Alpaca raises $135M to scale tokenized U.S. equities infrastructure
The brokerage already clears or custodies about 94% of tokenized U.S. stocks, making the raise a bid to own the settlement layer before Coinbase and Kraken close in.
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The brokerage already clears or custodies about 94% of tokenized U.S. stocks, making the raise a bid to own the settlement layer before Coinbase and Kraken close in.
The pairing brings together one of DeFi's largest RWA issuers and one of Japan's deepest financial conglomerates, with the JPYSC stablecoin as the settlement rail.
CNN's review of post-purchase Truth Social activity raises the canonical insider-trading question the Constitution leaves unresolved: how much of the presidency's market-moving voice is the same…
The comment lands as BTC trades sideways and US CPI data remains the next macro catalyst the market is positioning around.
The payments network is going direct: a stablecoin rail built into the Visa stack, not a one-off bank partnership, brings digital-dollar settlement to the existing merchant base.
Bitwise's 59-point gap between listed crypto companies and the assets themselves points to an industry whose earnings no longer need a bull market to grow.
The layoffs arrive as Polygon Labs pushes to finalize its Coinme acquisition and refocus the business around payments infrastructure, marking the second workforce reduction this year.
Transaction sign-off stays on a physical device, so an autonomous agent can read balances and draft swaps but can never broadcast one without a human tap.
Glide is MoonPay's sixth acquisition of 2026, and the onramp giant is absorbing a four-person team that built crypto-native deposit rails for fintechs and neobanks.
The model fuses Strategy's BTC treasury playbook with private M&A: founders take partial stock, Orange Juice holds cash flow and stacks Bitcoin, then aims to list and recycle liquid shares into more…
The investment slots Tether deeper into Latin American fintech distribution on the same day Allianz X closed a $197M round first led in March, a structural bet on stablecoin rails across the region.
The expansion triples TSMC's US capex footprint and locks in three new fabs plus an R&D center, deepening the US-Taiwan semiconductor decoupling beyond any previous commitment.
Just 61 rounds closed in June, down 31.5% from May and 52% below the post-2020 monthly average, the weakest month for venture capital into crypto since November 2020.
The distribution deal through Fireblocks Earn matters more than the vaults themselves: idle stablecoin balances sitting in custody are the largest unmonetised pool in crypto, and Galaxy just put a…
The structure borrows the MicroStrategy treasury playbook but layers in permanent-capital discipline, a model that raises the bar for every 'bitcoin treasury' equity raise that follows.
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, AWS and Cloudflare all in the premier tier, with Coinbase handing stewardship to a neutral foundation built around the dormant HTTP 402 code.
The scale matters beyond Seoul: Korea's retail margin complex is large enough that 1.2M margin calls show up in global crypto sell-pressure feeds within minutes.
Strategy's CFO publicly framed the level at which bitcoin becomes a balance-sheet problem rather than a treasury asset, putting a hard number on a question holders have avoided for two years.
After absorbing over $100M in a single month in May, U.S. spot XRP ETFs have slipped below $1B in combined AUM, with several July sessions logging zero flows and one printing $7.3M in net outflows.
The equity check is small, but it is the third LatAm deal in three months and follows a Q1 profit of $1.04B; Tether is converting USDT reserve yield into a regional banking footprint while…