Two of TradFi's most active tokenization players are joining forces: a $1.5T asset manager and the parent of one of the largest US crypto exchanges.
The round lands in a year that's already seen nearly $3B stolen in crypto — and it funds an agentic-AI roadmap for the compliance backbone that two-thirds of global crypto trading volume already runs…
The deal pairs one of crypto's deepest exchange balance sheets with one of TradFi's longest-running tokenization efforts — a structural vote on BENJI as 24/7 collateral, not a marketing partnership.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation — the rail that processed $4.7 quadrillion in securities transactions last year — is wiring Chainlink's data layer into a tokenized collateral platform…
Revenue fell 23% year-over-year to $37M as the former bitcoin miner retools into AI infrastructure, but $533M in total liquidity keeps the build-out funded through the transition.
strkBTC is a Starknet-native BTC wrapper — the privacy layer runs on the L2, not on Bitcoin itself, so bitcoin stays on its base chain while shielded balances live elsewhere.
The bad debt is gone, but the road back is brutal: FLUID buybacks paused, incentives cut or removed, and an oracle + pricing-system overhaul on the slate before the next product wave.
Backed by the $55.6M AEON Omiya commercial site and built on the ibet for Fin blockchain, the structure brings regulated on-chain real estate exposure to Japanese retail investors.
The capital is flowing back: $65M of spot SOL ETF inflows over May 4–11 mark the strongest stretch in months, while Alpenglow's 150ms finality pitch lands just as the bid returns.
The treasury drawdown sent MARA from second to fourth among public bitcoin holders — a structural reordering, not a quarter-end liquidity shuffle, with 90% of non-hosted power earmarked for AI…
The AI firm won't recognize any transfer of its private shares — including through SPVs or tokenized pre-IPO offerings — as crypto venues race to repackage restricted equity for retail traders.
Iagon's new Cardano Vault, built with Fireblocks, is the chain's bid to be included in the next institutional allocation cycle — but TVL of $141M and stablecoin cap under $50M mean the rails arrive…
The 30,765 ETH is a sliver of Aave TVL but the precedent is the story: a DAO-level vote becomes the legal bridge between DeFi custody and a US terrorism judgment.
The Bridgewater founder cited a 0.90 90-day BTC-Nasdaq correlation and the public ledger's traceability as structural reasons gold still wins the reserve-asset debate.
The feature is a protocol-layer design, not a dApp workaround — moving the privacy boundary from MEV bots to the network itself changes the threat model for every Aptos DEX and bridge.
The BitMEX co-founder ties the US-China AI buildout to an accelerating credit cycle he says is engineered to debase the dollar — Bitcoin is just the cleanest expression of the trade.
BitMEX's co-founder ties the call to a structural credit-expansion thesis — AI buildout, war spending, and infrastructure stimulus in both USD and RMB — and says momentum will accelerate once $90K…
The point isn't whether chains are immutable in theory — it's whether governance can move fast enough when it isn't.
Glamsterdam testing advanced at the Svalbard interop, but the leadership turnover — Beiko and Monnot out, Corcoran, Wedderburn and Fredrik in — is the beat every Ethereum dev channel will read.
Pavel Durov announced that TON's newly released AI-ready toolchain delivers a tenfold improvement in smart contract…
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