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Keyrock acquires BlockFill’s trading assets in institutional crypto expansion

Keyrock, a digital asset firm, acquired the trading and brokerage assets of BlockFills’ institutional digital asset business, strengthening its push into institutional crypto markets, the company said in a press release Thursday. The completed transaction adds BlockFills’ customer relations, trading technology and derivatives expertise to Brussels-based Keyrock’s existing businesses spanning market making, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, […]

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Crypto brokerage Alpaca raises $135 million for tokenized equity infrastructure

Crypto brokerage infrastructure firm Alpaca raised $135 million to expand the rails used by exchanges and tokenization platforms to offer US stocks onchain. Peak XV led Alpaca’s equity round with participation from Elefund, BNP Paribas’ Opera Tech Ventures and Unbound, according to an announcement Thursday. The raise follows a $150 million Series D in January

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Visa, Stripe and Google are joining a massive open source project to let AI agents pay each other

The stakes are high because AI agents, which are likely to account for a large portion of internet commerce, some of it in the form of tiny micropayments, could completely reshape the web. “It may seem geeky to care so much about standards, but we have the opportunity to create this truly open public global

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Ledger will have AI agents manage crypto without holding your keys

Ledger said it is bringing its hardware security model to the fast-growing world of AI agents with the launch of the Ledger Agent Stack, an open source toolkit that allows autonomous software to interact with crypto wallets without ever checking private keys. The toolkit lets AI agents read wallet balances, analyze portfolios, prepare transactions and

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Galaxy launches onchain dividend boxes for institutions

Galaxy Digital (GLXY) has launched an institutional vault curation business on decentralized lending protocol Morpho, expanding its efforts into onchain financing with a product designed to help customers earn returns on idle stablecoin balances without managing decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure themselves. The offering, called Galaxy Curator, is available through Fireblocks Earn, giving the custody platform’s

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Bitcoin Options’ Hottest Call Drops Lower by $10,000: Crypto Daily

The implication doesn’t stop there. According to Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insights, traders have a “net long gamma exposure” above $70,000. This means that traders striving to maintain market neutral exposure while making money on the bid-ask spread will short or sell to strength above 70,000 to remain neutral or hedged. “That hedging acts

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Bitcoin pulls back from monthly high as Iran attacks US bases and profit-taking kicks in

The crypto market is facing a wave of selling pressure with bitcoin BTC$64,166.70 and ether (ETH) lost 1.1% and 1.7% respectively since midnight UTC. The move to the downside comes after bitcoin surged to a monthly high of $65,500 on Wednesday, prompting some traders to take profits. Altcoins PUMP and ZEC also fell, falling 4.4%

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Diesel prices hit $5 per gallon again, a 33% increase since the start of the Iran war

The average price of diesel in the United States rose to over $5 per gallon on Thursday. gallon, up 33 percent since the start of the war with Iran, as the resurgent conflict continued to inflate energy prices. The average national price Thursday was $5.01 USD, according to the AAA motor club, an increase of

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The US Senate unanimously opposes clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried

President Donald Trump said in January that he had no plans to pardon Bankman-Fried. He has cleared Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht along with other white collar criminals. Bankman-Fried ran two businesses at once. FTX was a crypto exchange that stores customer money like a broker does and doesn’t have

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