DeFi

Summary Former a16z crypto investor Sam Broner has co-founded The Better Money Company, raising $10M in seed funding to build

Keyrock’s SC Ventures-led Series C values the crypto market maker at $1.1B as it expands from market making into M&A-driven

Slow Fog flags malicious axios releases pulling in plain-crypto-js malware, exposing crypto developers to cross-platform RATs and stolen credentials via

Ex-Blackstone staffers raised $25M for Valinor, a startup using smart contracts to move private credit workflows on-chain and lend first

The ECB now accepts tokenized securities as collateral, lifting DLT into its toolkit while X erupts over Axiology’s XRP Ledger

Nearly half of Pump.fun traders lost money in March as viral on-chain data exposes how few wallets meaningfully profited from

Siren (SIREN) price has surged 109% in 24 hours to a $1.21B cap, up 9,095% from its low, as traders

CoinShares reports $414M outflows from crypto funds, led by US selling, as XRP inflows and shifting Fed expectations define a

Bitwise says Finance 2.0 is arriving from the outside in, as tokenization, stablecoins and crypto ETFs start to rewire how

Decentralized lending protocol Aave has officially launched on Ethereum layer 2 X Layer. Summary Aave has launched on X Layer,