Cointelegraph Connect Cannes Recap: DeFi, RWAs Lead Web3 Bets
EthCC-week gathering drew Web3 builders, founders, and protocol leads to debate where DeFi, real-world assets, and infrastructure capital land next.
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EthCC-week gathering drew Web3 builders, founders, and protocol leads to debate where DeFi, real-world assets, and infrastructure capital land next.
Wall Street's split is no longer about trading volume — it's about whether the Everything Exchange thesis (stablecoins, derivatives, prediction markets) replaces the cycle the stock still trades on.
MoonPay, Ripple and Paxos leaders told Consensus Miami 2026 the GENIUS Act cleared the runway, but privacy, distribution and consumer rails still gate the next leg of stablecoin growth.
The world's largest wealth manager, sitting on $5.7T in assets, just added XRP to its disclosed book — the signal is less the size than who's holding it.
The 6th weekly gain is now in jeopardy after a geopolitics-led risk-off pull, while Saylor's threat to liquidate BTC reserves to pay dividends raises fresh questions about MSTR's treasury model.
The multi-zone AWS failure is the proximate cause, but the outage lands on a quarter already defined by a $1.49 per-share loss, 14% layoffs, and a fifth straight year of public-facing downtime.
Bitmine's 4.3% stake, $61M of ETF inflows and exchange reserves at a 2016 low point to the same story: structural supply removal, not speculative demand.
A weaker April payrolls print would reinforce the Fed-on-hold narrative and clear the path for risk assets; the swing factor is whether average hourly earnings come in hot at a 3.8% forecast, keeping…
Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee has flagged that BitMine could accumulate a position equivalent to 5% of Ethereum's…
The thesis isn't the quarter — it's the build-out. Retail and institutional derivatives, prediction markets, and a USDC / Base stack are starting to contribute real revenue, and Bernstein is willing…
The letter's real weight is the scale question: if a third-party stablecoin suddenly reaches Meta's 3.5 billion users, the issuer's risk controls, not the integration, become the regulatory…
Six positions, $16.7M deployed across trending perps — the breadth across AI-adjacent L1s, privacy, and an L2 bet is what stands out, not any single leg.
A $394M net loss, a 5-hour AWS-linked outage, and a $300B Artemis bull case collide in one quarter — Coinbase's transition story just got harder to underwrite.
ARK's CEO tells CZ the venue was cleared of triggering the $28B deleveraging event — the blame shifts to a software glitch, but the venue remains the same.
South Korea's largest exchange adding a fresh Layer 1 with EVM compatibility is a meaningful liquidity door for retail KRW flow, not just another listing.
100% YoY retail growth is the headline, but the 40% reduction in trapped settlement capital is the structural lever that explains why Mastercard, Binance, PayPal and Ripple are all leaning in.
Solana's 23% share of global blockchain developer mindshare has crossed Ethereum's 31% in new-builder inflows — and the gap is closing on every measurable axis, from weekly active devs to transaction…
Anthropic's deal to take the full 220,000-GPU, 300 MW Colossus 1 cluster puts SpaceX directly in the path of Bitcoin miners pitching themselves as AI infrastructure plays — and resets the bar on…
The roadmap lands in the middle of a 110% monthly ZEC rally and a $600M+ flow into shielded ZEC via Near Intents — adoption is now doing the work the privacy narrative used to do alone.
A near-unanimous DAO vote to free exploit-frozen ether now collides with a Manhattan court fight — the eight-day Constitutional AIP delay may be the only window that decides who gets the funds.