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Vancouver, Canada — Republic Technologies has secured a $100 million zero-coupon convertible note to accelerate its Ethereum validator expansion and increase ETH holdings, marking one of the most unusually favorable financing deals seen in the crypto infrastructure sector. (Cover photo: Daniel Liu, CEO at Republic Technologies (CSE: $DOCT)
Abu Dhabi, UAE — Solmate Infrastructure (NASDAQ: SLMT), a Solana-focused crypto infrastructure company based in Abu Dhabi, has launched the first high-performance, bare-metal Solana validator in the UAE — marking a major milestone for both the region and Solana’s global infrastructure.
Space and Time, the data blockchain powering the next era of on-chain finance, has launched Mainnet v2, unlocking secure offchain data tables designed specifically for banks, asset managers, and enterprises building tokenized financial products. It’s a major step forward for institutional crypto.
MoonPay — the global leader in crypto payments with 30M+ users — has officially integrated with Pump.fun, the breakout Solana platform powering instant memecoin creation and trading.
DeFi protocol Balancer is facing one of the largest hacks of 2025, with more than $128 million in digital assets drained across multiple pools, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield.
Dover, Delaware — Web3 prediction protocol Myriad has officially launched on BNB Chain, introducing Automated Markets and localized experiences tailored for Asian users — including a forthcoming Mandarin-language version.
Dubai — To mark one of the greatest achievements in football history, Binance has teamed up with Cristiano Ronaldo to launch “7he Selection” — an exclusive fan experience celebrating the legend’s 950 career goals and his enduring bond with supporters around the world
Amsterdam — Trust Wallet, one of the world’s largest self-custody Web3 wallets, has announced a strategic partnership with Onramper, the leading fiat-to-crypto onramp aggregator, to make crypto more accessible through localized payment options in over 190 countries.
Geneva, Switzerland — TRON DAO is taking its global academic outreach to new heights, announcing fresh collaborations with blockchain organizations at Columbia University and Harvard University through its TRON Academy initiative. The partnerships mark the latest expansion of TRON DAO’s university network, which already includes leading institutions such as MIT, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Imperial College London, and UC Berkeley.
San Francisco — Aave Labs has announced the acquisition of Stable Finance, a San Francisco-based fintech startup known for building intuitive onchain savings experiences. The move marks Aave Labs’ latest step toward merging decentralized finance (DeFi) with everyday consumer banking.
Cardano’s DeFi ecosystem just gained a major upgrade. VyFinance, one of the network’s most established decentralized finance platforms, has launched cstAPEX, a staked version of the APEX token that mirrors the potential 10% APY return of staking APEX on Prime.
Chicago — Hemi, the world’s largest Bitcoin yield-generating programmability layer, has partnered with Aster, a high-performance decentralized exchange (DEX), to list the $HEMI token for spot trading — unlocking a new onchain gateway for institutional Bitcoin yield.
