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WisdomTree Opens Tokenized Treasury Fund To MoonPay's 35 Million Accounts
WisdomTree and MoonPay will build an access point letting U.S. investors buy shares of WisdomTree's tokenized government money market fund inside MoonPay's platform, and MoonPay will use the fund in the reserve management behind its stablecoin business, the two firms said on Thursday. The... Read...
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Polymarket Hires Ex-Zora CEO for Onchain Product Push
Polymarket has hired former Zora CEO Jacob Horne to work on product with an emphasis on its DeFi offering, as CEO Shayne Coplan acknowledged that the performance of the prediction market’s onchain product has “waned” while the company scaled. Coplan said some longtime users believed Polymarket...
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Solana's Historic Governance Vote — While Robinhood Invades Its Meme Coin Turf
🎧 Listen to Interview 💻 Watch Video How JitoSOL Swung Solana's Governance Vote Jito Foundation's head of governance says a liquid-staking override mechanism decided Solana's closest on-chain vote, as validators confront an 87% revenue decline and rising competition from Robinhood Chain....
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X Adds US 'Trade' Button to Cashtags With Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini
X launched a U.S. Cashtag Partner Program on Sept. 15 that connects supported stock, ETF and cryptocurrency pages to Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo. The new “Trade” option does not execute a transaction on X. A user taps a Cashtag to see its price chart and related...
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World Rolls Out Money App as Key Features Remain Country-Limited
World has begun rolling out World Money in more than 150 countries, bringing stablecoin balances, global payments, virtual accounts, trading, yield programs and Mini Apps into a self-custodial financial app. Existing World App and World ID App users can carry their credentials into World Money....
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S&P Global to Acquire OpenZeppelin in Onchain Risk Push
S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, bringing a provider of smart contract audits and open-source developer libraries into the financial-data company’s digital asset risk business. The companies said OpenZeppelin will retain its name and operate as a separate business unit. CEO Demian......
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Blockworks Lets Exchanges Take Compliance Alerts Straight From AI Agents
Blockworks will let crypto exchanges and banks take compliance alerts directly from AI agents, without waiting for a human analyst to sign off. Analyst verification took roughly five minutes per development, the company said. A proprietary model trained on years of Messari analyst work now... Read...
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Tenka Announces Pre-Seed Round Led by Maven 11 to Build Market Infrastructure for Asset-Backed Finance
Tenka has closed its pre-seed round to build the market infrastructure that connects the origination of asset-backed finance with a secondary market, giving investors a credible route to liquidity before maturity without changing the terms of the underlying loans. London, England, September 17,......
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Bitcoin Round-Trips the First Fed Rate Increase Since 2023 as Zcash Runs to $1,383
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate on Wednesday for the first time since July 2023, and bitcoin traded through the decision little changed. The vote was unanimous, against three dissents for an increase at the July meeting, and the committee's own projections now point to one more...
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The Next Bull Run Could Be One Big Airdrop Away
If you used Uniswap just once before September 2020, even for a failed transaction, you woke up exactly six years ago today to 400 UNI sitting in your wallet, worth about $1,200. Fourteen months after that $450 million airdrop, total crypto market capitalization had surged from roughly $350...