The race to tokenize Treasury bills just became a price war, and Circle just fired the first shot at zero. Circle launched a zero-fee tier for USYC, its tokenized Treasury product, for users trading at least $1M daily volume
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The DeFi infrastructure that let you swap dog coins is now going after the bond market. Orca, a Solana-based decentralized exchange, launched a dedicated marketplace for tokenized real-world assets, joining the rush to bring traditional finance on-chain.
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The normie uncle who thinks crypto is a scam just got USDC in his Cash App, whether he knows it or not. Block is rolling out USDC stablecoin payments to Cash App's nearly 60 million users, with 25% already having access and full deployment by week's end
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The vault isn't just a product launch—it's a bet that enough Bitcoiners will finally trade hodl purity for yield. Kraken launched Bitcoin Vault, an earn product that generates BTC-denominated rewards through DeFi strategies while maintaining price exposure to bitcoin.
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A real bank just handed 14.7 million people a stablecoin, no crypto exchange required. SoFi launched SoFiUSD, a bank-issued stablecoin, directly inside its consumer banking app to 14.7 million members on Ethereum and Solana
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Crypto just proved it can swing a Democratic primary in Texas, spending $7.7 million to replace a 30-year incumbent who called their industry a scam. Amanda Menefee defeated 15-term Rep. Al Green in Texas's 9th District Democratic primary runoff, backed by Fairshake and affiliated crypto super PACs
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The stablecoin that accounts for 70% of crypto trading volume just got its own yield infrastructure, and it's not running on Ethereum.
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The crypto exchange is letting retail traders buy into the same asset-backed products that institutional investors have been quietly accumulating since rates went up.
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Bitcoin's technical charts are screaming one thing while Treasury markets whisper another, and the traders watching both know whichever wins this argument will set the price for the next six months. Bitcoin slid toward $75,000 even as global equities hit record highs, breaking the usual correlation
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Private credit is eating the RWA stack, and the old guard isn't invited to the table. The tokenized real-world asset market has reached $51 billion, with private credit leading the charge, according to Bernstein Research data.
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The SEC just discovered what crypto degens learned years ago: putting prediction markets in a regulatory wrapper is harder than it looks. SEC Chair Atkins is delaying approval of ETFs that would let investors bet on elections and economic data, pausing a wave of novel fund applications
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While tech stocks rip on Middle East peace hopes, Bitcoin sits out the party—a divergence that reveals crypto's identity crisis between safe haven and risk asset.
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XRP Ledger's plumbing is about to get smarter, and the quiet upgrade says more about who's building real DeFi infrastructure than who's shouting about it.
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When your brand gets pinned to an exploit you didn't write, deploy, or control, you learn the hard way that composability cuts both ways. Attackers drained roughly $3.2 million from 86 Gnosis Safe accounts across Ethereum and Base using a third-party module called SquidRouterModule in about 2 hours
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A privately issued monetary system just became bigger than most sovereign treasuries, and central bankers are starting to sweat.
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The Gulf states aren't just buying Bitcoin anymore—they're building the plumbing for tokenized finance to flow through their borders.
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The stablecoin profit party just got a new rulebook, and Circle is already rewriting its playbook for a world where you can't just hand users yield.
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Georgia just leapfrogged Washington and Brussels in the race to put sovereign money on-chain. Tether and Georgia's government will launch GEL₮, a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian Lari, marking one of the first state-backed national currencies on blockchain rails.
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A stablecoin pegged to a currency most people can't spell is Tether's latest bet that the future of money runs through mid-sized economies hungry for digital infrastructure.
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A country of 3.7 million just made its national currency programmable before most nations figured out what "stablecoin" means. Tether is launching GEL₮, a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian Lari, with explicit backing from the Government of Georgia
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