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Europe's new crypto rules have made launching digital asset services significantly more expensive. For many companies, the challenge is no longer building a product. It's building the regulated infrastructure needed to operate under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. Barcelona-based crypto platform Venga believes that infrastructure shouldn't have to be rebuilt every time a company wants to launch a crypto product.

Wall Street's race to turn Bitcoin into an income-producing asset just took another major step forward. Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire ETF provider NEOS Investments in a deal worth up to $2.25 billion, adding one of the industry's largest Bitcoin income funds to its growing asset management business while significantly expanding its position in the fast-growing market for options-based ETFs. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027, subject to regulatory approval.

Robinhood is making another push into private markets, giving everyday investors access to startups long before they reach the stock market. The company has launched Robinhood Ventures Fund II (RVII) on the New York Stock Exchange after pricing its initial public offering at $25 per share, raising $225.5 million. If underwriters exercise their full allotment option, the fund could grow to $255.5 million.

Crypto.com has launched Tokenized Stocks, giving eligible users 24/7 access to more than 1,500 U.S. stocks and ETFs with fractional investing from just $1.

Real is giving its community another opportunity to earn rewards before its public testnet goes live. The institutional-focused Layer 1 blockchain has launched a new 90-day $ASSET staking campaign, offering a fixed 75,000 USDC reward pool as it prepares for the next stage of network development.

Binance is giving its highest-value customers another reason to keep their assets on the exchange. The company has launched VIP Earn, a new hub that gives eligible users access to enhanced crypto yield opportunities through higher annual percentage rates (APRs) and larger subscription limits across more than 20 digital assets, including BTC, ETH, BNB and USDT.

Managing a DeFi portfolio often means juggling multiple wallets, protocols and transactions while constantly monitoring market conditions. CoinFello believes that process should be as simple as writing a sentence. The company has launched Fello 2, an upgraded AI agent that allows users to create, execute and automate complex DeFi strategies using natural language instead of manually interacting with decentralized applications.

Capital has become one of the biggest advantages in institutional crypto trading. As arbitrage opportunities become harder to find and competition squeezes returns, many quantitative firms are discovering that successful strategies are increasingly limited by balance sheet size rather than trading models. Bitget believes solving that problem could unlock the next wave of institutional growth.

Riot Platforms is trading at around $22 per share, but Bernstein believes it could reach $35 over the next 12 months following the company's reported $9.1 billion AI infrastructure agreement with Anthropic. That target implies roughly 55% upside from current levels. The bigger story, however, isn't the analyst upgrade. It's why Bernstein believes the stock deserves a higher valuation.

Robinhood didn't spend years building a blockchain only to become another home for memecoins. Less than a month after launch, its tokenized stock market is beginning to look exactly as intended, and Uniswap is sitting at the center of almost every trade. According to onchain data, Uniswap now powers virtually the entire decentralized market for Robinhood's tokenized equities.