credit, and RWAs, each with its own onchain risk parameters.
1,806 new wallets in 24 hours, the strongest network expansion in nearly five years, lands alongside a $12.2B TVL base and Standard Chartered's long-dated $3,500 price call.
Version 3 splits the public API into focused endpoints for funding rounds, unlocks, vesting, and funds & teams, and v2 runs in parallel through September 1, 2026.