CartelFi, the new, cartel-themed yield farming protocol, has raised $500k within 24 hours after launching its CARTFI token presale. The team aims to connect the $90 billion world of DeFi and the growing meme coin sector. The ICO went live yesterday, 8th April and has already attracted significant attention.

Octane today announced it has secured $6.75M in a Seed funding round co-led by Archetype and Winklevoss Capital. The round also included participation from Gemini, Circle, Legion Capital, Druid Ventures, Duke Capital Partners and strategic angels including Balaji Srinivasan, Sina Habibian, and many others.

Dusk, the blockchain protocol designed for regulated and privacy-focused financial applications, announces the launch of DuskPay, its blockchain-based payment infrastructure. PlayMatika and BetPassion, both authorized Italian online gaming operators, are the first to integrate DuskPay, marking a decisive step forward for compliant digital payments in Europe.

M2 a leading platform for secure, regulated, and innovative digital asset trading and investment, today announced the appointment of James Greenwood as Chief Executive Officer and Bill Qian as Managing Director. Bijan Alizadeh will continue in his role as Board Member and Shareholder Representative. These leadership appointments signal a strategic step forward as M2 strengthens its position in the global digital finance landscape.

Verae, a leader in blockchain-based solutions for digital information integrity, is proud to announce that Jim Kofalt, Chief Product Strategist at Verae, will be speaking at IAITAM ACE 2025 in Las Vegas, where he will explore how blockchain technology is transforming the future of IT asset management.

The EY organization today announces it has updated the public domain source code for Nightfall, a layer-2 roll-up that enables private transactions on the public Ethereum blockchain and the development of privacy-focused enterprise blockchain solutions.

Validation Cloud, a leader in Web3 infrastructure, has partnered with DFINITY Foundation, a Swiss not-for-profit organization of world-leading computer scientists and cryptographers, and a major contributor to the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), to support enterprise-grade blockchain analytics infrastructure. Validation Cloud has now integrated ICP into its high-performance, enterprise-grade node platform, creating...

STON.fi, the developer of the leading AMM protocol on the TON blockchain with over $5B in all-time trading volume, announces the official launch of Omniston, the first decentralized liquidity aggregation protocol optimized for TON’s architecture. Now live within the STON.fi application, Omniston addresses market fragmentation challenges in the expanding TON ecosystem.

Shardeum, the autoscaling EVM-based Layer 1 blockchain, today announced that it has reached 171,000 total validators on its network – the highest number of physically run nodes ever recorded for a Layer 1 testnet. This milestone follows the recent conclusion of Shardeum’s testnet phase – beginning with its Alphanet “Liberty” and Betanet “Sphinx” and the most recent 4-stage Incentivized Testnet (ITN) “Atomium” – marking...

The9 Limited (hereinafter referred to as "The9"), an established Internet company, announced today that it has signed private placement agreements with industry-leading cryptocurrency investment funds Elune Capital, Fine Vision Fund and Bripheno Pte. Ltd. (hereinafter collectively referred to as "the Investors"). Pursuant to the agreement, the Investors will invest US$8 million in The9. The9 will issue Class A common...