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Solana-Based RWA Platform AgriDex Taps Stripe's Bridge to Lower Cost for Agricultural Trade Settlements
AgriDex is an example of how stablecoins are being increasingly used as a payment vehicle in emerging regions as a cheaper alternative for traditional banking rails.

An Arctic Circle Bitcoin Mine Will Heat a Building in a Fishing Village
Retail-focused Sazmining is starting a modest-sized bitcoin mining operation, using hydropower, in a small Norwegian fishing town.

FCA-Regulated Crypto Trading Firm Portofino Technologies Sees Staff Exodus
Co-founder Alex Casimo and CFO Jae Park were fired in July, which triggered a number of departures from the market making firm.

Solana's Crypto-Governance Hub Realms Is Under New Management
The project is spinning out of Solana Labs and its new leaders want to turn a profit.

U.K. Pension Giant L&G Looks to Enter Crypto's Tokenization Space
London-based L&G, which has $1.5 trillion in assets, is evaluating ways to join other big traditional players like BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Abrdn that are offering blockchain-based money-market funds and the like.

Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches Wrapped Bitcoin Token kBTC
The token will be available on both Ethereum and OP Mainnet.

GraFun Starts Labs Division to Boost Memecoin Ecosystem on BNB Chain
Partners include trading firm DWF Labs and the Floki, BNB Chain’s largest memecoin by market capitalization.

Crypto-Real Estate's USDR Misled Investors as Tangible Brothers Made Millions
The 2023 crash of Tangible's USDR stablecoin is infamous in crypto circles. But a CoinDesk investigation reveals there's another story to be told.

SingularityDAO Plans to Merge With Cogito Finance, SelfKey to Form AI-Focused Layer-2
The three projects' tokens will consolidate into Singularity Finance (SFI).

Solv Raises $11M to Grow the $1.3B Bitcoin Staking Protocol
Solv Protocol's SolvBTC product has more than 20,000 BTC staked ($1.24 billion) deployed across 10 major blockchain networks

