Rain Raises $250M Series C to Scale Stablecoin-Powered Payments Infrastructure for Global Enterprises

Rain, the enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, today announced a $250 million Series C funding round led by ICONIQ, with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest, and Endeavor Catalyst. The round values Rain at $1.95 billion, brings the company's total funding to over $338 million, and comes just four months...
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BitGW outlines regulatory framework and AI-based risk controls for crypto trading

Cryptocurrency trading platforms continue to operate under increasingly diverse regulatory and operational standards as oversight across the sector expands. In this environment, BitGW, a crypto exchange founded in 2023, has outlined its approach to regulatory compliance, operational transparency, and the use of automated risk management systems designed to support secure and stable trading activity.
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AEON Partners With United Stables to Power Real-World Payments and x402 AI-Native Settlement

AEON, the foundational payment and settlement layer built for the new AI economy, today announced a partnership with United Stables ($U), a next-generation stablecoin designed to enable seamless value flow across payments, trading, and autonomous systems. Through this collaboration, AEON Pay now supports $U for real-world crypto payments, while AEON’s x402 Facilitator integrates $U as a settlement asset on BNB Chain...
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MemryX Unveils MX4 Roadmap: Enabling Distributed, Asynchronous Dataflow for Highly Efficient Data Center AI

MemryX Inc., a company delivering production AI inference acceleration, today announced its strategic roadmap for the MX4. The next-generation accelerator is engineered to scale the company's "at-memory" dataflow architecture from edge deployments into the data center, leveraging 3D hybrid-bonded memory to eliminate the industry's most pressing bottleneck: the "memory wall."
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Solstice and Cor Prime Execute First Institutional Stablecoin-for-Stablecoin Repo on a Public Blockchain

Solstice Labs, Cor Prime, and Membrane Labs today announced the successful completion of the first institutional stablecoin-for-stablecoin repurchase agreement (Repo) executed under traditional market documentation and settled on a public blockchain. The transaction marks the creation of a standardized, institutional-grade stablecoin funding market that brings familiar TradFi liquidity tools directly onto public blockchain rails.
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Alkami Announces Breakout Tracks for Alkami Co:lab 2026, Highlighting the Future of Digital Banking

Alkami Technology, Inc. ("Alkami"), a digital sales and service platform provider for financial institutions in the U.S., today unveiled the six featured tracks for its breakout agenda at Alkami Co:lab 2026, held April 13–15 in San Diego, California. The tracks will explore the future of digital banking, business and commercial banking, data and marketing, security and compliance, onboarding and account opening, and the technology powering...
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