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Sony’s Soneium and Plume unite to bring real-world yield to millions through SkyLink

Sony’s Soneium and Plume unite to bring real-world yield to millions through SkyLink

Key Takeaways Plume and Soneium are partnering to offer real-world asset staking and yield opportunities to 5.1 million users. The SkyLink interoperability layer allows integration with tokenized assets like US Treasuries and private credit through the Plume chain. Share this article Soneium, Sony’s public blockchain, is collaborating with Plume, the full-stack layer 1 chain built […]

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Crypto Space Lost M to Hacks in April 2025, Total Loss YTD Hits Whopping .74B

Crypto Space Lost $92M to Hacks in April 2025, Total Loss YTD Hits Whopping $1.74B

Hackers stole more than $92.4 million from crypto projects in April 2025. At the same time, the total losses for the first four months of the year alone surpassed $1.74 billion, according to blockchain security platform Immunefi. In April, the crypto space suffered a loss of $92,453,100 across 15 specific incidents. Per the report, this

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Telegram Debt Goes DeFi in 0 Million On-Chain Fund Launch on TON

Telegram Debt Goes DeFi in $500 Million On-Chain Fund Launch on TON

In brief The TON Foundation is calling the $500 million Telegram Bond Fund one of DeFi’s largest institutional RWA deployments to date. The fund offers institutional investors a compliant way to access Telegram’s yield-bearing debt on-chain, combining traditional finance returns with blockchain-native flexibility and faster settlement. Libre, which has worked with asset managers such as

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Key Takeaways From The SEC’s 3rd Crypto Roundtable Focusing On Custody Issues

Key Takeaways From The SEC’s 3rd Crypto Roundtable Focusing On Custody Issues

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure In a recent roundtable hosted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Crypto Task Force, industry leaders gathered to discuss the crypto custody for broker-dealers and investment advisers.  Ryan Louvar, Chief Legal Officer and Head of Business and Legal Affairs for

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DeFi Lobby Urges Trump Admin to Halt Prosecution of Tornado Cash Developer

DeFi Lobby Urges Trump Admin to Halt Prosecution of Tornado Cash Developer

The DeFi Education Fund, a prominent crypto policy advocacy group, has called on the Trump administration to intervene in what it describes as the “lawless prosecution” of open-source software developers. The appeal centers on the ongoing case against Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, a decentralized crypto mixer. In a letter dated April 28 and

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Lombard, Eigenlayer Partner to Bring Bitcoin Restaking to Ethereum Ecosystem

Lombard, Eigenlayer Partner to Bring Bitcoin Restaking to Ethereum Ecosystem

Lombard has partnered with Eigenlayer and the Eigen Foundation to integrate bitcoin into Eigenlayer’s restaking ecosystem. This marks the first time bitcoin (via Lombard’s LBTC) will be used as collateral for decentralized services on Ethereum. Lombard’s LBTC Integrates With Eigenlayer, Unlocking New Bitcoin Utility The collaboration enables bitcoin (BTC) holders to restake LBTC, earning yield

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Loopscale Hackers Agree To Return Stolen .8 Million — For A Price

Loopscale Hackers Agree To Return Stolen $5.8 Million — For A Price

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A cryptocurrency exchange reached an agreement with cybercriminals who hacked into millions, marking increased security issues in the digital currency industry. Loopscale revealed on April 28 that the attackers involved in a recent $5.8 million heist committed to returning the majority of

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Binance founder meets with Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial team amid global push

Binance founder meets with Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial team amid global push

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto project backed by the Donald Trump family, is accelerating its international expansion plans amid meetings with industry expert Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance. On April 27, WLFI founders Zach Witkoff, Zak Folkman, and Chase Hero held a high-profile meeting with Zhao in Abu Dhabi. According

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Ethereum: Are fundamentals there?

Ethereum: Are fundamentals there?

The following is a guest post and analysis from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief fromThe Tokenist. Since the fertile but somewhat fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) frenzy in 2017, Ethereum (ETH) remains second only to Bitcoin, now at 9x lesser market cap. Over the last five years, Ethereum had an average annualized return at nearly

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Justin Sun calls JST a ‘next 100x token’ amid growth of TRON’s DeFi ecosystem

Justin Sun calls JST a ‘next 100x token’ amid growth of TRON’s DeFi ecosystem

TRON founder and prominent crypto industry figure Justin Sun has taken to the social media platform X to make optimistic claims about the future of JST (JUST), the governance token of the Just ecosystem. In a recent post, Sun declared that JST has undergone a “complete fundamental reversal,” and suggested it could become the “next

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