Alpaca raises $135M to fund tokenized agent-first infrastructure
The BNPbacked brokerage infrastructure provider is expanding into tokenized markets and AInative financial services as both DeFi and TradFi companies pursue…
Gambling on random Pokémon cards: Onchain gagcha hits record high as crypto sinks
Users spent a record $324 million on onchain gacha in June, even as Bitcoin hit a 21month low. The thrill of scoring a top Pokemon card from a random pack is…
Prediction markets defy crypto downturn with record Q2 volume: CoinGecko
Prediction markets reached a record $113.8 billion in notional volume in Q2 as spot CEX trading, derivatives volume and stablecoin market cap declined.…
MoonPay buys Glide to bolster crypto deposits infrastructure
MoonPay acquired Glide, a crypto infrastructure startup founded by former Robinhood Wallet engineers, to expand crosschain crypto deposit infrastructure.…
Tokenized stocks market cap gains to record $2.3B
The market capitalization of tokenized stocks rose to a record $2.3 billion, as investors sought exposure to the growing list of tokenized equity products…
FATF urges faster crypto AML enforcement as stablecoin crime increases
The global task force said criminal networks are using stablecoins and developing proprietary tokens to evade asset freezes as countries struggle to enforce…
ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim
ARK Invest’s director of research disputed a16z crypto’s thesis that traditional finance will adopt permissioned blockchain infrastructure instead of…
Autonomous AI agent economy faces infrastructure gaps: Visa, Artemis
Visa and Artemis found that infrastructure bottlenecks are preventing broader commercial adoption of the autonomous AI agent economy. Source：Cointelegraph
US Senate unanimously adopts resolution opposing clemency for SBF
The Senate approved a resolution opposing clemency for former FTX CEO Sam BankmanFried as prediction markets put the odds of a Trump pardon by July 31 below…
Tether invests $20M into Argentine neobank Ualá
Tether reportedly invested $20 million into Ualá, as part of the Argentine neobank’s $197 million funding round announced earlier in March. Source：Cointelegraph
Bitcoin $107K buyers providing ‘early signals’ of 2026 bear-market bottom: Glassnode
Bitcoin realized losses appeared to be copying a reversal structure that marked previous bearmarket bottoms, with $69,000 a new BTC price battleground.…
Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun halts after ‘internal integrity’ issue
Vlad.fun suspended its platform after discovering a “serious internal integrity issue” involving members of its team, without disclosing the nature of the…