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Tether and Fasanara Launch $400M Private Credit Fund Targeting $3B From Institutions
SkyAI Board Faces Challenge From Forward Industries Over 7.2% Dilution Plan
Visa Opens VisaNet Settlement Data to Blockchain Lenders as Stablecoin Volume Hits $20B Run Rate
Strive Buys 1,375 BTC Worth $109M as Preferred Stock Offering Nears $1B
Zcash Rally Shows Exhaustion Signals as Analysts Flag 50% Correction Risk
Jobs Report Fails to Shift Fed Rate Hike Expectations, Crypto Markets Brace
CLARITY Act Likely Dead Before Senate Vote, Former Prosecutor Reports
Polish Prosecutors Charge Fifth Suspect in Zondacrypto Fraud Case
Harmony Protocol Shuts Down Blockchain, Migrates ONE Token to Ethereum
MENA Crypto Transaction Volume Hits $350B With Saudi Arabia Growing 154% Year Over Year
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press_releaseNasdaq Invests $100 Million in Payward to Expand Crypto Infrastructure Partnership
Nasdaq has made a $100 million strategic equity investment in Payward, Inc., the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, expanding a partnership aimed at integrating traditional financial market infrastructure with digital asset platforms. The deal follows Deutsche Börse's $200 million Kraken stake in April 2026 and reflects growing direct equity participation by major exchange operators in crypto infrastructure.
press_releaseTether and Fasanara Capital Launch $400 Million Stablecoin-Enabled Private Credit Fund
Tether and Fasanara Capital have jointly launched a $400 million private credit fund using USDT stablecoin infrastructure for settlement and collateral, targeting mid-market borrowers across Europe and Asia with loan origination beginning Q4 2026. The fund aims to reduce settlement cycles from T+2 to T+0, positioning stablecoin rails as operational infrastructure for institutional credit markets.
press_releaseForus Raises $150M at $3B Valuation to Automate Healthcare's Prescription-to-Treatment Workflow
Forus has closed a $150 million funding round at a $3 billion post-money valuation to build blockchain infrastructure automating the prescription-to-treatment workflow in US healthcare. The equity round targets a workflow segment estimated to generate $290 billion in annual inefficiency costs.
deep_diveCrypto-Native AI Tokens Are Priced for a Future That May Never Arrive: A Framework for Sustainable Inference Economics
The crypto-native AI sector has built a $14.2–20.1 billion market cap on top of $18–24 million in daily on-chain inference volume — a ratio that exposes severe valuation decoupling from utilization fundamentals. Drawing on documented DePIN subsidy cliff dynamics from Helium, Render, and Akash, this report argues that Bittensor, io.net, and peers face a structural inflection point within 18–36 months as commodity inference pricing collapses toward $0.010 per 1,000 tokens and fixed token emission schedules erode operator economics. The path to sustainability runs through specialized inference markets, verifiable compute attestation, and dynamic tokenomics — not commodity price competition with OpenAI and Anthropic.
press_releaseStrive CEO Matt Cole Announces Purchase of Over 1,100 BTC
Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole has announced the firm's intention to purchase more than 1,100 Bitcoin, representing approximately $50–65 million in capital deployment. The move arrives amid global regulatory convergence and growing institutional participation in digital assets.
press_releaseEthereum Upgrade Targets 50–80% Fee Reduction as Institutional Capital Mobilizes Around Tokenized Assets
Ethereum is preparing a major protocol upgrade targeting 50–80% fee reductions and a 3–5x throughput improvement, arriving as BlackRock's $50–200 billion tokenized fund launch, Vietnam's regulated crypto framework, and $8.7 billion in prediction market ETF accumulation signal accelerating institutional demand for scalable blockchain settlement.