This guide covers how that shift actually happened, what it means for retail investors today, and why SaintQuant leads the field for beginners in the US looking for a genuinely hands-off automated crypto trading experience.

On May 21, ARIQO, an onchain financial platform, made its first public appearance at Southeast Asia Blockchain Week (SEABW) in Bangkok.

Two regulated consumer finance platforms serving more than 75 million users across the US, UK, and EU have listed RAY within a month.

Funding will scale the platform’s private, stablecoin-settled dark pool DEX, built from the ground up for humans, bots, and AI agents to trade side by side

The most consequential institution in U.S. markets is one most crypto readers have never thought about. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade utility that clears and settles most U.S.

A customer sends $200 through a remittance app, then learns the recipient needs $250. They cancel to resend the right amount, and the refund takes up to 10 business days to land back on their card.

Ground, the money infrastructure company co-founded by Superstate co-founder Reid Cuming, has launched out of stealth alongside a $3.6M pre-seed round led by Bain Capital Crypto and ParaFi. The company's API plugs into existing fintech interfaces to let banks, neobanks, exchanges, and fund managers embed onchain yield and asset management without building custom blockchain integrations.

Bitcoin’s slide from above $80,000 to the low $60,000s has reset the conversation, and the most structurally significant development is a sustained outflow from spot Bitcoin ETFs, including a 13-session streak that saw $4.4 billion redeemed between May 15 and June 3. The market is now discovering what Bitcoin looks like when that ETF tailwind stalls, with AI-linked equities competing for the same capital that fueled crypto’s recovery.

Glider and Ondo Global Markets have launched a direct-indexed Magnificent 7 portfolio that holds the underlying stocks directly and pays an additional yield (currently around 5%, variable) on top of the equities. The product carries no expense ratio, no balance minimum, and is the first to pay yield on the Magnificent 7 position itself rather than cash held alongside it.

Cosmos Labs is consolidating the Cosmos ecosystem’s shared infrastructure under one roof, acquiring the Mintscan product suite and forming Cosmos Labs Korea, a Seoul-based subsidiary that will take stewardship of Skip:Go, IBC Eureka, and Mintscan. The deal opens a broader APAC expansion and frees engineering capacity for the Cosmos Hub roadmap.