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Stark Bank, a startup backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has positioned itself as the go-to firm for serving cryptocurrency businesses in Brazil, filling the gap left by traditional institutions. The firm has built part of its business around this service offering, betting on the industry’s future as Brazilians become more comfortable with crypto. Bezos-BackedSource link

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Donald Trump-backed crypto project, has closed its token sale after raising approximately $590 million.The project's raise of $590 million would put it in the top-10 list of token raises, according to data curated by ICODrops. To date, the largest token sale is EOS, which raised $4.21 billion.EOS is a blockchain platform developed by Block.one, which later founded Bullish, CoinDesk's owner.On stage at Consensus 2025 in Hong Kong, WLFI co-founder Zak Folkman credited Tron's Justin Sun with the success of the project's token sale.After WLFI first launched its sale, its critics called the momentum sluggish. But this changed after Sun invested $30 million into it in November 2024 and later invested more."When we were launching this...

A market intelligence platform has attributed the drop in crypto-wide trading volume since Feb. 27 to “exhaustion, hopelessness, and capitulation.” ‘Diminishing Trader Enthusiasm’ According to Santiment, a market intelligence platform, the drop in crypto-wide trading volume since Feb. 27 can be attributed to a combination of “exhaustion, hopelessness and capitulation.” Santiment adds the consistent declineSource link

Crypto venture funding in the U.S. clocked in at approximately $861 million for the first three months of 2025, but was dwarfed by artificial intelligence's nearly $20 billion haul, according to data provided by Pitchbook, showing how investors continue to pivot towards AI.Data shows that investors closed 795 deals in the U.S in AI from January to March, with blockbuster deals like Databricks' $15.3 billion round and Anthropic's $2 billion raise dominating headlines.Crypto's largest blockbuster deal, in comparison, was Abu Dhabi's MGX, with a $2 billion investment into Binance – the first institutional placement in the crypto exchange. Other deals of note include a $82 million raise from payment infrastructure company Mesh, ETF issuer Bitwise's $70 million round, and digital...

An African payment infrastructure provider is piloting the Africa Currency Marketplace, which seeks to enable countries to settle trades with local currencies. PAPSS Fees to Be Market-Driven The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), a payment infrastructure provider backed by 15 central banks, is reportedly piloting a currency platform to enable countries to settle tradesSource link