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If V4 ships what its execs are describing, the RWA onchain lending TAM stops being a slide-deck talking point and starts competing with traditional prime brokers for fee revenue.
Aave surged 19% on a Kraken-parent investment whisper and a buyback tease, while Solana rode tokenized-stock volume past $2.5B for an 80% share of on-chain equity trading.
The MAS action targets marketing language rather than core protocol mechanics, but it lands as the perps DEX courts institutional flow and US regulators sketch perp venue rules.
The WSJ scoop on paid actors staging wagers is now a formal congressional ask, putting prediction-market regulation back on the CFTC's front burner.
BlackRock's BUIDL fund, the marquee product on Securitize's rails, has already crossed $3B, so the listing lands with the largest TradFi tokenization pilot already live on the books.
Low redemption rates under 30% signal real holder conviction, not arbitrage, a notable vote of confidence for a tokenization platform listing into a still-cautious RWA market.
DKeX enters a market dominated by Polymarket and Kalshi, with DraftKings reporting consumer prediction-market volume above $3B since its December entry.
The run-rate crossed eight figures while the platform was still blocked from its largest addressable market, then US access flipped on, and the curve steepened without losing a beat.
Backed by BlackRock and Ark Invest, the tokenization infrastructure provider is set to trade on the NYSE on July 2 after lower-than-expected SPAC redemptions kept the PIPE intact.
The test is whether a bankruptcy-remote SPV, qualified custody, and first-loss retention can give institutional capital a reason to underwrite crypto-collateralized loans at scale.
Three straight quarters of decline have now wiped out 56% of liquid staking's peak capital, signaling a deeper DeFi liquidity drain rather than a routine cooldown.
Eleven of the index's 20 constituents traded green in the latest session, with AAVE and SOL setting the pace while ETH and NEAR lagged.
The firm's fourth fund doubles down on its crypto roots while formally broadening into AI and robotics, a signal that top-tier venture capital still sees crypto-native deal flow as a viable anchor…
Borrowing against tokenized gold without selling the underlying ounce mirrors BTC-collateralized lending and turns XAUT into a productive, not just store-of-value, asset.
Kalshi alone holds $1.2B of the total, a 91.9% monthly jump, as the FIFA tournament pulls retail and event-driven flow into a category still finding its legs.
Twelve of the 15 protocols Grayscale tracks trade at single-digit revenue multiples. Clearer market-structure rules could pull banks and asset managers onto public chains, and that revaluation case…
A week of project-level pivots across L2s, perps, and prediction markets, headlined by Sophon's Base migration and Berachain's BGT fork.
BSC took DEX flow, Tron took stablecoins, Bitcoin took collateral, Base took L2 activity, and Hyperliquid took perps. Ethereum's dominance is being chipped away, market by market.
Backed by BlackRock and Coinbase, Securitize lands on Wall Street as Standard Chartered projects tokenized assets will hit $2.7T by 2030.
The refund pledge buys goodwill, but a third-party vendor breach, repeated phishing incidents, and a federal marketing investigation now converge on the prediction market at the same time.
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