Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Memecoins Push Robinhood Chain Past Solana and BNB Chain in Trading Fees

Franklin Crypto executive Chris Perkins defended Robinhood Chain as an “incredible unlock” on Monday’s Bits + Bips, a day before…
Sep 9, 2026
Infrastructure

Consensys Software Inc. Splits In Two, Rebrands As MetaMask

The company behind the MetaMask wallet will keep the wallet and rename itself MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO. Linea,…
Sep 9, 2026
DeFi

VerifiedX Launches $15 Million Financing Round to Deploy Institutional Bitcoin Infrastructure

Bitcoin Magazine VerifiedX Launches $15 Million Financing Round to Deploy Institutional Bitcoin Infrastructure Cantor Fitzgerald is the investment banker on…
Sep 9, 2026
AI

Arthur Hayes Says Agent Commerce, Not Compute, Is What Will Give His New Token Value

The Flop Labs CEO said his network’s token will not be worth much beyond a compute marketplace unless AI agents…
Sep 9, 2026
DeFi

Visa Taps Onchain Lending to Finance Stablecoin Card Programs

The payment processor giant is pairing payment settlement data with blockchain lending tools to help fintechs and stablecoin-linked card programs…
Sep 8, 2026
Infrastructure

Robinhood takes stakes in Crypto.com, OG.com in prediction markets deal

Robinhood will route event contracts through OG.com’s CFTC-regulated infrastructure as it expands its prediction markets business. Read Full Story at…
Sep 8, 2026
Infrastructure

Circle agrees to buy cross-border payments firm Tazapay for $400 million

The deal could grant Circle vital, regulated “last-mile” infrastructure, bridging the gap between stablecoins and traditional local banking systems. Read…
Sep 8, 2026
DeFi

Visa combines VisaNet data with onchain lending to power stablecoin card working capital

Visa’s stablecoin settlement volume surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate, up 15x year over year. Now it wants blockchain…
Sep 8, 2026
Infrastructure

Ethereum makes quantum resistance a top priority with a 2029 deadline

The Foundation wants the network protected before a quantum computer capable of breaking today’s cryptography could plausibly arrive, and says…
Sep 8, 2026
DeFi

Cardano’s Leios 6x scaling breakthrough comes with a much harder ADA problem

The developers’ conditional 2029 fee benchmark depends on sustained paying usage, leaving delegators, pool operators and users exposed to different…
Sep 8, 2026