DeFi heavyweights urge the SEC to turn its temporary “non‑custodial UI” safe harbor into binding broker rules that shield neutral infrastructure from creeping regulation. Summary The Humanity Foundation has overhauled its $H vesting plan, giving investors until April 26 at 09:00 UTC to choose between a three‑year extended vest or a steeply discounted one‑time unlock
JPYC stablecoin crosses $100M on Polygon, showing rapid growth in Japan’s digital payments and rising adoption of blockchain-based stablecoins. Japan’s stablecoin market is growing fast as JPYC crosses a major milestone. The yen-backed stablecoin has surpassed onchain payment volume of over $100 million in eight months. Besides, this expansion underscores the increasing adoption of digital
Pi Network co-founder Nicolas Kokkalis will take the stage at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 7, joining a panel titled “How to Prove You’re Human in an AI World (Without Doxing Yourself)” at the Convergence Stage, as Pi positions its KYC-verified user base as a direct answer to one of the most urgent problems
For most of their existence, prediction markets sat squarely outside mainstream finance: an interesting technological and cultural phenomenon, but too small, too thinly traded and too often associated with online gambling to attract meaningful institutional interest. That began to change in 2025, as trading volumes rose sharply, media attention intensified and regulatory clarity improved, making
BridgeTower Capital has officially adopted Chainlink’s full infrastructure stack to tokenize $11 billion in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, making it one of the largest live production tokenized asset deployments ever announced and positioning Chainlink as the core operational layer for a pipeline BridgeTower says exceeds $25 billion in natural resources, energy,
Coinbase UK has launched a crypto-backed lending product that lets British users borrow USDC stablecoins against their Bitcoin, Ethereum, and cbETH holdings – with funds arriving in under a minute. The detail most headlines are missing is what this actually unlocks for UK holders sitting on unrealized gains: a way to access real spending power
Summary Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, starting with a $10 billion cash injection at a $350 billion valuation and a further $30 billion contingent on performance. The deal is aimed at locking Anthropic deeper into Google Cloud and TPU infrastructure, as the two companies race rivals like OpenAI and xAI
The modern financial system was never designed for machines. It was built around the constraints of human life: geography, sleep cycles, paperwork, and physical presence. But as AI agents begin to act as economic participants, that human-centric design is starting to look less like a feature, and more like a bottleneck, said the co-founder of
President Trump delivered a keynote address on April 25 at a Mar-a-Lago gala restricted to the top 297 holders of his Official TRUMP memecoin, with a private VIP reception and champagne toast reserved for the top 29, as Senators Elizabeth Warren, Adam Schiff, and Richard Blumenthal formally called the event an improper sale of presidential
A closer look at why the consultation’s proposed deferral sits awkwardly inside a rules-based benchmark and what a better path forward might look like. JPX Market Innovation & Research (JPXI) is considering a new rule that would defer companies whose principal asset is cryptoassets from new inclusion in TOPIX and other periodically reviewed indices. The
