Tony Zerucha

RAAC, I-ON Digital, to Make $200M of Tokenized Gold Available to Investors

RAAC, a decentralized real-world asset (RWA) lending and borrowing ecosystem, is partnering with I-ON Digital Corp. to make $200 million of tokenized gold available for innovative, on-chain investment opportunities. The deal positions RAAC, a nascent project, among the top 15 RWA protocols in decentralized finance… Read More

RedStone Report: Solana a RWA Hub

A new report from RedStone finds that Solana is now home to more than $13.5 billion in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), including stablecoins. Contributing factors include institutional-grade performance, compliance-first tooling, and deeply integrated DeFi infrastructure. The data, previewed in RedStone’s upcoming Internet Capital Markets on… Read More

Feedzai’s $75M Round Boosts Valuation Past $2B

Feedzai, an AI-native RiskOps platform for financial crime prevention, announced this week that it is now valued at more than $2 billion following an investment round of approximately $75 million. The new funding welcomes institutional investors Lince Capital, Iberis Capital, and Explorer Investments, with renewed… Read More

Precoro’s AI Assistant Targets Procurement Bottlenecks

Precoro, a procurement centralization and automation platform, today announced the launch of its AI Assistant, a native AI-powered chatbot that gives finance, procurement, and AP teams instant insights from their purchasing data. Instead of digging through dashboards or waiting on analysts, users can now simply… Read More

Stablecoin Firm Mesta Welcomes $5.5M Seed

Mesta, a fiat and stablecoin payment network, has raised a $5.5 million seed round. Village Global led the deal, with participation from Circle Ventures, Paxos, and WTI – Western Technology Investment. Existing backers, including Garuda Ventures, Canonical Crypto, Everywhere Ventures, and Inventum Ventures, also reaffirmed their support. Mesta will deploy this capital… Read More

ECB, Feedzai Announce Digital Euro Partnership

The European Central Bank (ECB) has concluded a framework agreement in ranking with Feedzai, a RiskOps platform for financial crime prevention, as the first-ranked tenderer, to provide the central fraud detection and prevention mechanism for the digital euro. Representing 440 million citizens and more than $17 trillion in… Read More

VeriPark, DataVisor to Provide Fraud Protection for Canadian Credit Unions

DataVisor, an AI-powered fraud and risk platform, is partnering with VeriPark, a provider of digital banking solutions for financial services, to deliver a joint ongoing fraud and device intelligence solution for VeriPark customers. This collaboration brings fraud protection to credit unions across Canada via VeriPark’s digital… Read More

Socure Signals Enhances ML Access, Battles Fraud

Socure, a provider of artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, authentication, KYC, KYB, sanctions screening, and fraud prevention, has launched Socure Signals, giving enterprises direct access to the feature store powering Socure’s ML models. At launch, Socure Signals delivers more than 250 features, with expansion planned in… Read More

DAT: BTCS Plans $100M Series G, Counters Passive Storage Model

BTCS, a company that claims to be the largest European Digital Asset Treasury Company (DAT), seeks to raise $100 million through a Series G fundraise, coming immediately on the heels of its recently closed Series F. Proceeds from the Series G will be deployed to… Read More

LAB Closes $1.5M Community Round, $LAB Token En Route

LAB, a multi-chain trading infrastructure, recently had a successful funding round on Legion, a platform for early access to ICOs and pre-token sales. Legion is moving to bring back initial coin offerings. According to their website, they are “going after the IPO market.” Legion explains:… Read More

S&P’s Misleading Growth, Circle Troubles, and Polish Crypto Law: Web3 Thoughts of the Week

Polish crypto law panned. “While the EU’s MiCA provides a clear and balanced rulebook for crypto, Poland’s interpretation of it is a major step backwards, and a prime example of overregulation.  “While regulation is necessary for consumer protection, it can be counterproductive. “Poland has taken… Read More

Logistics Fintech Reveni Closes €7.5M Series A

Reveni has closed a €7.5M Series A. The Madrid-based company centralizes global sales, returns, and logistics in one dashboard, integrating with major e-commerce platforms to optimize purchase and post-purchase flows. The funding will help strengthen the company’s presence in the UK and the EU, while… Read More

Finastra Debuts Intelligent Routing Module

Finastra, a financial services software provider, has unveiled its Intelligent Routing Module at Sibos 2025. The new solution seeks to bring intelligent, data-driven payment routing to banks and financial institutions, enabling them to process transactions faster, at lower cost, and with an upwards of 95%… Read More

UK SME Lender Love Finance Secures £45M Debt Financing Arrangement

Love Finance, a United Kingdom SME lender and broker, has secured £45 million in its first debt financing arrangement, enabling the company to expand its loan book. The funding package comprises a £35 million revolving credit facility (RCF) from FTSE 250 specialist lender, Paragon Bank,… Read More

Maximor $9M Seed to Drive AI Agent Growth

This week, Maximor announced a $9 million seed round to expand its finance automation platform — AI agents that plug into ERPs, payroll, billing, and bank systems to take on the repetitive accounting work and produce audit-ready outputs by default. The round was led by… Read More

Spacecoin Celebrates Space-Based Blockchain Transaction

This week, Spacecoin announced the successful execution of what it claims is the first blockchain transaction to leave Earth and come back intact via its CTC-0 satellite, marking a major milestone in the development of decentralized satellite internet infrastructure. The transaction, carried out on the Creditcoin… Read More

DTCC Digital Assets Names Sullivan Managing Director

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, this week announced the appointment of Thomas Sullivan as managing director of DTCC Digital Assets. Sullivan will report to Nadine Chakar, managing director and global head of DTCC… Read More

Signicat’s ReuseID Maintains Verified Identities

Signicat, an identity services provider, has introduced ReuseID, a digital identity solution that enables organizations to create, manage, and reuse verified identities across their entire ecosystem. This launch coincides with Europe’s advancement of the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet), the enactment of eIDAS 2.0, and an intensifying demand for… Read More

NordVPN Enhances Threat Protection for Crypto Wallets

NordVPN has added a crypto wallet address checker to its Threat Protection Pro suite. The new feature identifies potentially dangerous cryptocurrency wallet addresses encountered during web browsing, helping users avoid risky transactions and prevent costly mistakes when managing their digital assets. According to recent data, cybercriminals… Read More

ValidiFI Research Highlights Risk of Outdated Fraud Strategies

ValidiFI’s newest research reveals a critical gap in current fraud prevention strategies—and the financial consequences of relying on outdated account verification methods as real-time payment adoption accelerates. As payment infrastructure evolves with real-time rails like RTP, FedNow, and Zelle driving instant settlement, and faster ACH options modernizing… Read More

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