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...
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Italian Banks Back Digital Euro, Urge ECB to Stagger Implementation Costs
Italian banks have expressed their support for the European Central Bank’s (ECB) digital euro initiative, but are calling for the...
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...
What Happens If ETH Inflates and XRP Leads Liquidity
What is the looming power shift between ETH and XRP? Since Ethereum’s Merge update in 2022, the network’s transition to...
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...
How the Trump Family Turned Crypto Into an $800M Windfall
Key takeawaysReuters estimates Trump-linked ventures earned $802 million in crypto in early 2025.Income came from WLFI tokens, the TRUMP coin...
Blockchain Has Earned Its Place In Sports As Core Infrastructure
Opinion by: Dima Saksonov, founder and CEO of Atleta NetworkThe sports industry has become the distribution channel for blockchain’s mainstream...
Crypto’s Changing Demographics Demand A New Approach To Crypto Security
Opinion by: Louise Ivan, co-founder and CEO of RyderStep aside, maximalists. Crypto isn’t the domain of early adopters and philosophically...
DeFi And TradFi Must Put Aside Their Differences
Opinion by: Mark Jones, founder of Hana WalletIt’s often forgotten that the first emails were sent between US college professors...
$2T Tokenized RWAs by 2028, Matching Stablecoins
Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) may reach a cumulative value of $2 trillion in the next three years as more global...
‘No BlackRock, No Party’ For Bitcoin, Altcoin ETF Investments
The long-awaited approval of altcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) may not bring the massive inflows investors expect without participation from asset...
How Changpeng Zhao Regained Power Between Prison and Pardon
Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has spent the past year rebuilding influence after serving four months in prison for violating...
The Next Era Of Crypto Belongs To Decentralized Markets
Opinion by: Rachel Lin, co-founder and CEO at SynFuturesDeFi has come a long way since the boom-and-bust cycle of 2020’s...
Don’t Just Tokenize Assets, Build The Institutions To Back Them
Opinion by: Alex Zhang, co-founder at PharosTokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) is not a self-contained solution to traditional finance problems. To...
AI Gives Retail Investors A Way Out Of The Diversification Trap
Opinion by: Saad Naja, CEO of PiP WorldFor decades, retail investors have been sold a lie: diversify, track the benchmark,...
Identity Systems Must Work For The Disconnected
Opinion by: Nanak Nihal Singh Khalsa, co-founder of Holonym FoundationMore often than not, in the quest for the advancement of...
DeepSeek, Qwen, Overtake ChatGPT, Grok In Autonomous AI Crypto Trading
Chinese artificial intelligence models are outperforming their United States counterparts in cryptocurrency trading, according to data from blockchain analytics platform...
The P2E Apocalypse Is Gaming’s Best News
Opinion by: Tobin Kuo, founder and CEO of SeraphPlay-to-earn (P2E) had a moment — “had” its moment — but that’s...
Solana Founder Shares Plans For New Perp DEX ‘Percolator’
Solana Labs co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko is the latest crypto founder to announce plans for a decentralized exchange (DEX),...
Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm Warns Community About Retroactive Prosecution
Roman Storm, a developer of the Tornado Cash privacy-preserving protocol, asked the open source software community whether they are concerned...
L1 Is The New Battleground, And The Playing Field Isn’t Even
Opinion by: Ray Song, founder at aPrioriWhen you’ve been around markets long enough, you start to see patterns. The tools...
Decentralized Compute Networks Will Democratize Global AI Access
Opinion by: Gaurav Sharma, CEO of io.net Artificial intelligence may be in its early days, but it has already delivered significant...
