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The move ties Coinbase directly to the reserve infrastructure that compliant USDC-style stablecoins will sit on once the GENIUS Act takes effect — the first major exchange to write a check into a…
Sky backs its dollar with crypto collateral; Ethena earns it with perpetual futures; Frax tried a middle path and nearly collapsed. Here is how each model works and where each one breaks.
US spot ETFs bled $4B in June while Tokyo, Seoul and Luxembourg quietly absorbed the next wave of structural adoption, drawing a sharper line between retreat and construction.
Whales pulled $478M of ETH off exchanges as oil spiked and Bitcoin slid under $64K on Iran strikes, exposing a diverging risk read between the two majors.
Arbitrum runs the deepest L2 DeFi liquidity in crypto, but its L3 Orbit thesis is still mostly speculative. Here is what actually works, and what does not.
CLARITY Act momentum collides with an August deadline it likely cannot meet, while ETF flows, RWA tokenization and macro shocks tug the tape in opposite directions.
Spot ETF outflows crossed $6B while BlackRock quietly rotated coins to Coinbase Prime. The bid is gone; the conviction isn't.
Perp funding is paid every 8 hours and can flip negative. CEX borrow APR compounds daily. Here is who actually pays which, and when.
LEO is Bitfinex's exchange token, but it doubles as a credit claim on the firm. Here's what holders actually get and what they don't.
A shock $7.7B stablecoin exit on US-Iran strikes says risk-off is real, but Vanguard, BitMine and a $500M ETF bid say positioning is already hunting the bottom.
Ondo Finance tokenizes US Treasuries into USDY and OUSG, gated to verified investors. Here's how each product differs and what ONDO the token actually does.
A Brent spike above $90, fresh Tokyo clarity, and a $105M ETH ETF day redraw the East-West rails just as Western risk-off sets in.
USDC and USDT face payment-stablecoin rules. BUIDL and OUSG look more like funds. The line between them is the fight.
RWA listings now claim one in five CEX slots, ETF flows turn after eight weeks of bleeding, and a Hedera oracle exploit reminds the market what utility actually costs.
BTC slides under $63K as KOSPI craters and longs get liquidated, yet ICE-OKX and a flood of stablecoin rails keep the institutional bid very much alive.
Bitcoin is wedged at $64K while ETF outflows, EU sanctions and a stalled CLARITY Act test just how patient institutional money really is.
ETF inflows returned, but the institutional tape tells a quieter story: rotation, not conviction, with desks parked in stables and tokenized Treasurys.
A landmark Wall Street push into BTC, ETH and SOL lands on the same day ETF flows flirt with record lows. The contradiction is the story.
Celestia sells data availability, not execution. Here is what it actually does, which rollups use it, and why TIA's 8% inflation has split the community.
A softer oil impulse helped BTC reclaim $65K, but the next leg now sits with central banks, PCE data and whether ETF demand holds into the bid.
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