Hivemind Digital Group has closed a $17 million funding round led by M&G Investments to accelerate its tokenization infrastructure development and expand frontier technology investing capabilities. The round included participation from CPIC Investment Management (HK), ZA Bank, FalconX, Sonic Boom Ventures, and board members and former executives from Man Group, Apollo Global Management, Coinbase, Citi, First Citizens Bank, and GoldenTree Asset Management. Founded in 2021, Hivemind manages assets at the intersection of traditional and digital markets. The company plans to deploy capital into tokenization opportunities across asset classes and expand institutional partnerships globally. As part of the investment, Alex Seddon, Head of Impact and Private Equity at M&G Investments, joined Hivemind's Board of Directors. M&G has £371 billion in assets under management as of 31 March 2026.

ENA price prediction: accumulation and FalconX deal fuel bullish outlook. What to know: * ENA price signals a potential reversal as buyers defend the $0.077-$0.056 accumulation zone. * A weekly close above $0.1402 could confirm an ENA breakout, targeting $0.25, $0.52, $1.20, and $2. * Ethena and FalconX launched a $1 billion USDe facility, expanding institutional lending and yield opportunities. Ethena (ENA) is showing signs of a potential long-term reversal for the ENA price as buyers defend its accumulation zone and momentum strengthens. Meanwhile, Ethena's partnership with FalconX expands USDe's institutional lending strategy, potentially diversifying returns, strengthening its backing framework, and increasing adoption across broader crypto markets. At the time of writing, ENA is trading at $0.09240 with a 24-hour trading volume of $121.73 million and a market capitalization of $908.26 million. Following the 11.19% gain over the last 24 hours, the ENA price structure and network growth point to a bullish reversal ahead. ENA price setup signals breakout above $2. According to the crypto analyst Crypto Patel, the ENA price is showing signs of a potential long-term reversal after falling roughly 95% from its $1.52 all-time high. Two similar 73% markdown legs have completed, while an all-time-low liquidity sweep near $0.0699 preceded months of accumulation. The $0.077-$0.056 region remains crucial, with buyers defending the developing higher-timeframe base. A close above $0.1402 on a weekly basis will be a more powerful confirmation of the move from accumulation to bull mode by the ENA price. It will open up targets in the vicinity of $0.25, $0.52, $1.20, and possibly $2+. Yet, the unlock schedule and increase in USDe supply pose major threats. Until ENA breaks out above $0.1402, it's still an accumulation trade idea. Ethena and FalconX unveil $1B USDe facility. The data from Wu Blockchain further highlighted that Ethena and FalconX, which is a digital asset prime broker, have created a $1 billion secured warehouse facility aimed at using the assets backed by USDe to create over-collateralized loans for institutions. FalconX will be responsible for originating and managing the loans that will provide liquidity for trading, treasury, and payment purposes. The project provides an additional income stream for Ethena besides perpetual-futures funding fees. The facility also brings about further measures in place to protect the deployed capital. The collateral shall be held by a qualified third-party custodian, whereas Ethena shall retain a first-priority lien on the assets of the facility. Ethena seeks to construct a wider and perhaps more sustainable return model for USDe through institutional borrowing and derivatives strategies. What happens next? The next technical test to watch for the ENA price would be its closing above $0.1402 on a weekly basis; that could signal a breakout to the upside with further targets at $0.25, $0.52, $1.20, and $2. The increasing supply of USDe tokens and a $1 billion lending platform by FalconX would also be significant for adoption. This article contains market analysis and price predictions. These are not guarantees. Crypto markets are volatile. Always DYOR. Not financial advice.

Blueprint Finance announces strategic funding round to scale Concrete's institutional DeFi infrastructure. Chainwire | Publish date: 08/20/2026 (Last updated: August 20, 2026 12:06 AM) Polychain Capital leads the round, with participation from Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, and Sentient Capital. NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Blueprint Finance, the core developer of Concrete, today announced the completion of a strategic funding round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, Sentient Capital, Andes, and 2Square. The strategic round brings together a group of investors spanning venture capital, institutional trading, custody, liquidity provision, and digital asset infrastructure. The financing will support Blueprint Finance as it continues to scale Concrete, its full-stack vault infrastructure that is designed to enable institutions, protocols, and asset managers to launch, manage, and allocate capital through sophisticated on-chain strategies. Concrete continues to design and build infrastructure for a new phase of decentralized finance - one in which vaults increasingly function as programmable on-chain capital allocators. Rather than requiring allocators to manage execution, accounting, risk controls, rebalancing, and integrations across fragmented protocols independently, Concrete provides the infrastructure to bring these functions together within a unified vault system. The company has also continued to expand its work with protocols, asset issuers, networks, and institutional allocators to build vaults that can support on-chain yield products and serve as core liquidity infrastructure. Beyond scaling its vault infrastructure, Blueprint Finance has continued to expand the Concrete ecosystem with new on-chain financial primitives, including AssetCX and concUSD. These products represent the next evolution of Concrete: moving to build new assets, markets, and financial products on top of its institutional-grade foundation. "DeFi is moving beyond the era where capital allocation was defined by chasing the highest advertised yield," said Nic Roberts-Huntley, CEO and co-founder of Blueprint Finance. "The next phase is about infrastructure: giving professional allocators the controls, transparency, automation, and risk management they expect while preserving everything that makes on-chain markets powerful. This strategic round brings together firms that understand those markets from every angle, and we're excited to have them alongside us as we scale Concrete into the infrastructure layer for on-chain asset management." The round reflects growing institutional interest in vault infrastructure as digital asset markets mature. Institutional allocators increasingly require more than access to on-chain yield: they need auditable accounting, defined operational permissions, scalable execution, transparent risk controls, and infrastructure capable of operating through rapidly changing market conditions. "Who participated in this round is as important to us as the capital itself," added Roberts-Huntley. "These are firms that operate at the center of digital asset markets. Bringing that expertise into the Concrete ecosystem gives us strategic partners across liquidity, execution, custody, and distribution as we build infrastructure designed for the next generation of on-chain capital." About Blueprint Finance Blueprint Finance builds infrastructure for institutional on-chain finance and is the core developer of Concrete. Concrete is a full-stack vault infrastructure platform designed to power the next generation of on-chain asset management. Its modular architecture enables institutions, protocols, asset issuers, and allocators to build and operate vaults with automated execution, accounting, risk controls, and quantitative strategy tooling. By combining DeFi-native composability with institutional-grade operational infrastructure, Concrete is building the foundation for scalable, transparent, and programmable capital markets on-chain.