Pencil Finance completes $1M onchain lending cycle for 6.6K students in Southeast Asia
Pencil Finance said that its first-of-a-kind loan offered financing to 6,600 students in Southeast Asia who were underserved by traditional…
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B in push into AI software
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, gaining a platform used by more than 18 million developers to…
VARA, Securitize sign MoU for tokenization innovation in Dubai
VARA and Securitize signed an MoU to foster more tokenization innovation in Dubai and explore how tokenized financial innovation should…
Sui DeFi protocol Full Sail to wind down after Switchboard incident
Full Sail is shutting down after an attacker removed about $91,000 from three vaults during a security incident linked to…
G20 members tout ‘clear pathways’ for digital asset innovation
Officials in the G20, under the US’ presidency, recognized that digital assets could support “broad-based economic growth” and called for…
Bitcoin’s apparent demand turns negative as price struggles with $77K
One of Bitcoin’s onchain demand indicators turns negative again after a brief August rebound, as BTC price slipped below $77,000…
Ondo urges SEC, CFTC to bring US stock perpetuals onshore
Ondo says existing US securities laws can accommodate perpetual futures tied to individual stocks as regulators look to bring more…
Core DAO plans emergency hard fork after validators drew excess rewards
Core says the incident is contained and its planned forward upgrade will not roll back the network or reverse previously…
HYPE treasury firm Hyperliquid Strategies boosts equity facility to $2.5B
The Nasdaq-listed company previously raised $647 million through the facility and accumulated about 29.3 million HYPE tokens.
Bitcoin ETFs notch best month of 2026 as BTC gains 25% in August
US spot Bitcoin ETFs reduced their year-to-date net outflows by 66% as Bitcoin gained about 25% in August, while Ether…