Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Circle Foundation has announced grants supporting digital-payment projects at the United Nations Development Programme and World Food Programme. The initiatives will examine how regulated payment stablecoins can improve the speed, cost and tra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Circle Foundation has announced grants supporting digital-payment projects at the United Nations Development Programme and World Food Programme. The initiatives will examine how regulated payment stablecoins can improve the speed, cost and tra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Tether says assets held with offshore banking partner EQIBank represent less than 0.034% of its total group assets. U.S. authorities are seeking forfeiture of tens of millions of dollars tied to EQIBank payment processor Capstone. Tether says...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Tether says assets held with offshore banking partner EQIBank represent less than 0.034% of its total group assets. U.S. authorities are seeking forfeiture of tens of millions of dollars tied to EQIBank payment processor Capstone. Tether says...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Lido DAO Vote #214 has passed with 58.2 million LDO participating in favor. The vote implements Dual Governance V1 parameters, giving stETH holders a new mechanism to contest certain governance actions. The associated emergency governance dela...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Lido DAO Vote #214 has passed with 58.2 million LDO participating in favor. The vote implements Dual Governance V1 parameters, giving stETH holders a new mechanism to contest certain governance actions. The associated emergency governance dela...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Ethena is expanding the basis-trade strategy behind USDe into tokenized U.S. equities. Binance bStocks can be used as tokenized spot assets while equity perpetual futures hedge the market exposure. The strategy broadens USDe’s backing model be...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Ethena is expanding the basis-trade strategy behind USDe into tokenized U.S. equities. Binance bStocks can be used as tokenized spot assets while equity perpetual futures hedge the market exposure. The strategy broadens USDe’s backing model be...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
Bullish and Equiniti have created the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition to develop standards for tokenized public securities. Early participants include Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions and DriveWealth. The group wants tokenized stocks to preserve the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
Major UK banks have completed the first live customer transactions using tokenized sterling deposits on shared infrastructure. Participants include Barclays, HSBC UK, Lloyds Banking Group, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander. The project is us...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
Bitwise and Vise have launched diversified crypto model portfolios for financial advisers using the Vise platform. Vise says its network covers more than 135,000 accounts and over $140 billion in platform assets. Crypto allocations can now sit insi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
Swift, Wells Fargo and 13 other organizations have joined LF Decentralized Trust. The organization has also launched Panarus, a new tokenization project, and CLPR, a cross-ledger protocol research lab. The additions bring more traditional financial...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
Payward Services has opened non-binding indications of interest for Ōura’s expected IPO through the xStocks ecosystem. Eligible Kraken users and customers of xStocks Alliance partners in more than 110 countries can register interest before the Nasd...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
Tether has expanded its Wallet Development Kit with a command-line wallet and MCP interface that can be used by AI agents. The same local wallet daemon can be controlled by a human through the terminal or by compatible AI software through the Model...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
0G has introduced a “Compute Finance” framework designed to financialize access to AI compute. Its Ascend liquid-staking product is already live, while the iAI compute-focused asset is scheduled to launch on September 29. The model is designed to l...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
OpenZeppelin has launched TRON-specific versions of its smart contract libraries, upgrade tooling and Contracts Wizard. The stack supports TRC-20 tokens, upgradeable contracts, role-based permissions and passkey authentication. The tools are audite...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
Binance has opened spot trading for Hyperliquid’s HYPE token. HYPE is available against USDT, USDC and TRY, with withdrawals scheduled to open on September 25. Binance has applied its Seed Tag to HYPE, requiring users to acknowledge the token’s hig...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
Kraken has launched Kraken Borrow US for eligible customers in 48 states. Users can borrow against supported assets to buy additional crypto, with total buying power of up to three times eligible collateral value. The product has no fixed repayment...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Kamino has opened a lending market for tGBP, a British-pound stablecoin issued by BCP Technologies. Users can supply tGBP or borrow it against collateral including USDC, cbBTC and JitoSOL. The market is curated by Steakhouse Financial and crea...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Forward Industries has agreed to sell 3.125 million shares to one institutional investor at $8 each. The registered direct offering is expected to raise about $25 million before fees. The company says it intends to use the net proceeds to acqu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR MeshWallet says it has closed a $10 million private funding round. The wallet focuses on gasless USDT transfers on the TRON network. The financing was announced through a company-supplied press release rather than a separately disclosed instit...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR The Streamflow Foundation has burned 699.99 million STREAM tokens in a single onchain transaction. Total supply fell from roughly 1 billion STREAM to 300 million. The foundation says its product operations, vesting schedules, staking and airdr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Tetra Digital Group has expanded its Canadian-dollar stablecoin CADD onto Solana. CADD is designed to maintain a 1:1 relationship with Canadian dollars held as reserves. The September 23 rollout is a Solana expansion; CADD had already launched...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Zest Protocol has launched a mainnet demo allowing native BTC on Bitcoin to back USDC borrowing on Ethereum. Bitcoin remains inside a self-custodial Taproot vault rather than being wrapped or bridged to another chain. The current demo caps col...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 month ago
TL;DR Travala has launched a permanent strategic reserve for its AVA token. The company says it will match AVA Foundation monthly open-market buybacks, effectively doubling the amount purchased each cycle. Travala says tokens placed into its reserve...
