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Pump.fun announced an experimental Mayhem Mode, allowing AI agents to join the trenches for newly launched tokens. The automated bidding is a new step for AI agents and memes, as before, most agents relied on human assistants. Pump.fun announced its Mayhem Mode addition as a tool to increase early trading volumes by including AI agents. The meme platform did not explicitly announce Mayhem Mode or the agents to be involved, instead leaving the community to discover the addition in the documents. The AI agent will not create new tokens, unlike previous experiments for agent-generated memes. The trading agent wallet, however,…

BlackRock’s tokenized U.S. Treasury fund (BUIDL), issued by Securitize, will now be accepted as collateral for institutional trading on Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, the firms said in a Friday press release. Using BUIDL as off-exchange collateral means traders can post the token with a custody partner, rather than directly on the exchange, as collateral while still trading on Binance. The move gives institutional traders more flexibility to use yield-generating assets while staying within compliance frameworks, the firms said. “Our institutional clients have asked for more interest-bearing stable assets they can hold as collateral while actively trading…

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The digital assets arm of Nomura Group, Laser Digital, has received in-principle approval from Dubai’s virtual asset regulatory authority (VARA) to tokenize its global flagship Laser Carry Fund (LCF), on KAIO blockchain, under the regulator’s pilot ARVA Framework. The tokenized fund will be available to institutional investors who meet VARA’s eligibility requirements. The Laser Carry Fund, when tokenized and fully licensed by Dubai’s VARA, will become the first institutional-grade RWA tokenized product offering under VARA. Each Tokenized LCF (TLCF) token will offer exposure to tokenized units of the Laser Digital Carry Fund SP, a Cayman Segregated Portfolio. The token will…

Dromos Labs, the developer behind the decentralized exchanges Aerodrome and Velodrome, is merging the two platforms into a single DEX called Aero. According to a press release shared with The Defiant, the upgrade will expand Aerodrome’s Base-based platform to additional networks, starting with Ethereum mainnet and Circle’s Arc, while Base will remain the primary hub for the unified platform. “Aerodrome has been successful on Base and is excited to expand to effectively service other Ethereum networks via Aero,” Alexander Cutler, founder and chief executive officer of Dromos Labs, said in the press release. The company gave a launch window of Q2…

The crypto community on X has been dominated by prominent figures advocating for the adoption of Zcash as privacy becomes increasingly threatened by governments and regulators. While the Winklevoss twins, Naval Ravikant, and Balaji Srinivasan back the adoption of Zcash (ZEC), its success could spur the Bitcoin ecosystem to push for more privacy features by revisiting the reactivation of OP_CAT, according to Eli Ben-Sasson, founder of StarkWare and a renowned mathematician who helped pioneer zero-knowledge proofs. Zcash was inspired by Bitcoin In 2014, Ben-Sasson and his co-authors published “Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin.” The white paper was the culmination…

Devconnect Buenos Aires frames Ethereum as current infrastructure, not future technology, through real demonstrations. The event showcases Ethereum’s expansion into AI, gaming, and identity, moving beyond just decentralized finance. Devconnect Buenos Aires frames Ethereum as current infrastructure, not future technology, through real demonstrations. The event showcases Ethereum’s expansion into AI, gaming, and digital identity, moving beyond just decentralized finance. Buenos Aires prepares to welcome the international Ethereum community for its upcoming Devconnect gathering. Event organizers have framed this edition as a blockchain “World’s Fair,” emphasizing currently deployed applications over theoretical future capabilities. “Devconnect works because it is community-led. Curators shape…

Visa built the world’s largest payment network that pushes nearly $16 trillion in payments through its virtual pipes. Now it wants to do the same for lending in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). The report, titled Stablecoins Beyond Payments: The Onchain Lending Opportunity, reframes decentralized finance as “onchain finance” – a deliberate rebrand aimed at making decentralized credit sound compatible with institutions in the era of the GENIUS Act – and outlines how banks and private credit funds could plug into it. Visa envisions institutions acting as liquidity providers to programmable lending protocols, while it supplies the data, compliance,…

XStocks, a tokenized equity platform created by real-world asset (RWA) tokenization firm Backed and crypto exchange Kraken, has surpassed $10 billion in total transaction volume just over four months after its launch, signaling a growing appetite for tokenized investment products. The platform debuted earlier this year with more than 60 tokenized equities, including Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla and Meta Platforms, as well as several exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Each xStock token is fully backed 1:1 by the underlying equity or ETF, issued by Backed in partnership with Kraken. XStocks operates across Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain and Tron, expanding accessibility across major blockchain…

Alibaba’s cross-border arm is exploring an alibaba deposit token to speed up international payments as Beijing tightens control over stablecoins. What is the alibaba deposit token plan? Why is China saying no to stablecoins? Offshore yuan stablecoins: what’s allowed? What comes next for Alibaba and Hong Kong? What is the alibaba deposit token plan? Alibaba president Kuo Zhang told CNBC in a Friday report that the company aims to use stablecoin‑like technology to smooth overseas transactions. The cross‑border e‑commerce unit plans to work with banks on tokenized payments, according to a CNBC report. However, the design would differ from privately…