Crypto News. July 14, 2025
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Grayscale Investments has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC. No details yet on share count or valuation, and timing remains flexible.
Layer 1, TAC designed to bridge ETH defi with Telegram via TON, has launched its public mainnet and airdrop went live too. ETH Dapps, Curve, Bancor, Morpho are already live for Ton users
SharpLink Gaming (SBET) now holds the largest corporate stash of ETH at 280,706 ETH, surpassing the Ethereum Foundation. It bought 74,656 ETH last week for $156M, bringing its total ETH holdings to around $858M. The firm raised $413M via a stock sale, with $257M still available for more ETH buys.
Metaplanet, known for its aggressive bitcoin strategy, revealed that Fidelity’s custody arm, National Financial Services now holds a 12.9% stake, becoming its largest shareholder. The 84.4M shares are worth about $820M.
Metaplanet has raised over $1B this year to build its BTC reserves, now totaling 16,352 BTC acquired for around $1.64B.
Standard Chartered has launched bitcoin and ETH spot trading for institutional clients, becoming the first major global bank to offer regulated, USD-paired crypto trading. It’ll be ran through its UK branch.
Ondo Finance has acquired Strangelove Labs to boost development of its RWA stack. Former Strangelove CEO Jack Zampolin will join Ondo as VP of Product. This follows Ondo’s $250M RWA investment plan with Pantera and its recent deal to acquire SEC-licensed Oasis Pro
Kamino finance is now accepting tokenized stocks as collateral, starting with Apple’s AAPLx. Powered by Chainlink’s xStocks data standard, this will make Kamino the first major defi lending platform to support tokenized equities. The move is part of their v2 upgrade, aiming to build a full onchain asset marketplace.
