Oak HC/FT led the round with NEA, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed Faction and OpenFX participating, taking total funding to $43 million. Latitude's own site breaks its "45 U.S. markets" into 39 money transmission licences, one state registration and five no-action letters.

The bank said Wednesday it moved value between its North American and European entities with USBDC, a dollar-backed token it issued on Stellar. The pilot tested minting, redemption, freezing and clawback. XLM trades at $0.18, down 3.1% on the day.

The evergreen fund opens with $400 million from the two sponsors and targets up to $3 billion from outside institutions. Fasanara manages the investments while Tether originates USDT-linked deals and runs settlement. USDT supply stands at $183.4 billion.

Nasdaq Ventures agreed to put $100 million into Kraken's parent company, at a $21 billion valuation according to Bloomberg, and Payward will adopt Nasdaq's surveillance technology across its trading venues.

Pump.fun opened token launches to quote assets beyond SOL and USDC on Wednesday afternoon, putting the count at 93 pairs including tokenized Nvidia, Tesla and the S&P 500. Half the revenue from the new pairs goes to the PUMP buyback-and-burn contract. The deepest of the new quote assets holds $3.07 million of liquidity.

Goens said Zora is now under 10 people after a headcount reduction this year and named ZORA buybacks among his first priorities. Fees from the protocol’s Base deployment are down 99% from a year ago.

The Robinhood CEO acknowledged that token holders lack voting rights, reflecting a structure that provides economic exposure through Jersey-issued debt securities rather than share ownership.

Lookonchain traced a 2.5 million-token team allocation to the address; separately, one trader reported nearly empty launch pools and a 98% early drop.

Builders Bank would operate under direct federal supervision without taking deposits or making loans, but the application still requires OCC approval.

The Singapore-based target would add more than 60 banking and fintech partners and local payout rails across over 100 markets to Circle’s network.