XRP’s 44% rally brings leverage back, raising risk of sharper pullback
CryptoQuant data show XRP’s estimated leverage ratio on Binance at its highest since January, with long accounts outnumbering shorts as futures volume runs more than five times spot trading.
Crypto greed gauge hits highest since just before October’s $19 billion wipeout
The Fear & Greed Index reached 74 on Tuesday after sitting at 27 less than two weeks ago, showing how quickly traders have gone from caution to chasing risk.
Bitcoin holds $79,000, ether, solana slip as traders bank a week of gains
Every major token fell over 24 hours except HYPE, though bitcoin holds a 23% weekly gain and XRP almost 45%.
U.S. state banking associations plan to launch their own nationwide blockchain network
The "BankChain Alliance" is aiming for a 2027 launch, and would foster stablecoins, payments and tokenized deposits inside the banking system's regulatory sphere.
Zerohash back for second effort at OCC trust bank charter
The crypto infrastructure firm failed to get approval when it first sought a U.S. charter, and the company is quickly back with what it said would be a narrower effort.
South Korea trade giant POSCO brings trade receivables to Avalanche in latest tokenization move
The $22 billion trading company worked with Olea and Intain on the transaction, following an Injective pilot with LG CNS last month.
LayerZero unveils trading infrastructure for crypto and tokenized markets, ZRO surges
The trading infrastructure runs on LayerZero's Zero blockchain, backed by Citadel Securities with DTCC and ICE exploring institutional market applications.
Bitwise turns Coinbase's tokenized stocks into automated AI, robotics and tech portfolios
The crypto ETF issuer is pushing deeper into onchain asset management as tokenization create new ways to build and manage investments.
Crypto custody firm Copper has potential buyers. But offers are way below its $500 million asking price
Once valued at $2.5 billion, Copper was being marketed by investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald at around $500 million in May this year.
SEC resurrecting U.S. crypto custody rule the previous administration failed to land
In 2023, the regulator tried to narrowly restrict the places investment advisers could park clients' crypto assets, but the new approach is still shrouded in secrecy.
Nvidia shares rise after earnings top estimates, guides to $108 billion in revenue next quarter
The tech bellwether reported fiscal second-quarter results after the bell on Wednesday.
South Korea’s top financial conglomerate team up with Visa to test stablecoin issuance and B2B settlements
Shinhan Financial Group will use Visa’s platform to test stablecoin issuance, remittance, and redemption while building new AI-powered payment models.
Crypto Long & Short: Tokenized equities: the model underneath the trade
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, CoinDesk's Joshua DeVos writes that demand for tokenized equities is accelerating fast, from $16 billion to more than $590 billion in perpetual futures in a single year, but that the headline growth hides the question that matters most. Two tokens can trade under the same ticker whi…
Ethereum developers propose first step to protect ETH staking from quantum attacks
A draft proposal would allow validators to deposit with quantum-resistant keys, then permanently stop accepting the format the network runs on today.
The evidence doesn't support the banks' case against stablecoin rewards
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Dallas Fed warns tokenized deposits could strip $700 billion from U.S. banks' lending capacity
Programmable deposits and AI agents may enable instantaneous, automated bank switching for higher yields, driving up bank funding costs.
ECB claims digital euro will offer 'maximum level of privacy' amid surveillance fears
Central bank officials say the Eurosystem will be structurally unable to link users to purchases, but civil society groups remain skeptical.
The 3 catalysts that could define bitcoin's next move
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