SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce ‘Baffled’ That Self-Custody is Even Debated
Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and head of the SEC’s Crypto Task...
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Blockchain Meets Gold: Ghana Cracks Down on Smuggling
Ghana is set to overhaul its gold sector with a blockchain-powered track and trace system by the end of 2026,...
Amundi Launches First Tokenized Money Market Fund on Ethereum
Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, has introduced its first tokenized share class for a euro money market fund.The fund is...
Tokenized Money Market Funds Surpass $9B, BIS Warns of New Risks
Tokenized money market funds are emerging as one of the most important yield-bearing assets on public blockchains, offering money-market returns...
University of Namibia Launches Africa’s ‘First’ Master’s Program in Blockchain Technology
The University of Namibia has launched a Master’s program in blockchain technology to position Namibia as a hub for blockchain...
Hyperliquid’s $314M Unlock Fuels Calls for Clarity
A $314 million Hyperliquid token unlock scheduled for Saturday puts the perpetuals decentralized exchange (DEX) under its most significant tokenomics...
Bitcoin Rout Pressures Investors Amid Treasury Reckoning: Finance Redefined
Cryptocurrency markets continued their decline for a fourth consecutive week this week, raising concerns over the status of the bull...
SEC Crypto Task Force To Host Privacy and Financial Surveillance Roundtable
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force has scheduled a roundtable discussion centered on privacy and financial surveillance...
Why Kohaku Is Central to Ethereum’s 2025 Privacy Shift
Ethereum’s privacy paradox When Vitalik Buterin walked on stage at Devcon 2025 to demo Kohaku, he summed up Ethereum’s situation...
Who actually drives the Santa rally?
Key takeawaysTraditionally tied to the last five trading days of December and the first two of January, the Santa Rally...
What Other Nations Can Learn
Key takeaways:Brazil’s moves are corporate and municipal, not sovereign.B3’s spot ETFs and resized 0.01-BTC futures let treasurers gain, size and...
Japan Plans to Classify Crypto as Financial Products, Cut Tax
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is preparing an overhaul of the country’s crypto regulatory framework, moving to classify digital assets...
How Blockchain Tech and DATs Are Decentralizing Scientific Research
Biomedical and scientific companies are turning to blockchain technology and crypto treasury strategies to fund research, overhauling traditional capital formation...
Bitcoin Falls Under $100k, ETFs Stall After End Of US Government Shutdown
Cryptocurrency markets have extended their decline despite much-awaited political developments taking place in the US.On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed...
UK Needs Stablecoins To Keep Pace With US Dollar and Euro — Fintech Exec
The United Kingdom needs to regulate and encourage the development of British pound stablecoins to keep the country’s financial services...
xStocks Surpasses $10B as Tokenized Stocks Gain Momentum
XStocks, a tokenized equity platform created by real-world asset (RWA) tokenization firm Backed and crypto exchange Kraken, has surpassed $10...
Singapore University Partners With Zero Gravity to Build Transparent Blockchain‑Based AI Systems
NTU Singapore and Zero Gravity have launched a $3.84 million research hub to advance decentralized, blockchain-based artificial intelligence. Advancing Decentralized...
Why Tether Looks More Like a Central Bank Than a Stablecoin Issuer
Key takeawaysTether operates a Treasury- and repo-heavy balance sheet, holding $181.2 billion in reserves against $174.5 billion in liabilities, leaving...
Regulators Must Catch Up To The New Privacy Paradigm
Opinion by: Agata Ferreira, assistant professor at the Warsaw University of TechnologyA new consensus is forming across the Web3 world....
Network States Are the Future, the Nation-State Model Is Dying: Author
The nation-state model is eroding and losing relevance, according to Jarrad Hope, author of “Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and...
DeFi Turns Toward Transparency Amid Market Turmoil
Balancer suffered one of the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) exploits on Monday, with more than $116 million in staked Ether...
Why Mastercard’s $2-Billion Crypto Move Could End Traditional Banking Hours
Key takeawaysMastercard is in talks to buy Zero Hash, following earlier interest in BVNK, in a push toward 24/7 stablecoin...
