February, 2025

February, 2025

Ethereum (ETH) Scaling : MegaETH Launches Testnet, Reportedly Achieves 20K TPS
Ethereum, the largest smart contract platform in terms of market cap and overall adoption across the DeFi space, has grappled with scalability and performance bottlenecks, but a new development—Mega...

Plume and Goldfinch to Expand Onchain Access to Private Credit Funds
Plume, the RWAfi (real world asset finance) chain, and Goldfinch, the onchain private credit platform, announced a partnership to expand access to high quality private credit assets on Plume’s RWA s...

Silverflow Suggests Tokenization Can Improve Authorization Rates By Up To 6%
A new whitepaper from payment processor Silverflow suggests network tokenization can improve authorization rates by up to 6% while decreasing unnecessary churn. Launched at MPE Berlin 2025, a European...

Alternative Asset Management Firm ICG Announces €3.0B Close for Mid-Market Fund II
ICG, the global alternative asset manager, announced the final close of its second European Mid-Market fund program. ICG Europe Mid-Market Fund II, together with its related vehicles, received €3.0b...

Saudi’s Nayla Finance Scores $4m To Expand Micro-Business Lending
Nayla Finance, a Saudi Arabia-based Fintech focused on improving access to capital for micro-businesses, has raised $4 million in seed funding to scale its operations and expand its digital lending pl...

FalconX Launches Tokenized Structured Credit Facility
FalconX noted that Structured credit has long been the backbone of global fixed-income markets, enabling institutions to efficiently finance lending activities. Yet, in crypto, institutional-grade cre...

Finastra, IBM, Unveil New Cloud Offering
This past week, Finastra, a global provider of financial services software applications, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled their collaboration on an enhanced cloud-based lending managed services offering. ...

Google is rolling out Gemini’s real-time AI video features
Google has started rolling out new AI features to Gemini Live that let it “see” your screen or through your smartphone camera and answer questions about either in real-time, Google spokesperso...

Google confirms it deleted Maps Timeline data for some
Google Maps users have recently been complaining on places like Reddit that their Timeline data — the app’s historical record of where they’ve been — had disappeared. Now, Google has confi...

Coinbase in ‘Advanced’ Stages of Acquiring Derivatives Platform Deribit: Report
Coinbase, the biggest crypto exchange in the US, is reportedly having acquisition talks with derivatives platform Deribit. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that Coinbase is in...

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