Strategic partnerships, integrations, and M&A — exchange and protocol deals, and enterprise blockchain agreements.
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.
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.
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