Kraken Pro has rolled out its largest single margin leverage expansion, adding support across 44 trading pairs including stablecoins, gold tokens, BTC and ETH regional pairs, mid-cap assets, and DeFi blue-chips. Kraken Pro has expanded margin leverage across 44 trading pairs, marking the exchange’s largest single leverage expansion to date. The expansion spans four distinct…
The payments-focused L1 launches with a slew of fintech and TradFi partners, while MPP is aimed at enabling agentic commerce. Payments-focused blockchain Tempo, developed by Stripe and Paradigm, announced the launch of its mainnet today, March 18. Also today, Stripe and Tempo revealed a new open standard for AI agent payments, Machine Payments Protocol (MPP),…
The move follows the EF’s first deployment into the DeFi lending protocol in October, and is part of its updated treasury policy. The Ethereum Foundation has deposited another 3,400 ETH — worth roughly $7.5 million at today’s prices, near $2,220 — into DeFi lending protocol Morpho, with 1,000 ETH allocated specifically to Morpho Vaults V2,…
Kraken has frozen its multibillion-dollar initial public offering plan, citing difficult market conditions just months after confidentially filing with the SEC. Kraken has halted its plans to go public, according to CoinDesk reporting. The move comes despite the company’s parent filing a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC in November 2025, signaling serious preparation…
The deal gives non-U.S. investors around-the-clock leveraged exposure to the world’s most-tracked equity benchmark on Hyperliquid. S&P Dow Jones Indices has licensed the S&P 500 to TradeXYZ, enabling the launch of the first officially sanctioned perpetual futures contract based on the index. This marks the first time eligible non-U.S. investors can gain leveraged exposure to…
The campaign includes an open letter to the deans and faculty of major U.S. business and law schools, co-signed by 20+ leading DeFi orgs. 1inch, the decentralized exchange aggregator with about $3 million in total value locked (TVL), has launched 1inch Forward, a DeFi education campaign across universities in the United States. According to a…
The perpetuals exchange is promoting WLFI’s stablecoin as a trading asset ahead of the Aster Chain Layer 1 launch. Aster, the decentralized perpetuals exchange backed by YZi Labs, is expanding its collaboration with World Liberty Financial, the DeFi project affiliated with the Trump family, adding USD1-denominated perpetual contracts and an incentive program aimed at bootstrapping…
Visa Crypto Labs has launched an experimental product that lets AI agents make payments directly from the command line, without API keys or pre-funded accounts. Visa has unveiled Visa CLI, the first product out of its newly branded Visa Crypto Labs division, targeting the emerging market for AI agent payments. The tool is currently in…
Bitcoin slips 5% as rising U.S. wholesale inflation and ongoing geopolitical tensions weigh on investor sentiment. Crypto markets erased most of their weekly gains on Wednesday after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that U.S. wholesale prices rose sharply in February and the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around…
The Algorand Foundation has laid off a quarter of its staff, citing macroeconomic uncertainty and depressed crypto prices as conditions worsen across the industry. The Algorand Foundation has cut 25% of its workforce due to macroeconomic uncertainty and lower cryptocurrency prices. The layoff at the organization behind the layer-1 Algorand blockchain reflects broader challenges facing…