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RGB yellow paper released, advancing Bitcoin's smart contract capabilities
Alchemy Pay integrated with Solv protocol for seamless fiat on-ramp access to assets including SolvBTC.
Nasdaq-listed Devvstream Corp raised $10M, as part of its plan to raise $300M to develop blockchain-based treasury and tokenize its environmental assets.
Strategy completed $2.5B STRC IPO and acquired over 21,021 BTC.
Quantum Bitcoin Summit was held, with summary available on Bitcoin Magazine.
Galaxy Digital executed one of the largest BTC transactions – a sale of more than 80,000 Bitcoin.
Trump Media's Bitcoin holdings reached roughly $2B.
Priority Intelligence Group launched lightning network node and announced private placement of $1M to expand liquidity of the node.
Square began merchant rollout of lightning payments.
Linea unveiled native yield (staking on bridged ETH) with 85% ecosystem token allocation managed by its ETH-aligned consortium.
BitMine approved $1B stock buyback program.
$1.7B worth of exits on Ethereum spiked borrowing rates on Aave and clogged validator queue
EigenDA v2 launched on Ethereum mainnet with 100 MB/s throughput
Eigenlayer introduced multi-chain verification on Base testnet, enabling AVS to launch on L2s and benefit from verifiable security. Redistribution also goes live on mainnet.
Ethereum Fusaka Devnet 3 launched with Fusaka Upgrade expected in Q4 2025.
Gamesquare unveiled $250M Ethereum treasury offering with 8-14% target APY
Ether Machine to list on Nasdaq via SPAC with $1.5B backing from major investors.
Privacy blockchain Horizen migrated its ZEN token to ERC-20 on Base for its L3 appchain.
Mill City Ventures purchased $450M in SUI for treasury strategy.
Sui Research developed a new cryptographic framework for quantum resistance.
Injective's Ethernia Mainnet Upgrade went live, bringing real-time EVM blockchain.
Mercurity Fintech raised $200M from Solana Ventures to accelerate Solana treasury.
Jito Labs announced Block Assembly marketplace for sequencing control on Solana, mitigating toxic MEV, and making the network more suitable for DeFi.
Solana developers announced support for Application Controlled Execution (ACE) which will give smart contracts granular controls over how trades are executed and settled.
U Power partnered with IoTeX for corporate bond tokenization and DEPIN adoption.
Warden Protocol crossed 1 million agent-executed swaps across Solana, Base, and Ethereum.
Bankr released its alpha SDK for integrating swap and token data into AI agents using prompts.
xTAO revealed that it holds the largest TAO treasury among listed companies, now worth $16M.
Hyperbolic Labs partnered with Alibaba to be the first third party inference provider for Qwen3-235B.
Sahara data services platform launched, allowing users to participate in AI dataset creations and earn rewards.
Google Labs launched Opal for building AI-powered mini apps.
White House announced AI Action Plan which includes key focus on exporting American AI, promoting the buildout of data centers, enabling innovation and upholding free speech.
Grayscale launched Story Trust.
Kaito Capital launchpad went live, allowing users to invest in private token sales.
Gaia announced its AI phone, built on Galaxy S25 Edge hardware and limited to 7,000 units for now.
Conflux network announced offshore yuan-backed stablecoin.
StablecoinX Inc raised $360M to purchase 8% of ENA's circulating supply.
Polymarket reportedly considering to launch their own stablecoin.
Ethena to bring $1.5B in USDtb to the US through Anchorage Digital.
Binance added support for USYC and cUSDO in off-exchange settlement.
Ethena Foundation announced the buyback of 83M ENA
Ethena labs introduced liquid leverage allowing users to deposit sUSDe-USDe on Aave and earn USDe rewards, lending rate for USDe and sUSDe native yields
Paypal launched pay with crypto for merchants, supporting 100+ cryptocurrencies conversion to PYUSD or fiat.
Clearpool introduces cpUSD.
EURAU - Germany’s first fully-reserved, MiCa compliant stablecoin goes live launched by AllUnity.
Circle brings native USDC and CCTP v2 to HyperEVM, enabling USDC deposits on Hypercore and HyperEVM apps.
Visa adds support for Stellar and Avalanche blockchains, as well as support for PYUSD, USDG, and EURC
First regulated share registry launched on Polygon with BeToken representing shares of Beself Brands, regulated under Spanish Law.
MUFG Bank acquired Osaka skyscraper for tokenized real estate offerings.
Creators in Kenya and Nigeria can now receive gold-backed stablecoin on Own.app.
Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon partnered to tokenize money market fund.
eToro to tokenize its stock on Ethereum.
Maple finance passed proposal to increase buybacks from revenue
Coinbase announced that it is launching tokenized stocks and prediction markets to US users in the coming months.
OpenMind, developer of AI operating systems powering robotics, raised $20M led by Pantera Capital.
ATA Creativity Global secures $100M partnership with Baby BTC Strategic Capital, becoming the first listed BTCFi ecosystem platform.
Subzero Labs secured a $20M seed round led by Pantera Capital to build a blockchain for real world applications.
TACEO raised a $5.5M seed round led by Archetype VC to develop software for computation on encrypted data.
Tether-focused blockchain, STABLE, raised a $28M seed round led by Bitfinex and Hack VC.
RD Technologies, Hong-Kong based fintech group, raised a $40M Series A2 round co-led by existing and new investors, including ZA Global, China Harbour, Bright Venture, and Hivemind Capital.
MyShell announced the launch of its latest framework product ShellAgent 2.0 - the first AI application generation framework that can be interacted with solely through natural language.
Merlin Chain has unveiled the brand new Merlin 2.0, proposing the development direction of "Reinvent Bitcoin: Hold, Earn, Invest," aiming to expand Bitcoin from a "store of value" to a "yield-bearing, deployable core asset."
OpenEden’s cUSDO is now accepted as collateral via Binance Banking Triparty in a partnership between OpenEden and Binance