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Ex-Blackstone duo raise $25M to bring private credit onto blockchain Two former Blackstone professionals Connor Dougherty and Lily Yarborough have closed a $25 million round to digitize private credit

Ex-Blackstone duo raise $25M to bring private credit onto blockchain

Two former Blackstone professionals Connor Dougherty and Lily Yarborough have closed a $25 million round to digitize private credit, betting blockchain can unlock faster and more transparent lending.

The seed round was led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Susquehanna's crypto arm, Maven11, and TeraWulf founders, Fortune reported Monday. The company declined to disclose its valuation.

Dougherty and Yarborough are building their startup, Valinor, a gateway between traditional finance and crypto.

The duo, who began their careers as analysts at banks before joining Blackstone's private credit arm, believe private credit is the next major category to move onchain, and one where blockchain technology can deliver immediate efficiency gains.

Valinor started by lending to crypto-native companies but soon realized blockchain could transform the entire lending process. Instead of relying on spreadsheets and manual oversight, smart contracts automate approvals, payments, and compliance.

Dougherty said Valinor wants to move beyond crypto-collateralized lending into "real economy credit." The company has already issued loans to coloct clients and will oynand landing and staffing

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All 24 Hyperliquid validators remain concentrated in AWS’s Tokyo region.

No DeFi equivalent yet exists to MiFID II-style latency equalisation rules.

Tokyo is becoming crypto’s Mahwah for execution-sensitive strategies.

Hyperliquid may be built on decentralised rails, but research from Glassnode shows physical geography still shapes who trades fastest.

The study finds users closest to the protocol’s validator infrastructure in Tokyo enjoy a clear execution edge, with order traffic reaching validators in as little as 2 to 3 milliseconds.

By contrast, traders in Europe can face delays above 200 milliseconds, enough to materially change queue priority, spreads, and fill probability in a time-ordered market.

The reason is infrastructure concentration.

Hyperliquid’s 24 validators are clustered across multiple availability zones inside Amazon Web Services’ Tokyo region, ap-northeast-1, while the API layer routes through AWS CloudFront.

That design preserves transparency and permissionless access, but it does not remove speed asymmetries.

In practice, a desk physically closer to Tokyo can still reach the matching layer well ahead of rivals in Hong Kong, Singapore, Europe, or the US.




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Bitcoin price struggles over the last week were also in its ETF market, as the Bitcoin spot ETFs posted their first net outflows in a month. Before this trading session, these investment funds had experienced a 4-week bullish streak, resulting in a combined net inflow of $2.21 billion.

Bitcoin ETFs See Red Again, While Potential New Member Awaits
According to data from SoSoValue, the combined trading activity across the 12 Bitcoin Spot ETFs resulted in a negative inflow of $296.18 million over the past week. This development represents the seventh weekly outflow of 2026, and the fifteenth since the crypto bear market commenced in October 2025. A daily analysis shows the net withdrawal performance is highly linked to consecutive outflows on Thursday and Friday, combinedly valued at over $396 million. For context, the $225.48 million outflow registered on Friday represents the market’s largest net outflow since March 3rd.

Looking at individual fund performance, BlackRock IBIT experienced the largest net redemptions valued at $158.07 million. Meanwhile, Grayscale’s GBTC, Bitwise’s BITB, and Ark/21 Shares ARKB also registered a total netflow of $169.26 million. ETFs such as Grayscale’s BTC and VanEck’s HODL also posted respective net withdrawals of $5.45 and $10.28, marking minor contributions to the general market’s negative performance. On the other hand, Fidelity’s FBTC accounted for the only recorded net inflow, valued at $46.88 million.

Other ETFs, such as Invesco’s BTCO, Valkyrie’s BRRR, Wisdom Tree’s BTCW, Franklin Templeton’s EZBC, and Hashdex’s DEFI, all experienced zero weekly net flows. At press time, the Bitcoin Spot ETF reported a cumulative total net inflow of $55.93 billion and total net assets of $84.77 billion.

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Bitcoin price struggles over the last week were also in its ETF market, as the Bitcoin spot ETFs posted their first net outflows in a month. Before this trading session, these investment funds had experienced a 4-week bullish streak, resulting in a combined net inflow of $2.21 billion.

Bitcoin ETFs See Red Again, While Potential New Member Awaits
According to data from SoSoValue, the combined trading activity across the 12 Bitcoin Spot ETFs resulted in a negative inflow of $296.18 million over the past week. This development represents the seventh weekly outflow of 2026, and the fifteenth since the crypto bear market commenced in October 2025. A daily analysis shows the net withdrawal performance is highly linked to consecutive outflows on Thursday and Friday, combinedly valued at over $396 million. For context, the $225.48 million outflow registered on Friday represents the market’s largest net outflow since March 3rd.

Looking at individual fund performance, BlackRock IBIT experienced the largest net redemptions valued at $158.07 million. Meanwhile, Grayscale’s GBTC, Bitwise’s BITB, and Ark/21 Shares ARKB also registered a total netflow of $169.26 million. ETFs such as Grayscale’s BTC and VanEck’s HODL also posted respective net withdrawals of $5.45 and $10.28, marking minor contributions to the general market’s negative performance. On the other hand, Fidelity’s FBTC accounted for the only recorded net inflow, valued at $46.88 million.

Other ETFs, such as Invesco’s BTCO, Valkyrie’s BRRR, Wisdom Tree’s BTCW, Franklin Templeton’s EZBC, and Hashdex’s DEFI, all experienced zero weekly net flows. At press time, the Bitcoin Spot ETF reported a cumulative total net inflow of $55.93 billion and total net assets of $84.77 billion.

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Bitcoin ($BTC) started the new week below $70,000. While the direction of the US-Iran conflict is being closely watched in both $BTC and global markets, an analysis firm has assessed the current situation.

QCP Capital, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency analytics firm, stated that Bitcoin has entered a consolidation phase and is outperforming gold and stocks.

“$BTC briefly dropped to $65,000 during quiet hours in Asian markets, but quickly recovered.”

It is currently trading steadily around $67,000 and is maintaining the stability it showed at the beginning of the week after the typical weekend decline.”

Although Bitcoin started the new week with a recovery, it needs strong momentum to continue its upward trend from last week, especially given that the US-Iran conflict remains unresolved.

Analysts also noted that the 10-day pause Trump set for a possible military operation against Iran would end on April 6.

“It was noteworthy that Bitcoin remained in the $65,000 to $70,000 range.”

Since the start of the conflict with Iran, while traditional markets have struggled under geopolitical pressure, $BTC has outperformed both gold and major equities.

As Trump’s 10-day pause on attacks against Iranian energy infrastructure approaches its end on April 6, and markets prepare for a potential escalation, $BTC is likely to remain within this range.

At this point, analysts note that $BTC’s short-term trend will remain largely news-driven.

On the macroeconomic front, high oil prices and risks to critical shipping routes continue to support expectations of stagflation. According to analysts, even if tensions between the two countries ease, the risk of war will remain in the short term.

Finally, analysts who examine derivatives markets say that volatility remained low after th

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The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is starting to look like a financial back end that traditional finance can adopt without changing itself too much.

This is because tokenized funds can sit on the ledger, and stablecoins can move across it. At the same time, protocol upgrades keep landing, including features designed for institutions that want on-chain settlement without open access to every counterparty.

However, the awkward part for XRP holders is that a thriving XRPL does not automatically translate into proportional demand for XRP

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