Morpho Midnight is aimed at powering the fixed-rate, fixed-term lending DeFi needs for institutions.
Morpho Midnight exits beta within days with fixed-term lending, multi-market offers, and a deliberately cautious rollout.
Ethereum outsourced scaling to L2s. Now native proof verification and fast finality can bring them back into the fold.
One of the EF's most versatile protocol researchers just left for Ethlabs, saying serious protocol work now has "a credible shot" outside the Foundation.
Visa's Stablecoin Platform packages OUSD access, wallet infra, and treasury integration for institutions entering crypto.
PayPal in the front, Tempo in the back?
Wall Street's $114T clearing backbone just executed real production trades with tokenized securities.
Do trades fill better on Solana than on Coinbase? JTX's new Good Trade feature puts that to the test on every order.
The CLARITY Act cleared Senate Banking, but an unresolved ethics fight, a departing White House negotiator, and a shrinking calendar threaten its passage.
Galaxy's new managed lending program gives institutions one blended DeFi borrowing rate without having to go through crypto wallets.
Ex-Ethereum Foundation privacy researchers have launched EthSystems, a for-profit firm building privacy tech for institutional Ethereum adoption.
AI agents are getting blocked alongside crawlers because websites can't tell them apart, so the race is on to build an ID layer for the agent economy.
Ethereum's OG money-streaming platform is closing up shop, though its smart contracts will live on.
Jupiter just teamed with Collector Crypt to launch onchain gacha packs to its millions of users.
Strategy held its 843,775 BTC steady last week while stacking dollars via MSTR.
Memes lit the fuse on Robinhood Chain, but DeFi's blue chips are also catching the upside as picks and shovels.
Empery Digital sold 1,400 BTC for debt, an AI data center deal, and legal costs, echoing Strategy's shift toward treating BTC as liquidity.
Circle's new OCC-chartered trust bank gives USDC federal custody backing, sending CRCL up 10%+ as it claws back OpenUSD selloff losses.
Kraken is rebuilding its app with AI in its core, joining Coinbase and Robinhood in making AI the connective tissue for their platforms.
Inference routing and premium data are working for x402. Content monetization could be what makes it essential if Cloudflare's gateway proves it can scale.
HPC and Phantom asked the CFTC to confirm code isn't a financial service.
Robinhood built its L2 for serious onchain finance, but degens had other plans.
Paradigm's $1.2B fourth fund broadens beyond crypto into AI and robotics, joining Framework Ventures and Haun Ventures in widening their scopes.
BNB Chain's new L1 removes the mempool and targets sub-50ms preconfirmation, built for AI agents as chains race for agent trading tools.
Robinhood Chain was built for tokenized stocks and agentic trading, but memecoin CASHCAT is driving its first real surge in trading volume.
Strategy sold $216M in Bitcoin to fund dividends but still reports full $1.25B reserve capacity. The build-versus-replenish loophole explained.
The SEC just published its 2026 rulemaking agenda, and crypto is a top priority.
Lazy Summer Protocol lost $6M to a NAV manipulation exploit three months in the making.
Ondo just launched a perps platform where tokenized stocks can be used to back leveraged positions.
Nearly every major piece of Ethereum is slated for transformation.
USDC now handles 70% of adjusted stablecoin transaction volume as banks like Standard Chartered and BNY build on Circle's network.
Buterin's new proposal would shrink Ethereum's validator state sharply using daily ZK proofs, part of the multi-year "Lean Ethereum" redesign.
Strategy sold $215M in BTC over two weeks to fund dividends, and BTC closed the week higher, testing whether the market can absorb ongoing sales.
eToro led a $12.5M round for Extended, a perpetuals exchange it will integrate into its recently acquired self-custodial wallet, Zengo.
VALR will become the first major regulated exchange to natively integrate Hyperliquid, sourcing onchain liquidity for 200+ perps markets.
Robinhood's integration marks the first Lighter Domain, and a preview of how the zk perps DEX plans to scale.
Solana's new governance system lets validators with 100,000 SOL staked propose network changes, while delegators vote for or against the changes.
The newest major stablecoin consortium is offering businesses a better deal than Circle has. Will Circle be fazed?
June marked a new ATH for onchain gacha spending volume, the category's fourth record month running.
Ethereum Institutional has arrived as a nonprofit liaison for institutional adoption.
Venice just raised a war chest for its mission to bring private AI into the mainstream.
The case for confidential compute on Solana amid the ANSEM frenzy has an interesting setup forming for Arcium's token.
The SEC is asking the public whether its current rulebook can keep pace with novel funds covering digital assets, prediction markets, and more.
NFT trading protocol NFTX is relaunching with a next-gen design atop Uniswap v4.
Some of the biggest names in finance and beyond are joining forces to back the Open USD stablecoin.
Galaxy lowered its Clarity Act passage odds to 50%, citing Senate calendar constraints and stalled negotiations rather than problems with the bill's substance.
Making ETH inevitable and scaling Ethereum to the world. Ethlabs's co-founders sat down with Bankless to unpack the new org's mission.
Strategy's new framework authorizes selling up to $1.25B of Bitcoin to fund preferred dividends, retiring its long-held "never sell" posture.
BlackRock is adding Ethena’s USDe to Aladdin while making BUIDL the main reserve asset for Ethena’s whitelabel stablecoins.
SOL outperformed everything in crypto today. Here's why Solana's bull case is improving.