The crypto project, World Liberty Financial, has ties with U.S. President Donald Trump’s family and has entered into a partnership with a satellite startup, Spacecoin, aimed at exploring the operation of decentralized finance over satellite-powered internet. The agreement focuses on a token swap, which is designed to bridge blockchain payment
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Crypto Task Force has received two new written submissions to its public input page, which have once again highlighted important issues in digital asset regulation, such as self-custody rights and the regulatory status of decentralised finance (DeFi). One of the proposals, from a
Aave, the decentralized finance giant, has transferred the responsibility of managing the social infrastructure protocol Lens to Mask Network, delegating consumer-facing execution while moving back to an advisory role that focuses on the infrastructure of the protocol. This marks a new strategy for Aave, which now wants to focus on
The Injective community has approved a governance proposal that reshapes the network’s token economics and pushes INJ into a more aggressive deflationary phase. The vote, submitted as IIP-617, concluded on Jan. 19 after four days and passed with overwhelming support, signaling strong alignment among participating token holders. According to the
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called for a rethink of decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) design, arguing that most DAOs remain stuck in a shallow model that fails to fix the weaknesses of politics and corporate governance. In a Monday post on X, Buterin said today’s DAO blueprint often amounts to
Tensions have escalated between the Trump Administration and the Coinbase exchange because the platform suddenly pulled its support for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, and rumors have been spreading that the Trump White House is pulling the plug on the bill. Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett said in a
Uniswap has marked its presence on the multi-chain universe by entering X Layer, which stands for OKX’s Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem. This will enable a new low-cost platform for the trading community and retain the native Uniswap experience within the OKX ecosystem. Uniswap made the deployment official through an announcement
Grayscale added more exposure candidates from the artificial intelligence, DeFi, consumer, and infrastructure segments to its list of digital assets under consideration for future investment products. The update signals continued product exploration by the world’s largest digital asset-focused manager, as US investor demand widens beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. In a
It has recently been proposed by Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, that this functionality of DeFi services for the Bitcoin and the XRP networks may become a reality via the “Midnight Protocol” chain, a “privacy-focused” sister chain of the Cardano chain. The “Midnight” chain, launched late in 2025, uses
Polymarket has introduced trading fees, marking a significant shift in its business model as it expands beyond niche prediction markets into more mainstream crypto trading. The platform confirmed that it has begun charging fees on its short-duration cryptocurrency price markets and on its Polymarket US app, which is currently available
