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Digital Asset, the company behind the Canton Network, raised $355 million in a new equity round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s A16z Crypto fund, which contributed $100 million, bringing together one of the most concentrated groups of institutional capital ever assembled behind a blockchain infrastructure play. Who Wrote the Check The round drew participation from Abu … Read more
Mastercard just made its biggest move yet into the AI economy. The payments giant has officially launched Agent Pay for Machines, a new payments infrastructure designed specifically for AI agents executing transactions at machine speed and Ripple is right in the middle of it, with the XRP Ledger and RLUSD helping lay the foundation for … Read more
Pyth Network just solved one of the most persistent structural problems in crypto derivatives markets, and it did it with partners that carry serious institutional weight. The oracle network has launched Pyth Indices, a set of proprietary 24/7 price indexes covering U.S. equities, oil, gold, silver, and thematic baskets and the products are not just … Read more
Three whale addresses, two of them freshly created, just withdrew a combined $122.29 million worth of ETH from FalconX and Kraken in what on-chain analysts are flagging as a significant accumulation signal. The move is being tracked across crypto monitoring communities and the details are specific. Two of the three addresses involved are brand new, … Read more
Cortical Labs connected 200,000 human neurons grown from blood-derived stem cells to its CL1 silicon interface, teaching the culture to navigate and shoot in Doom. By translating the game’s state into electrical patterns and reading neural spikes as commands, the system improved with training, pointing to low-power biological computing even as current neuron-chip setups last … Read more
Onchain records show yet another Casascius physical bitcoin has been redeemed, this time from an address originally created on Nov. 1, 2011. The plot thickens, however, because the spend traces back to another dormant wallet tied to the sprawling New York Supreme Court case Noah Doe v. John Does 1–39,069, adding one more chapter to … Read more
Prediction market traders across Polymarket and Kalshi have committed more than $2 billion to the 2026 FIFA World Cup winner market ahead of Thursday’s opening kickoff, with Spain and France sharing the frontrunner position as the tournament launches across North America. Spain and France Lead the Board On Polymarket, as of 3:30 p.m. EDT on … Read more
Japan’s three largest banks announced plans Wednesday to jointly issue a yen-pegged stablecoin and begin live commercial transactions before March 2027, a direct move to build domestic digital payment rails as USD-denominated stablecoins hold an estimated 84% to 90% of the $300+ billion global market. Banks Sign MOU, Form Governance Council MUFG Bank, Mizuho Bank, … Read more
SpaceX is set to price its $75 billion IPO at $135 per share on June 11, with shares debuting on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX at 9:30 a.m. EDT on June 12. The offering would give the company a post-IPO market cap of roughly $1.75 trillion, placing it among the largest public listings in … Read more
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that May 2026 headline consumer price inflation climbed to 4.2% year-over-year, the hottest reading since April 2023, driven almost entirely by a war-linked energy spike as President Donald Trump escalated rhetoric against Iran on the same morning. Inflation Accelerates for Third Straight Month The May CPI print, … Read more