Gate Ventures Backs Sats Terminal as Bitcoin Lending Tools Expand
Gate Ventures, the venture capital arm of Gate.com, has made a strategic investment in Bitcoin finance platform Sats Terminal, a...
Decentralized finance (Defi)
OKX Integrates Katana Infrastructure to Launch Native Onchain DeFi Yield
OKX to embed Katana’s native decentralized finance ( DeFi) yield infrastructure, allowing users to access onchain returns without manual bridging....
Starknet Develops ‘strkBTC’ to Bring Shielded Transactions to Bitcoin
Starknet has introduced strkBTC, a new wrapped bitcoin asset that enables users to shield their balances and transaction history using...
Metamask, Mastercard Roll out Self-Custodial Crypto Card in US
Metamask and Mastercard have launched the Metamask Card nationwide in the United States, including New York for the first time,...
Morph Integrates Circle’s USDC and CCTP for Payment Infrastructure
USDC and Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol are set to launch on the Morph network, expanding dollar-denominated stablecoin settlement for payment-focused...
Drama and Competing Reports Set Stage for High-Stakes Aave DAO Decision
A governance dispute within the Aave ecosystem intensified this week after Aave Chan Initiative (ACI) founder Marc Zeller published what...
BGD Labs Announces Offboarding Plan From Aave Protocol
After climbing the previous week on the heels of Grayscale’s S-1 filing, the decentralized finance ( DeFi) token linked to...
Uniswap AI Suite Seeks to Streamline Autonomous Trading
Uniswap Labs has released seven open-source artificial intelligence (AI) “Skills” designed to let autonomous agents execute core decentralized exchange (...
DeFi Analytics Firm Parsec Shuts Down After Five Years
After five years in the industry, onchain analytics firm Parsec announced its closure on Feb. 19, 2026. CEO Will Sheehan...
Donald Trump Jr. Defends Crypto Pivot as Shield Against Banking ‘Ponzi Scheme’
On Feb. 18, Donald Trump Jr. defended his family’s pivot to cryptocurrency, describing it as a survival tactic against a...
Hyperliquid Policy Center Launches to Advance Decentralized Finance Infrastructure in Washington
The Hyperliquid Policy Center officially debuts as an independent advocacy organization to promote regulated blockchain-based financial systems within the United...
Enso Launches Live Cross‑Chain Execution With Chainlink CCIP, Expanding DeFi Infrastructure
Enso has launched live production deployments of cross‑chain minting and execution flows using Chainlink’s CCIP, advancing decentralized finance ( DeFi)...
Throughput vs. Latency: Why DBFV is the Superior Choice for Complex Financial Logic
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has long promised secure computation on encrypted data, but was too slow for real-world finance. Fhenix’s...
Institutional-Grade Yield: Buck Labs Upgrades Savings Token to 10% APY
Buck Labs raised the yield on its Savingscoin from 7% to 10% and revamped distribution to auto‑deliver rewards without gas...
Robinhood Launches Public Testnet for Layer-2 Chain
Robinhood has launched a public testnet for its Ethereum layer-2 network, inviting developers and institutions to experiment with tokenized assets....
