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Stripe-owned Bridge has been added to the EU’s MiCA register after receiving regulatory approval in Luxembourg, becoming the 42nd authorized electronic money token (EMT) issuer in the bloc.

The approval follows Bridge securing both a MiCA crypto-asset service provider (CASP) authorization and an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license from Luxembourg’s CSSF, allowing it to provide regulated services across all 27 EU member states.

Bridge’s infrastructure enables businesses to issue euro-backed stablecoins, create named virtual IBANs, provide euro accounts, and facilitate cross-border payments and settlement through a single integration.

ESMA also added three German institutions to its MiCA register, bringing the total number of authorized CASPs across the EU to 324.

Basis trading is crypto's quiet yield engine, you earn from funding rates and the spot-futures spread, not from price going up.

Ethena turned it into a $4B+ category. Now a new wave runs the same trade in very different ways: Radiant Prime as an institutional, multi-factor fund (independently verified), plus Avant and Liminal as onchain protocols.

One trade, four builds; and yields that tell a story. Full breakdown.

Attackers are turning BNB Smart Chain into malware infrastructure, hiding the commands their malware fetches inside smart contracts, where they are far harder to take down than a normal server.

Microsoft's threat researchers describe the chain: a victim hits a fake CAPTCHA page that instructs them to paste and run a command in Windows, which installs the malware. From there it reads its next instructions and payloads straight from a BNB Smart Chain smart contract, a technique sometimes called EtherHiding. Because the data lives onchain, defenders cannot simply delete a file or block a server to shut it down.

It is a reminder that a public blockchain's censorship-resistance cuts both ways: the same permanence that protects legitimate apps also gives attackers durable, tamper-proof hosting.

We mapped 21 startups building the brains behind the machines: foundation models that give robots a mind (World Labs, Physical Intelligence, Skild AI), the infrastructure that trains and ships them (Foxglove, Voxel51), and the labs & farms already putting them to work (Periodic Labs, Carbon Robotics).

Agent Wallet is a self-custodial way for traders and builders to let AI agents execute actions while staying inside rules the user sets.

The pitch is agents that trade while users stay in control: keys and limits live with the user, so an agent can swap, send or interact with contracts only within pre-set guardrails, with no handing over a private key. It ships compatible with a stack of popular agent tools, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenCode and Cursor, so builders can wire crypto actions into agents they already run.

It is MetaMask's move into a fast-growing race to give autonomous AI a safe way to touch money onchain, alongside efforts like Coinbase's x402 and Cloudflare's agent wallets.

Kalshi is paying $150 for every new trader referred, with no cap on how much a referrer can earn. For Kalshi, coming amid record prediction-market volumes, it is a cheap, viral growth lever aimed straight at crypto-native audiences.

Kaito Studio is the campaign and distribution arm of Kaito, the crypto attention (InfoFi) platform that rewards creators for mindshare, so plugging Kalshi in turns its user-acquisition push into a rewarded, creator-driven referral engine.

The no-cap structure is the eye-catching part: it lets power referrers stack rewards without limit, a signal of how aggressively Kalshi wants to scale user acquisition as prediction markets move mainstream.

DePIN project Vangrid has raised $9M in new round to build a decentralized spatial-data network that feeds physical AI, backed by HashKey, Animoca Brands, Crypto com Capital, Gate Labs, Borderless and Mapleblock Capital.

The idea: users capture real-world places on their phones, which get reconstructed into verified onchain 3D models, giving robots, autonomous agents and digital twins a stream of ground-level, continuously updated location data, useful even where GPS does not work, including for defense and government. A token is planned for later in 2026; for now contributors earn bounties for verified captures.

The group provides industry input on the DTCC Tokenization Service and works to foster digital-asset adoption, and Plume says it will contribute its compliance expertise as a modular chain purpose-built for real-world assets, from art to green energy.

DTCC sits at the center of US securities clearing and settlement, so a permissioned crypto chain in the room is a meaningful signal for where tokenization is heading.

For Plume, it is validation from the plumbing of TradFi rather than another crypto-native partnership, the kind of institutional credibility RWA projects have chased as tokenized treasuries, funds and commodities move onchain.

Crypto market maker Wintermute has registered its US arm, Wintermute USA, as a broker-dealer with the SEC and FINRA, a move that lets it trade equities and options and step directly into regulated US securities markets.

The registration lets Wintermute USA provide liquidity on US securities exchanges and to OTC counterparties, trade stocks and options from its own account, self-clear digital-asset securities, and act as an Authorized Participant for ETFs, including those tied to digital assets. It is a clear bet on the tokenization of traditional markets, and on the SEC's stance that onchain securities activity needs proper licensing.

Wintermute already clears more than $10B in average daily volume across 60-plus centralized and decentralized venues, and earlier this year added tokenized-gold market-making and prediction-market liquidity.