Sources: Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B+ in bitcoin
What's the Best Crypto to Buy Right Now? Bloomberg : Cantor Preps Second Bitcoin Treasury Company With 25,000 Tokens Kamina Bashir / BeInCrypto : Brandon Lutnick Leads $4 Billion Bitcoin Initiative Th...
Kalshi raised $185M led by Paradigm at a $2B valuation; sources: Polymarket is completing a $200M+ investment led by Founders Fund at a ~$1B pre-money valuation
Prediction-Market Unicorn Hits $2 Billion Valuation Bogdan Patru / Bitcoin Insider : Prediction Market Kalshi Achieves Unicorn Status with $185 Raised at its $2B Evaluation, as BTC Bull Token Predicts...
Sources: Meta is talking to crypto firms about introducing stablecoins for managing payouts, and in January 2025 hired a VP of product with crypto experience
Three Years After Diem Rony Roy / crypto.news : Meta may be eyeing stablecoin payments for Instagram creators Samuel Edyme / Bitcoinist.com : Stripe Expands Crypto Offerings With Stablecoin Accounts a...
Halliday, which helps developers delegate workflows to autonomous systems when creating smart contracts, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z Crypto
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Web3 domain infrastructure firm D3 Global raised a $25M Series A led by Paradigm, and plans to launch a decentralized network called Doma Protocol
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Tether plans to bring USDT to the Bitcoin base layer again and to the Layer 2 protocol Lightning Network, following USDT expansions to Celo and other networks
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Crypto.com launches its institutional exchange service for US customers, after closing the service in June 2023 due to “limited demand”
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Data shows open interest on Polymarket fell 64% from $510.95M on November 5 to $184.16M by November 8, highlighting the platform's reliance on political betting
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Morpho, a decentralized lending developer, raised $50M led by Ribbit Capital, after raising an undisclosed sum earlier in 2024, and $18M in 2022
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Filing: FTX argues it should pay the IRS a $200M priority tax claim and a $685M subordinated claim; the IRS said FTX owed $44B in taxes then revised it to $24B
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