Binance, the largest crypto exchange by volume traded, released guidelines placing tighter obligations on token issuers and liquidity providers. The new rules require projects to disclose their market maker’s identity, legal entity and contract terms. They also ban profit-sharing and guaranteed-return arrangements, which the exchange said can create incentives that conflict with fair trading. Token…
Obex, the Framework Ventures-backed incubator, began deploying $1 billion on Wednesday to link the Sky ecosystem’s USDS stablecoin with income from tangible assets like AI data centers, housing and energy, boosting real-world strategies beyond crypto-native sources of yield. The first group of assets includes products from Maple, USD.ai, Daylight, Centrifuge, Securitize, River, TVL Capital and…
The Solana Foundation is positioning the network as core infrastructure for an emerging “agentic” internet, where AI systems—not humans—initiate and execute economic activity. “AI is not really a vertical. It’s a platform shift… affecting everything across every industry, including crypto,” said Vibhu Norby, chief product officer of the Solana Foundation, during a panel at the…
Artificial intelligence agents will be deployed starting Wednesday by law enforcement agencies using analytical tools provided by TRM Labs, which added the new agents that are meant to allow investigators to use regular language to frame their searches. The new investigative assistant is embedded in the TRM Forensics service that’s extended to law enforcement agencies,…
Coinbase is walking a tightrope in the negotiation over the Clarity Act, telling the staffs of U.S. senators that the company is not happy with where the lawmakers landed in their latest compromise, according to people familiar with the situation, but it hasn’t openly declared its opposition. The proposed agreement was shown to stakeholders in…
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has hired a new head of design with deep roots in crypto product development, as the platform continues to expand into payments and financial services. Benji Taylor said in Wednesday post that he now leads design for X under its ties to xAI and SpaceX. Taylor founded Los Feliz…
BitGo and ZKsync are teaming up to offer banks a full-stack infrastructure for tokenized deposits, as financial institutions look to bring traditional money onto blockchain rails without stepping outside regulatory boundaries. The effort combines BitGo’s institutional custody and wallet services with ZKsync’s Prividium, a permissioned, privacy-preserving blockchain designed for regulated entities. The joint offering aims…
Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week: Ryan Kirkley on how crypto prediction markets can risk incentivizing manipulation and amplify misinformation at scale. Top headlines institutions should pay attention to by Francisco Rodrigues. Geodnet decoupling suggests fundamental re-rating in Chart of the Week. Thanks for joining us! -Alexandra Levis Expert Insights…
In the growing policy moment for securities tokenization, the House Financial Services Committee gathered views on the innovation at a Wednesday hearing, though the specter of President Donald Trump’s family crypto ties did arise more than once. The lawmakers broadly agreed that tokenized securities generally need the same regulatory guardrails as traditional securities trading, which…
Startale Group said it closed a $63 million Series A round, adding $50 million from SBI Group to a $13 million first close from Sony Innovation Fund in January. The Singapore-based company, which operates in Japan, builds blockchain tools for both financial firms and retail users. Its products include Strium, a blockchain for tokenized securities…
