Ondo Sommet De 2026: La Recap
On February 3, the Ondo Summit took place in New York, bringing together major financial institutions, key ecosystem players, and U.S. political leaders. Here is a look back at the major highlights from the summit.
D'attache de l'Or permet à l'or de distribution de dividendes
Elemental Royalty Corporation made history on February 17, 2026 by becoming the first public gold company to offer shareholders dividends payable in XAU₮, Tether’s tokenised physical gold token.
Robinhood lance de l'Ethereum la Couche 2 en public testnet
Robinhood has opened the public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum, aiming to support tokenised real-world assets, low-fee trading and self-custody for millions of users.
Coinbase lance sa prévision de marché de la plateforme
Coinbase launched its prediction market platform Predict across all US states, enabling users to trade on elections, sports, and economic outcomes using cash or USDC.
Y Combinator lets founders receive seed funding in stablecoins
Y Combinator announced that founders accepted into its Spring 2026 batch can choose to receive their seed funding in stablecoins instead of traditional bank transfers.
Lightspeed: Crypto’s first investor relations platform by Solana
Blockworks and the Solana Foundation publicly launched Lightspeed, crypto’s first dedicated investor relations platform targeting institutional allocators in the Solana ecosystem.
Ex-Revolut duo raise $6M to expand self-custodial finance app Bleap
Bleap, a self-custodial onchain finance app built by ex-Revolut executives, secured $6 million in seed funding to expand across Latin America and Europe.
Ledger prepares $4 billion New York IPO
Ledger has hired Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and Barclays to lead a potential NYSE listing that could value the crypto wallet maker at over $4 billion.
French Carrefour store offers 20% discount for Bitcoin payments
A Carrefour Express supermarket in southwestern France accepts Bitcoin payments and offers a 20% discount across the entire store for this payment method via Lightning Network.
Rumble launches Bitcoin wallet letting users tip creators with crypto
Video platform Rumble introduced Rumble Wallet built with Tether, allowing 51 million users to tip content creators in Bitcoin and stablecoins without intermediaries.
Juventus shares surge after owners reject Tether acquisition offer
The Agnelli family’s Exor holding company rejected stablecoin giant Tether’s €1.1 billion bid to acquire Juventus Football Club.
Kalshi: the prediction market that just raised $1 billion
Kalshi is a US‑regulated prediction market where people trade on real‑world events. The company has just raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, confirming prediction markets as a fast‑growing new corner of finance.