Crypto markets are seeing steady product launches and infrastructure upgrades, as teams focus on real use cases across trading, payments, and tokenized assets.

Recent Updates & Developments

– Polymarket introduces stricter rules to reduce insider trading risks and improve market integrity

– Resolv Labs suffers ~$25M exploit following a broader $80M USR protocol attack

– Ondo partners with Franklin Templeton to bring tokenized ETFs fully onchain

– NYSE explores tokenized stock trading with potential 24/7 blockchain-based settlement

– Kalshi launches a $35M fund backed by key Polymarket contributors

– ParaFi raises $125M fund focused on stablecoins and real-world asset tokenization

– Solana partners with Mastercard to expand global onchain payments infrastructure

– Binance rolls out AI-powered trading assistant integrated with the OpenCLV ecosystem

Grvt now lets users trade perpetual contracts for Nvidia (NVDA), Alphabet (GOOGL), and Meta (META) with up to 10x leverage. The platform also supports stock-linked markets including Tesla (TSLA), Amazon (AMZN), and MicroStrategy (MSTR), as well as commodities like Gold, Silver, and Platinum, while offering up to 11% yield on collateral.

Built by former professionals from Goldman Sachs, DBS Bank, and Meta Platforms, Grvt combines the usability of a centralized exchange with on-chain, self-custodial infrastructure.

Megapot is a crypto-powered global online lottery that lets players from many countries compete for a shared jackpot. The platform says it has already hosted jackpots of over $1 million and attracted users from 124 countries.

Coinbase is partnering with Better to launch what the companies describe as the first crypto-backed conforming mortgage product, allowing eligible U.S. homebuyers to use Bitcoin or USDC to help fund a cash down payment without selling those assets.

KPMG will carry out the first full audit of the USDT reserves, a move that would mark a major step up from the quarterly attestation process the company relied on for years. The audit will cover Tether’s financial statements and USDT reserves, which stands at ~$185B.

The company has also brought in PwC to help prepare its internal systems ahead of the review, underscoring how extensive the process is likely to be.

Telegram mini-app adds a new way for users to engage with the network directly inside Telegram. The release comes ahead of the expected Season 2 airdrop in March and gives users another channel to stay active within the ecosystem.

The mini-app launches with a higher rewards rate than desktop, offering a 4x points multiplier versus 2x. It also retains the 3-level referral system and supports background participation and point accrual.

Grass is a DePIN network where users earn rewards by sharing unused internet bandwidth. Contributions are tracked through Grass Points, which help determine GRASS airdrop allocations.

With so many point programs live, the real edge is knowing where to focus. This matrix helps separate easy wins, crowded plays, and more asymmetric bets.

While the market celebrated Bittensor’s 72B model this week, 0G Labs trained a 107B parameter model eight months earlier using standard 1 Gbps internet.

J. Huang (NVIDIA CEO) just validated decentralized AI on the All-In Podcast, but 0G had already proven frontier-scale training is possible months earlier. One builds a model, the other builds infrastructure.

The team has now started public retraining with full transparency and an open-source commitment. At 48% larger than Bittensor’s Covenant-72B, it is the largest decentralized AI model on record.

DiLoCoX-107B runs on 0G’s full-stack blockchain for AI agents, including an EVM-compatible L1 chain, decentralized compute, distributed storage, and a data availability layer that is 50,000x faster and 100x cheaper than Ethereum's DA.

Plume is bringing real-world asset (RWA) yields onchain for EtherFi. Using Plume’s Nest vaults and Superstateinc’s USCC fund, EtherFi can now deliver institutional-grade yields directly to users.

The nBASIS vault gives EtherFi onchain exposure to Superstate’s USCC, a strategy combining crypto basis, staking, and government securities. Over $6B in deposits can now access yields previously out of reach.

This is NeoFinance in action: RWAs embedded natively into DeFi. With NestCredit infrastructure, EtherFi offers real-world yield with onchain access and no offchain complexity.

TRON DAO is expanding its AI Fund from $100 million to $1 billion to back and acquire early-stage companies building agentic economy infrastructure, with a focus on identity, stablecoin payments, tokenized RWAs, and developer tooling.