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The headline number is the 314% YTD cap jump, but the more durable signal is consolidation: bStocks and Robinhood now run 87.8% of tracked issuer volume after holding 0.8% three months ago.
This is permission to operate an existing market-neutral crypto book more cheaply, not a capital loosening: risk weights stay at 100%, the 5% Net Tier 1 cap holds, and Group 2b treatment remains…
Tokenized deposits put commercial bank money on programmable rails. The move puts Canadian banks ahead of US and EU counterparts still drafting frameworks.
A top-tier Italian lender moving into crypto custody plus tokenized products is the kind of TradFi validation Europe's institutional sector has been waiting for, with RWA flows now landing on a major…
A one-hour $255M flush of short-side leverage clears speculative bears and resets derivatives positioning, leaving the next directional move cleaner than the tape has been in weeks.
A 41% probability on a 25% upside from $80 implies roughly a 10% expected return, the kind of math the market prices when conviction on either side is muted.
Calling Sky 'DeFi's federal bank,' Standard Chartered argues the issuer-lender model mirrors central banking, with $5.9B already borrowed and a $17.5B ceiling that could triple distributable income.
With no change at 39%, a hold remains a material alternative; larger hikes and both cut scenarios each sit below 1%, while other gauges have diverged.
The rise gives Ethereum's DeFi ecosystem a larger pool of staking-linked liquidity.
Capital meets market integrity: Nasdaq gains a financial stake in Payward's multi-asset venues while embedding its surveillance stack, pushing tokenized equities toward a Q2 2027 launch.
Shorts absorbed nearly two-thirds of the 24h wipeout, the kind of asymmetric positioning reset that has historically preceded spot upside when it follows consolidation rather than a fresh leg down.
Maharashtra is also drafting the DELTA Act, which would make it the first Indian state with a dedicated blockchain-property law. The precedent reaches well beyond power lines.
The clarification gives federally regulated banks a path to blockchain-based deposit products while keeping existing prudential, technology and risk-management rules in force.
The move strengthens the bridge between regulated institutions and DeFi and real-world asset markets, bringing traditional bank money closer to programmable settlement.
The deal turns a March partnership into the most concrete US push yet for tokenized equities carrying full voting rights. NYSE is racing to build its own 24/7 tokenized venue.
A newly created wallet moved 22,686 SOL off Binance and has already deployed $1.7M of it into a single Solana token, a pattern typical of high-conviction speculative plays on low-cap memecoins.
Jenson's mandate covers capital strategy and operating discipline as Polymarket races to scale its CFTC-regulated U.S. exchange after years of being locked out of the American market.
The revised bill adds explicit DeFi requirements and a credit union fix, signaling that lawmakers are sharpening the framework before it faces a full Senate vote next week.
The position on Aster's perp DEX signals confident directional conviction in CL, with a 4x leverage ratio amplifying both the upside already banked and the liquidation risk still on the table.
A sudden Zcash price drop triggered back-to-back forced closures, erasing 3,848.5 ZEC across two leveraged long positions and underscoring the thin liquidity that makes mid-cap altcoin perps…
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