Kraken launches 24/7 tokenized US stocks on Solana
The xStocks launch turns Kraken into a 24-hour equities venue for crypto-native wallets, layering real-world asset rails onto Solana just as the broader RWA race accelerates.
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The xStocks launch turns Kraken into a 24-hour equities venue for crypto-native wallets, layering real-world asset rails onto Solana just as the broader RWA race accelerates.
Advisors are funding crypto from equities and cash, not from 'play money' allocations, and Bitwise is packaging the trade for the next 100K RIAs who don't want to pick tickers.
The feature routes through regulated brokers and lets users buy full or fractional shares with digital assets, narrowing the gap between crypto balances and traditional equity exposure.
Bitcoin is flat to slightly red on the week, the Fear & Greed Index is pinned at 20, and a fresh wave of bridge and protocol exploits has pushed June's hack count above 20.
The internet-only bank behind Korea's dominant payments super-app picks Solana over domestic chains, validating the network's pitch to incumbent finance and giving a credible Asia-Pacific remittance…
Europe's biggest banking push yet into on-chain money arrives as the euro stablecoin market sits at a fraction of the dollar's liquidity, raising the bar for a currency to become a default inside…
The National Business Corporate Pension Fund, a roughly ¥13 trillion pool, would route the slice through a passive fund run by a hedge fund, Nikkei says, marking a sovereign-tier first for Japan.
Seoul's third-largest internet-only bank is the first Korean digital bank to sign a one-to-one strategic MOU with the Solana Foundation, opening a path from remittance rails into payments and…
Bybit is the first major exchange to accept UBS's yield-bearing uMINT token as margin collateral, a step that turns a $9B tokenized-Treasury market from DeFi infrastructure into trading-floor…
Stratum V1 job templates are readable in cleartext on many GEO downlinks, turning every mining pool that pipes work over satellite into a passive target.
The exchange became the first crypto-native firm to win direct access to Federal Reserve payment rails, a precedent that resets the bar for every digital-asset bank chasing the same doorway.
A fresh wallet funded 4.24M USDC on the on-chain perp DEX and went long 500,000 oil contracts at 10x leverage, with a liquidation line at $71.50.
The 'never sell' pledge is colliding with debt service, dividends, and buybacks as some European treasury vehicles start treating BTC as working liquidity rather than a permanent reserve.
The former BitMEX CEO is rotating out of HYPE, NEAR, and Worldcoin on the bet that fiat liquidity is fully absorbed by AI — and Bitcoin won't be the safe haven if that bid breaks.
The promotion was off-platform by design — staged on near-identical lookalike pages — so the trades were never real bets and never touched Polymarket's settlement engine, leaving the question of…
The copper-gold ratio, the altcoin risk score at 8-11, and a PMI expansion are aligning for the first time in years — but the author admits the frustration is real and Bitcoin could still drop to the…
Strategy's founder argues the asset-only pitch is capped at crypto's existing audience — embedded products and capital-markets rails are how the next 99% gets tapped.
Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya are writing stablecoin rails into national law after Sub-Saharan Africa pulled $205B on-chain in a year — and nine of the world's 13 costliest remittance corridors…
It's a small product line — two index ETFs — but the structure reframes Bitcoin as a default cash-flow allocation for U.S. equity investors, not a separate buy decision.
MicroStrategy has stacked 499,096 BTC through 67 weekly purchases since 2020 — every hint from Saylor has preceded a disclosure, and this one dropped hours before the typical Monday filing window.