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This week, Tether announced the release of Mining OS (MOS), an open-source Bitcoin mining management platform designed to replace the proprietary, vendor-locked systems that dominate the industry today. The software is fully open-source and built to scale from home miners to industrial operations.
Private equity is one of the largest asset classes in global finance, and one of the least accessible in practice. Industry estimates place global private equity AUM at roughly $8.5–$9T by mid-2025. By comparison, the entire on-chain real-world asset (RWA) universe is still under $25B, with RWA protocols at roughly $17B in DeFi TVL.
Pump.fun has launched a $3 million Build in Public hackathon designed to flip the traditional startup funding model on its head. Instead of closed-door judging, founders launch openly, build in real time, and let user participation determine which projects earn support.
According to Reuters, the Trump administration will host a closed-door meeting next week with senior executives from both the banking and cryptocurrency sectors, aiming to broker a compromise on the long-stalled Senate crypto bill known as the Clarity Act.
This week, Visa, KuCoin, Apple, and onchain markets all pointed to the same shift: crypto is moving from a trade to embedded infrastructure.
Mantle has officially expanded $MNT into the Solana ecosystem with the launch of Mantle Super Portal, its native cross-chain infrastructure developed in collaboration with Bybit.
Onchain derivatives are starting to close the performance gap with centralized exchanges — and infrastructure is the reason.
Bitget Wallet has launched native HYPE staking, expanding its integration with the Hyperliquid ecosystem and giving users protocol-level yield directly inside the wallet.
Maple, the largest onchain asset manager, has officially launched on Base — the fast-growing Layer 2 incubated by Coinbase — opening its credit and yield products to millions of users and developers across one of Web3’s most active ecosystems.
Following its recent rebrand, Everything has unveiled the first concrete step in its ecosystem transition: a structured pathway that allows existing SDEX holders to migrate into the upcoming EV token ahead of its planned Token Generation Event (TGE) in May 2026.
As tokenized finance moves from experimentation to infrastructure, data and credibility are becoming just as critical as execution.
RWA-backed stablecoins are moving closer to real financial rails.
