CryptoEconomy

TRON DAO has increased its AI Fund from $100 million to $1 billion, focusing on investments in infrastructure for the agentic economy, including stablecoin payment systems and tokenized assets. TRX is currently trading around $0.30, 29% below its December 2024 peak.

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Liminal Custody launched HSM Vaults alongside Securosys, combining MPC technology with certified hardware security modules.
The solution targets banks and large enterprises seeking to custody digital assets under institutional governance standards.
The global HSM market projects annual g

Balancer Labs cerrará operaciones debido a la falta de sostenibilidad después del exploit. El cofundador Martinelli propone realizar una transición a un modelo DAO, reducir costos y disminuir emisiones, con planes futuros dependiendo de las decisiones de gobernanza.

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Bitcoin swung from below $68,000 to nearly $72,000 during Tuesday trading after fresh US-Iran tensions and conflicting de-escalation headlines, then cooled back toward $71,000.
The move followed last week’s rejection at $76,000, a post-FOMC slide below $71,000 and another drop

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The Solana Foundation presented the “Privacy on Solana” report, proposing privacy as a customizable feature rather than a technical limitation.
The new model offers four operational levels: pseudonymity, confidentiality, anonymity, and fully private systems for corporations and large

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Bernstein identified Circle and Coinbase as the main exposure vehicles to the USDC stablecoin amid the rise of agentic payments.
Coinbase’s x402 protocol processed $25 million in transactions in 30 days, compared to the $5,000 recorded by Stripe in its first week.
USDC reached all-time h

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David Schwartz, former Ripple CTO, offered XRP rewards to users who identify AI prompts behind criticism he received on X.
The initiative pays 15 XRP per verified prompt, capped at 10 findings, which equals a total possible payout of 150 XRP.
There is an intense debate about the

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Prices and Market: Ethereum is trading near $2,053 with a 1.2% dip, within a global market valued at $2.35 trillion.
Liquidations and Selling: Recent bearish pressure was driven by the liquidation of $103 million in long positions due to geopolitical tensions.
On-chain Activity: Whales s

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NYSE Arca’s rule change removes position and exercise caps on Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF options, making these contracts easier to trade at institutional scale.
The update also broadens FLEX options and ends aggregation rules, giving traders more freedom to tailor hedging and exposure

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Banks are accelerating tokenized deposit pilots across multiple jurisdictions to compete with stablecoins in the crypto market.
Tokenized deposits retain regulatory protections such as deposit insurance and AML rules, unlike most stablecoins.
Europe plans to connect blockchain

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Lombard integrated RedStone’s real-time Proof of Reserves oracle to verify on-chain the 1:1 backing of LBTC with Bitcoin.
The solution continuously monitors Bitcoin addresses locked in Babylon and publishes reserve ratios across all EVM chains where LBTC exists.
Since the integration, LB

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s retrial effort faces scrutiny after prosecutors questioned whether a key letter was actually sent from prison.
Shipping records and formatting issues raised doubts about its authenticity. At the same time, the government rejected claims of new evidence tied to former

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Backpack launched its native token $BP on Solana through Wormhole’s Sunrise, marking the first native TGE on the platform.
62.5% of the total supply of 1 billion $BP will go to users, with no direct allocations for founders, team members, or investors.
Sunrise has accumulated over $360 m

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Venmo users can now send and receive money with PayPal users across 90 markets, marking the app’s largest expansion since launch.
The feature works through phone-number search, shows recipients’ local currency before completion, and displays exchange rates plus any applicable fees up

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Solana token hold times have collapsed to about 62 seconds, with some 2026 readings briefly falling as low as 44 seconds.
Pump.fun is feeding the speed cycle with nearly 30,000 daily launches, 100 to 300 graduating assets and heavy participation from new wallets across Solana now.
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