Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, plans to build cryptocurrency trading infrastructure and launch a digital depository by Dec. 1 as Russia moves to bring crypto trading, custody and settlement into its regulated financial system. The …
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Ten tokenized dairy cows backed a $19,600 loan registered on Brazil’s B3, in one of Brazil’s first uses of tokenized livestock as loan collateral.
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Vietnam to Fine Crypto Traders Up to $1,900 for Using Unlicensed Platforms Starting September 1
by adminby adminVietnam is set to introduce its toughest cryptocurrency enforcement measures to date, with domestic investors facing fines of up to 50 million Vietnamese dong (approximately $1,900) for trading digital assets through unlicensed platforms. The …
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ECB Warns Stablecoins May Drain Bank Deposits—Here’s What That Means
by adminby adminIn brief ECB board member Cipollone warned Friday that stablecoin growth could strip European banks of retail deposits, on top of the fees and transaction data they’re already losing to mobile payment platforms. Two-thirds …
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$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF
by adminby adminT. Rowe Price has brought what it said is the industry’s first actively managed multi-token spot crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) to the market. The T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF (TKNZ) began trading on …
Bonzo Lend, a lending protocol on the Hedera mainnet, has paused operations following an oracle exploit on July 11, 2026, resulting in an estimated loss of $9 million. Bonzo stated that the incident stemmed …
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Senate Democrats Demand National Security Probe of Trump Crypto Holdings
by adminby adminSenate Democrats have demanded committee hearings into the national security risks posed by President Donald Trump’s crypto holdings, citing new disclosures that unnamed third parties hold a stake in his family’s crypto firm. The …
Oil just broke $90. Brent crude climbed more than 3% on Monday to its highest level since mid-June, as the US-Iran war chokes shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The US hit Iran for …
Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald have partnered to support blockchain-based initial public offerings (IPOs) and follow-on equity offerings for listed companies, a move that could further expand the use of tokenized securities in traditional capital …
Perplexity Fine-Tuned a Chinese AI Model to Match Claude Opus 4.8 at One-Third the Cost
In brief Perplexity released a research preview of a post-trained GLM 5.2 version, built to act as an orchestrator inside its Computer harness and escalate to Claude Opus 4.8 only when needed. The system …