Self Chain has fired CEO R. Kumar over alleged ties to a $50M crypto OTC fraud scheme — The Block

DeFi vault platform Veda has raised $18 million in funding from CoinFund, Coinbase, Maelstrom, and Animoca — The Block

Former Coral Capital execs to launch BNB treasury firm Build & Build Corporation, raise $100 million — The Block

Paradigm invests $15M in GTE, a startup billed as the ‘world's fastest’ DEX — Twitter

Paris-based internet-of-things firm Sequans to raise $385 million via debt and equity offering to acquire Bitcoin — The Block

Texas became the first U.S. state to establish a publicly funded bitcoin reserve, allocating $10 million for purchases — CoinDesk

Nasdaq-listed Nano Labs plans to raise $500 million to build a BNB treasury — The Block

Polymarket is reportedly close to raising $200 million in funding, valuing the company at over $1 billion — Reuters

Chainlink has partnered with Mastercard to enable direct on-chain crypto purchases — CoinDesk

Aptos Labs and Jump Crypto have announced the launch of Shelby, a next-generation decentralized hot storage network — Twitter

Coinbase assisted the U.S. Secret Service in tracing and seizing $225M in “stolen crypto” tied to a 2023 pig-butchering scam — The Block

Eight major banks in South Korea are working on establishing a Korean won stablecoin joint venture — Econovill

Nasdaq-listed Aurora Mobile has approved the investment of up to 20% of the company's and its consolidated entities' cash and equivalents in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and SUI — Investing

zkLend has officially announced its shutdown, allocating the remaining $200,000 in treasury funds to a user recovery fund — Bloomberg

Barclays, one of the UK’s largest banks, will block all crypto transactions made with its bank cards — Barclaycard

Tether is now the second-largest shareholder of Juventus, holding a 10.7% stake worth around €128 million — Bloomberg

German regulator closes case against Ethena GmbH over USDe issuance — CoinDesk

Moca Network, Animoca Brands’ identity ecosystem, has launched the Moca Layer 1 blockchain for identity and data — Twitter

Coinbase stock leads S&P 500 gainers as the crypto trading platform continues its rally — Investopedia

Nasdaq 100 hit a record high Tuesday, driven by tech stocks and news of an Israel-Iran ceasefire — Investopedia

YZi Labs (form. Binance Labs) has invested in MEET48, a decentralized entertainment platform from the BNB Chain MVB accelerator — Twitter