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The NYSE Just Picked Avalanche — and Tokenized Stocks Are Quietly Going Mainstream
Three U.S. tokenized-stock venues chose three different blockchains in a single week, as the market for blockchain-based shares hit $3.7 billion.
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Bitcoin, Explained: The Ledger That Runs Without a Bank
Bitcoin's real breakthrough was never the coin — it was a way to keep honest records without trusting any single institution.
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Paraguay's President Resigns as a Bank Collapse Leaves Millions Locked Out of Their Savings
Santiago Peña stepped down after the failure of digital lender Ueno Bank, as depositors turned to crypto for cash.
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Eighteen years on, bitcoin's old bailout argument lands on Main Street
On the anniversary of Satoshi's white paper, a CoinDesk opinion piece argues small businesses still pay for a rescue-first financial system — and that bitcoin offers a reserve no bailout can dilute.
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Why the midterms may barely move crypto
Grayscale argues that crypto's growth no longer hinges on who controls Congress, thanks to bipartisan support, global adoption, and deepening institutional ties.
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Druckenmiller's First X Post Is a Bet on Crypto's Wall Street Moment
The legendary investor used his social media debut to back a Hyperliquid trading venture, just as the NYSE's parent moves to bring perpetual futures to a regulated U.S. venue.
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A Quantum-Inspired Miner That Never Shares Its Secret Sauce
Quantum Blockchain Technologies says its Bitcoin mining software can squeeze more from existing rigs — without ever handing its methods to the hardware makers.
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A tiny trading startup just raised $7.2 million to connect Canton's tokenized assets to the rest of crypto
Cancore, live since April, wants to be the plumbing that lets tokenized real-world assets move between Canton and public blockchains — and investors just paid a $60 million token valuation to back the idea.
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Big companies are saying no to tokenized stocks — and that may be the point
A growing list of issuers objecting to a new tokenized-stock venue says less about tokenization itself than about how much control companies want over their own shares.
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DeFi's Next Growth Engine May Be the Oldest Trick in Banking: Fixed Rates
Lending in decentralized finance runs on volatile, utilization-based rates — a mismatch for tokenized real-world assets that settle slowly; a push toward fixed-rate, fixed-term loans could unlock billions in institutional demand.
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The $10 Billion Bet That a Quiet 5% Yield Beats a Loud 10% Loss
Crypto lending vaults have grown 2.5x in under two years by paying savers far more than banks do. The fine print says one bad day can erase a decade of that edge.
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Ledger Confirms Hardware Tampering in Reseller Wallets Tied to a $90 Million Theft
The wallet maker says every confirmed case involves devices sold through the Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis — and is urging affected customers to move their funds to a device bought directly from Ledger.
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Korea Is a Crypto Trading Giant and a Crypto Business Desert
A new competitiveness index ranks Korea 12th of 15 jurisdictions for crypto business — top-tier demand trapped behind last-place cross-border openness.
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Ether's steadiest buyer is almost done buying
Bitmine has scooped up ether every week since June 2025 — but its chairman says the buying spree ends at 5% of the circulating supply.
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Crypto's Next Big Idea Isn't a New Coin — It's Pricing Everything Else
From prediction markets to pre-IPO perpetuals, blockchain's second act is building always-on markets for things that never had one — and the winners will be whoever supplies the infrastructure.
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The XRP Shell Company That Nearly Quadrupled Before Its Merger Even Closed
Armada Acquisition Corp. II soared 273% in a week ahead of taking XRP treasury firm Evernorth public — a thinly traded run fueled by an 80% shareholder redemption.
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BlackRock Is Putting Entire Portfolios on the Blockchain — Not Just Assets
A new partnership with Ondo Finance moves tokenization past single stocks and funds to whole investment strategies packaged as tokens.
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It's Coming Home': Tether's $190B USDT Returns to Bitcoin After 12 Years
The world's largest stablecoin is heading back to the network it started on, with a Tether-backed project building private transfers, BTC swaps, and bitcoin-collateralized lending.
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The SEC Just Drew a Line in Tokenized Stocks — and the AMC Feud Shows Why
The SEC's new innovation exemption bars synthetic stock tokens, siding with real ownership as Robinhood and AMC's CEOs clash over tokens issued without consent.
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Hyperliquid's Jeff Yan: The Real Edge of Onchain Finance Isn't the 24-Hour Clock
At Korea Blockchain Week, Hyperliquid's co-founder argued that self-custody and transparency — not round-the-clock trading — are what truly separate onchain markets from traditional exchanges.
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The SEC's Transfer-Agent Overhaul Could Decide Tokenization's Future
The first major update to transfer-agent rules since the 1970s is drawing a line: blockchain records are welcome, but a token is not the same as equity.
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How Crypto's Biggest Bill Died: Inside the Clarity Act's Collapse
Months of negotiations, a massive lobbying campaign, and bipartisan energy — undone by ethics fights, a memecoin, and a midterm election.
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XRP Ledger's Batch Upgrade Gets Delayed Again as Validator Votes Reset
Validator support briefly dipped below the network's 80% threshold, restarting the two-week activation clock and pushing the earliest launch to October 9.
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Bitcoin Could Get Zcash-Style Privacy — Without Changing Bitcoin Itself
A new proposal from Alloc Init would hide Bitcoin transaction details with zero-knowledge proofs, and the base protocol wouldn't need to change at all.
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The Tokenized-Stock Fight Is Really About Who Builds a Real 24/7 Market
AMC's CEO called Robinhood's tokenized shares a 'quasi-fake market.' The SEC has drawn its line. But the deeper problem is that nobody has built the plumbing for actual around-the-clock stock trading.
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The Chain Moving $150 Billion a Week You've Probably Never Thought About
Tron started as a content-sharing moonshot and quietly became the settlement rail for the world's digital dollars — nearly 100 million transactions a week at seven cents apiece.
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Bitcoin's Quantum Insurance Policy Just Got 79% Cheaper
An experimental 'last-resort' quantum defense for Bitcoin fell from $320 to under $67 per transaction in a single week — turning a demo into something a whale might actually use.
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Treasury Secretary Bessent Tapped as Frontrunner for Trump's AI Czar
Days after Trump announced plans for an 'AI Force,' reports say Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leads the shortlist for the AI czar role — though the White House calls it speculation.
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Wall Street names the early winners of the SEC's tokenized-stock experiment
Analysts say Coinbase, Robinhood and Circle are best positioned to profit from a five-year exemption that lets tokenized U.S. stocks trade on blockchains — while Nasdaq and the NYSE look insulated, for now.
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Ripple says asset managers are preparing for XRP Ledger’s next payments upgrade
The upcoming Batch V1.1 can make linked asset and payment transfers succeed together or fail together, and Ripple says commercial projects are already being built around the feature after an...
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Solana speeds up blocks by 17%, but transaction capacity stays the same
The network is cutting its target slot time to 250 milliseconds, giving apps fresher blockchain data and validators shorter control windows while reducing the amount of work allowed in each slot.
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Iran’s Strait of Hormuz toll booth ran through a bitcoin exchange, U.S. says
Treasury sanctioned BitBank, a Tehran exchange it says moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled payments collected from ships buying passage through...
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Hamas military wing told donors to avoid sending crypto directly from Binance, DOJ filing shows
Hamas’ military wing advised donors not to use Binance to handle funds but rather to use Trust Wallet, Bybit, OKX, Kast and Redotpay to send funds to an external TRON wallet, according to recent U.S.
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The House just cleared the first federal crypto tax bill in a 38–5 vote
The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act would end the 'buy a coffee, trigger a tax maze' era — if Congress can act in the lame duck session.
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Circle just launched its own blockchain — and Wall Street is running it
Arc's mainnet went live with BlackRock, Visa, and DTCC as validators and a 10 billion-token genesis mint. Just don't call it a token launch — yet.
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CLARITY Act dies in the Senate — so the SEC and CFTC are going it alone
The Senate failed to advance crypto's landmark market-structure bill on Tuesday, and the agencies are already moving to fill the void with rulemaking.
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Bitcoin ETFs just had their worst day since June as the Fed hiked rates
Crypto funds shed nearly $593 million on Tuesday after the CLARITY Act failed, and the Fed's first rate hike since 2023 gave markets no reason to celebrate on Wednesday.
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