Solana is gaining attention as tokenized stocks bring trading onto the blockchain outside traditional market hours, with CryptoRus pointing to after-hours activity and more than 727,000 holders as signs to watch. But the bigger question is whether that usage can spread across Solana’s network and eventually show up in SOL’s price. Solana’s After-Hours Stock Market […]
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said that the anti-collusion mechanisms he mapped out for blockchain governance back in 2020 might turn out to matter more for AI safety than for crypto itself. He was responding to an essay by researcher Eric Drexler that used a recent OpenAI security test, in which thousands of AI agents […]
The Justice Department’s Scam Center Strike Force, working with the Treasury Department, seized a Chinese-language scam marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee and restrained about $52 million in cryptocurrency in a single day, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced this week. That operation brought the total the Strike Force has restrained since its founding to roughly $938 million. A […]
The CLARITY Act has received another round of changes as Senate Republicans try to secure enough Democratic support for Tuesday’s procedural vote on the cryptocurrency market structure bill. The latest version, which consists of 635 pages, includes an ethics framework backed by President Donald Trump that would restrict public officials from issuing or sponsoring digital […]
Swiss-based asset manager 21Shares has outlined its investment case for XRP, citing regulatory clarity, institutional access, growing XRPL utility, and a predictable supply. Nevertheless, it outlined one major risk, which continues to haunt the underlying asset. Why Bullish on XRP? Given Ripple’s years-long battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the favorable outcome […]
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have launched a pilot infrastructure for issuing, holding, trading, and settling corporate bonds as digital tokens. Called Demat 2.0, the model is being integrated directly into the nation’s existing regulated securities market, unlike many tokenization experiments built on standalone blockchain […]
UniCredit is exploring an expansion into digital assets that would add crypto custody and brokerage, and has started selecting a technology provider to hold the assets and handle client transactions, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. As per the report, the discussions are early, and no final decision has been made. Areas under […]
Ethereum developers have tentatively scheduled the Glamsterdam upgrade for Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet on October 6 at 13:53 UTC, even as private devnet testing continues to uncover bugs. The date gives developers a path toward a December mainnet release, but it remains conditional on whether the next testing phase can produce a stable network. Glamsterdam Date […]
XRP Ledger Foundation CTO Denis Angell has suggested that an integration between X Money and XRP could let users move funds from the payments platform into the token and access yield-generating tools on XRPL. His idea goes beyond simply adding crypto payments to X Money, as he sees a possible connection between X’s wallet product […]
Crypto asset manager Bitwise is shutting down its spot Dogecoin exchange-traded fund roughly 10 months after the product launched, as the firm moves to optimize its product range to meet changing investor needs. The fund, BWOW, currently trading on NYSE Arca, is expected to continue trading until October 14, its final trading day. Investor Demand […]