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Eleven Crypto Firms, Eighty-Three Days: Inside the Race for a Federal Banking License
Between December 2025 and March 2026, the OCC approved or received applications from eleven crypto and fintech companies for national trust bank charters, marking a significant shift in the financial landscape and regulatory approach to digital assets.

MetaMask Card Goes Nationwide: How the Largest Web3 Wallet Became a Payment Card Issuer
MetaMask transforms 30 million wallets into spending accounts with its new Mastercard-branded debit card, offering a self-custodial payment solution across 49 US states. Discover how this innovation reshapes crypto payments and leverages MetaMask's mUSD stablecoin for revenue growth.

Meta Acquires Moltbook: What Big Tech's First AI Agent Social Network Deal Means for Web3
Meta's acquisition of Moltbook marks a pivotal moment in the AI and Web3 landscape, raising questions about the future of decentralized agent infrastructure amid Big Tech's growing influence.

Mantle's Dual ATH: How a $4B Treasury and One Aave Deployment Turned an L2 Outsider into a Billion-Dollar DeFi Hub
Mantle Network's strategic use of a $4 billion treasury and Aave deployment has transformed it from an L2 outsider to a billion-dollar DeFi hub, showcasing a unique growth model in the competitive blockchain landscape.

JPMorgan's $328M Goliath Ventures Lawsuit: When TradFi Banks Become Crypto Crime's Silent Partners
JPMorgan Chase faces a class action lawsuit for allegedly enabling a $328 million crypto Ponzi scheme by providing essential banking infrastructure to Goliath Ventures, raising questions about traditional banks' legal responsibilities in processing suspicious transactions.

The Rise and Fall of InfoFi: Lessons from a Web3 Experiment
Explore the dramatic rise and fall of InfoFi, a Web3 experiment that turned social media into a tokenized attention economy, and learn the critical lessons for building resilient decentralized applications.

Hyperliquid's HIP-4: Transforming Prediction Markets with Decentralized Perpetual Futures
Hyperliquid's HIP-4 protocol upgrade introduces fully collateralized outcome contracts, poised to revolutionize the prediction market landscape by leveraging its high-performance HyperL1 chain and decentralized architecture.

GRVT: How the World's First Licensed On-Chain Exchange Is Rewriting the Rules of Crypto Trading
GRVT is pioneering a new era in crypto trading with its hybrid exchange model that combines the speed of centralized exchanges with the trustlessness of decentralized ones, all while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Google Cloud's MCP Web3 Security Framework: How to Keep AI Agents from Draining Your Wallet
Google Cloud introduces an enterprise-grade MCP Web3 security framework to safeguard AI agents interacting with blockchains, addressing vulnerabilities and providing a robust defense strategy against potential financial exploits.
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