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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.
Ondo's vice chairman maps market infrastructure, customer-driven and issuer-sponsored paths and warns that picking a winner at the starting line puts US capital markets at a global disadvantage.
A tokenized stock is usually a structured note, not a share. You get the price exposure but not the share itself, and that gap hides issuer, redemption, and legal risks most users miss.
Banks pushed Congress to strip passive stablecoin rewards — Coinbase and Ethena are now testing whether activity-based yield on idle USDC balances can route around the ban.
AI tokens aren't all structured the same. TAO, VIRTUAL, FET, VVV, and RENDER share a label but hide very different supply, unlock, and fee-capture designs.
Gold tokens like PAXG and XAUT track metal prices with no yield. T-bill tokens like BUIDL and OUSG pass through ~4-5% yield but add custodial and KYC layers. They're different tools, not rivals.
Bessent's America 250 speech framed digital assets as instruments of American economic statecraft, while his principle-one industrial buildout dovetails with six straight months of expanding PMI.
Two CoinDesk reads argue the plumbing of crypto matters more than the asset: forced June selling in BTC peaked near $68K, three days above the eventual $59,081 low.
Nikhil Sharma, a senior figure at BlackRock, is making the case that tokenization fundamentally dismantles one of…
Buybacks and burns give investors a direct value-accrual lens, while Hougan argues token prices have yet to reflect the revenue shift.
A usage-based rewards carve-out resolves the longest-running dispute between banks and crypto firms over stablecoins — and Coinbase's Brian Armstrong publicly backing it signals the industry is…
Vitalik's same-week critique of Coinbase's grip on Base, which captures 60% of L2 revenue, adds a governance crack to the L2 trust stack already stressed by Aztec's stuck stake.
Marketed as 24/7, most tokenized Treasuries actually settle T+1 with minimums and gates. Here's what BUIDL, OUSG, USDY, and USYC can and can't do.
USDC and USDT face payment-stablecoin rules. BUIDL and OUSG look more like funds. The line between them is the fight.
EigenLayer lets stakers re-use staked ETH to secure additional services on top of Ethereum. Here is how restaking works and what EIGEN does.
Tokenized money market funds are regulated fund shares with floating NAVs, while stablecoins are payment tokens pegged to $1. The legal wrapper changes everything.
DAI is the original decentralized stablecoin — born on Ethereum, governed by MakerDAO, backed by crypto collateral. Here is how it actually holds its peg, what changed with the USDS rebrand, and how it compares to USDT and USDC.
EURC and EURI are MiCA-compliant euro stablecoins, but most volume still runs through USD-pegged tokens like USDC and USDT in Europe.
EU and U.S. regulators let stablecoin issuers avoid interest bans by routing yield through third-party protocols. Here is how that loophole actually works.
Most tokenized real-world assets sit behind an upgradeable contract controlled by a small multisig. A compromise there can rewrite the rules.
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