With capital tightening, investors are backing “what’s working,” like stablecoins and tokenization, while selectively betting on AI and prediction markets.
The firm is launching initial lending strategies on Morpho, focused on capital preservation, governance, and collateral risk monitoring.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Circle Ventures has invested an undisclosed sum in decentralized trading platform edgeX ahead of the project’s planned token launch.
The crypto exchange and wallet project founded by former FTX employees is reportedly in talks to raise $50 million at a $1 billion valuation.
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Kyle Samani pledged to continue making personal investments in the crypto sector as he pursues other tech interests.
TRM Labs has reached unicorn status after closing a $70 million funding round that values the crypto crime-fighting startup at $1 billion.
YC's Nemil Dalal told The Block that funding will be in USDC across major blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Base, and Solana.
Flying Tulip, a new DeFi platform founded by Andre Cronje, has raised additional capital through a mix of private and public token sales.
Talos said part of the funding was settled using stablecoins, pointing to growing institutional comfort with blockchain-based payment rails.
Sony's latest $13 million follow-on investment represents "the first close" of Startale Group's Series A, the firm said in a statement.
Since launching nine months ago, Doppler says more than 90% of new DEX pools on Base now launch through its protocol.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The company plans to deploy the fresh capital toward yield vaults, onchain trading expansion, and growth across Latin America and Europe.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Decentralized social protocols Farcaster and Lens have changed hands, and the debate over crypto social's future is back.
YZi Labs did not disclose the size of the investment but said it is a strategic institutional investor in BitGo.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The firm plans to use the fresh capital to scale beyond tokenized Treasury products into onchain equity issuance on Ethereum and Solana.
Nomura's Laser Digital launched a tokenized Bitcoin Diversified Yield Fund on Jan. 22, targeting around 5% returns.
Cork is building a "programmable risk layer" to make the implicit risks in real-world assets transparent and tradable through tokenization.
Market onlookers have long speculated that Anchorage, the first federally chartered digital asset bank, was considering going public.
Galaxy Digital closed a $75 million tokenized CLO on Avalanche to finance Arch Lending’s crypto-backed lending facility.
The expected increase is likely to be supported by additional crypto regulation, including the passage of the Clarity Act in the U.S.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Alpaca says it powers 94% of all tokenized U.S. equities and ETFs, working with leading RWA projects Dinari, Ondo Finance, and xStocks.
The startup is building tools to help secure crypto networks such as Bitcoin against emerging threats from quantum computing.
Noise is building a prediction market for the relevancy of social media topics, similar to "a stock market for trends."
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.