Elastics, which describes itself as an “AI predictive market operating system,” announced it has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by early-stage investor Frst. Frst leads oversubscribed round into Elastics According to details shared by Menlo Times…

Michael Saylor says his Bitcoin vehicle Strategy has realized 63,410 BTC of “Bitcoin Gain” in 2026, lifting its stash to over 815,000 BTC, or about 3.9% of total supply. In a new post on X, Strategy founder and executive chairman…

Ark Invest’s Big Ideas 2026 sees Bitcoin compounding about 63% annually to a $16T cap by 2030, anchoring a $28T crypto market dominated by BTC, Ethereum, and Solana. According to Forbes, the Ark report estimates that Bitcoin’s market value could climb…

Somnia’s new USDso stablecoin, issued by Frax Finance and backed by tokenized Treasuries, routes reserve yield back into Somnia’s high-throughput DeFi ecosystem. How USDso is structured on Somnia Somnia, a high-throughput L1 developed with Improbable and the Somnia Foundation, has…

Cipher Digital secures a $200M revolving credit facility to fund its pivot from Bitcoin mining to long-duration, AI and HPC data center revenues anchored by multi-campus leases. New credit facility underpins data center growth Cipher Digital said in its first-quarter…

HyperCore staking by Arkham-flagged Multicoin wallets locks $82M in HYPE, deepening a concentrated, yield-bearing bet on Hyperliquid’s DeFi-native L1. Arkham flags Multicoin-associated HYPE staking activity According to market monitors citing Arkham’s AI attribution engine, an address predicted to be associated…

BILL-USD pair to launch once liquidity is ready. According to Coinbase’s latest listing update, the exchange “will launch BILL (Billions) spot trading” and expects to open the BILL-USD order book later today in supported trading regions, contingent on sufficient liquidity…

Latest Coinglass data show Hyperliquid whale accounts holding a combined $4.016 billion in notional positions, with longs only marginally ahead of shorts on size but comfortably in the lead on PnL as one heavily leveraged ETH long dominates the winner’s…

DTCC has formed a tokenization working group for U.S. markets and tapped Ondo alongside BlackRock, Goldman, JPMorgan, Circle, and others to help design how equities and Treasuries move on-chain. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has launched an industry working…

Applied Digital closed a Goldman-led $300M senior secured bridge loan to accelerate its next 150 MW AI data center, layering it on top of $2.15B in notes and a $7.5B hyperscaler lease. Bitcoin mining hosting and cloud services provider Applied…

OpenAI has sealed a $10B joint venture dubbed DeployCo with major private equity firms, giving it capital, governance access, and a captive pipeline to roll AI across thousands of portfolio companies. Market reports indicate that OpenAI has now closed a…

Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp has launched a $200M at-the-market equity program, pledging to issue stock only when it boosts “SOL per share” and fuels its Solana reserve strategy. DeFi Development Corp, a Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury company focused on Solana…

SOL Strategies is acquiring privacy-focused cross-chain aggregator HoudiniSwap for $18M in cash, notes, and stock as it builds an institutional Solana treasury and routing stack. According to reporting from The Block, SOL Strategies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HoudiniSwap…

Bitget’s CFD platform has logged a record $8B day, with gold-linked contracts driving 95% of the jump as Chinese-speaking, European, and Southeast Asian traders pile into metals. Bitget reported that daily trading volume on its CFD segment has broken through…

WLFI alleges paid smear effort after token freeze. World Liberty Financial has announced it is suing Justin Sun for defamation, alleging that after a Sun-affiliated entity called Blue Anthem bought $WLFI tokens in November 2024 and then transferred some of…

Rain, a $1.95B-valued stablecoin infrastructure firm, is adding Mastercard support to extend its Visa-based model and plug on-chain settlement into legacy payment systems. Stablecoin payments startup Rain, fresh off a $250 million Series C at a $1.95 billion valuation, has…

Tether’s latest attestation shows its Tether Gold token, XAU₮, swelling to more than $3.3 billion in value on the back of a 36% quarterly jump in physical bullion reserves. Tether’s latest reserve data show that its Tether Gold token, XAU₮,…

South Korea’s Digital Asset Exchange Alliance (DAXA), representing 27 registered virtual asset service providers, has lodged formal objections with the Financial Services Commission and the Financial Intelligence Unit over proposed amendments to the enforcement decree of the Specific Financial Information…

AI chipmaker Cerebras plans a $3.5B IPO at $115-125/share, reporting $510M revenue and $238M profit in 2025 as it challenges Nvidia in AI compute. Artificial intelligence chip manufacturer and data center operator Cerebras Systems is seeking to raise up to…

Bitget has entered a strategic partnership with women-focused Web3 collective WIW3CH to deliver more structured education, networking, and career support under its Blockchain4Her initiative. Bitget said it has formed a strategic alliance with WIW3CH, describing the group as a Web3…

Crypto VC funding slid to $659m across 63 April deals, a 74% drop from March that drags monthly flows back to 2024 lows even as DeFi and AI still attract capital. The crypto venture market hit a fresh air pocket…

137 Ventures has raised over $700m across two new funds, lifting AUM above $15b as it doubles down on AI agents, robotics, advanced industry and a $10b‑plus SpaceX stake. San Francisco–based 137 Ventures has raised over $700 million for two…

Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari has shifted from penciling in one or two 2026 cuts to a data‑dependent stance as the Iran war and higher oil muddy the inflation path. According to Jinshi’s summary of recent remarks, Federal Reserve official…

Mantle’s proposal to lend up to 30,000 ETH to Aave’s DeFi United rsETH rescue has gone live on Snapshot, adding structured credit to a $314m multi‑DAO war chest. Mantle Network has confirmed that its strategic credit facility proposal to support…

According to monitoring shared by on‑chain and derivatives tracker HyperInsight, high‑profile trader Huang Licheng has sharply increased his Bitcoin long exposure, pushing his total BTC long position to around $14.5 million with more than 40x leverage. HyperInsight flags fresh BTC and…

Bitcoin has reclaimed $78,000 on Gate’s BTC/USDT pair, extending a rebound from $76,000 and keeping the market within range of the closely watched $80,000 level. According to spot data from Gate, the BTC/USDT pair is currently changing hands around $78,004, marking…

Curve Finance is turning CRV‑linked bad debt into tradable onchain claims via crvUSD–debt pools, shifting bailouts from socialized rescues to market pricing of losses. Curve Finance has rolled out a bad debt recovery framework that formalizes what founder Michael Egorov…

Bitcoin futures open interest has climbed 5.92% to $57.621b, signaling traders are re‑levering into BTC derivatives as open positions concentrate on a few major exchanges. The Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives market has seen a notable uptick in risk-taking over the past…

Brazil’s central bank has barred crypto from settlement inside regulated eFX payment rails, forcing banks and fintechs back to fiat-only channels for cross‑border flows. Brazil’s central bank has introduced a foreign‑exchange rule that prohibits regulated cross‑border payment channels from using…

Seoul’s Administrative Court has stayed a six‑month partial suspension against Bithumb, halting Korea FIU’s harshest crypto penalty while the exchange fights it in court. South Korea’s Seoul Administrative Court has sided with Bithumb, temporarily blocking the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit…

Fun raises $72m to power unified fiat and crypto rails for apps like Polymarket and Aave, after quietly processing over $18b in annual payment volume. Fun, a payment infrastructure startup that plugs both fiat and crypto rails into high-growth consumer…

MoonPay has launched the MoonAgents Card, a Mastercard-enabled debit product that lets AI agents spend stablecoins directly at the point of sale with onchain settlement behind the scenes. MoonPay has unveiled the MoonAgents Card, a Mastercard-network debit card designed so…

Tether posts $1.04B Q1 profit on a $191.8B reserve stack, leaning on US Treasuries while expanding into gold and bitcoin as stablecoin scrutiny rises. Tether International said in its Q1 2026 attestation that it generated more than $1.04 billion in…