TLDR CRYPTO 2025-03-14

BLACKROCK'S BUIDL FIRST TO CROSS $1 BILLION MARK, MAKING IT THE LARGEST TOKENIZED FUND TRACKING ONCHAIN TREASURIES

TRUMP FAMILY HELD TALKS TO BUY STAKE IN BINANCE.US

The Trump family has engaged in talks to acquire a stake in Binance.US through World Liberty Financial, according to the Wall Street Journal. BNB climbed 5% to over $600 on the news, though Binance founder CZ denied the claims amid reports of seeking a pardon for financial crimes. Binance is aiming to reclaim its US foothold with restored USD fiat services and a $2B investment from Abu Dhabi-based firm MGX.

HORIZON: THE DEFI CATALYST FOR INSTITUTIONAL RWAS

CRYPTO PAYMENTS COMPANY MOONPAY LOOKS TO COMPETE WITH STRIPE WITH IRON STABLECOIN ACQUISITION

MoonPay has acquired Iron, an API-driven stablecoin infrastructure startup, to strengthen its enterprise payment solutions. This move improves MoonPay's ability to offer businesses instant, low-cost stablecoin transactions, tapping into the booming stablecoin market. With a 112% net revenue increase this year, MoonPay is positioning itself as a key competitor to Stripe in the growing stablecoin payments landscape and is accelerating industry-wide adoption.

NOT SO SAFE

North Korean hackers pulled off the largest crypto heist in history, stealing $1.4 billion from Bybit's Safe multisig, not with cutting-edge exploits, but by socially engineering a developer into running a malicious Docker project. The attack exposed glaring security flaws in DeFi, proving that even the most battle-tested protocols are only as strong as their weakest human link.

PRIVACY 2.0: PETS AND THE PROMISE OF PRIVATE SHARED STATE

Privacy 1.0's isolated tools, like dark pools, limit composability due to the absence of private shared state, constraining broader adoption beyond niche users. Privacy 2.0's use of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) – trusted execution environments (TEEs), multi-party computation (MPC), and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) – to enable private, reusable data for collaborative computation, promises interoperable use cases like World ID's portable identity. Though current PET implementations face trust, efficiency, and standardization challenges, their advancement could unlock a new wave of privacy-driven blockchain innovation.

CIRCLE INTENDS TO BRING HASHNOTE TMMF UNDER EXISTING DABA LICENSE

Circle plans to integrate the Hashnote Tokenized Money Market Fund (TMMF), which issues the approximately $1 billion USYC token, under its existing Digital Assets Business Act (DABA) license in Bermuda to establish direct connectivity between USYC and USDC.

TAKING A STEP BACK: HYPERLIQUID FUNDAMENTALS

Hyperliquid's on-chain order book democratizes market access, challenging traditional finance by enabling equal trading opportunities and innovative features like non-custodial BTC trading. While facing challenges like regulatory scrutiny and EVM rollout issues, Hyperliquid's strong revenue model and community-driven growth position it as a major player in decentralized finance.

COINBASE ONRAMP COMES TO SAUCERSWAP

Coinbase Onramp has been launched on SaucerSwap, allowing users and developers to convert fiat directly to HBAR and other crypto within the Hedera ecosystem.

BASE ECOSYSTEM FUND

Coinbase Ventures is expanding its support for Base ecosystem projects by partnering with Echo to provide broader access to capital and community participation.

CIRCLE'S US YIELD COIN (USYC) TO LAUNCH TO GLOBAL MARKET PARTICIPANTS

Circle is launching US Yield Coin (USYC) for global market participants through its Bermuda-based digital assets license, bringing tokenized yield to digital asset markets.

ALL 50+ EIGEN GAMES SUBMISSIONS

EigenLayer hosted a massive college hackathon with young high-quality builders at EthDenver.

TAKES.FUN IS LIVE

Takes.fun has officially launched, turning opinions into tradable assets where likes and dislikes are backed by tokens instead of just numbers.

INTRODUCING DMS ON PUMP FUN

PUMP FUN now supports DMs and group chats exclusively on its app (excluding UK residents).