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Giang Bui, who most recently worked on equities and ETF operations at Nasdaq, will join as Securitizes new vice president of issuer growth.

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The move comes as Kalshi’s trading volume pulls ahead of Polymarket, largely due to its sports betting offerings.

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Bitwise has joined Morpho as a vault curator, highlighting growing institutional demand for allocating capital onchain.

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Decentralized social protocols Farcaster and Lens have changed hands, and the debate over crypto social's future is back.

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USD.AI primarily operates as an onchain bank for AI startups, accepting tokenized GPUs as collateral for stablecoin loans.

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While sovereign debt dominates tokenization today, Ark expects bank deposits and global public equities to move a greater share.

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Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the Ethereum-based protocol last valued at $1 billion.

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Cork is building a "programmable risk layer" to make the implicit risks in real-world assets transparent and tradable through tokenization.

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Initially focused on a Solana-based restaking solution, the team announced it was building a high-throughput Layer 1 in January 2025.

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Farcaster, another SocialFi project, has largely abandoned its original mission in favor of developing digital wallet features.

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The initiative aims to pilot stablecoin payments across government agencies, expand USDC adoption among local businesses, and more.

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Fogo aims to achieve 40-millisecond block times, making it “up to 18x faster” than rival throughput-maxing networks like Solana and Sui. 

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The startup is building tools to help secure crypto networks such as Bitcoin against emerging threats from quantum computing.

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Noise is building a prediction market for the relevancy of social media topics, similar to "a stock market for trends."

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The 2026 edition of the Golden Globes was broadcast Sunday night on CBS and featured several prediction markets from Polymarket.

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The CoinList sale will run next week, with 8% of the 11 billion ZAMA token supply allocated and tokens available to claim on Feb. 2.

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"This alliance will accelerate the integration of USDe into the deepest layers of the DeFi economy,” Ethena founder Guy Young said.

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Genius Trading is building a privacy-focused DeFi trading platform and aims to become an onchain alternative to Binance.

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The privacy-preserving, Telegram-based Cocoon AI pays users in Toncoin for renting out their GPUs to process queries.

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In this edition, we explore why token buybacks are back in the spotlight, when they work, and when teams should think twice.

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Flare has listed FXRP on Hyperliquid, marking the first time XRP spot exposure is available on the platform.

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A hacker who compromised a multisignature wallet has now laundered more than $19 million worth of ETH through Tornado Cash since December.

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Polymarket will offer a new suite of housing-related prediction markets via an integration with onchain real estate platform Parcl.

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The acquisition adds staking as a new business line under a newly launched infrastructure solutions division at The Tie.

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Crypto VCs told The Block they expect disciplined activity to persist in 2026, with a higher bar for new investments.

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A hacker appears to have gained unauthorized control over Unleash Protocol's multisig, enabling them to drain nearly $4 million in assets.

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The deal follows Coinbase’s recent rollout of prediction markets on its platform and is expected to close in January.

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Three entities — Upshift, Clearstar, and Flare — have jointly launched earnXRP, a new product that allows users to earn yield denominated in XRP.

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In practice, the fund functions like a continuous buyback-and-burn system by converting trading fees into inaccessible HYPE tokens.

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The project previously raised an unannounced pre-seed round of about $5 million in mid-2024, founder Kevin Lepsoe told The Block.