Crypto VCs told The Block they expect disciplined activity to persist in 2026, with a higher bar for new investments.
The project previously raised an unannounced pre-seed round of about $5 million in mid-2024, founder Kevin Lepsoe told The Block.
The move comes amid a series of product launches, including Solana support, perps trading via Hyperliquid, and a recent Polymarket rollout.
Firedancer could boost client diversity on Solana, which historically has been dominated by forks of Solana Labs' original codebase.
The buybacks are funded by network revenue as Pyth reports rising traction, with its Pyth Pro product surpassing $1M ARR in its first month.
Launched in 2021, the universal liquidity layer and protocol intermediary has surpassed $60 billion in lifetime transaction volume.
Privacy-focused blockchain project Octra said the sale allocation could increase if demand is high. Any unsold tokens will be burned.
The Astria Network was “intentionally halted” at block number 15,360,577, according to the team and blockchain data on Monday.
The Ethereum Foundation published a blog post outlining the goals for the upcoming Ethereum Interop Layer, now open for testing.
The public launch coincided with a major Cloudflare outage on Tuesday that has brought down key crypto frontends.
Kohaku is a suite of privacy-preserving crypto tools to enhance privacy and security in the Ethereum ecosystem.
The expansion gives XRP holders access to BNB Chain DeFi, allowing them to earn additional yield on top of mXRP’s base strategy returns.
Tempo, backed by Paradigm and Stripe, will adopt the Commonware Library and become a core contributor to its ongoing development.
Sprinter is a crosschain “solving-as-a-service” infrastructure startup that provides access to collateral-free credit.
“Harmonic brings Solana closer to being the onchain Nasdaq,” Harmonic co-founder Jakob Povšič told The Block.
The tie-up will bring data for major global indices like the Russell 1000, Russell 2000, Russell 3000, and other FTSE products onchain.
The backwards-compatible Fusaka hard fork will implement about a dozen Ethereum Improvement Proposals.
The Kinexys system uses smart contracts to automate capital calls and reduce manual fund processes, building on an earlier onchain repo tool.
With both BTC.b and LBTC, Lombard is the only platform offering both yield and non-yield bitcoin assets, founder Jacob Phillips said.
Hoodi represents the third and final testnet deployment, following successive activations on Holesky and Sepolia earlier this month.
The acquisition adds Dynamic’s wallet and onboarding tools to Fireblocks’ institutional-grade custody stack, expanding its reach into consumer-facing crypto apps.
The tool comes on the heels of the launch of the x402 Foundation, a Coinbase and Cloudflare-backed initiative to standardize AI-payments.
The move represents an advancement for Polymarket's B2B operations, adding to its substantial foothold in the retail prediction market space.
The new engineering hires will expand Ethena Labs' exiting team, consisting of 10-15 employees, by 40%-50%.
Solana co-creator Anatoly Yakovenko is building an onchain perps DEX, according to detailed documentation posted on GitHub.
Dankrad Feist, who made several notable contributions to Ethereum since entering the ecosystem in 2018, is joining alternative Layer 1 Tempo.
SEAL's Verifiable Phishing Reporter uses a cryptographic scheme designed by the team that proves whitehat hackers see what victims see.
Akash will deprecate its Cosmos-based app chain and evaluate a new base network, potentially outside Cosmos, with Solana as a contender.
TradeBlock had a preexisting relationship with DCG, one of the largest crypto conglomerates, and Axoni, a blockchain infrastructure firm.
Decentralized yield protocol Pendle disclosed that an onchain wallet has been drained, and an exploiter is minting principal/yield tokens “to dumping.”