Ondo launches execution network to close CEX-grade speed gap
The launch pairs CEX-like speed with non-custodial trading and onchain settlement, and now powers Ondo Perps, layering derivatives onto the firm's RWA stack.
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The launch pairs CEX-like speed with non-custodial trading and onchain settlement, and now powers Ondo Perps, layering derivatives onto the firm's RWA stack.
The brokerage partnership is a stepping stone, not the headline: Metaplanet is laying groundwork for 4–6% bitcoin-backed bonds that may eventually settle on-chain via stablecoin.
The deal hands Fanatics full control to list and clear its own event contracts, putting it in direct competition with Kalshi and Polymarket as prediction markets go mainstream.
Participants can stake BGB or AEON tokens between July 27 and August 1, 2026 to earn a share of the 1,166,666 AEON reward pool.
AMINA is a regulated bank with $245M already raised and Tier 1 capital near $91M, so the pitch is structural growth capital, not a quick SPAC listing.
The dual move stacks more ETH per share on the corporate treasury while shrinking float, a textbook combination for a DAT amplifying its per-share NAV.
The IP spans foundational blockchain technology, banking, and supply chain verification, and directly underpins USDC, the Circle Payments Network, and the Arc blockchain.
Grayscale's sit-down with Ripple SVP Jack McDonald frames a decade-long arc from a single-purpose payments company to a full-stack institutional finance platform.
The price target barely moves, but the buy thesis does: cash on the balance sheet makes the next leg of MSTR's bitcoin accumulation a financing question, not a will question.
The exchange made customers whole by October 2021, but the regulator's criminal referral over disclosure failures now lands as the precedent Thai-licensed venues will be measured against.
The patent haul gives Circle, already the second-largest stablecoin issuer, a defensive IP moat that rivals will struggle to replicate quickly.
The founding argument is a Hugging Face breach in which closed AI tools reportedly blocked the forensic response; the alliance open-sources the stack defenders say they need to actually inspect…
The BlackRock and Apollo partner now holds a broker-dealer, ATS, transfer agent, fund admin and adviser license, the broadest stack among tokenization issuers as Peirce signals vault oversight is…
Hyperliquid's oil-perp volume hit a $1.2B record on a Sunday while CME sat dark, and Energy Aspects says the long-standing Friday volatility discount in WTI options is narrowing as traders finally…
The piece argues the convergence of post-2022 Treasury dominance over low-risk DeFi yields and a multi-year EU SME lending gap is what built the case for RWA private credit.
Bitmine now holds 4.8% of circulating ether and just stepped up share buybacks, while Lee frames the climbing ETH/BTC ratio as the real signal that crypto risk appetite is rebuilding.
BitMart hasn't declared a liquidity shortfall, but Nansen-tracked ETH and stablecoin balances were drained before the closure notice and 58 wallets pulled just $805K in the first 24 hours, which is…
The undisclosed-price deal vaults Circle past Bank of America and Advanced New Technologies as the largest US blockchain patent holder, with USDC, Arc, and AI-agent tooling as named deployment…
The accumulation engine that defined 2024 has now idled for over a month as the firm pivots to a $3.75B cash buffer, a regime change investors should price in.
The deal folds 60M+ created wallets and a deep embedded-wallet developer stack into Kraken, while Magic's core team spins out as Newton Labs to ship its onchain authorization layer.