Kraken has secured a $200 million investment from Citadel Securities, lifting its valuation to $20 billion. The exchange has now raised $800 million across two recent rounds while continuing global expansion, product diversification, and IPO preparation.
Phoenix Group highlighted four crypto projects listing in April 2026, spanning onchain trading, decentralized WiFi in India, AI model deployment, and blockchain-based flight data collection, with raises ranging from $5 million to $9.1 million.
In April 2026, four crypto projects with raises between $5M and $9.1M go live, covering a multi-chain trading terminal, a DePIN WiFi network in India, a decentralized AI platform, and a flight-tracking data network.
In April 2026, four crypto projects—Genius (multi-chain terminal), Dabba (DePIN WiFi), OpenGradient (decentralized AI), and Wingbits (flight tracking)—are listing tokens, raising over $28 million combined, highlighting a shift from financial to real-world infrastructure investment.
Four crypto tokens—Genius, Dabba, OpenGradient, and Wingbits—list in late April 2026. Each raised $5M-$9.1M, covering trading terminals, DePIN WiFi in India, decentralized AI hosting, and community flight tracking, reflecting broad infrastructure investment.
Solana-based DePIN project Grass has confirmed its Season 2 airdrop for H1 2026, allocating 170 million GRASS tokens. Updated reward mechanics now emphasize real bandwidth usage, uptime, and long-term contribution, with staking emerging as a key on-chain signal.
As Binance, Bitget, Gate, and DeFi protocols rush into tokenized stock trading, one common partner emerges: Alpaca, a U.S. licensed broker. Holding a 94% market share in tokenized equities and ETFs, Alpaca's API-first Brokerage-as-a-Service model makes it the biggest 'shovel seller' in the crypto-stock convergence.
Binance, Bitget, Gate, and DeFi protocols like Ondo and xStocks all rely on Alpaca for tokenized stock trading, giving the broker a 94% market share. Its Brokerage-as-a-Service model and API-first approach make it the real winner in the crypto-stock race.
