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…
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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….
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…
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…
Citadel Securities Invests $400 Million in Crypto.com at a $20 Billion Valuation
The market maker’s investment marks Crypto.com’s first institutional funding round in a decade. The post Citadel Securities Invests $400 Million…
Visa Launches Stablecoin Platform With OUSD Integration for Banks and Fintechs
The Visa Stablecoin Platform lets the network’s 15,000 banks and 200 million merchants mint and move stablecoins, beginning with Open…
NEAR Protocol Futures Flows Surge as Breakout Pressure Grows
TLDR: NEAR Protocol futures flows increased sharply across four-hour and eight-hour periods, showing renewed speculative activity despite limited spot market…