DeFi

Elliptic raised $120M at a $670M valuation as Deutsche Bank, Nasdaq and JPMorgan bankroll blockchain surveillance tools amid surging crypto

Summary Regulated digital securities platform tZERO is integrating its compliant tokenization stack with the Aptos Layer 1 blockchain. The move

Galaxy Ventures‑backed Boundary Labs is preparing to launch USBD, an over‑collateralized Ethereum stablecoin that swaps monthly attestations for continuous on‑chain

FOCIL, Verkle Trees and account‑abstraction upgrades have moved to Hegotá, turning it into a late‑2026 “cleanup and hardening” fork while

CoW DAO approved CIP‑86 to offer discretionary grants of up to 100% to victims of April’s cow.fi domain hijack, with

Polymarket now hosts “tweet markets” on Elon Musk’s weekly post count, turning his X activity into on‑chain micro‑event data with

Australia is weighing a capital gains tax overhaul that would scrap the long‑standing 50% discount on assets held more than

USDG, still issued by Paxos Singapore and regulated by MAS, will remain in market as one of many institutionally backed

A logic bug in Huma’s legacy V1 Polygon credit pools let an attacker drain about $101,400 in USDC, but its

a16z’s Arc thesis recasts stablecoins as a $9T “economic OS” for global finance, powering accounts, payments, FX and credit instead