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parafi capital: the secure asset reserve company has a record high in monthly transactions

Wu said it was informed that the encrypted investment agency parafi capital indicated that the monthly transactions of the privileged shares of the encrypted asset reserve company, converted in nominal terms, rose to about $13 billion in June 2026, a record high, compared to about $4 billion in January of this year. Parafi states that it is being progressively developed into a more liquid and more priced asset class, driven by the strage and more new priority stock listings. In addition, the priority equity financing model is being extended to the AI infrastructure area, and Alphabet and Super Micro Computer launched or announced, respectively, a transferable priority unit in June to raise funds for AI infrastructure and business expansion。

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Flex, Stability Currency Bank platform, completed $70 million in B1 rounds of financing, Halo Fund

The Stability Currency Bank platform, Flex, announced the completion of a $70 million B1 round of financing with Halo Fund, and the new funds will be used to expand its stable currency-based cross-border commercial banking platform, Flex Global, to assist medium-sized enterprises in global payments and fund management through stable currency infrastructure. Data show that annual payments in stable currencies have reached about $390 billion, of which business-to-business transactions have increased by about 733 per cent over the same period. At the same time, the stabilization currency settlement scale of Visa had reached $7 billion per annum by April 2026, a 50 per cent increase over the same period。

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thirty-eight million-dollar A round of financing, Dragonfly

The London-based stabilization currency payment infrastructure company, Velocity, announced the completion of the $38 million A round of financing, which was sponsored by the encrypted investment agency Dragonfly and involved institutions such as Coinbase, Capital One Ventures and Wintermute. Velocity CEO Eric Queathem did not disclose the latest financing valuation. Founded in 2025, Velocity focuses on providing stable currency payment solutions for businesses, payment service providers, financial technology companies and financial institutions, helping them to optimize cross-border payment, fund settlement and fund management processes using dollar-linked tokens。

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a16z crypto: Traditional finance does not want to embrace DeFi, but rather “dismantling” to use block chains

analysis of a16z crypto suggests that the encryption industry has long been a narrative that will eventually integrate DeFi and TradFi and combine open liquidity with institutional distribution to form a new system that is better than traditional finance. This may not be the case, however, as traditional finance is not being integrated with DeFi, but is using block-chain technology in a “dismantling” manner that meets its own needs. The technology of block chains currently being used by the Agency includes, inter alia, atomic settlement (Atomic Settlement), shared books, programmable currency, and automated marketing (AMM). a16z crypto points out that the core driving force of traditional finance using block chains is not decentrization, but commercial efficiency, and that a new type of financial infrastructure may emerge in the future: an “programmable financial infrastructure” based on the bottom of the block chain but optimized for institutional constraints。

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Nous Research completed at least $75 million in financing

Nus Research, a start-up company behind the open-source AI smarts project Hermes, is completing a new round of financing of at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from Union Square Ventures (USV) and other well-known investment institutions, valued at $1.5 billion. Currently, Hermes has obtained approximately 214,000 Stars and nearly 40,000 Fork in GitHub, which can be deployed by developers on personal computers or virtual servers。

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