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Finance

Turning ‘$11K to Half a Billion Dollars From Trading Memecoins’: Tales From a Crypto Wealth Manager

The chief of crypto-focused multi-family office Digital Ascension Group talks about his VIP services for wealthy holders of digital assets.

Jake Claver, CEO of Digital Ascension Group

Finance

Crypto Exchange Ripio Reveals $100M Crypto Treasury, Second Largest in Latin America

The company's holdings, which include bitcoin and ether, have been managed through trading and hedging strategies since 2017.

CoinDesk

Web3

DeFi Giant Spark Shelves Crypto App Plans to Focus on Institutional Infrastructure

The protocol will instead focus on "liquidity infrastructure and deals" such as its recent $1 billion investment into PayPal's PYUSD.

Cryptocurrency prices seen on phone and monitors. (Sajad Nori/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

'Permissionless Assets’: Robinhood’s 3-Phase Tokenization Plan to Disrupt TradFi

Robinhood is working on infrastructure developments, said Offchain Labs' A.J. Warner, including 24/7 trading, and leveraging technologies like Arbitrum Stylus for compatibility.

Robinhood website (PiggyBank/ Unsplash/ Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Obex Raises $37M to Build 'Y Combinator' for RWA-Backed Stablecoins, Led by Framework, Sky

The incubator aims to fund stablecoin projects backed by compute, energy and fintech credit using Sky's up to $2.5 billion commitment, Framework Ventures' Vance Spencer said in an interview.

Vance Spencer, co-founder of Framework Ventures (Framework Ventures)

Web3

1inch Unveils Protocol Letting Multiple DeFi Strategies Share the Same Capital

Aqua introduces a "shared liquidity layer" that enables capital from a single wallet to back multiple trading strategies simultaneously.

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Finance

Zero-Knowledge Identity Startup Self Raises $9M, Introduces Points Program

Self raised $9 million to expand its zero-knowledge identity platform and introduced a rewards program aimed at driving on-chain verification adoption.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Investor Dan Tapiero Sees AI-Blockchain Crossover Fueling Next Big Wave

‘Blockchain is the money of AI,’ said the 50T founder, who’s betting 20% of his next fund on startups that don’t yet exist.

Dan Tapiero (Shutterstock/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

RWA Specialist Centrifuge Debuts Tokenization Service, Starting with Daylight

Decentralized energy network Daylight is the first to use the Centrifuge Whitelabel service, aiming to simplify real-world asset tokenization.

Centrifuge CEO Bhaji Illuminati (Centrifuge)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Must Own Power—or Die Trying Before Next Halving, MARA CEO Says

With block rewards set to plunge, only miners with energy control or AI pivots are likely to survive, Thiel argues.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel interview at Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)