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Janus Henderson, Centrifuge launch tokenized Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launched a tokenized Nasdaq-100 fund on the Stellar blockchain, marking another institutional push into on-chain asset …
Hayes details FLOP’s AI compute derivatives vision after selling his altcoins
Arthur Hayes, the influential BitMEX founder, outlined his vision for Flop Network's derivatives architecture, revealing how the protocol aims to comm…
Nasdaq-100 comes onchain as Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launch first licensed fund
Janus Henderson, one of the world's largest asset managers with $500 billion under management, has launched the first licensed onchain fund tracking t…
CF Benchmarks brings Wall Street pricing infrastructure onchain, including data used by BlackRock
CF Benchmarks, the regulated benchmark administrator owned by Crypto Facilities and CM-Equity, launched an onchain data infrastructure service that br…
Injective launches onchain futures market tracking Nvidia GPU rental costs
Injective Protocol launched an onchain futures market tied to Nvidia GPU rental prices, creating a novel derivative product that tracks the cost of re…
Dogecoin gets DeFi testnet as DogeOS bets miners will eventually secure its apps
DogeOS launched a testnet environment that layers decentralized finance capabilities onto Dogecoin, positioning the blockchain as infrastructure for a…
Crypto Long & Short: What will the AI agents run on?
# The Infrastructure Question Reshaping Crypto's AI Agent Future The explosive growth of AI agents across crypto threatens to expose a fundamental ga…
Ethereum users get another way to pay privately as zk.money returns after three years
Aztec Network has revived zk.money, a privacy-focused wallet that obscures transaction details on Ethereum through zero-knowledge cryptography. The se…
NEAR Intents says it blocked $50M tied to Bitget hackers
NEAR Protocol's intent-solving infrastructure successfully blocked approximately $50 million in funds connected to the recent Bitget exchange hack, th…
The restaking gold rush is over, and top protocols are barely making a profit
# The Restaking Gold Rush Collapses as Protocol Profitability Evaporates Ethereum's liquid restaking sector has hit a wall. Once the hottest narrativ…
THORChain under fire over Bitget, ETH evolves beyond blockchain: Hodler’s Digest
THORChain faces mounting pressure after refusing to blacklist wallet addresses connected to the Bitget exchange hack, triggering criticism from the co…
IBM opens beta Swift ledger link for 24/7 tokenized deposits
IBM has launched a beta integration connecting SWIFT's blockchain ledger infrastructure to tokenized deposit systems, enabling financial institutions …
UK’s largest banks complete world’s first interbank transactions using tokenized deposits
UK's big three banks crossed a technical threshold this week. Barclays, NatWest, and HSBC executed interbank transactions using tokenized deposits, ma…
Bitwise launches first Lighter ETP amid Hyperliquid rivalry
Bitwise rolled out its first exchange-traded product focused on Lighter, a decentralized derivatives protocol, targeting European investors seeking di…
AI potential to drive crypto demand remains ‘underappreciated’: BlackRock
BlackRock's cryptocurrency research team has flagged artificial intelligence agents as an underappreciated catalyst for crypto adoption, specifically …
Arch Lending eyes tokenized stocks as next collateral market
Arch Lending is preparing to expand its collateral framework beyond traditional crypto assets into tokenized stocks, according to comments from the pl…
Trueo prediction market moves from Base to Ethereum
Trueo, a prediction market platform, has migrated its operations from Base to Ethereum mainnet. The project chose Base as its initial deployment chain…
Ondo lets institutions convert stocks directly into tokenized shares
Ondo Finance has launched an in-kind conversion mechanism that fundamentally alters how institutions enter and exit tokenized securities. The system p…
Cardano joins Solana, XRP Ledger in race to power AI agent payments
Cardano entered the competitive arena for AI agent payment infrastructure by integrating into the x402 kit, joining established players Solana and XRP…