BitMine Launches Proprietary Ethereum Validator Network MAVAN

Tom Lee’s firm is the largest public holder of ETH, and the second largest digital asset treasury company. BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) has officially launched MAVAN — the Made in America Validator Network — its proprietary institutional-grade Ethereum staking platform, the company announced on Wednesday, March 25. The move marks a major operational milestone…

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Whop Treasury launches with Aave, Plasma, and Veda integrations: Whop

E-commerce platform Whop has launched its Treasury feature, enabling creators to earn yield directly on balances through integrations with Aave, Plasma, and Veda. Whop has launched Whop Treasury, an on-chain earning feature for its e-commerce platform powered by Aave, Plasma, and Veda. The feature allows creators to generate yield directly on their account balances. According…

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Ripple Partners with Singapore’s Central Bank on Cross-Border Settlement Infra for Trade Finance

The pilot is part of a broader MAS initiative to extend settlement capabilities using tokenized bank liabilities and regulated stablecoins. Ripple has joined a pilot program run by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), partnering with trade finance platform Unloq to build blockchain-based cross-border settlement infrastructure, according to a press release today, March 25. The…

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Ondo Tokenizes Five Franklin Templeton ETFs

The partnership brings growth, large-cap, fixed income, equity income, and gold ETFs onchain through Ondo Global Markets. Ondo Finance has partnered with Franklin Templeton to tokenize five of the asset manager’s exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The deal marks the first time Templeton-managed ETFs are available on-chain, extending the $1.7 trillion asset manager’s blockchain footprint beyond its…

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Bitcoin Holds $71K as ETF Flows Reverse

Spot BTC ETFs had $74 million in outflows on Tuesday as traders await Friday’s PCE data. Crypto markets drifted sideways on Wednesday as spot ETF flows whipsawed between inflows and outflows, and lawmakers grilled witnesses at a hearing on tokenized securities. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $71,000, up 2% over the past 24 hours….

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Obex Starts Deploying $1B in USDS Into Mortgages, AI Hardware, and Solar Energy

The Sky-backed stablecoin incubator’s inaugural class of eight projects marks the protocol’s biggest push yet to diversify beyond crypto-native yield sources. Obex, the stablecoin incubator administered by Framework Ventures and backed by a $2.5 billion mandate from the Sky ecosystem, on Tuesday announced its inaugural cohort of eight projects and began deploying up to $1…

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Coinbase Brings Exchange Data Onchain via Chainlink’s DataLink

The integration gives DeFi protocols direct access to institutional-grade order book, spot, and futures data from the largest US crypto exchange. Coinbase has integrated Chainlink’s DataLink service to publish its premium exchange data onchain for the first time, the companies announced on Tuesday. DataLink is an institutional-grade data publishing service powered by the Chainlink data…

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UK Bans Crypto Donations to Political Parties, Citing Foreign Interference Risk

An independent government review warned that crypto assets could channel foreign money into British politics. The United Kingdom has imposed an immediate moratorium on all cryptocurrency donations to political parties, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Wednesday. The move follows the publication of the Rycroft Review, a 50-page independent assessment of foreign financial interference in…

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