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Blockchains
Celo Proposes Shifting Opera to 'Long-Term Stakeholder' with 160M CELO Grant
The move would replace quarterly CELO grants to Opera, which each required Celo governance approval, to a one-time token payment for a three-year partnership.

DeFi
EtherFi to Tap Plume's Nest Vaults for Real-World Asset Yield
The DeFi neobank will route customer deposits into a basis-trade vault powered by Superstate’s USCC fund.

DeFi
Amundi Launches Tokenized Swap Fund on Ethereum and Stellar
Europe's largest asset manager has launched its second on-chain fund, leveraging Chainlink oracles to publish NAV data.

DeFi
Polymarket Becomes MLB’s Exclusive Prediction Market Partner
The league also signed an information-sharing agreement with the CFTC, the first such deal between the derivatives regulator and a professional sports body.

Infrastructure
LayerZero, Centrifuge Team Up to Expand Multichain Access for Tokenized Funds
Centrifuge's largest tokenized fund, JTRSY, is among the first of its products to adopt LayerZero.

DeFi
Bitcoin Gets Native DeFi Stack as OP_NET Goes Live on Mainnet
The execution layer's launch comes alongside a DeFi stack, including a Bitcoin L1 DEX, permissionless smart contract deployment, and OP-20 token launches.

Blockchains
Algorand Foundation cuts 25% of workforce amid crypto market downturn: Algorand Foundation
The Algorand Foundation has laid off a quarter of its staff, citing macroeconomic uncertainty and depressed crypto prices as conditions worsen across the industry.

Markets
Crypto Markets Slide as Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged
Bitcoin slips 5% as rising U.S. wholesale inflation and ongoing geopolitical tensions weigh on investor sentiment.

DeFi
Visa Bets on Agentic Commerce With CLI Payment Tool for AI Agents
Visa Crypto Labs has launched an experimental product that lets AI agents make payments directly from the command line, without API keys or pre-funded accounts.

DeFi
Aster Deepens WLFI Partnership With USD1 Perpetual Markets
The perpetuals exchange is promoting WLFI's stablecoin as a trading asset ahead of the Aster Chain Layer 1 launch.





