Uniswap and Securitize have announced a strategic partnership with BlackRock to provide DeFi liquidity for BlackRock's tokenized fund.

Robinhood is opening the testnet for its Arbitrum-based Ethereum Layer 2. In this episode, we sit down with the fintech’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, to discuss the strategic move to build on Ethereum. He believes institutions can get the privacy and compliance guarantees they need on public chains like Ethereum, so building on private chains doesn’t make sense as they are just a “fancy database.”

Eligible clients can now use tokenized money market funds as off-exchange trading collateral.

The new offerings are Spark Prime and Spark Institutional Lending.

The Arbitrum-based network is designed to support tokenized real-world assets and other on-chain financial services.

Alongside its permissionless blockchain, the firm also revealed investments from Citadel Securities and ARK Invest.

Global brokerage IBKR now offers traditional and perpetual-style BTC and ETH futures trading to its clients.

Options premium volumes and trading activity are ramping up as users explore new areas in DeFi.

Balancer’s security team had earlier posted a 20% one-time offer to the attacker behind the November exploit.

Kaito and Polymarket have launched 'Attention Markets', merging attention measurement technology with prediction market infrastructure to track cultural narratives.