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RWA-linked derivative volume hit roughly $300B in June across Binance, Hyperliquid and OKX. Pepperstone's perpetual CFD product carries that mechanic onto ASIC and FCA rails.
The regulated broker's perpetual CFDs route crypto-style funding rates through a familiar overnight swap, targeting a market where weekend volumes already cleared $20B in June.
A hypothetical Stripe-Advent takeover of PayPal would put two of the largest payment rails under one roof, and a Polygon Labs executive argues that concentration is what finally pushes mainstream…
The third-party HIP-3 builder swap points to Skew becoming the operating perps venue tied to Hyperion's HYPE-denominated treasury, with revenue share layered in.
The $300B+ Nasdaq-100 ETF becomes the largest TradFi fund to issue a tokenized share class, deepening Wall Street's conviction that onchain rails belong in mainstream portfolio plumbing.
Wall Street's largest wealth manager bringing digital-asset rails in-house reframes the institutional custody race, and tightens the gap between TradFi balance sheets and on-chain credit markets.
The volume split shows where the next cycle's on-chain liquidity is actually settling: Solana still leads DEX activity by a wide margin, with the Robinhood chain now a credible runner-up.
Jesse Pollak admits the social-and-content-coins bet was a detour. The 2026 priorities (perpetuals, tokenized stocks, stablecoin rails, AI-agent payments) put Base back in the L2 infrastructure race.
The leadership swap is a quiet admission that Base's socialfi experiments never found product-market fit, with the L2 now doubling down on trading, stablecoin payments, and AI agents.
Coins leaving Binance typically signal accumulation, but XRP is still 70% below its all-time high and order flow has stayed seller-controlled since the $2.00 print earlier this year.
DTCC processes real equity, ETF and Treasury trades as blockchain tokens on its production rails, with JPMorgan, Goldman, BlackRock and Vanguard among two dozen participants, ahead of an October…
The partnership targets primary issuance rather than wrapped exposure, putting tokenization inside the IPO process itself as DTCC, JPMorgan, Goldman and BlackRock push the same direction.
Tokenization is "pure organic growth," and the roadmap points to tokenized Treasuries, iShares ETFs, and private markets sitting inside investor wallets alongside crypto and stablecoins.
Lightspeed Faction led a round that drew Franklin Templeton and Coinbase Ventures, backing Glacis's push beyond stablecoins into tokenized securities and FX on a single clearing layer.
Maclear's Vibroedil default settled at full principal recovery via Italian pledge law, the first real-world stress test of whether an on-chain credit claim is still enforceable off-chain.
The attacker weaponized a registered forwarder and future-dated oracle reports to mint artificial trading profits, draining the OLP Vault before the team froze trading.
Dedicated, strategy-specific vaults for BTC, ETH and stablecoins target the structural gap that stopped pensions and funds from parking idle crypto on institutional desks.
Bitwise flags the widest gap this cycle between the 36% drawdown in crypto assets and the 23% return in crypto equities, with tokenized RWAs already at a record $33B in Q2.
An onchain attacker drained an estimated $18M from Ostium vaults before the protocol halted trading, the latest in a string of DeFi derivatives incidents testing offchain risk engines.
The attacker used Ostium's own Gelato-run price automation against it, forging future-dated oracle reads to extract an $18M USDC payout. It is the second major oracle hit in a week.
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