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US Treasury Adds Nobitex and Three Other Iranian Exchanges to OFAC SDN List Under 'Economic Fury'
Regulation & Politics

US Treasury Adds Nobitex and Three Other Iranian Exchanges to OFAC SDN List Under 'Economic Fury'

The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin and Ramzinex, along with their leadership, naming the exchanges as the digital-asset rails for Iran's central bank and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade
TradFi & Fintech

Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade

A six-figure trade settled against the Ornn Compute Price Index pushes the world's largest prediction market into TradFi-style risk transfer, with FalconX signing on as a dedicated market maker for future blocks.
 Bad Sentiment, Strong Fundamentals: the Institutional Turn | Chris Perkins, Franklin Crypto
Podcast

Bad Sentiment, Strong Fundamentals: the Institutional Turn | Chris Perkins, Franklin Crypto

Crypto is entering a new phase — and institutions, not retail, are driving it. As regulatory clarity arrives, the largest institutions in the world are moving from the sidelines into the market. The thesis from our guest: sentiment is poor, but fundamentals are improving; a coiled spring.
Coinbase Ventures Buys ENA on the Open Market as Coinbase and Ethena Strike Distribution Deal
DeFi

Coinbase Ventures Buys ENA on the Open Market as Coinbase and Ethena Strike Distribution Deal

The exchange's venture arm bought ENA tokens directly on the open market rather than through a private round, the first such disclosed purchase, alongside a partnership to push Ethena's onchain dollar and savings products into Coinbase's userbase.
US Court Lifts Circle Freeze on Zama's $12.5M cUSDC Contract After Three-Day Lockout
DeFi

US Court Lifts Circle Freeze on Zama's $12.5M cUSDC Contract After Three-Day Lockout

A federal judge in the Northern District of California reversed the temporary restraining order that had pushed Circle to blacklist the privacy protocol's wrapper, restoring funds to depositors caught in a civil dispute they were not party to.
Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network
TradFi & Fintech

Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network

The tokenized Senior Credit Opportunities feeder fund — already live on Polygon, Ethereum and three other chains — becomes the inaugural Securitize-issued asset on a network with 383 million accounts and roughly $90 billion in circulating stablecoins.
OpenSea Teases Hyperliquid-Powered Perpetuals Launch
DeFi

OpenSea Teases Hyperliquid-Powered Perpetuals Launch

OpenSea Product Marketing Lead Zack Brenner asked users on X who wanted early access to perpetual contracts, then confirmed the product would run on Hyperliquid's builder-code rails — the clearest signal yet the NFT marketplace is bolting on a derivatives venue.
Robinhood Closes $180M WonderFi Deal, Crossing 1M International Customers as It Enters Canada
CeFi

Robinhood Closes $180M WonderFi Deal, Crossing 1M International Customers as It Enters Canada

The retail brokerage's first Canadian footprint comes via a year-late buyout of the operator of Bitbuy and Coinsquare, adding roughly 300,000 funded crypto customers in a single transaction.
Ethereum Researchers Lay Out Post-Quantum Key Registry as First Concrete Migration Step
Blockchains

Ethereum Researchers Lay Out Post-Quantum Key Registry as First Concrete Migration Step

A team led by Thomas Coratger and Justin Drake published the design for a dedicated XMSS public-key registry, the first protocol fork on the EF Strawmap before validators swap off BLS signatures.
Galaxy Launches Institutional OTC Prediction-Markets Desk With $10M Arca Trade on the CLARITY Act
TradFi & Fintech

Galaxy Launches Institutional OTC Prediction-Markets Desk With $10M Arca Trade on the CLARITY Act

Galaxy is bringing block-size, principal-counterparty execution to Kalshi and Polymarket event contracts, anchored by a $10 million swap that lets crypto hedge fund Arca hedge regulatory exposure to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.