Ripple, JPMorgan, Mastercard move tokenized Treasuries on XRP
The first joint settlement across the three rails turns tokenized US Treasuries into working plumbing for institutional payments, not just a balance-sheet experiment.
The first joint settlement across the three rails turns tokenized US Treasuries into working plumbing for institutional payments, not just a balance-sheet experiment.
Three protocols with $2.3B combined just walked — the first measurable TVL migration since LayerZero admitted a Lazarus-linked RPC exploit and a 1/1 DVN misconfiguration.
Mike Belshe calls the 2030 warning a marketing pitch, but Project Eleven's real point — that Bitcoin's bottleneck is coordination, not cryptography — is harder to dismiss.
A single quarter of tokenized equity trading outpaced the prior six months, and tokenized gold has already cleared its full-year 2025 total — the RWA thesis is no longer hypothetical flow.
The world's largest asset manager filed to bring a Treasury-backed yield product on chain, and chose Ethereum over every other L1 — the same chain stablecoin holders already live on.
The argument hinges on a privacy collapse he sees coming for any persistent on-chain AI identity — and on a ZK API design that breaks the link between agent and on-chain footprint.
Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of Congress's most vocal crypto advocates, declared that the United States will "lead the…
The $292M Kelp DAO exploit exposed a single-verifier setup LayerZero now admits should never have shipped — and a 3.5-year-old multisig incident the protocol kept quiet until Friday.
Migration is not a technical problem but a coordination one — and on Bitcoin's governance timeline, even a decade may not be enough to move $3 trillion in elliptic-curve-secured assets before Q-Day.
The contract references the BVX index rather than spot price — a structurally different product than any existing US bitcoin derivative, and the next step after IBIT options took institutional open…
Brazilian savers in Recife now earn Aave yield on USDC, and Mexican and Argentine holders borrow against BTC and ETH without selling — DeFi stops being a niche experiment when the on-ramp stops being…
The pitch at Consensus Miami: agents need a funded wallet before they can do anything, and that cold-start gap is the niche crypto was built for — with X Money and a Grok wallet next on the runway.
Two SEC filings in one day push the largest asset manager deeper into tokenized finance as the RWA sector tops $30B — and put ERC-20 share registries on the table for a mainstream liquidity fund.
After weeks of blaming Kelp DAO, LayerZero took ownership of a 1-of-1 verifier config that turned into a single point of failure — and competitors are already collecting the refugee business.
Two L2 stalwarts push complementary upgrades — Base cuts confirmation latency with ZK proofs, Polygon brings shielded transfers to stablecoin rails — as Kalshi's $1B round underscores the…
Atkins' two-step — limited conditional access first, formal rulemaking second — borrows the path that produced Reg ATS in 1998 and signals the most constructive US crypto posture in years.
Delphi Digital frames Zcash as Bitcoin's privacy and post-quantum complement — shielded supply has nearly tripled since early 2025, and the Tachyon upgrade targets late 2026.
The $71M in ETH the Arbitrum DAO voted to return was frozen by plaintiffs holding a North Korea judgment — Aave will borrow against the shortfall and burn the seized rsETH to drain the hacker's…
In a May 1 interview with Peter McCormack, the Strategy founder framed Bitcoin as crisis-grade infrastructure for moving economic energy — not a replacement for banks, but a parallel rail no…
The BitMEX co-founder drew a parallel to the S&P 500 — where roughly 98% of constituents since 1929 have also gone bust — arguing that capital formation, not asset survival, is what defines the…