Nina Bambysheva

A16z Crypto’s new fund is less than half the size of its 2022 offering, but its pitch is more disciplined: back the parts of crypto that are actually being used.

Galaxy will manage the private fund, seeded with $100 million from Sharplink's ether treasury and $25 million of its own capital, bringing fresh liquidity to a bruised DeFi sector.

The largest crypto exchange in the U.S. is rolling out a flurry of new features as it races Robinhood and offshore rivals to win over young traders.

Sometimes safe and boring can be a winning strategy. Now crypto's safekeepers, which hold more than $500 billion in digital assets, are looking to spice up their businesses—and profits—with trading, stablecoin services and AI infrastructure.

The brokerage app is pushing deeper into tokenized finance, AI trading and crypto derivatives as it tries to capture the next era of retail investing.

If autonomous bots are going to shop, negotiate and pay on behalf of humans, they will also need a way to resolve disputes. Crypto firms think blockchain and AI juries can help.

As bitcoin languishes and Michael Saylor's Strategy scrambles to maintain investor confidence, a ripple effect is suddenly threatening two digital dollar offerings worth nearly $500 million.

Despite Trump's promise to make the U.S. “the crypto capital of the planet,” a foundational bill establishing road rules remains seven votes short in the Senate with days left before the recess.

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with $15 trillion under management, has called tokenization “the next generation for markets.” After a decade of hype, false starts and promising pilots, mainstream financial institutions are moving real assets onto blockchains in earnest.

Last week Wells Fargo, the country's fourth-largest bank with about $2.3 trillion in assets, said it would offer tokenized deposits to corporate and commercial clients this fall. Not long ago, the announcement would have been written off as yet another blockchain trial balloon. Today, it looks more like keeping up with the competition.