Crypto venture firm Framework Ventures has partnered with mortgage services company Better to help it launch a $500 million plan to integrate with the decentralized finance protocol Sky, formerly MakerDAO. Better said on Monday that Framework would help it provide $500 million in credit to Sky’s stablecoin ecosystem, enabling it to launch tokens tied to

PayPal Holdings has reportedly attracted unsolicited takeover interest after a prolonged stock slump left the payments giant trading well below recent highs, signaling that competitors were looking to consolidate their footprint in the digital payments space. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported Monday that PayPal has been meeting with banks to review buyout

TL;DR: Solana has had the Solana Staking Index since February 2026, a transparent benchmark to measure staking performance on the network. The index is calculated each epoch using onchain data and excludes MEV tips to provide a consistent reference for the network’s base yield. Marinade Finance, Titan Analytics, stakefish, Layer33, and Chainflow are the organizations

US President Donald Trump has raised the option of new “national security tariffs” after the United States Supreme Court last week overturned several of his previous tariffs. According to sources close to the White House, the administration is working on new tariffs that could cover 5-6 sectors. The new tariffs under consideration could cover large-scale

San Francisco, CA – Crypto has a habit of declaring the future early. In recent months, that instinct has fixated on autonomous AI agents, self-driving wallets and trading systems that can move capital without human oversight. At NEARCON 2026, Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi delivered a sharp debate over how soon those

The seemingly daily disruption of business models by advances in artificial intelligence continued Monday, sending stock market averages and crypto prices sharply lower. Today’s victim (in addition to the usual ones) was IBM, after Anthropic said Claude code can automate COBOL modernization. “COBOL [Common Business-Oriented Language] is everywhere,” said Anthropic. “It handles an estimated 95%

The BUIDL fund of BlackRockhas witnessed a substantial growth over the recent weeks. After BUIDL became officially tradable on the ecosystem of Uniswap, its market capitalization has surged by almost 30%. As per the data from rwa.xyz tweeted by Sentora, this signals a robust investor interest in the robust tokenized financial products. Additionally, this development

Global markets turned cautious on Monday as Washington’s new 15% tariff rattled trade partners and cast uncertainty over last year’s EU-US deal. PayPal drew early takeover interest after a steep share slump, while oil climbed to a six-month high on geopolitical tensions. In crypto, Bitcoin slid toward key support levels as investors trimmed risk exposure