A new platform founded by Wall Street veteran Chan Ahn is aiming to bring one of finance’s most exclusive asset classes — private equity — onto the blockchain. — Tessera has announced the launch of its private equity tokenization platform on Solana, a system designed to give investors onchain exposure to private company shares that
Investors continue to move into dollar-pegged tokens as geopolitical risk and prolonged weakness in crypto markets push them toward perceived safety on-chain. The total stablecoin market capitalization hit a record $313 billion on Sunday, underscoring resilient demand even as the broader digital asset space remains under pressure and tensions escalate in the Middle East. Latest
Story Highlights Two key opinion leaders have predicted that AI agents’ crypto transactions will quickly dwarf those of human beings. The key driver behind this is the ease of opening a crypto wallet as compared to a bank account. The integration of AI with blockchain has attracted several regulatory and security concerns. CEO and co-founder
Venus Protocol has officially announced the listing of XAUm, its first gold-backed Real-World Asset (RWA), marking a major milestone for lending markets on the $BNB Chain. This project, initiated with Matrixdock and anchored by Chainlink price oracles, enables users to pledge physical gold as collateral for the first time ever, without synthetic workarounds. The wall
For decades, venture capital has operated as one of finance’s most exclusive asset classes. Participation typically requires large minimum investments, extensive paperwork, and years long lockups that prevent investors from accessing their capital. According to Carl Vogel, general partner at 6th Man Ventures, blockchain is on course to change that. Democratizing access to gatekept strategies
Already on a tear ahead of the war in Iran, Circle (CRCL) might be an unlikely beneficiary of the conflict. The stock rose 10% on Monday, outperforming other crypto-linked equities, with the shares now up by 86% over the past month, though they remain sharply lower since their peak post-IPO frenzy last summer. Japanese bank
Longtime Bitcoiner and Block Inc. CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey has very reluctantly gotten onboard with the idea that the company’s customers are embracing stablecoins. “I don’t like that we’re going to support stablecoins, but our customers want to use them,” he told Wired. “I don’t think it’s wise to go from one gatekeeper to
US President Donald Trump’s statements on the war with Iran, oil prices, and global energy security attracted attention in global markets. In particular, messages suggesting that the ongoing conflict with Iran was nearing its end, and potential interventions in oil prices, were the focus of investors. In an interview with CBS, Trump stated that the
Mastercard has unveiled Verifiable Intent, a new open, standards-based trust framework co-developed with Google, designed specifically for “agentic commerce” — a world where artificial intelligence (AI) systems don’t just assist shoppers, but actively plan, decide, and complete purchases autonomously. The core problem Verifiable Intent aims to solve is visibility: when a consumer delegates a purchase