Liu also added “head of gaming” at Solana Foundation to her X bio, in what appears to be a pointed joke. Solana Foundation president Lily Liu said blockchain gaming is dead in an X post today, March 20. A later, self-proclaimed “shitpost” from the Foundation’s chief product officer poked fun at Liu’s statement, but the…
The industry body co-authored a white paper with Boston Consulting Group outlining a “Gold as a Service” platform to standardize issuance and custody of digital gold. The World Gold Council, the gold industry’s leading market-development body, announced Thursday it is building shared infrastructure designed to make digital gold products more interoperable, scalable, and easier to…
The exchange is offering leveraged contracts on major technology stocks and ETFs. Coinbase on Friday rolled out perpetual futures contracts tied to U.S. equities, becoming one of the first major centralized exchanges to offer the product and expanding its derivatives lineup beyond crypto. The contracts cover all seven Magnificent 7 stocks — Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet,…
A new taxonomy from the venture firm identifies seven barrier clusters keeping most traditional yield sources off-chain, and argues that stablecoin growth is pulling them closer. Electric Capital published a research report on Monday, cataloging 501 distinct sources of real-world yield and cross-referencing them against tokenized assets with meaningful on-chain traction today. The venture firm…
The Trump-backed DeFi project’s new AgentPay SDK gives AI agents self-custodial wallets and policy-enforced spending on EVM chains. World Liberty Financial (WLFI) on Thursday released the AgentPay SDK, an open-source toolkit that enables AI agents to autonomously hold, send, and receive funds across Ethereum-compatible blockchains. Transactions are settled in USD1, WLFI’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, which currently…
The Stripe-owned wallet infrastructure provider has integrated Deframe’s DeFi aggregation API, the latest in a string of yield-focused moves. Privy, the embedded wallet infrastructure provider acquired by Stripe last year, has integrated Deframe, a DeFi aggregation API built by the team behind Pods Finance, to enable developers to offer yield strategies directly within their applications….
Ripple is adding custody, payments, and brokerage tools for digital asset management in Brazil as it prepares to seek regulatory approval from the country’s central bank. Ripple is expanding its services in Brazil by adding custody, payments, and brokerage tools for digital asset management and tokenization. The blockchain firm plans to apply for regulatory approval…
The second-largest perpetual futures DEX by volume began the rollout of its mainnet, which uses ZK proofs to keep trades private. Aster, the BNB Chain-native perp DEX backed by YZi Labs, has launched the genesis phase of Aster Chain, its privacy-focused Layer 1 blockchain, the team announced on X. According to the announcement, Aster Chain…
The move aims to integrate BVNK’s infra into Mastercard’s network to bridge on-chain payments and existing fiat rails. Mastercard has struck a deal to buy stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8 billion, according to a press release on Tuesday, March 17. The deal includes $300 million in contingent payments and is expected to…
The toolkit integrates with Coinbase’s x402 protocol, giving platforms a way to verify a real person stands behind an automated agent — without revealing who that person is. World — the crypto project co-founded by Sam Altman — announced today that it has launched AgentKit beta, a developer toolkit that extends its World ID proof-of-human…