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12 hours agoY Combinator Makes First All-Stablecoin Startup Investment
Y Combinator's $500,000 investment in Totalis marks its first all-stablecoin deal, highlighting a shift towards onchain capital formation.
Revolutions leave behind artifacts - not always weapons or flags, but the quieter objects that carried a message before anyone knew how far it would travel. A wheat-pasted broadside on a Los Angeles overpass. A hand-lettered cardboard sign held up in the snow outside a Tokyo office building.
Construction and demolition waste is the largest single waste stream in the EU by weight, yet the vast majority of materials removed from buildings are downcycled into low-value rubble rather than recovered for reuse, because no reliable record exists of what those materials are, where they came from, or what condition they are in.
The partnership aims to strengthen support for emerging businesses by giving founders streamlined access to secure stablecoin processing and payouts architecture, direct multi-chain connectivity and node infrastructure, automated on-chain settlements and liquidity management solutions.
The integration allows developers to build goal-oriented workflows where agents plan and execute swaps across the 1inch network using the Swap Application Programming Interface (API). This update provides rapid access to a suite of 15 APIs, including Portfolio and Gas Price tools, reducing integration time from days to minutes.
Aave DAO passed AIP 469 on April 12, 2026, granting Aave Labs $25 million in stablecoins and 75,000 AAVE tokens, marking a significant funding initiative under the Aave Will Win framework.
The Ether Machine and Dynamix Corporation announced the termination of their Business Combination Agreement, originally signed on July 21, 2025, through a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC.
Ryan, who had worked for seven years at the Ethereum Foundation (EF), Ethereum's de facto governing body, suggested that Ethereum could be on the cusp of an era-defining shift. Since its founding in 2014, the foundation had prioritized technical upgrades and had avoided centralizing power while its user base was growing, but Ethereum had now grown up, and the cryptocurrency world around it had grown up, too.
Tokenization is about bringing real-world financial assets onto infrastructure that can support global scale and continuous market access, said Carlos Domingo, Co-Founder and CEO of Securitize.
The transition here is a little bit of a fork. Rocktop Technologies is focused on some of the generative AI applications and data and documents, as well as automating some of the processes attached to default servicing and some of the trade operational pieces and capital markets.
Sentiment among DeFi users remains positive heading into 2026, with 72% of respondents globally expressing optimism about the sector's future. U.S. users reported one of the highest confidence levels at 83%, while sentiment across Asian markets was comparatively more muted, with respondents in Singapore (64%), Taiwan (63%) and in Hong Kong (56%).