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DePIN startup’s raise combines equity from Framework Ventures and project financing from Turtle Hill

Stablecoins are blockchain’s “ChatGPT moment” says Citi analyst Sophia Bantanidis at DAS London

Bitcoin miners are up more than 150% this year as investors re-rate them as energy infrastructure providers

The new Rootstock Institutional unit aims to connect professional investors to Bitcoin-native yield and liquidity strategies anchored in BTC’s security layer

Friday saw dramatic crypto market activity in the hours after President Donald Trump threatened a new flare-up in US-China trade tensions.

Speculation about a DAT company steering Ethereum overlooks its governance: messy and resistant to corporate capture

Jupiter’s ecosystem will gain a native stablecoin, JupUSD, built with Ethena Labs’ infrastructure and backed by USDtb and USDe

Pipe’s testnet has delivered 60+ PB of data across ~290,000 Point of Presence (PoP) nodes

Gnosis is betting that openness — not ownership — will define the future of onchain money

The Guidestar team, led by Alex Nezlobin, will join Uniswap Labs to enhance automated market maker design and smart order routing

More than 75 million U.S. Galaxy owners gain integrated Coinbase One access through Samsung Wallet, with global rollout planned

The perp DEX verifies matching and liquidations with custom zero-knowledge circuits and keeps user assets on Ethereum

FG Nexus teams with Securitize to bring its Nasdaq-listed equity onchain, offering tokenized stock trading through Ethereum

New appointments aim to coordinate privacy projects across Ethereum, advancing cryptographic tools and secure scaling

The defense argues DOJ is criminalizing open-source code and violating First Amendment protections in landmark crypto case

EF report maps eight factions within the ecosystem, warning that short-term pragmatism is eclipsing the protocol’s founding vision

Phantom expands its wallet into a money app, powered by Bridge’s CASH stablecoin and Visa-backed payment integration

Robinhood explores overseas expansion as regulators debate whether contracts are financial products or gambling bets

Layer-2 zk rollup rolls out staking and incentives to lure wrapped bitcoin for holders in search of yield