Aave V4 Live on Ethereum Mainnet with Hub-and-Spoke Architecture

Aave has officially launched Aave V4 on Ethereum Mainnet, introducing a modular Hub-and-Spoke architecture that separates shared liquidity from isolated borrowing markets for precise risk management.

ℹ️ The rollout focuses on security and efficiency, with a carefully selected asset set, monitored credit lines, and support for ERC-4626 tokenized supply positions, enabling composable DeFi integrations. V4 has undergone extensive audits and testing to ensure robustness.

With this launch, Aave V4 maximizes liquidity depth, diversifies risk exposure, and supports more complex on-chain lending markets, reinforcing its position as core infrastructure for global DeFi.

👉 governance.aave.com/t/arfc-aave-v4-activation-on-ethereum-mainnet/24293

Midnight (NIGHT) Privacy Blockchain Goes Live on Mainnet

Built within the Cardano ecosystem, Midnight is designed to address crypto’s privacy, usability, and cost-predictability issues through a hybrid public/private ledger and zero-knowledge proofs.

The network uses a dual-token model, with NIGHT as the native governance and utility token, while DUST powers transactions.

👉 x.com/MidnightNtwrk/status/2038618333579214885?s=20

Valinor Raises $25M in Seed Round to Bring Private Credit Onchain

Valinor is a credit institution focused on bringing private credit and broader capital markets onto blockchain-based infrastructure. It says it operates at the intersection of institutional capital, on-chain finance, investing, capital markets, and advisory.

The startup was founded in 2025 by Connor Dougherty and Lily Yarborough, who previously worked together in credit investing at Blackstone.

👉 x.com/ValinorDigital/status/2038703269938336027?s=20

Binance rolls out Prediction Market Feature within its app

Binance is quietly testing a prediction markets product within its app, relying on third-party partners to power the feature. As part of the rollout, Binance has partnered with Predict Fun to add event-based markets to Binance Wallet.

Binance has not yet said when the feature will launch publicly or which regions will have access.

👉 theblock.co/post/395817/binance-tests-prediction-market-fea

​​Price Discovery Board: edgeX (EDGE)

EDGE trading starts today at 12:30 UTC on multiple exchanges. This board compares potential FDV scenarios using benchmarks from other Perp DEXs like Based, Lighter and Jupiter.

Keyrock Secures Series C Funding at $1.1B valuation

Keyrock has raised a Series C round led by SC Ventures, the investment arm of Standard Chartered, with participation from Ripple, valuing the company at $1.1B.

The funding will be used to strengthen its balance sheet, expand its product suite, and pursue strategic acquisitions as it scales across digital asset markets and institutional client segments.

Founded in 2017, Keyrock operates across 85+ trading venues globally, offering market making, asset management, OTC and derivatives services, positioning itself as a full-service liquidity provider bridging traditional finance and tokenized markets.

👉 x.com/keyrock/status/2038917813700620460?s=20

Stablecoin Payments Startup OpenFX Raised $94 Million

Founded in 2024 by former FalconX executive Prabhakar Reddy, OpenFX is building infrastructure using stablecoins to speed up cross-border money movement. The deal values the company at around $500 million.

OpenFX says 98%+ of transactions on its platform settle in under 60 minutes. The company also says its annualized payment volume grew from $4 billion to more than $45 billion in about a year, and that it now operates in the U.S., UK, UAE, and India.

👉 x.com/openfx_/status/2038954559423607262?s=20

​​Nous Research Releases Hermes Agent v0.6.0 Update

Nous Research has released Hermes Agent v0.6.0, a major update that reshapes how agents are deployed and operated, improving execution stability, model handling, and session management across environments.

ℹ️ Core updates:
– Profiles for running isolated agent instances
– MCP server mode enabling access via tools like VS Code and Claude
– Fallback provider chains with automatic failover
– Official Docker support for containerized deployment

The release also expands platform integrations (Feishu/Lark, WeCom, Slack, Telegram), improves tool and plugin systems, and adds multiple security and reliability enhancements across the agent architecture.

👉 x.com/NousResearch/status/2038688578201346513

Plume Launches Tokenized Payroll Pilot With WisdomTree

Plume has launched a payroll pilot with Toku and WisdomTree, enabling employees to receive part of their salary in WTGXX, a tokenized money market fund.

Instead of full cash payouts, a portion is automatically allocated into a yield-bearing asset. The pilot begins with Plume employees to test real-world integration.

The model shifts payroll from pure cash distribution to an entry point for investing. Embedding yield exposure into salary payments removes friction and automates allocation.

This builds on stablecoin payroll but moves beyond digital cash, delivering tokenized funds at the point of payment and creating a new distribution channel that brings tokenized assets closer to everyday financial infrastructure.

👉 x.com/plumenetwork/status/2038981134189809683?s=20

The Better Money Company Raises $10M to Build Stablecoin Clearinghouse

The company has raised $10M in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The startup is building a clearinghouse layer designed to connect fragmented stablecoin networks and enable seamless interoperability. The goal is to unify liquidity as the number of stablecoins continues to grow.

Participants expected to join include Paxos, MoonPay, Frax, as well as wallets like MetaMask and Phantom. Broad ecosystem participation signals demand for shared infrastructure. The clearinghouse model aims to turn fragmented stablecoins into a more scalable financial network.

The company compares today’s market to the early U.S. banking era, when private banknotes created inefficiencies before clearinghouses standardized the system. Current fragmentation across issuers like Tether and Circle leads to higher costs and operational friction. A unified layer could simplify transactions and improve scalability.

👉 theblock.co/post/395935/a16z-crypto-leads-10-million-round-in-startup

​​OpenAI raises $122B at a $852B post money valuation

The fundraising round was backed by investors including Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Microsoft, a16z, MGX and T. Rowe Price. OpenAI claims it now generates $2 billion in monthly revenue, while ChatGPT has surpassed 900 million weekly users and 50 million subscribers.

👉 openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/

Chainalysis unveils AI agents for crypto unvestigations

Chainalysis has introduced blockchain intelligence agents, an AI-driven system designed to automate crypto investigations and compliance workflows, enabling faster tracing, analysis, and reporting across multiple blockchains.

🔎 What it handles:
• automated multi-chain investigation workflows with cross-chain fund tracking and entity linking
• alert enrichment and response automation integrated with compliance monitoring systems
• structured intelligence report generation for investigation-ready outputs
• integration with internal tools and proprietary datasets for end-to-end analysis

The agents are built on Chainalysis’ dataset of billions of transactions and millions of investigations, allowing teams to complete complex investigative tasks significantly faster and with less manual effort.

👉 x.com/TheBlockCo/status/2038964580215308607?s=20

Bitcoin Enters Public Bond Market With Moody’s Rating

A New Hampshire state authority is preparing to issue what appears to be the first bitcoin-backed bond to receive a credit rating, provisionally graded Ba2 by Moody’s.

The structure is based on Bitcoin holdings, with investor returns directly tied to the asset rather than traditional operating income. It avoids the use of public funds and instead depends on secured digital reserves.

The issuance places Bitcoin within a credit-rated framework used in public markets, where rating agencies are beginning to assess crypto-linked instruments alongside traditional debt structures.

👉 x.com/TheBlockCo/status/2039176511635312968?s=20

Ripple partners Convera for cross-border payments

Ripple has teamed up with Convera, a cross-border payments firm formerly known as Western Union Business Solutions, to enhance global payments using stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure.

The model keeps payments in fiat currencies for businesses while using stablecoins within the settlement process, enabling faster and more efficient execution without requiring direct exposure to digital assets.

The partnership reflects Ripple’s continued global expansion of its network as demand grows for more efficient cross-border payment solutions.

👉 x.com/Ripple/status/2038969816187285516?s=20

P2P me uses Polymarket to bet on its own fundraise

Stablecoin startup P2P me faced backlash after placing bets on its own fundraising round via Polymarket, a move the company later described as inappropriate.

The wagers were made without the knowledge of some investors and came around the time Polymarket tightened rules against insider trading and market manipulation.

The company said the activity generated under $15K in profit but acknowledged it damaged trust, highlighting growing scrutiny around transparency in crypto fundraising.

👉 x.com/DecryptMedia/status/2039117410150609180?s=20

​​8 High-Profile Crypto Figures Still Behind Bars

Two years after Sam Bankman-Fried went behind bars, the fallout from crypto’s biggest fraud still defines the era. This post looks at the other major crypto figures who remain in prison alongside him.

​​Price Discovery Board: Mezo (MEZO)

MEZO trading starts today at 14:00 UTC, backed by $28.5M in private funding. This board compares potential FDV scenarios using benchmarks from other Bitcoin Scaling projects like Bitlayer, Hemi and Bsquared.

Uniswap Foundation Reports $85.8M Treasury, Runway Through 2027

Uniswap Foundation reported ~$85.8M in total assets at the end of 2025, including $49.9M in cash and stablecoins, 15.1M UNI, and 240 ETH. Based on current reserves, the foundation projects its runway through January 2027. The figures are based on unaudited financials.

Most capital is allocated toward ecosystem growth, with ~$106.2M earmarked for grants and incentives. Another ~$26.3M is reserved for operations and employee token rewards. In 2025 alone, $26M in grants were committed and $11M distributed.

The Uniswap ecosystem expanded with the launch of v4 and the Unichain mainnet. The protocol remains one of the top DeFi platforms by revenue and continues pushing upgrades like fee activation and multi-chain expansion.

Institutional usage is also increasing, with BlackRock and Securitize leveraging Uniswap for onchain trading of tokenized assets. The report precedes structural changes tied to the UNIfication proposal, which may update future runway projections.

👉 coindesk.com/business/2026/04/01/uniswap-foundation-held-usd85-8m-at-year-end

Real Finance adopts RedStone to develop Data Infrastructure for Tokenized Assets

REAL has selected RedStone as its primary oracle provider, integrating the RedStone Stack as the default infrastructure for pricing, reserve verification and risk data across its RWA ecosystem.

RedStone will deliver real-time price feeds for the ASSET token, designed to reduce manipulation risks and ensure valuations are based on verifiable, institutional-grade data from launch.

The integration also extends to reserve transparency and risk assessment, with proof-of-reserve functionality and Credora risk ratings planned to provide clearer visibility into asset backing and issuer-level risk as REAL scales its RWA and stablecoin.

👉 x.com/RealFinOfficial/status/2038661124942364709?s=20

​​Drift Protocol (DRIFT) exploited for over $270 million

On-chain data indicates that~ $270 million has been drained from Drift Protocol on Solana. The exploiter is reportedly converting the stolen assets into USDC before bridging the funds to Ethereum, where they appear to be accumulating ETH.

👉 x.com/DriftProtocol/status/2039404931778535427?s=20