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Robinhood's Second Venture Fund Targets Y Combinator Startups in $200 Million IPO
Retail investors can request RVII shares at an expected $25 apiece through Aug. 12, ahead of an NYSE listing set for Aug. 13 — five months after Robinhood's first venture fund raised $658.4 million to buy into companies like OpenAI and Stripe.
Crypto Card Volume Hits $748.7M in July, a Fifth Straight Monthly Gain: Paymentscan
Spending on crypto payment cards jumped 19% to a monthly record, with RedotPay handling more than half the volume as flows into stablecoin neobanks crossed $1 billion for the first time.
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Robinhood's Second Venture Fund Targets Y Combinator Startups in $200 Million IPO
Retail investors can request RVII shares at an expected $25 apiece through Aug. 12, ahead of an NYSE listing set for Aug. 13 — five months after Robinhood's first venture fund raised $658.4 million to buy into companies like OpenAI and Stripe.
Crypto Card Volume Hits $748.7M in July, a Fifth Straight Monthly Gain: Paymentscan
Spending on crypto payment cards jumped 19% to a monthly record, with RedotPay handling more than half the volume as flows into stablecoin neobanks crossed $1 billion for the first time.
Banco Santander Discloses Spot Bitcoin ETF Stake in 13F Filing
The Spanish lender's Q2 2026 filing lists a position in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust, the largest spot Bitcoin ETF.
Active Crypto VC Firms Fall to 150, Lowest Since 2020
The July count sits far below the 1,177 unique investors CryptoRank recorded at the March 2022 peak, pointing to a smaller, more selective pool of backers.
Morgan Stanley Launches Spot Ether, Solana ETPs on NYSE Arca
The MSSE and MSOL trusts each charge a 0.14% expense ratio and will stake a portion of holdings, passing rewards to investors.
SoFi Says SoFiUSD Settlement Now Live on Q2 Earnings Call
The bank tied the stablecoin's first live settlements to real-time commercial payments running through its Big Business Banking platform on Solana.
10 European Banks Launch RL1 Blockchain Cooperative
RL1 inherits SWIAT's production network, which processed more than €700 million in transactions over three years before ownership moved to the Luxembourg cooperative.
Circle Buys IBM Blockchain Patent Portfolio
The USDC issuer says the roughly 1,000-patent haul makes it the leading US blockchain patent holder, with financial terms undisclosed.
Samsung Says Wallet Will Add Stablecoin Support
The announcement at Galaxy Unpacked in London came with no timeline, issuers, or markets — but would put stablecoins on hundreds of millions of phones.
OCC Denies Wise's US National Trust Bank Charter
The regulator cited money-laundering risk concerns in a rare rejection amid a wave of crypto charter approvals. Wise plans to refile under the GENIUS Act.