Ravi Kumar

5 days ago | alexablockchain.com | Ravi Kumar

Veda has raised $18 million in the latest funding round to scale its universal vault infrastructure. The round was led by CoinFund, with backing from Coinbase Ventures, GSR, Animoca Ventures, Mantle EcoFund, BitGo, and other strategic investors. Notable angel investors include Anchorage CEO Nathan McCauley, Ether.Fi’s Mike Silagadze, and Polygon’s Sandeep Nailwal.

1 week ago | alexablockchain.com | Ravi Kumar

Arab Bank Switzerland has partnered with institutional digital asset firm XBTO to launch a branded Bitcoin yield product for high-net-worth (HNW) clients. This marks the first time a traditional Swiss private bank is offering such a product under its own name. The new offering leverages XBTO’s proprietary “Diamond Hands” strategy, an options-based framework that generates yield on Bitcoin holdings while maintaining exposure to long-term upside.

2 weeks ago | alexablockchain.com | Ravi Kumar

Bitcoin surged above $107,410 on Monday, despite underlying macroeconomic tensions and volatility driven by geopolitical and corporate developments. The cryptocurrency market broadly mirrored Bitcoin’s positive sentiment, with all of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap gained, except a few. In the past 24 hours, Among the top gainers were Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), and Sui (SUI) each rising approximately 4.42%, 3.02%, and 3.44%, respectively.

1 month ago | alexablockchain.com | Ravi Kumar

Liquidium, the developer of Bitcoin’s leading peer-to-peer lending protocol, today launched its cross-chain Loans product. It allows trustless lending and borrowing across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana without the use of wrapped tokens or centralized bridges. The announcement was made at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference. The cross-chain protocol is powered by Internet Computer’s (ICP) Chain Fusion technology.

1 month ago | alexablockchain.com | Ravi Kumar

Maple announced today the consolidation of its institutional and permissionless products under a single, unified brand — Maple. The combined platform now manages $1.6 billion in AUM and has surpassed $7 billion in loan originations. This strategic rebranding eliminates the separate identity of Syrup, bringing its core offering, syrupUSDC, under the Maple umbrella as a permissionless yield-bearing product for non-U.S. users.