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Tokenization mirrors the $20 trillion ETF boom as blockchain and AI converge, Ondo exec says
The market for tokenized assets is growing quickly, but John Hoffman thinks the biggest wave of demand hasn't arrived yet: artificial intelligence.
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Wall Street is moving past crypto pilots and deeper into Ethereum, says Etherealize founder
Ethereum's institutional adoption story may finally be moving beyond theory and into practice, according to Vivek Raman, founder of Etherealize, a company with the stated goal of bringing Ethereum to Wall Street.
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Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed
The newest AI model from Anthropic, which gives users access to stronger, faster reasoning and coding capabilities, lands in a crypto market beset by security problems and could well exacerbate them.
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Stablecoins Were Meant to Disrupt Finance. Instead, They Became Idle Cash.
Stablecoins are probably crypto’s clearest success story, and rightly so. They became the industry’s monetary primitive; the dollar layer for trading, collateral, payments and settlement.
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Crypto should adopt the best of centralization, says LMAX CEO
For years, crypto's ideological center of gravity has been pulled toward decentralization.
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Perpetual futures could become crypto's next ETF moment
The rollout of regulated perpetual futures in the U.S. could follow a familiar path to the one taken by spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in seeking mass adoption.
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Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC
Ripple is trying to put XRP and RLUSD into the market for AI-agent payments in an environment that is still mostly paying in the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin.
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Saylor to Musk: Thanks to you, 25% of 'Mag8' firms now hold bitcoin
Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy, the world's largest publicly listed bitcoin holder, has a new term for Wall Street's most elite stocks and a congratulatory message for Elon Musk.
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Top cryptographers can't agree on Bitcoin's biggest quantum question
A Coinbase-convened advisory board of some of the most prominent cryptographers in the world has laid out what Bitcoin should do about the millions of coins a future quantum computer could steal, and on the hardest ques…
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SpaceX IPO scramble reveals difference between tokenizing a stock and getting one
The race to get into the SpaceX IPO left many crypto investors on the sidelines.
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Bloomberg Analyst: Most Bitcoin ETF Investors Have Stayed Put Despite Outflows
Latest developments: Crypto markets are under pressure as Bitcoin sits around $60,000 and ETF outflows continue.
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VanEck bets BNB’s real-world usage can stand out in a crowded crypto ETF market
Latest developments: VanEck recently launched the first U.S. spot BNB ETF, trading under the ticker VBNB on Nasdaq.
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Bitcoin hit bottom at $59,000 marking end to the crypto winter, says Standard Chartered analyst
The cryptocurrency market reached its definitive bottom for the currency cycle, Standard Chartered Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick said in a note on Friday.
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FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal of criminal conviction on fraud, conspiracy charges
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried lost his effort to overturn his conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the operation and collapse of his former crypto trading empire on Friday.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX soars 20% in blockbuster Nasdaq debut
SpaceX shares opened at $150 on Friday before rising to $162, marking a strong start to one of the most closely watched stock market debuts in recent years.
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Monero price rockets 33% to $438 amid $120 million onchain laundering maze
Someone routed $120 million in stablecoins through a chain of swaps this week, and a sudden jump in the Monero price made it visible.
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The U.S. government is betting $2 Billion on quantum computing, and the defense side can't keep up
Last month, the United States Commerce Department signed letters of intent to award just over $2 billion to nine quantum computing companies building the machines that break the cryptography defending Bitcoin and Ethere…
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XRP sentiment falls to 8-month low, and that has been a buy signal before
Social chatter support for XRP has dropped to levels not seen since October, a point that has previously been a cue for traders looking to make short-term bullish bets on the Ripple-linked token.
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For crypto, SpaceX's stock market debut could go either way
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There's one simple way to tell whether bitcoin has really bottomed. Right now, it hasn't.
There is a simple signal to get that confirmation. Right now, it is saying the rebound has not started.
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The company that makes your TV is taking ads onchain. Arbitrum helped
Blockchain is no longer just a story of Wall Street banks and brokers leveraging the technology to optimize finance. Now, corporates are embracing distributed ledger to streamline business operations.
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XRP jumps 3% above $1.14 as institutional buying meets key resistance test
XRP bounced sharply from last week's selloff, reclaiming $1.14 on its strongest volume in weeks. Buyers pushed the token through resistance near $1.12 and kept buying into the close, a change from the short-lived reboun…
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Live updates: Bitcoin traders eye rally to $75,000, Japan set to hike rate to 31-year high
The Nasdaq-100 rebalance takes effect on June 22, with CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius Group (NBIS) among the five companies being added in the index's quarterly reshuffle.
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Former SEC, CFTC Chair Gary Gensler argues that prediction markets don't overrule state regulations
Prediction markets should not preempt state laws around sports gambling, the former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, said in a court filing late Thur…