Donald Trump Jr.-backed venture firm 1789 Capital is leading a new $1 billion funding round for Polymarket that values the prediction-market operator at $21 billion after the investment. 1789 Capital plans to contribute approximately $300 million to the round, spokesperson Alexa Henning confirmed Monday.The investment comes on top of roughly $200 million that 1789 previously put
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says Gram Wallet is ready for use and has begun rolling out to a limited group of users, marking the first stage of what the company has described as the largest deployment of a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet to date. Durov announced the launch on August 31, fulfilling a commitment he made
Intercontinental Exchange has partnered with blockchain infrastructure company tZERO to help build the regulated plumbing behind its planned NYSE-affiliated tokenized securities market, deepening one of Wall Street’s most ambitious attempts to move public equities on-chain. The companies announced a memorandum of understanding on August 31 under which tZERO will become a premier design partner for
Tom Lee-chaired BitMine Immersion Technologies has accelerated its Ethereum accumulation, acquiring another 53,501 ETH over the past week in a purchase valued at approximately $131 million. The acquisition represents BitMine’s largest weekly Ethereum purchase since June and follows its addition of 32,447 ETH during the previous week.BitMine said on August 31 that its total holdings
How Fast Is Strive Building Its Bitcoin Treasury? Strive added 1,800 Bitcoin to its corporate treasury last week, accelerating an accumulation strategy that has pushed the publicly traded asset manager into the five largest corporate Bitcoin holders worldwide.The company purchased the Bitcoin for approximately $143 million between Aug. 24 and Aug. 28, paying an average
Strategy has returned to buying bitcoin, but its first disclosed purchase since June 22 is already below water at current market prices.The company disclosed in an 8-K filed Monday that it acquired 4,603 bitcoin between August 24 and August 30 for $369.7 million, paying an average $80,318 per coin including fees and expenses.Bitcoin was trading
How Did The More Markets Exploit Drain WFLOW? Decentralized lending protocol More Markets is investigating a suspected exploit on Flow EVM after blockchain security firm Blockaid identified approximately 15.5 million Wrapped Flow tokens leaving one of the protocol’s lending reserves.Blockaid estimated the initial impact at roughly $9.3 million and said the attacker used an Ankr
KuCoin has added FinChain Dollar to its off-exchange collateral system, allowing eligible institutions to use the token’s mapped value to support trading without first transferring it to the exchange. The companies said in their partnership announcement that FUSD will join the real-world assets supported by KuCoin’s RWA Collateral Mirroring Solution.The arrangement separates custody from execution.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act will face its most consequential Senate test yet on September 15, when lawmakers are scheduled to vote on whether to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633.Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed the cloture motion shortly before Congress left Washington for its August recess. According to the
Cronos validators halted the blockchain on August 30 after an exploit targeting lending protocol Tectonic affected an estimated $75 million in assets, marking one of the largest decentralized-finance security incidents of 2026. Tectonic acknowledged the incident and instructed users not to interact with the protocol while its team investigates.The approximately $75 million figure remains preliminary. Neither