The integration lays the groundwork for private, compliant financial applications on Ripple’s Layer 1 blockchain. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →

Visa joins Stripe and Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered as the first external validators for the Stripe-backed Tempo blockchain. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →

Morpho is the second-largest lending protocol in DeFi, with $7.7B in TVL. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire reiterated plans for its stablecoin-focused layer-1 blockchain to launch in mainnet “soon.” Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →

Cantor Fitzgerald says Robinhood and Coinbase are best positioned to dominate the prediction market space by leveraging their massive retail scale and existing trading infrastructure.…

The downsizing follows a financial hit after Scroll’s top protocol migrated to Optimism, draining nearly $160 million in TVL and $13 million in annualized fees.…

X product chief Nikita Bier teases a crypto “fix” product as speculation grows around an X Money rollout this month, a potential Bitcoin revival and…

The company behind Starknet is pivoting from pure infrastructure toward revenue-generating products built on its proprietary tech stack. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →

The market may be pricing XRP through an outdated lens. Over the past several days, the most consequential development regarding XRP has come from outside…

The governance overhaul comes on the heels of a fee controversy and the departure of the Layer 2 network’s top revenue generator. Read Full Story…