On October 15, Visa Direct moved its stablecoin capability from pilot to production. Its first enabler, Inyo Global, prefunds cross-border payouts in USDC so they can settle in near real time. The same day, Mastercard-owned BVNK launched a platform connecting stablecoins to Mastercard's rails, with Nuvei
Rather than launching a standalone, in-house tokenized share class, Janus Henderson went through Centrifuge and integrated directly with DeFi protocols. Why prioritize protocol integration? Our long-term vision is that fundamentally everything we do is going to move on-chain, and that extends across financial services. We see a
Bitcoin closed the week at $83,800, down 3.1% from the previous weekly close of $86,501. The decline did not break the trend. It was the fourth consecutive weekly close above the 50-week moving average, which now sits near $77,200. Price remains about 8.6% above
You've just closed a $90 million Series B led by NEA. What do your investors see in Spiko that a traditional asset manager can't offer? Our products are cash funds: money market funds, or equivalents like the fund we launched with Amundi six months ago, where
Bitcoin trades near $86,000, up about 1.75% from the previous weekly open. It did so in a week when the US dollar index (DXY), which tracks the dollar against six major currencies, rose roughly 1% to 102.1. The S&P 500 finished flat at +0.02%
On 30 September, MetaMask disclosed a security incident affecting part of its infrastructure and said it had found no immediate threat to MetaMask wallets. The exploit itself was small. An attacker redirected the tips from 18 blocks produced by MetaMask Staking validators to a wallet funded through Tornado Cash, according
Bitcoin ended last week near $83,000, after printing $87,363 at Tuesday's high. It was up roughly 8% on the week at that high, and finished up 2.38%. The quarter closes around +43.5% from a late-June base near $58,500, still about a third
Morpho Blue carries $10.86bn of TVL against $5.29bn borrowed, a utilisation of roughly 49% across the protocol. DefiLlama's headline TVL for this protocol is supplied liquidity. Adding borrowed amounts produces a deposit-plus-debt stock nearer $16.15bn. That is a different perimeter, not a second
Digital assets finished last week higher and extended the move into Monday. Bitcoin and Ether are both up about 9% week over week. Bitcoin is back above $80,000 and printed through $84,000, last seen in January. The rest of the market, excluding Bitcoin and stablecoins, outran the majors
Three policy events landed inside seventy-two hours this week. The order in which they arrived matters more than any one of them. Tuesday: the legislative route narrows to almost nothing The US Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, the bill that would have set a
Steakhouse describes itself as the largest independent vault curator. What does a curator actually do, for a reader who comes from traditional finance and has never touched DeFi? Fundamentally, we connect stablecoin savers to stablecoin borrowers, in a non-custodial and risk-transparent way. That's the whole thing.
Circle opens Arc, its own Layer-1, to the public on 16 September. Eleven institutions secure the chain alongside it: BlackRock, DTCC, Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo and Visa. Not a crypto-native cohort, but settlement and card infrastructure taking a position in a public