SEC Opens $77T US Stock Market to Blockchain Trading
The five-year test moves tokenized equities closer to US markets, but issuer vetoes, permissioned access and trading caps keep the experiment tightly controlled.
The five-year test moves tokenized equities closer to US markets, but issuer vetoes, permissioned access and trading caps keep the experiment tightly controlled.
The position opens a compliant path to broader derivatives access while keeping custody, trading signals and execution discretion outside the software layer.
The move gives builders a clearer route into crypto derivatives infrastructure while leaving the boundary between passive software and regulated intermediation as the key issue.
The move turns Phantom-specific relief into a broader path for connecting users to regulated derivatives markets, but its durability still depends on future rulemaking.
The decision offers a clearer path for software providers, but the attached conditions will determine how much compliance uncertainty the industry actually sheds.
SPGI is not a name TradFi allocators would expect to buy a crypto-native security firm. With 900+ audits and the dominant smart contract library under SPGI, onchain risk assessment gains a…
Two prior audits cleared the affected code; the bug only surfaced when signature verification, replay protection, and transaction execution were tested together as a system rather than three separate…
Auto-renewal lets operators compound rewards without manual restaking, but the new 90% uptime rule means a missed cycle now costs an exit, not just a forfeited payout.
Three dashboards name three different majority clients, while privacy research could strip away the very traces analysts use to measure concentration risk.
Visa and Ripple on the same cap table for a B2B payments startup is the structural signal: traditional card-network money and crypto-native rails are co-investing in the same settlement layer.
The gap puts break-even throughput near 45 TPS, an order of magnitude above today's ~0.3 TPS. Capacity solutions like Leios are advancing; demand for paid transaction activity remains the open…
Ten billion ARC tokens were minted as a technical milestone, but the real story is the validator bench: BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Mastercard, and Visa anchoring a Layer 1 where gas is paid in USDC and…
The move puts Musk's private-space giant at fresh highs on secondary markets, a signal of how institutional appetite for pre-IPO equity keeps tightening.
A 0x analysis of 84,163 hooks across six chains classified over half as malicious, and the flagged pools are winning route comparisons only to pay traders far less at execution.
The post-cross pullback has historically been 10-15% in confirmed bull cycles and 50-60% when the bear continued; the bounce structure, not the drop, is what decides which analogue is running.
Ethereum's EIP-8141 prioritizes privacy, censorship resistance and quantum-safe accounts, while Base's EIP-8130 optimizes for high volume and compliance, forcing cross-network wallets to support both.
A jump from 7.25% to two-thirds turnout, with shielded-pool voting letting ZEC holders decide NU7's roadmap without exposing their balances.
Solana needs 66% of stake voting to maintain finality and halts near 33% offline; the Aug. 12 outage sat 4-5 percentage points under that line, exposing how thin a single failure domain leaves the…
Reopening public node access is operational progress, not a security all-clear: aelf's full post-incident review is still unpublished, and node-level credential exposure remains unresolved.
PSBTv2 by default, parallel prefetch and a leaner transaction index are real upgrades, but the RC window is when wallets, exchanges and node operators should be stress-testing before the Oct.