Morpho has raised $175 million in a funding round led by Paradigm, A16z Crypto, and Ribbit Capital. The DeFi lending protocol is now valued at about $2 billion as it expands from crypto-native markets into institutional finance.

$61 an hour by 2034 is where union housekeeper pay is headed under a strike-averting deal that lifts wages 50% over eight years, putting full-time earnings at $100,000 to $110,000 by 2032. In a market where Manhattan rooms already average between $500 and $600 a night, rates are expected to climb another 50% to 60% as labor costs rise.

Masspay has expanded its integration with Circle’s Managed Payments service to allow businesses to facilitate stablecoin payouts and treasury operations without the complexity of direct digital asset management.

Wintermute said bitcoin’s latest decline was driven mainly by U.S. institutional selling and ETF outflows, not Strategy’s small BTC sale. The firm warned that capital inflows have not returned, making it too early to call a market bottom.

SpaceX’s expected market debut could test whether public investors still have patience for massive private-market valuations. Devere Group says the real challenge will begin after the IPO, when investors start judging growth, spending, execution, and profitability quarter by quarter.

A coalition of 61 industry leaders, founders, and investors is urging Senate leaders to pass the CLARITY Act while preserving key developer protections. The push follows Senate Banking Committee approval of the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) that would clarify rules for developers and service providers.

XRP’s 90-day network fee average has plunged 91.5%, with Glassnode data pointing to a sharp drop in real transaction demand despite earlier price strength. The trend suggests network activity has weakened considerably since the speculative surge, raising questions about the sustainability of underlying usage.

Coinbase, Ripple, and more than 200 organizations are pushing Senate leaders to bring the CLARITY Act to a floor vote. Supporters say the bill would clarify crypto oversight, create registration paths, and keep more digital asset activity under U.S. law.

Metamask has launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial wallet that lets AI agents trade across DeFi while keeping users in control. The product adds mandatory transaction checks, user-set limits, and protection for eligible transactions.

ADI Predictstreet, the official prediction market partner of the FIFA World Cup 2026, has opened to U.S. traders through Fanatics Markets days before kickoff – even as questions persist over how its Gibraltar license was granted and who sits behind it.

Binance’s freshly launched U.S. stock-trading service has amassed more than $400 million in assets under management just one week after going live, an early sign of demand as the exchange pushes toward tokenized equities.

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday, releasing a Mythos-class artificial intelligence (AI) model for general use that tops rivals on coding, finance, and vision benchmarks while cutting pricing to less than half of what Claude Mythos Preview costs.

Amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, bitcoin briefly dropped below $61,000 before rebounding to trade around $61,700—marking a 2.9% daily loss and wiping roughly $30 billion off its market capitalization.

Ethereum is trading near $1,644, roughly 67% below its all-time high of $4,946 set on Aug. 24, 2025, as a combination of macro pressure, persistent ETF outflows, and bitcoin’s rising dominance has pushed the second-largest cryptocurrency to its weakest relative position in years.

Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, allowing institutions and BTC holders to deploy bitcoin as collateral in decentralized finance ( DeFi) markets without selling their underlying position.