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Polymarket, the world’s largest fully onchain prediction market, is preparing a key infrastructure upgrade by moving from a bridged version of USDC to Circle’s native USDC on Polygon. The transition, announced Thursday alongside Circle, is expected to roll out in the coming months. The platform currently relies on
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A senior Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives has launched a formal probe into World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a cryptocurrency project linked to former President Donald Trump, following reports of a $500 million investment connected to the United Arab Emirates royal family. Rep. Ro Khanna of California, a
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Tether’s USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin, continued to expand at a steady pace in the final quarter of 2025, even as the broader cryptocurrency market faced one of its sharpest downturns in recent years. According to Tether’s latest quarterly market report released Wednesday, USDT’s market capitalization
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Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, is rethinking its long-discussed fundraising ambitions after potential investors pushed back on a proposed $500 billion valuation. According to the Financial Times, advisers are now circulating a far more modest capital raise of about $5 billion, a sharp reduction from earlier
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Crypto asset manager Bitwise Asset Management is set to acquire institutional staking provider Chorus One, a move that strengthens Bitwise’s push into yield-generating digital asset products as institutional interest in staking continues to grow. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, according to a report from Bloomberg. Bitwise
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Galaxy Digital, the crypto-focused financial services firm led by founder and CEO Mike Novogratz, reported a sharp loss in the final quarter of last year as weaker digital asset prices weighed on results. Despite the setback, the company ended the period with a significantly stronger liquidity position. In a statement
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Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator known for backing companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and Coinbase, is expanding how it funds startups. Beginning with its Spring 2026 batch, YC will allow founders to receive their investment in stablecoins, marking the first time the accelerator has introduced a non-traditional payout option. The
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MetaMask has announced a new integration that brings tokenized versions of U.S. stocks, exchange-traded funds, and commodities directly into its mobile wallet. The feature, launched through a partnership with Ondo Finance’s Global Markets platform, gives eligible users outside the United States access to more than 200 tokenized financial
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Tether, best known as the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has released an open-source operating system designed for Bitcoin mining, marking another step in the company’s expansion beyond stablecoins and into core crypto infrastructure. Announced on Monday, the new platform is called MiningOS, or MOS. It is built to
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Stani Kulechov, the founder of decentralized finance platform Aave, has quietly purchased a five-story Victorian mansion in London’s Notting Hill for £22 million, or roughly $30 million, according to a report by Bloomberg. The deal ranks among the most expensive residential transactions in the UK capital over the past
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South Korean neobank KBank is taking fresh steps into the digital asset space as it prepares for a long-anticipated initial public offering. The bank has filed a series of trademark applications related to stablecoin wallets, signaling plans to expand its crypto-focused services ahead of a potential market debut. According to
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Hyperliquid is taking its first steps into the fast-growing world of prediction markets and limited-risk options trading with the launch of a new feature called “Outcomes.” The update, announced Monday, is being rolled out on the platform’s testnet as part of the broader HIP-4 protocol upgrade. Outcomes introduces what