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1kx, Blockchain Capital back $7.5 million KOR Protocol Series A at $100 million valuation
KOR Protocol is building an onchain clearinghouse that helps register and route creative works and pay out rights hol…
Tether puts $20 million behind Mercado Bitcoin amid Latin America’s tokenization boom
Mercado Bitcoin has grown from an early crypto exchange into a regulated digital financial services platform.
Robinhood’s Bitstamp Deal Would Give It A Much Bigger Seat In Global Crypto
Robinhood’s planned acquisition of Bitstamp is one of those deals that makes immediate strategic sense. Robinhood g…
Swift And Chainlink Trials Show Tokenization Is Moving Closer To Traditional Finance Plumbing
Tokenization becomes much more interesting when it stops sounding like a crypto slogan and starts appearing inside th…
Gemini offers 0% stock trading in US as it looks to become ‘all-in-one financial super app’
Gemini said it is looking to become an “all-in-one financial super app" as it launches 0% commission stock trading …
Cardano’s 9.0.1 Hotfix Shows Why Last-Mile Upgrades Matter Before A Hard Fork
Hard forks are usually discussed in big-picture terms, but the final approach is often decided by smaller technical c…
Former Tether investment chief is looking to sell part of his stake in the stablecoin giant: Bloomberg
Richard Heathcote is reportedly working with PJT Partners to find a buyer for a small part of his 1.26% holding in th…
Dogecoin Core 1.14.8 Lands With Security Fixes The Network Cannot Ignore
Dogecoin does not always get taken seriously when the market is in meme mode, but infrastructure updates are where th…
Coinbase secures UK investment services license to add derivatives and equities trading
Coinbase secured a UK investment services license to offer derivatives and equities trading in addition to crypto.
Coinbase secures UK authorization to offer traditional investments alongside crypto
The license allows institutional traders to access perpetual futures and gives U.K. retail customers the ability to t…
Tether’s former CIO seeks buyers for part of his stake in the firm: Bloomberg
Former Tether CIO Richard Heathcote is seeking buyers for part of his 1.26% stake in the firm, according to Bloomberg.
Coinbase World Cup error shows prediction markets still have a proof problem
A disputed Coinbase sports alert shows why exchange-run prediction markets need visible provenance, verified event da…
Tether’s Alloy Launch Shows Stablecoins Are Moving Beyond Plain Dollars
Tether has launched Alloy, a synthetic dollar product backed by Tether Gold, in a move that pushes the stablecoin iss…
Vitalik Buterin proposes ‘Extremely Lean’ Ethereum, shrinking the chain to near-zero state with ZK proofs
Buterin outlined a two-step plan to shift Ethereum's state management to validators and replace per-epoch balance upd…
Circle’s USDC is leaving Tether behind in the stablecoin volume race, new data from Visa shows
As Wall Street banks adopt digital currencies for faster settlements, overall trading volume spiked 63% in just a sin…
Securitize eyes acquisitions with $400 million war chest after going public, CEO says
Following its NYSE debut, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said the firm wants to expand its institutional tokenization …
How MiCA brings banks closer to controlling Europe’s stablecoin access
The EU’s post-transition crypto regime is deciding who controls the compliant rails for stablecoins, wallets and re…
Why Binance’s reported $2B Mesh investment could decide who controls stablecoin payments
The signal is about who controls the wallet-to-merchant path that makes tokenized dollars spendable. The post Why Bin…
Tokenization's next use case is personalized portfolios, NYLIM executive says
Thomas Sy, head of multi-asset solutions at the $800-million asset manager, says blockchain can enable complex portfo…
Bitcoin’s Freedom Money to set Independence day liquidity benchmark while Wall Street shuts down
With Wall Street and ETF rails shut, BTC keeps trading, proving that always-on access can also mean thinner liquidity…
OpenUSD’s partner mix-up puts its stablecoin alliance under scrutiny
A stablecoin built around a giant partner list now faces the question every coalition coin must answer: who is actual…
UK's bold new crypto rules promise to unlock global trading, but huge compliance hurdles still threaten the rollout
The U.K. FCA's crypto framework has been praised for prioritizing global liquidity and institutional adoption, but th…
Crypto wanted to replace Wall Street – Instead, Wall Street took over crypto
Crypto was founded on a simple premise: people should be able to send, hold, and manage money without going through a…
Crypto exchanges are selling stock options and tokenized stocks but users may not own what they think
Bitget launched US stock options this week and says no other major crypto exchange offers them. The product starts wi…
The fight over the UK’s digital pound has become a battle over crypto’s political influence
The standards request pushes the CBDC debate toward disclosure, political money, and who gets access while payment ru…
IMF says policy choices will determine whether tokenization strengthens or fragments the financial system
The IMF's Tobias Adrian said risks could shift from banks toward market infrastructure providers and smart contracts …
Cardano Development Activity Pushes Back Against ADA Price Stagnation
Cardano node releases show continued development work even as ADA remains stuck in a tight market range.
Tether Freezes USDT In 131 TRON Wallets After OFAC Sanctions Update
Tether froze USDT tied to 131 TRON wallets after an OFAC sanctions update, reviving the stablecoin compliance debate.
Bitcoin’s 14% Q2 drop came as stablecoin market contracts for first time since 2023
Bitcoin’s second-quarter slide unfolded alongside a rare contraction in the stablecoin market, adding another sign …
Tokenization could make finance faster, but also more susceptible to shocks, IMF says
Tokenization could make finance faster and cheaper. It also makes it more vulnerable to sudden shocks, the Internatio…