#Coinbase has started offering stock trading to a limited group of users, marking its first move beyond crypto assets. CEO Brian Armstrong said the company aims to develop a broader investment platform, beginning with traditional stock trading. He added that tokenized equities remain a longer-term possibility, depending on future regulatory developments.
Anchorage Digital targets major fundraise ahead of possible IPO
Digital-asset custody firm #AnchorageDigital is seeking to raise between $200 million and $400 million as it evaluates a potential public listing next year, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The company is still determining its valuation and declined to comment on the fundraising process. Anchorage operates the first federally chartered US digital-asset bank, enabling it to issue stablecoins under the GENIUS Act signed into law last year.
#Konnex secures $15M in a funding round from Cogitent Ventures, Liquid Capital, Leland Ventures, Covey, M77 Ventures, and Block Maven. Konnex is a technology platform that creates a marketplace for autonomous systems, allowing robots to form digital contracts, access and license #AI policies on demand, and settle completed tasks in USD-denominated stablecoins.
#Saturn secures $800K in a funding round co-led by YZi Labs and Sora Ventures, with participation from angel investors. Saturn will utilize secured funds to build USDat, a stablecoin protocol delivering 11%+ yield backed by #Bitcoin .
Saturn is a synthetic dollar protocol built on Digital Credit, leveraging digital credit mechanisms alongside U.S. Treasury-linked instruments.
#Alpaca secures $150M in a Series D funding round led by Drive Capital, with participation from Citadel Securities, Kraken, and BNP Paribas Asset Management. As a part of the financing, Alpaca secured a $40M line of credit.
Alpaca is a developer-first brokerage platform offering modern, API-driven solutions for trading U.S. stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies.
#Sentient has introduced tokenomics for $SENT, the utility token for the network to align incentives around open, verifiable, community-owned intelligence.
Allocation: 44.0% - Community Initiatives and Airdrop 22.0% - Team 19.55% - Ecosystem and R&D 12.45% - Investors 2.0% - Public Sale
Sentient is a decentralized, open-source AGI project aimed at building community-owned #AI infrastructure.