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Why Composable Vaults Are Becoming the Core of Onchain Wealth
Valdora is turning stablecoin capital into curated, liquid onchain strategies spanning credit, commodities, and equities.

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A New Way to Celebrate Financial Freedom: Peoples Reserve’s Bitcoin Powered Mortgages
Peoples Reserve launches Bitcoin-powered mortgages designed to help holders buy homes without selling their stack.

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ShapeShift's Voorhees Defends Venice Token Terms After Critics Call Deal Underpriced
Erik Voorhees pushed back on X against critics who said Venice's $65M Series A undervalued VVV tokens, saying the deal could bring in $131M for 6.5 million tokens locked four years.

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Venice Raises $65M Series A at $1B Valuation Led by Dragonfly
Erik Voorhees' privacy-first AI platform Venice landed a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion equity valuation, its first outside capital, after hitting profitability in Q1.

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Circle CEO Rebuts OUSD Pitch, Defends USDC's Network Effects After Stock Slide
Jeremy Allaire argued that stablecoin networks are winner-take-most businesses built over years, two days after the launch of the 140-plus-firm Open USD consortium sent Circle's stock down more than 17% in a single session.

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Lighter to Burn Repurchased LIT, Fund Staking from Ecosystem Reserve
The perpetuals exchange will start burning the LIT it buys with revenue and tap its token reserve to keep staking yields flowing.

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DraftKings Launches Proprietary Prediction Markets Exchange With $3.4B Annualized Consumer Volume
DraftKings has launched DKeX, a proprietary prediction markets exchange, reporting $3.4 billion in annualized consumer volume as it enters a field increasingly crowded by Kalshi, Polymarket, Meta Arena, and Robinhood.

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Strategy's Enterprise mNAV Drops Below 1 for the First Time
Strategy's enterprise market-to-NAV ratio crossed below 1 on Thursday for the first time, putting the combined weight of its debt, preferred stock, and equity above the value of its 847,363-bitcoin treasury and closing the equity-accretion channel that powered its buying spree.

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Strategy Executives Issue Coordinated Investor Reassurances as STRC Hits Record Lows
Three Strategy officials published separate posts within hours Friday defending the company's balance sheet, as bitcoin fell to around $59,600 and STRC preferred shares traded near historic lows.

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Tether's USDT Closes In on Ether for No. 2 Crypto Spot by Market Cap
USDT has drawn level with ether for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, briefly overtaking it earlier in June. Rising stablecoin issuance is meeting a falling ether price.





