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Canton advances cross-border repo to free up $300 trillion assets via tokenization
A group of global financial firms tokenized a repo transaction with U.K. government bonds for the first time.
Binance denies firing investigators over reported $1.7 billion crypto flows to Iran
Reports claim that internal investigators discovered that a substantial amount of crypto flowed into Iran through Bin…
Crypto.com secures conditional OCC approval in bid to become a federally regulated bank
Crypto.com has secured conditional approval from the OCC to pursue a federally chartered national bank license in the…
Backpack to offer users access to equity representing 20% of the company via one-year token staking
Backpack said users who stake its token for a year will have the opportunity to exchange them for equity in the company.
Stablecoins could drive $1 trillion in T-bill demand, giving Treasury room to shift issuance: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered said stablecoin growth could generate up to $1 trillion in new T-bill demand by 2028, potentially …
The Funding: Why TradFi giants like BlackRock are buying DeFi tokens now
BlackRock, Apollo, and Citadel have acquired or agreed to acquire DeFi tokens. Here’s why and what it really signals.
Trump’s crypto firm made $1.2 billion in 16 months because it found a way to sell resort debt as tokens
A Trump-linked crypto firm is bringing the former president's brand into the structured credit market. World Liberty …
To freeze or not to freeze: Satoshi and the $440 billion in bitcoin threatened by quantum computing
As quantum computing inches closer to reality, nearly 7 million bitcoin, including Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1 million coi…
Mentioning 'bitcoin' or crypto on AI agent OpenClaw's Discord will get you banned
The project's creator nearly deleted the viral AI agent after crypto scammers hijacked his accounts, launched a fake …
CryptoQuant says bitcoin whale deposit activity grows amid ongoing bear phase
CryptoQuant said the exchange whale ratio has risen to 0.64, the highest level since 2015, suggesting whales are lead…
IoTeX Suffers $8 Million Hack After Private Key Compromise
As the crypto industry adopts AI-focused blockchain netowrk it is exposing itself to more security risks. IoTeX, a b…
BNP Paribas taps Ethereum for new money market fund tokenization pilot
The tokenized shares were issued by the BNP Paribas’ AssetFoundryTM platform using a "permissioned access model on …
Bitcoin may tumble toward $30,000 next year unless it shows real progress toward quantum proof upgrades
Bitcoin's current bear market could worsen over the next year if the flagship digital asset fails to address concerns…
Dubai takes next step to make real estate flips instant in $16 billion tokenization plan
Dubai Land Department and Ctrl Alt move to the next phase of real estate tokenization project, enabling the resale of…
Ethereum’s 2026 roadmap just hit — but ETH won’t recover until one metric flips
Ethereum’s new roadmap lands in a market that is less interested in vision and more interested in evidence. That is…
RWA issuers prioritize capital formation over liquidity, according to Brickken survey
Exclusive fourth quarter data shows 69.2% of issuers are live, while 84.6% report regulatory friction shaping tokeniz…
The Bitcoin CME gap is dead – and past gaps could close forever in May this year
CME Group has spent most of its life as the financial plumbing moving the gears behind wheat hedges, rate bets, equit…
Fintech firm Newity raises $11 million to bring small business loans onchain
Newity has raised $11 million in new funding led by CMT Digital as it explores taking its small business lending plat…
Gemini stock slump may already factor in leadership exits, Mizuho says
Mizuho keeps its $26 price target for Gemini and argues cost reductions and a narrower geographic focus could improve…
Tokenized xStocks surpass $25 billion in total transaction volume: Kraken
This lifetime transaction total includes about $3.5 billion in onchain trading activity across Solana, Ethereum, and …
The Daily: Hacker returns $21 million in stolen bitcoin, Robinhood Chain testnet hits four million transactions in first week, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
ProShares launches first stablecoin-ready money market ETF under GENIUS Act
IQMM follows the GENIUS Act’s 93-day Treasury requirement, effectively narrowing reserve management to short-term g…
Robinhood vs. Vitalik: Why the trading app is building it own L2 while Ethereum founder cools on them
Centralized exchanges are moving forward building their own blockchain infrastructure even as the broader Ethereum ec…
Trump-linked World Liberty taps BlackRock-backed Securitize for hotel tokenization
The companies are working to structure and tokenize loan revenue tied to the Trump Organization's Maldives resort pro…
CME Group to launch 24/7 crypto futures and options trading on May 29
CME Group will begin offering 24/7 cryptocurrency futures and options trading on May 29 as volumes hit record highs.
SocGen taps XRP Ledger for euro stablecoin distribution
The French banking giant expands its euro stablecoin to a third blockchain, deepening institutional use of XRPL for c…
Crypto VC funding surging again sounds like a rally, until you trace where the money actually lands
Dragonfly Capital closed its fourth fund at $650 million this week, the same size as its 2022 vehicle, raised into a …
Robinhood’s Layer 2 testnet sees four million transactions in first week, CEO Vlad Tenev says
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum designed to support tokenized real-world assets and onchain …
South Korea’s Hanwha makes a $13 million bet on ‘seedless’ crypto wallets
The South Korean financial firm backs the U.S.-based blockchain company to accelerate enterprise wallet technology an…
Real estate billionaire Barry Sternlicht is ready to tokenize assets, but says U.S. regulation blocks it
The $125 billion real estate firm wants to offer blockchain-based tokens to clients but is stalled by regulation.