Top Crypto News from Last Week
Ft Chainlink, SUI, Pumpfun, Ripple, Harvard, Pendle, Payy, etc
Chainlink announced the launch of the Chainlink Reserve, a strategic onchain reserve of LINK tokens to support their eco long term
KakaoBank announced its entering the South Korean stablecoin market
Cosmos Health $300M convertible notes financing to establish ETH treasury reserve
$214 Billion AUM SBI holdings filed for Bitcoin and XRP ETFs
Harvard invested $120M INTO Blackrock Spot BITCOIN ETF
Chainlink launched real time data streams for US equities and ETFs
Hybrid L2, Build on Bitcoin (BOB) raised $10M bringing BOB’s total funding to around $21M
El Salvador plans to launch Bitcoin bank
LayerZero proposed a $110M buyout Stargate bridge, dissolving its DAO and letting STG holders swap to ZRO at a 1:0.0863 ratio.
Animoca Brands, Standard Chartered, and Hong Kong Telecommunications formed Anchorpoint Financial to seek HKMA (HK Monetary Authority) license to issue HKD backed stablecoins
MetaMask integrated native support for Sei
World Liberty Financial aims to raise $1.5B to launch a Nasdaq-listed treasury company holding its WLFI tokens
Union Build now a Bitcoin Supercharged Network, secured by Bitcoin through Babylon Genesis.
Pump fun launched Glass Full Foundation aimed at injecting liquidity into pumpfun memecoins and communities
Trump signed an executive order to allow crypto 401(k)s.
Fluent went live on testnet built for dapp-user Feedback with nsfw platform, PumpPal as the first Dapp
SEC and Ripple settled their long running case
Pendle launched Boros on Arbitrum, enabling trading of Yield Units (tokens representing BTC or ETH funding rate yield)
PreStocks went live on Solana, letting anyone trade tokenized pre-IPO shares of top companies
Bitmine now owns 833,133 $ETH ($3B), the largest ETH Treasury in the World
Apple announced it’ll invest $600B in US over the next four years
Sui Network launches Passkey on mainnet, enabling passwordless web3 login
Pantera Capital is leading a $20M round for OpenMind, an open source OS AI robotics integrator
The SEC clarified that certain liquid staking activities, where LSTs offer passive, deposit only services, may not qualify as securities
Privacy onchain platform, Payy launched the Payy Card, a non-custodial Visa debit card enabling private USDC spending via zkps
Mei Pharma acquired 929,548 LTC for $100M adopting Litecoin treasury
Coinbase plans to raise $2B through a private offering of convertible notes maturing in 2029 and 2032
Whitehouse is preparing an executive order to fine banks that blacklist crypto companies
Falcon Finance USDf stablecoin reached $1.09B in circulation
Trump put 100% tariff on chips and semiconductors
