⚡ SpaceX IPO to mint 4,000 new millionaires, new billionaires, and the first trillionaire
SpaceX listed on Nasdaq under SPCX after pricing its IPO at $135 per share, raising $75B and valuing the company near $1.77T.
The biggest crypto native winners are Founders Fund, whose roughly 3% stake from $600M invested is now worth over $50B, Sequoia at about 1.5% worth more than $20B against $2B deployed, and Andreessen Horowitz at over $10B, its largest return ever.
⚡ Ethena Labs to allocate $250M to Securitize's Tokenized Fund
Ethena Labs will allocate $250M to the Securitize Tokenized AAA CLO Fund, a tokenized fund in collaboration with BNY as the trading instrument goes live on Solana.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of SpaceX, Canton Network, Ondo Finance, Binance, Coinbase, io net, Figure, Citigroup, Hyperliquid, Tether, Helius, and Raydium.
⚡ Binance rolls out bSTOCKS on the BNB Chain network
bStocks are 1:1 backed tokenized US securities issued as BEP-20 tokens on BNB Chain, convertible 1:1 with no fees and trading 24/7 with daily Proof of Collateral.
The assets are self-custodied via Binance Wallet, Trust Wallet and others, powered by Native, and usable across DeFi through Venus, Lista DAO, PancakeSwap, Aster and more.
⚡ Digital Asset has secured $355M in a new funding round led by a16z crypto
The round was joined by Apollo Funds, BNP Paribas, Citadel Securities, CME Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, HSBC, Liberty City Ventures, Polychain, S&P Global, SBI Group, SoFi, and Tradeweb, among others.
Digital Asset the company developing the Canton Network, a public, permissionless Layer 1 blockchain built with configurable privacy features aimed at institutional finance.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Mastercard, Solana, Ondo Finance, Chainlink, Ripple, Pyth, Travala, Botnaix, predict fun, Base, Arcium, and TON.
⚡ Mastercard has announced the launch of Agent Pay for Machines
With over 30 partners at launch, the innovation allows transactions to be permissioned, orchestrated and settled at machine speed across its global payments network. Initial participants and supporters include: Aave Labs, Alchemy, Anchorage Digital, BVNK, Catena, Cloudflare, Coinbase, and others.
⚡ Top Centralized Exchanges by Weekly Visits (CEX)
Let's take a look at the ranking of top centralized exchanges by weekly visits. Weekly visits to the website (not including mobile app) based on data from SimilarWeb and CoinmarketCap.
⚡ Morpho has raised $175M in funding co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto and Ribbit Capital
Among additional participants are Apollo Global, VanEck, Circle Ventures, Ledger, Variant Fund, Wintermute Ventures, Hashkey Capital, and others. Morpho is a platform for earning yield, borrowing assets, and building applications on flexible, permissionless infrastructure.
⚡ Real Finance unveils the details of its agreement with Factori AD
The deal with the EU regulated broker activates a committed $100M+ pipeline within a broader $500M+ in tradable RWAs. Factori will swap 5% of the publicly traded assets in Real's pilot for $ASSET, the tokens it needs to run as a business entity validator on the network.
The first assets are warrants tied to Alpha Bulgaria AD (ALFB), tokenized on Base ahead of Real's Layer 1 mainnet, with custody split between Bank of New York and Bulgaria's Central Depository.
Tether dominates monthly earnings at $492M, followed by Circle at $194M and Hyperliquid at $60.6M.
Efficiency tells a different story, with Limitless topping the set at 1.74x while the biggest earners trade far higher at 67.7x and 84.1x. Pump and Collector Crypt round out the most efficiently valued names.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Strategy, Coinbase, Hyperliquid, Ondo Finance, MetaMask, Bybit, Sam Bankman-Fried, Binance Wallet, Arthur Hayes, BitFi, ZODL, and Limitless.
Over 1.80B stablecoin transactions over 30 days, $5.80T in volume across 53.2M unique addresses. Polygon PoS leads at 644M transactions, followed by BNB Chain (353M) and Solana (259M). Polymarket tops application usage at 5.11M, more than double PancakeSwap at 2.49M.