Cryptocurrency

Cari Network is building a bank-governed tokenized deposit platform on ZKsync’s Prividium stack, offering US regional lenders an onchain payments rail with stablecoin-like speed and transferability. Cari Network has selected ZKsync’s Prividium stack to build a bank-governed tokenized deposit platform aimed at US regional banks. The platform will enable regional lenders to offer customers tokenized…

The deal doubles the valuation from Kalshi’s previous round in November. CFTC-regulated prediction market platform Kalshi is raising around $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation in a new funding round, according to multiple reports. The new round is led by Coatue Management, per The Wall Street Journal, which was first to report the news…

Lawyers say the joint SEC-CFTC framework is the most significant crypto regulatory development in years. But who decides when a token sheds its investment contract status, and what happens to DeFi, are still unanswered. The SEC and CFTC’s landmark crypto taxonomy has been widely hailed as a decisive break from years of regulatory limbo but…

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…