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· Leviathan News crypto, DeFi, and AI news roundup
Jack Dorsey's Block and Airwallet unveils new GENIUS-compliant blockchain, signaling major shift in crypto strategy
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Automated news site turns prediction market price swings into headlines, raising noise and manipulation concerns
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Zksync’s enterprise pivot risks missing product–market fit as rival rollups lock in users, liquidity and mindshare
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Sazabi's $8M seed round and beta launch mark a major leap toward autonomous self-healing software
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Consensys Diligence brings Chonky to MetaMask, using 100K+ findings to scale human-led audits
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Unlink goes live on Monad with ZK private transfers and scoped audit views for institutions
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0x launches CLI for terminal-native token swaps and bridges with gasless and Solana support
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Squid (@squidrouter) reveals their public token sale just weeks after announcing their $6m private round.
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Kraken sues PowerTrade, alleging $7.2M in misappropriated assets and unrealized gains
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Maple and Kraken close landmark onchain warehouse facility for digital asset-backed loans. But onchain lending facility raises questions about default risks and regulatory gaps.
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Kraken brings Centrifuge-tokenized Janus Henderson JAAA into qualified custody for institutional collateral
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T0 launches AI-native finance platform to replace fragmented bookkeeping and reporting systems in private preview
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Paystack’s new AI agent Index handles Nigerian payments but raises fresh questions on trust, UX and regulatory risk
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Solstice and Tensorx’s $1 billion AI infrastructure deal positions Europe as a global AI leader
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The AI inference market is emerging as a global strategy game, with nations, chipmakers and cloud providers competing to control the next AI infrastructure layer
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GrailPay secures $10.5M to power the next era of instant, AI-driven payments
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Story rebrands into DATA Foundation, launches Trace with 1.5B Kled AI training records
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$2.45T asset manager Invesco files tokenized stablecoin reserves fund with Superstate handling onchain records
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BitGo cuts nearly 15% of workforce to refocus on stablecoins, settlement, and AI infra
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US credit unions join stablecoin infrastructure program. The pilot allows credit unions to test several blockchain-related products and services, including stablecoin payments, tokenized deposits,
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StablecoinX completes business combination with TLGY Acquisition Corp, plans Nasdaq listing under ticker USDE
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Aave founder Stani Kulechov dismisses reports of a Payward stake sale at a 70% discount, saying AAVE isn't for sale as DAO revenue tops $134M annually
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Kraken weighs $71M Aave Group deal for 15% stake at $385M valuation as Payward expands DeFi bets
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Pension funds embrace crypto via regulated ETFs and digital asset equities, with most allocations capped at 0.1%-3% to balance long-term growth and risk
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Ethereum's value lies in credible neutrality, not speed, as Logarithmic Rex argues ETH remains crypto's only trustless coordination layer despite years of weak price action
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SharpLink resumes ETH buys with $7.85M purchase as ether sinks to 2026 low ahead of Russell inclusion
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Public firms now hold over 1M BTC as Strategy, Tesla, Block and Metaplanet embrace Bitcoin treasury strategies to hedge inflation and attract investors
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Sophon shutters L2 chain after failing to find product-market fit, shifts focus to app studio and Base deployments
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Optimism ships L2CM to upgrade 27 OP Stack predeploys without multisig transactions
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