HM Treasury’s Tokenization Push: £33bn Target, and a 54-Firm Coalition that Includes BlackRock
Chris Woolard’s HM Treasury report launches a tokenized repo taskforce with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan targeting £33bn in annual…
Gasoline Drives June CPI Data Down 0.4%, But Core Inflation Limits Fed’s Hand
June CPI dropped 0.4% as gasoline collapsed 9.7%, but flat core inflation at 0.0% m/m keeps the Fed cautious and…
Consensys Bets on Self-Custody Finance With The MetaMask Open Money Platform
Consensys launches Open Money on MetaMask’s 10th anniversary, bundling mUSD savings, card spending, and investing under a self-custodial neobank model….
SpaceX Drops to $132.75 All-Time Low as Lockup Overhang and AI Repricing Weigh on SpaceX Stock
SpaceX stock hit an all-time low of $132.75 on July 15, breaching its $135 IPO price as lockup overhang and…
Tokenized stocks’ main custodian Alpaca raises $135m equity, takes on $300m debt
US broker Alpaca announced a $135 million venture funding led by Peak XV, with participation by Elefund, Opera Tech Ventures,…
Aave Deploys Its V4 Lending Protocol on Avalanche
The rollout is the first time Aave’s new Hub and Spoke architecture has run on a chain other than Ethereum,…
Trump to Meet Senators as Clarity Act Ethics Deadlock Threatens Crypto Bill’s Path
President Trump is expected to meet senators Thursday to resolve the Clarity Act’s ethics provision, the last major obstacle before…
Senate Passes Bipartisan Resolution Opposing Clemency for FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried
The Senate unanimously passed a nonbinding resolution stating that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should never receive a presidential pardon or…
Some DeFi Pools Are Rigged to Fake a Good Price, Enso Finds
Enso says it found two real pools, on Ethereum and Polygon, engineered to pass a wallet’s pre-trade simulation with an…
Polymarket Traders May Be Manipulating Bitcoin’s Price To Rig Bets, Stanford Study Says
A working paper says a small group nudged Binance’s spot price in the final seconds before settlement to decide which…