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BlackRock private credit fund is latest to crack, hitting crypto prices and DeFi markets

BlackRock's private credit fund just broke, and the tokenization crowd is learning a hard lesson about what "real-world assets" actually means. The Signal A BlackRock private credit fund hit liquidity problems this week, part of broader cracks forming across the $3.5 trillion private credit market. This matters for crypto in two distinct ways, and only one of them is getting talked about. First,

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Bitcoin rebound appears a ‘relief rally,’ not the start of a new bullish cycle, says CryptoQuant

Bitcoin's bounce off the lows isn't the comeback story you think it is. The Signal CryptoQuant's head of research Julio Moreno is calling what everyone else is celebrating a relief rally, not a trend reversal. Bitcoin climbed from recent lows, and the usual suspects started talking about "the bottom is in." Moreno says look at the actual data. On-chain metrics

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Fed clarifies capital rules for tokenized securities, says framework is ‘technology neutral’

The Fed just said the quiet part out loud: tokenized securities are real securities, full stop. The Signal Federal Reserve guidance dropped this week clarifying that tokenized securities qualify as financial collateral under existing capital rules, no different than their paper cousins. This matters because until now, banks have been sitting on the sidelines of the tokenization wave, unsure if a tokenized Treasury bond would get the same regulatory

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