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A first-week $3.1B DEX print puts a brand-new L2 ahead of chains that took years to scale, but the real signal is the $300M stablecoin base already funding the activity.
The HIP-3 slice of Hyperliquid's open interest is doing the heavy lifting: $3.69B is a new high and signals real-money demand for the platform's permissionless perps rails, not just HYPE-native flow.
54 firms, the City of London, and HM Treasury now have a one-year clock to ship live tokenized-repo use cases, with the RWA prize pegged at $88T by 2035.
The Japanese asset manager has folded the Solana Foundation into its SBI Solana Global venture alongside Sumitomo Mitsui, a structural vote of confidence in SOL as Asia's RWA and stablecoin rail.
Ripple's public backing lands the same week the UK Treasury unveiled a wholesale-market tokenization roadmap, giving TradFi a concrete citable figure for the upside case.
The Fundstrat co-founder is publicly bullish on ETH outperformance while his own firm's internal model has Bitcoin testing $60K and ETH near $1,800, levels the market is already trading at.
JPYSC, tokenized RWAs and cross-border settlement land on Solana through a renamed SBI R3 Japan vehicle, putting a top-30 Japanese financial group behind the L1's institutional push.
Japan's SBI, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, and the Solana Foundation are pooling under a renamed SBI Solana Global to push JPY stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and institutional onchain services into…
Three live governance votes turn the switch on v2/v3, v4, and bridge-level fee capture, with proceeds routed into UNI buybacks rather than the treasury.
Exchange rounds are pulling the largest median crypto VC checks this year, ahead of brokerage, stablecoin, and CeFi deals, a sign capital is concentrating where liquidity and trading revenue already…
A regulated Japanese conglomerate offering a yield-bearing yen stablecoin product puts institutional-grade infrastructure behind the yen on-chain market, and pressures USDC and USDT in the corridor.
The 3% yield is the signal: SBI is pricing JPYSC lending above JPY bank-deposit rates to pull capital into a yield-bearing stablecoin use case that targets Japanese retail.
The platform has moved $750M for 1.5M users since launch, and it still lets you trade Monero and Zcash while major exchanges have delisted them.
The PVARA chairman's push for parallel Sharia and technical vetting of stablecoins and RWA tokens arrives as Pakistan chases a sovereign stablecoin and tokenized state assets.
The category leads all crypto sub-sectors in average round size this year, running well ahead of exchanges and blockchain infrastructure as capital consolidates around narrative.
The growth matters less for its own balance sheet than for the proof that tokenized government paper is being used as collateral inside other digital asset products, not just marketed.
A 105% weekly jump on a single chain lifts BlackRock's tokenized Treasury fund to a $2.87B total, the strongest signal yet that on-chain RWAs are absorbing institutional balance-sheet allocation…
The thesis rests on three structural shifts rather than a single catalyst: SEC clarity in 2025, $1.4B+ in spot XRP ETF inflows already locked in, and RLUSD scaling into Japan and MiCA-regulated…
A single verifier-side price bug let an attacker mint $9M of unbacked borrowing power on Hedera's largest lending market.
The attacker slipped a fake price past Supra oracle verification, borrowing $10M against 250 worthless SAUCE tokens. Nearly all of Hedera's DeFi value walked out the door in 24 hours.
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