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Variational raises $50 million Series A to bring liquidity from traditional markets to blockchain rails

The startup is seeking to set itself apart from Hyperliquid by sourcing liquidity from traditional providers.

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Eisen raises $18.5 million to help Americans recover $70 billion in forgotten funds held by state governments

The startup says it is helping people recover unclaimed money turned over to states in a process known as escheatment

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Harvard sold off its entire $87 million Ethereum stake just one quarter after buying it

The university was the largest new buyer of BlackRock’s Ethereum ETF in Q4 of 2025

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A strip club scandal at a major crypto industry event triggers sponsor backlash

Critics say the event reinforces the ‘crypto bro’ trope at a time the industry is trying to enter the mainstream

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The crypto industry’s Clarity Act hits a critical juncture: Where things stand going into Senate markup

A key banking committee reached a deal on stablecoin yield, but ethics conflicts remain

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Greenboard raises $15.5 million to keep compliance from slowing down business in the AI era

Base10 led the Series A after leading the startup’s 2024 seed round

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Apple and Andreessen Horowitz alums raise $20 million to bring AI to ‘real economy’ businesses

Ciridae’s seed round was led by Accel, with participation from a16z and General Catalyst

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Elizabeth Warren seeks information on Meta’s latest stablecoin plans in letter to Mark Zuckerberg

The senator called Meta’s lack of transparency “troubling”

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Wall Street is abuzz about ‘tokenized assets’—but most activity is limited to a nascent ‘wrapper’ phase, report finds

A Pantera report said 78% of tokenized assets don’t capture the full potential of blockchain

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Zcash spikes 30% after Multicoin managing partner says firm bought the token, calls it protection against wealth taxes

"Zcash is a return to the cypherpunk ideals crypto was founded on," Multicoin’s Tushar Jain said

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MoonPay acquires Solana trading infrastructure platform in $100M all-stock deal

The deal represents MoonPay’s sixth acquisition in the past 18 months

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Solana firm Jito launches a consumer trading app months after raising $50 million

Jito has over $100 million in cash on hand, CEO Lucas Bruder told Fortune

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Bitcoin breaks $80k as long-awaited CLARITY Act approaches finish line

‘We’re in the red zone,” Senate Banking Committee chairman Tim Scott said

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Elon Musk likes Bitcoin—but he just told a jury most crypto coins are scams

The billionaire’s thoughts on crypto came up during the OpenAI trial

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Meta quietly rolls out stablecoin payments four years after demise of controversial Libra project

Creators can receive payouts in the stablecoin USDC on the Solana and Polygon blockchains, according to a new page on Meta’s website.

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Exchange startup Liquid raises $18 million Series A for leveraged trading on stocks, crypto, commodities, prediction markets, and private secondaries

The funding comes less than six months after Liquid’s $7.6 million seed round

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Bitcoin drives back toward $80k—but one billionaire may be fueling much of the rally

Michael Saylor’s Strategy has purchased $7.7 billion of Bitcoin in March and April

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Trump’s team is hosting another memecoin conference. The price to attend has dropped dramatically

There’s also no guarantee that President Trump will be in attendance

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A 19-year-old Thiel fellow just raised $7.3 million to build an African ‘super app’

Aubrey Niederhoffer dropped out of UC Berkeley and moved to Africa to launch a food delivery service

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Investors are valuing Polymarket at a discount to archrival Kalshi—and its crypto ties could be one reason why

Polymarket is raising at a reported $15 billion valuation, while Kalshi was last valued at $22 billion

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Stripe and Paradigm-backed blockchain Tempo launches advisory unit to promote stablecoin adoption

DoorDash, Visa, and Stripe are using Tempo for payments infrastructure

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Tether extends $127.5 million in funding to crypto platform Drift as critics blast rival Circle for failing to freeze hacked funds

The move brought Tether goodwill among users of the Solana blockchain

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Meet Joe McCann: the high-flying crypto trader held in Tanzania after sudden death of his influencer fiancée Ashly Robinson

Robinson's family has labeled the death suspicious, and comes after a series of troubles at McCann's crypto fund.

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Goldman Sachs makes surprise jump into Bitcoin ETFs with a product one analyst dubs “Boomer Candy”

The filing from a major U.S. bank comes shortly after Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF launched

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Nava raises $8.3 million in seed funding to keep AI financial agents from going off the rails

The AI and blockchain startup introduces an escrow system to the burgeoning world of agentic commerce

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American Express releases tools to build AI payments—and pledges to pay the price if agents go awry

The credit card company thinks covering AI agent errors will ultimately drive more transaction volume

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Trump-backed World Liberty Financial tokens hit all-time low on reports of insider loans

The platform is “nowhere near liquidation” on its loans, World Liberty Financial said in an X post.

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Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF began trading. An analyst put it in the top 1% of ETF launches

The new fund marks a "second wave of digital asset adoption," said a Coinbase executive.

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Jamie Dimon warns of growing crypto competition in annual letter: ‘We need to roll out our own blockchain technology’

The CEO’s latest remarks reflect his evolving attitude towards crypto, and coincide with a unit of JPMorgan embracing Solana

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