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September 1, 2025 — XDC Network, via their VC arm — XDC Ventures, has committed $1 million into Kasu Finance as the lead investor in the company’s latest funding round, marking a major strategic partnership between the two parties in the fast-evolving real-world asset (RWA) and private credit space.

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    Since Bitcoin’s introduction to the world in 2009, what began as a vision for peer-to-peer digital cash transactions has expanded into a complex, constantly evolving decentralised financial (DeFi) ecosystem. And whilst we’ve seen cryptocurrency evolve into decentralised applications (dApps)…

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    Market turbulence is never fun, regardless of whether the volatility occurs in traditional finance (TradFi) or Web3. Currently, we’re seeing massive volatility in crypto — people pulling their money out of the market, driven largely by TradFi fears and the fallout from looming trade wars resulting…

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