CZ: No Asset Can Replace Bitcoin Right Now
The Binance founder says he still spends 80–90% of his time on blockchain, sees Bitcoin's dominance intact, and frames AI-agent micropayments as the next real use case.
The Binance founder says he still spends 80–90% of his time on blockchain, sees Bitcoin's dominance intact, and frames AI-agent micropayments as the next real use case.
The raise backs a thesis most perp DEXs have avoided — sourcing liquidity from real market makers and commodity desks, not just crypto LPs — with Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures joining…
Coinbase's stablecoin-as-a-service play lands its first paying customer, putting the exchange in direct competition with Paxos, Stripe's Bridge, and Anchorage for branded token issuance.
OpenAI is preparing to file for an initial public offering within the coming days or weeks, according to a Wall Street…
The structural story is bigger than the personnel: the EF's long-loose communication model is colliding with an ecosystem now backing hundreds of billions in DeFi, while quantum-risk warnings and…
Variational, an Arbitrum-based derivatives venue, has closed a $50 million Series A round led by Dragonfly Capital…
A Class M DAB license from the BMA lets Plume launch onchain vaults tied to the same AML framework governing Bermuda stablecoins and the U.S.
Plume has secured a digital asset license from Bermuda, positioning itself as what it claims is the first regulated…
The total real-world asset (RWA) tokenization market has crossed $38 billion, according to fresh data from Token…
Catena Labs has closed a $30 million Series A and filed for a national trust bank charter, positioning itself at the…
The Real Vision founder's $2.7T-to-$100T call and 'apex intelligence' framing treat AI and blockchain as one infrastructure layer — with tokenization as the ownership rail.
Nexus's mainnet debut lands alongside its $NEX token generation event, putting one of the most-watched DePIN projects on the market — and the rest of the watchlist is still early enough to farm.
Three near-term initiatives — FOCIL, account abstraction, and Kohaku — move privacy from third-party workaround to a base-layer feature institutions cited as a precondition for adoption at Consensus…
L2Beat rebuilt the Lighter L2 proof stack from source — including its L1 verifier — so users can withdraw even if the sequencer goes dark or turns hostile.
Former CFTC Chair Timothy Massad has indicated that research and exploration of a US central bank digital currency is…
The deal pairs Zama's FHE confidentiality stack with a platform that has already moved $2B in distributions — the bet is that confidential vesting becomes the default for institutions like BlackRock…
The share move from 2.9% to 8.0% looks small in absolute terms, but it was carved almost entirely out of spot — a structural re-routing of retail flow onchain, not a CEX bleed.
The joint venture between DWS, Galaxy Digital, and Flow Traders is using euro-issuance traction as a springboard to a second G10 currency and to a rails layer for autonomous AI agents.
The law's anti-CBDC clause and self-custody protections slot South Carolina into a growing US-state bloc pushing back against federal digital-currency reach and codifying the right to run nodes and…
Sorted Wallet has closed a $4.4 million seed round co-led by Tether and Gnosis, backing the startup's push to build a…