Stripe’s $53B PayPal Bid Would Combine Bridge and PYUSD Under One Owner
The unsolicited offer from Stripe and Advent International, if PayPal accepts, would consolidate two of the mainstream payments industry’s stablecoin…
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DTCC Starts Live Tokenized-Securities Trades With More Than Two Dozen Firms
The company that settles most US stock trades is running its first production trades of tokenized real-world assets, with a…
Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak Hands Base App to Cobie, Says Social Bet Was ‘Definitively Wrong’
The Coinbase executive is refocusing the largest Ethereum Layer 2 on trading, payments and AI agents after conceding its onchain-social…
Ondo Finance Partners With SBI to Tokenize Japanese Assets
The deal routes distribution through SBI’s ecosystem and settles in the group’s JPYSC yen stablecoin, connecting Japan’s capital markets to…
Dune Study for 1inch Finds 85% of Concentrated Liquidity Idle
The onchain research, which 1inch commissioned, estimates out-of-range positions forgo about $150M a year in fees across seven chains. According…
Polygon Labs Cuts Staff Again as It Closes Coinme Deal
CEO Marc Boiron said the reductions, the company’s second round in 2026, accompany a shift from a blockchain foundation to…
Visa Launches Stablecoin Platform Built on Open USD
Crypto head Cuy Sheffield unveiled the platform, which Fortune reported will bring stablecoin services to more than 200 million merchants,…
Ostium Vault Exploiter Routes 10,540 ETH to Tornado Cash
Blockchain security firm PeckShield now puts the drain on Arbitrum perpetuals protocol Ostium at roughly $24M, above the up-to-$18M first…
CASHCAT Falls 75% from Peak After Hyperliquid Perp Listing
The Robinhood Chain memecoin’s slide has erased most of a 4,000% run, even as its spot price held through a…
Tokenized Stock Lending TVL Reaches $23M as DEX Volume Climbs
Token Terminal data shows QQQ and SPY trackers gaining onchain trading and collateral use, but the totals remain a rounding…