
Crypto.com Hits $20B Valuation on Citadel Securities' $400M Bet
Citadel Securities invested $400M in Crypto.com, lifting the exchange to a $20B valuation in its first institutional funding round as Wall Street market makers move deeper into crypto.
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Citadel Securities invested $400M in Crypto.com, lifting the exchange to a $20B valuation in its first institutional funding round as Wall Street market makers move deeper into crypto.

An Argentine judge froze 25 crypto accounts and ordered six exchanges to identify the holders, a sharp escalation in how the country polices onchain money.

Injective has filed for SEC transfer agent registration, aiming to keep securities ownership records for tokenized assets and RWAs directly onchain.

Fintech platform Tradable plans to tokenize up to $1 billion in private credit assets on Stellar, one of the larger single commitments of real-world credit to a public chain.

T. Rowe Price debuts TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token crypto fund, marking the $1.6T asset manager's first hands-on crypto product as of July 2026.

A WuBlockchain report says stablecoin trading in Venezuela over a month rivaled the value of the nation's oil exports, a sign of dollar demand in a broken economy.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the firm's new Robinhood Chain exists to make real-world assets programmable, globally portable, and always available. Here is what it means.

SBI Holdings is partnering with Ondo Finance to tokenize Japanese equities on Ondo Global Markets, using SBI's JPYSC stablecoin for settlement and collateral.

Bitget says its Cash Plus stablecoin product crossed $50M in AUM five days after launch, a demand signal for yield on idle USDT and USDC that card users park on exchanges.

Oobit now lets users send Stellar (XLM) straight to a bank account without a swap, extending the app beyond card spending into direct crypto off-ramps.