Month: June 2025

The landmark acquisition of a working oil and gas facility in Latin America worth $75 million was completed using stablecoins and tokenized debt and equity through real-world asset specialist Global Settlement’s platform, the firm told CoinDesk. The purchase — orchestrated for Feniix Energy, a company that focuses on buying...

Multi-chain liquid staking protocol Meta Pool suffered a smart contract exploit on Tuesday, resulting in the loss of $27 million. Blockchain security firm PeckShield reported that a bug in the protocol’s staking contract allowed users to freely mint mpETH, the protocol’s liquid staking token (LST). While an attacker managed...

Fold (FLD), a publicly traded bitcoin financial services company, has secured an equity purchase facility worth up to $250 million to grow its bitcoin BTC holdings. The Arizona-based firm said on Tuesday it signed an agreement granting it the right, but not the obligation, to issue and sell up...

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3054.04, down 4.1% (-129.21) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (-1.2%) and BTC...

CoinDesk Indices and decentralized finance (DeFi) specialist Sentora are introducing a benchmark tied to overnight stablecoin lending rates, bringing on-chain markets one step closer to mainstream money markets. The CoinDesk Overnight Rates (CDOR) are designed to transform real-time borrowing activity into standardized rates, giving trading firms, exchanges, and protocol...

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested an additional $70 million in EigenLayer, Ethereum’s largest restaking protocol, to support the launch of EigenCloud, a new platform offering “verifiability-as-a-service” for developers, the companies said on Tuesday. The investment follows a16z’s $100 million Series B in Eigen Labs in February...

Martinsburg, West Virginia, June 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — All iGaming experts have thoroughly tested a wide range of crypto gambling platforms to reveal the top-rated crypto casinos for 2025, featured in this exclusive report. The evaluation focused on key aspects such as licensing, security, game variety, bonus fairness,...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple Labs have asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to keep their dueling appeals on ice while they continue to persuade the trial judge that a hard-fought, four-and-a-half-year legal war should end in a $50 million settlement and the lifting of...

io.net is bolstering its decentralized AI infrastructure by integrating Walrus’ encrypted storage protocol, enabling developers to securely train and deploy custom models without relying on traditional cloud providers. According to a press release shared with crypto.news on June 17, decentralized…...

TL;DR One cat-themed meme coin hit an ATH after experiencing a massive bull run. Despite retracing from its peak, some industry participants remain optimistic, predicting that its market capitalization may explode to $1 billion. What a Pump The lesser-known meme coin aura (AURA) defied the negative trend in the...