Tokenized stocks could give crypto-native investors access to equity exposure through crypto platforms, but a token that tracks a share price is not automatically a share. The diversification case rests on whether holders receive genuine legal rights, whether assets sit within regulated custody arrangements, and whether markets maintain reliable liquidity. The market backdrop has shifted.…
The market’s recovery over the past few months and the arrival of October (traditionally a strong month for the cryptocurrency sector) have fueled expectations that the worst of the bear cycle is behind us and that the next bull run is about to unfold. Analysts are already projecting substantial pumps for some leading digital assets,…
Cardano’s “bank the unbanked” push went live with RealFi, putting real-world credit behind a new dollar-token system. On Oct. 1, RealFi launched USDrf and its yield-bearing counterpart, sUSDrf, on Cardano, moving a project Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson has spent years describing as a bridge between blockchain finance and lending in emerging markets into production. Eligible…
It is incumbent upon us to continue Commissioner Peirce’s mission, writes Will Schwartz, policy associate at the Blockchain Association.
After last month’s highly impressive US jobs report, which showed that the local economy had added 162,000 jobs (later revised to 133,000), all eyes turned to today’s new release, with expectations standing at 90,000 new non-farm payrolls. However, the actual numbers were significantly lower. Data shared by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a…
Ahead of the report, traders were pricing in only a 23% of a second Fed rate hike at the U.S. central bank’s policy meeting later this month.
[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, October 2nd, 2026] With around 16% of AVA’s circulating supply already locked, the AVA Smart Program introduces new lock levels as part of a wider overhaul of AVA’s tokenomics. The AVA Foundation and Travala today announced new standard lock levels for the AVA Smart Program, alongside a long-term goal of…
The US 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.34% on Oct. 1, its highest since 2002, capping a third quarter in which it climbed almost 90 basis points, the largest quarterly rise this century. Bitcoin gained about 43% over the same three months and Ethereum about 71%. Bitcoin trades in the mid-$80,000s, and the clearest evidence of…
The past week has been quite turbulent for the trending altcoin QNT, whose price ultimately increased by an additional 130%. Cardano’s native token has also performed well lately, but certain factors suggest it may soon head south. Meanwhile, SUI has risen by 17% over the last seven days, with prevailing predictions that it could enter…
Bitcoin retook $86,000 by the morning of Oct. 2 as demand for US spot Bitcoin ETFs recovered, with short covering a plausible accelerator for the advance ahead of the US jobs report. Bitcoin traded at $86,325.44 at 08:40 UTC, up 3.67% over 24 hours. The advance carried it beyond the Sept. 30 rebound above $85,000…