The raise, structured through equity and token warrants, marks Lighter’s second major funding milestone after a $21 million round in 2024, bringing its total funding to nearly $90 million.
The collaboration will focus on expanding access to perpetual futures, lending products, and on-chain structured yield strategies for hedge funds, asset managers, and market makers, effectively bridging the gap between Wall Street and Web3.
Unlike proprietary systems, K2 Thinking is fully open-source under a Modified MIT License, allowing unrestricted commercial use with a light attribution clause for massive-scale deployments.
The sale follows similar digital bond offerings in 2023 and 2024, as Hong Kong cements its position as a leading global hub for blockchain-enabled financial infrastructure.
The launch marks a milestone in Pi Squared’s pursuit of an infinitely scalable decentralized payment network capable of processing transactions faster than any existing blockchain.
The offering, aimed squarely at professional investors in the EEA and U.K., threads a steady-income narrative through the volatility of digital-asset accumulation.
The decision in Rhutikumari v Zanmai Labs & Ors (2025), delivered by Justice N. Anand Venkatesh, held that crypto assets are intangible property, not legal tender, but assets that can be “possessed, enjoyed and held in trust.”
The company says the move responds to regulatory pressure, liability concerns, and the growing number of people relying on AI for decisions that traditionally require professional training and legal protections.
“Digital assets are no longer an outsider’s bet,” a CoinSwitch spokesperson noted. “Gen Z investors are combining traditional savings with crypto portfolios, using it to build financial independence earlier in life.”
The platform gives banks, asset managers, and public institutions a single system to handle the full digital-asset lifecycle, from wallet creation to settlement, across more than 40 public and private blockchains.
In this edition of Expert Insights, we speak with Pradhi AI’s CEO, Vijayalakshmi Raghavan, on building empathetic AI that listens, not just hears—and how decentralization could redefine trust in intelligent systems.
Founded in 2021 by Abhilash Madabhushi during his second year at PES University, Consuma is transforming the consumer research landscape by helping brands derive faster, deeper insights from digital behaviour data — at scale.
The Global Games Show is more than an expo — it’s where creativity, technology, and culture collide. It unites developers, studios, investors, and gamers from around the world to shape the future of interactive entertainment.
According to ARK’s latest disclosure, the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) now holds about 3.25% of its assets in Securitize, making the company the fund’s eighth-largest position after major AI players such as xAI and Anthropic.
Speaking at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, Tenev said that in the future, “everything will be on-chain in some form, and the distinction [between crypto and traditional finance] will disappear.”
SINGAPORE, OCTOBER 2, 2025 — During the globally watched Token2049 Summit, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, and Dr. Xiao Feng, Chairman…
Among the exchanges named are some of the industry’s best-known platforms, including Paxful, Poloniex, BitMex, BTCC, CEX.IO, LBank, CoinEx, BingX, PrimeXBT, Remitano, AscendEx, Phemex, Probit Global, Bitrue, BTSE, YouHodler, and Huione.
Onchain financial marketplace Flying Tulip has raised $200 million in a private funding round backed by a slate of major…
Demeter, best known for launching the world’s first Bitcoin ATM in 2013 and co-founding one of Canada’s earliest crypto exchanges, Cointrader, is widely regarded as a pioneer in blockchain adoption.
“A specialist taskforce, hell bent on breaking games into the $121bn mobile market,” Ferguson wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Since April, we’ve already taken three games to the No. 1 rank on mobile stores. Now we want the charts to be dominated by Immutable.”
“By linking Bitcoin’s strength with Ethereum’s flexibility, and eventually with other networks, we are creating a framework where communities can grow together,” he said. “This is how Bitcoin becomes more accessible, more useful, and more impactful for the entire crypto economy.”
“The civilizations that gained the most from new waves of technology are not the ones who consumed the technology, but the ones who produced it,” he noted. “Openness and verifiability can fight against global balkanization.”
Centurion University (CUTM-AP) is deploying Avalanche’s fast and scalable blockchain to make every graduate’s degree secure, permanent, and globally accessible. Recruiters, institutions, and government agencies can verify credentials instantly within seconds, reducing the chances of academic frauds.
The investment was made through PayPal Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm, as part of Stable’s recent $28 million seed round that also included backing from Bitfinex and Hack VC.
