Melee, a new prediction market startup that says speculation and betting should be as open as online discussion, has raised $3.5 million from Variant, DBA and a group of angel investors to roll out what it calls “Viral Markets.” Crypto native companies have witnessed the runaway success of Polymarket, the digital asset betting platform that … Read more
Morgan Stanley’s E*Trade will launch cryptocurrency trading in 2026 through a partnership with digital asset infrastructure provider Zerohash — underscoring Wall Street’s deepening push into digital assets amid a wave of supportive legislation from the Trump administration. E*Trade clients will be able to buy Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Solana (SOL) in the first half … Read more
Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley startup incubator behind Airbnb, Coinbase and Stripe, is collaborating with Base and Coinbase Ventures to create the next wave of so-called “Fintech 3.0” companies, according to a blog post on Tuesday. The firms have opened applications to these “Fintech 3.0” companies, saying it is looking for themes such as expanding … Read more
Plasma, a new blockchain built specifically for stablecoins, is set to flip the switch on its long-awaited mainnet beta next week, introducing the chain and its native token, XPL, on Sept. 25. According to a blog post from the team, the network will debut with more than $2 billion in stablecoin liquidity from over a … Read more
DBS, Franklin Templeton, and Ripple have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on offering trading and lending solutions that leverage tokenized money market funds on the XRP Ledger blockchain and Ripple’s stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD). The MoU will see Franklin Templeton tokenize its money market fund, Franklin on-chain U.S. dollar short-term money market … Read more
21Shares is launching two new crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs), bringing its total offerings in Europe to 50 ETPs. The new listings include the 21Shares Artificial Superintelligence Alliance ETP (AFET), which tracks a group of decentralized AI protocols, including Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, Ocean Protocol, and CUDOS, and the 21Shares Raydium ETP (ARAY). ARAY offers exposure to Solana-based … Read more
Sui (SUI) rose nearly 4% over the past 24 hours after being selected as a launch partner for Google’s new Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2), a standard designed to let AI agents conduct financial transactions for users. The token’s move from $3.509 to $3.622 marked a 3.22% gain, with trading spanning a $0.183 range. By contrast, … Read more
The crypto industry is not just about ETFs and price surges; it's also about tackling real-world market inefficiencies. The launch of Uranium.io's near-real-time uranium pricing oracle is a prime example of that. Uranium.io, a platform tokenizing Uranium, unveiled its pricing oracle on Tuesday, aimed at addressing the price opacity issues in the uranium market. Unlike … Read more
Dogecoin surged nearly 6% to $0.261 in the past 24 hours as traders positioned for the scheduled debut of the first U.S. Dogecoin ETF on September 12. Anticipation of the “DOJE” product, coupled with whale accumulation exceeding 280 million DOGE, fueled heavy late-session flows with volume topping 1.1 billion. Analysts now focus on whether the … Read more
St. Cloud Financial Credit Union (SCFCU), a Minnesota-based institution with over $400 million in assets, plans to roll out a proprietary stablecoin what it claims to be the first from a U.S. credit union. The token, dubbed Cloud Dollar (CLDUSD) and developed with blockchain firm Metallicus and financial technology provider DaLand CUSO, is slated to … Read more