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Standard Chartered forecasts SKY rising fivefold to $0.325 by 2028
Standard Chartered released a price forecast for SKY, the governance token of Sky Protocol (formerly MakerDAO), projecting the token to reach $0.325 b…
India launches tokenized bond pilot with $107M issued
India's securities regulator has moved forward with blockchain-based bond issuance, launching a pilot program that has already tokenized $107 million …
Trading stocks against BONER is the latest trend for DeFi degens
Robinhood Chain has become the unlikely epicenter of an experimental DeFi corner where traders are pairing traditional equity exposure with memecoin c…
India starts tokenizing $620 billion corporate bond market with digital rupee settlement
India's securities regulator launched a watershed pilot program that converts corporate bonds into digital tokens and settles transactions using the R…
Ripple puts AI agents inside its $1 billion corporate treasury bet
Ripple is integrating artificial intelligence agents into its corporate treasury operations as part of a broader $1 billion bet on enterprise blockcha…
Tether, Fasanara launch $400M private credit fund targeting $3B
Tether and Fasanara Capital launched a $400 million private credit fund with ambitions to scale to $3 billion, marking a major expansion of stablecoin…
Strive’s SATA nears $1 billion market cap as Strategy’s STRC continues to underperform
Strive's SATA token is approaching a $1 billion valuation, driven by a compelling 13% annualized dividend yield and stable pricing that hovers near it…
Better and Coinbase’s bitcoin-backed mortgages can reuse borrowers’ collateral
# Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages Take a Dangerous Turn: Better and Coinbase Collateralize Crypto Twice Better Mortgage and Coinbase have structured bitcoin…
Pencil Finance completes $1M onchain lending cycle for 6.6K students in Southeast Asia
Pencil Finance closed its first onchain lending cycle, distributing $1 million across 6,600 students throughout Southeast Asia. The platform structure…
Pineapple Financial puts $1B in mortgage records on Injective
Pineapple Financial has tokenized $1 billion in mortgage records on Injective, a move that positions the lender as an early mover in bringing real est…
Token buybacks are booming. But are they good for crypto projects?
Crypto projects are deploying hundreds of millions of dollars to repurchase their own tokens in what amounts to a market-wide shift in how projects ma…
Sui DeFi protocol Full Sail to wind down after Switchboard incident
Full Sail, a DeFi protocol built on the Sui blockchain, is winding down operations following a security breach that exposed vulnerabilities in its ora…
The token supercycle: everything of value is becoming programmable
# The Token Supercycle: How Everything Valuable Becomes Code Lily Liu, head of the Solana Foundation, argues that tokenization represents far more th…
Cronos halts network after Tectonic exploit involving estimated $75M
Cronos, the blockchain network operated by Crypto.com, halted its chain following a critical exploit targeting Tectonic, a lending protocol built on t…
Cronos halts blockchain after $75 million lending exploit hits lending app Tectonic
Cronos validators paused the network after a catastrophic exploit drained roughly $75 million from Tectonic, a lending platform built on the Cronos bl…
The Sandbox pledges 1:1 repayment after $700K bridge exploit
The Sandbox announced a 1:1 repayment plan for users affected by a $700,000 bridge exploit that drained funds across multiple chains. The gaming metav…
From Hawala to Swift: Inside the 1,000-year battle to move money safely
# From Hawala to Swift: Inside the 1,000-year battle to move money safely The history of money movement reveals a consistent pattern. Each breakthrou…
Stellar tokenized RWA market more than quadruples to nearly $4B
Stellar's real-world asset tokenization market has exploded past $3.9 billion in 2025, more than quadrupling from previous levels as institutional pla…
Inside the high-stakes battle between digital dollars and Swift's massive money engine
# The Blockchain Challenge to SWIFT's Global Payments Dominance The infrastructure that moves trillions of dollars across borders faces an existentia…
Tokenized assets are busier than the data shows
# Tokenized Assets Are Far More Active Than Raw On-Chain Metrics Reveal The tokenized asset space operates at dramatically higher utilization rates t…
Tokenized stock transfer volume jumps 415% in 30 days to $29.5B
Tokenized stock volume exploded past $29.5 billion in a single month, marking a 415 percent surge that signals accelerating mainstream adoption of blo…
ENA token rises 10% as Ethena puts revenue-funded token buybacks to vote
Ethena Foundation initiated a governance vote to redirect 95% of net protocol revenue toward ENA token buybacks, triggering a 10% price surge in the s…
Swift’s $1.5 quadrillion network faces a blockchain test
The global payments establishment faces mounting pressure as crypto executives pitch blockchain-based infrastructure as a replacement for SWIFT, the 5…
Bullish provides USD.AI $100M stablecoin facility for GPU-backed lending
Bullish, the institutional-grade cryptocurrency exchange backed by Peter Thiel and Galaxy Digital, has committed $100 million in stablecoin liquidity …
Virtu, Tradeweb complete onchain repo using Marshall Islands digital bond
Virtu Financial and Tradeweb Markets executed the first onchain repurchase agreement using a digitized government bond from the Marshall Islands, mark…
MoonPay’s newest integration lets AI agents handle crypto lending on Solana
# MoonPay Integrates AI Agents for Solana-Based Crypto Lending MoonPay has rolled out a new integration enabling AI agents to execute crypto lending …
Better launches Bitcoin-backed mortgages powered by Coinbase
Better, a digital mortgage lender, has partnered with Coinbase to roll out Bitcoin-backed mortgages across the US. The product allows homebuyers to us…
DGrid AI token jumps 93% after launch as decentralized AI network goes live
DGrid's DGAI token surged 93% on its first day of trading after the decentralized AI network officially launched. The token's explosive debut reflects…
Bitwise launches self-custodied tokenized stock portfolios with Coinbase
Bitwise Launches Self-Custody Model for Tokenized Stock Portfolios Bitwise has rolled out a new product combining managed tokenized stock portfolios …
Arcus launches tokenized perp positions on Robinhood Chain
Arcus has launched a novel tokenization system for perpetual futures positions on Robinhood Chain, allowing traders to convert active perp positions i…
Bitwise turns Coinbase's tokenized stocks into automated AI, robotics and tech portfolios
Bitwise, a major player in crypto-native investing products, has launched a new service transforming Coinbase's tokenized stocks into automated, AI-dr…
Term Finance loses estimated $8.5M in vault governance exploit
Term Finance shut down its Meta Vaults after suffering an $8.5 million exploit that drained nearly all Ethereum held in the protocol's vault system. …
Ethena's ENA token surges 48%, but altcoin season will have to wait
Ethena's ENA token rallied 48% following a $1 billion deal with FalconX, the institutional trading platform. The jump reflects investor appetite for l…
Web3 gaming network Sandbox stops Base and BNB chain bridging after exploit
The Sandbox halted token bridging across Base and BNB Chain after discovering an exploit that compromised its cross-chain infrastructure. The gaming p…
Shinhan Asset Management partners with Plume on tokenized fund pilot
Shinhan Asset Management, one of South Korea's largest asset managers, has launched a pilot program with Plume to explore tokenized funds. The partner…
Robot maker Unitree is going public. Hyperliquid traders see 4x upside from IPO price
Unitree, a Chinese robotics manufacturer, is entering public markets at a $9 billion valuation. The gap between that IPO price and current trader esti…
Figure reports $4.3B in loan marketplace volume as profit nearly triples
Figure Technologies reported $4.3 billion in loan marketplace volume during the second quarter, with net income nearly tripling year-over-year. The bl…
Crypto valuations could double as protocols link revenue to tokens: Bitwise CIO
Bitwise's Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan argues that crypto token valuations face a structural rebound if protocols systematically link protocol…