SambaNova Systems closed a $1B Series F at an $11B valuation — five times higher than five months ago. JPMorganChase picked its SN40L and SN50 chips for secure on-premises AI inference.
Liquidity management quietly shapes a crypto exchanger's profit. Too little reserve and clients walk; too much and capital idles while volatility erodes it. How to find the right balance and what to automate.
Vanguard, the $10 trillion asset manager that once blocked Bitcoin ETFs and called crypto immature, has posted its first-ever Head of Digital Assets role. The last major holdout in traditional finance is changing course.
The SEC is set to propose its first-ever crypto-specific rulemaking this July, creating a safe harbor that lets token-based startups raise up to $75 million without registering as securities issuers.
Japan's SBI Holdings became the sole investor in EDX Markets' $76M Series C, backing the institutional-only crypto exchange with central clearing as it pushes for a US national bank charter.
AI transaction monitoring scores every payment in real time for fraud and compliance risk. For crypto exchangers it is no longer optional — it is the line between staying open and losing your banking partners.
Coinbase secured a UK investment services licence from the FCA, letting institutional traders access perpetual futures and UK retail customers buy equities on the platform for the first time.
An attacker bought $4M in BONK tokens, reached quorum with just seven wallets, and drained $20 million from BonkDAO's treasury. The token fell 8.5%; Upbit froze deposits.
Cross-chain bridges let exchangers tap liquidity across networks — but the true cost goes well beyond the bridge fee. Slippage, hacks, and frozen funds are realities every exchanger operator eventually faces.
The Claude-maker signed a 20-year lease with TeraWulf for a 401 MW campus in Kentucky worth $19 billion. A former Bitcoin miner just became the infrastructure backbone for one of the world's top AI companies.
Most exchange operators track network fees but miss what a custodial hot wallet actually costs. We break down the hidden charges and calculate when a self-hosted wallet starts making financial sense.
Starting July 6, Revolut users across the EU can no longer buy USDT. Tether refused to seek MiCA e-money authorization, forcing Europe's biggest fintech to delist the world's top stablecoin.
Luxembourg's CSSF has granted Ripple full CASP authorization, allowing the company to offer regulated crypto payment services across all 30 EEA countries after MiCA's transition period ended.
Aave deployed on Monad and pulled in $100 million in deposits inside 48 hours — more than a quarter of the network's total value. Monad Foundation committed $15M in incentives to land the protocol.
USDT and USDC dominate the stablecoin market — but for exchange operators, the choice isn't about size. Spreads, banking compliance, and reserve risks play out very differently in practice.
Vitalik Buterin published the Lean Ethereum roadmap — a 3–4 year plan to overhaul nearly every layer of the protocol: STARK proofs, quantum-resistant cryptography, and a potential EVM replacement.
KYC automation changes the exchanger equation: identity checks in 30 seconds instead of hours of waiting. We break down three verification tiers, what AI actually does and doesn't do, and how to pick a provider.
Nansen tracked 1.48 million TRUMP token wallets: two-thirds are underwater with $3.81 billion in losses. Trump collected $636M in fees regardless of price performance, his 2026 disclosure confirmed.
Hexens found a critical type-confusion flaw in Aptos's Move VM: a $3,000 attack with near-90% success could have seized Wormhole, LayerZero, and USDC minting controls. Systemic risk: $70 billion. Patched in February.
The EU top securities watchdog ESMA classified prediction market event contracts as binary options — already banned for EU retail investors since 2018, with no transition period and no licensed platforms in Europe.