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The bank is hedge counterparty on HANetf's sterling- and euro-hedged crypto ETCs and plans RedCoin for PayMe and its mobile app.

The London-headquartered exchange, wallet and lending company aims to be public by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported.

The staking carve-out can be unwritten, the tokenized-stock exemption is pending, and the Clarity Act's 49-50 failure has left the arguing to the agencies.

The Fed's redemption deadline and reward presumption turn yield and liquidity into compliance variables, exposing a high-volume chain and handing bank-built corridors the standards.

The CFTC's equivalence proof turns tokenized collateral into a compliance obligation, and the firms selling the proof and the rails are positioned to collect the $1.7 trillion collateral mobility pool.

Three issuers took nine-tenths of a $998.95 million day after the Senate lost cloture and the Fed raised rates, the clearest sign yet that bitcoin ETFs now clear on distribution, not legislation.

BitMEX's orderly runoff leaves crypto derivatives volume intact and moves the contest to venues that pair the perpetual swap with a custody answer institutions will pay for.

The transfer to Wintermute is best read as estate mechanics, and the next distribution will show whether the trust keeps routing ether through market makers.

Repeated dollar-denominated clips mean the print shows how orders arrive, not how many hands are there to receive them; the venue's real asset is its CFTC perimeter, and the tape does not need to prove anything.

A single repeating trade size in Kalshi's own API shows what happens when a venue's incentive budget, not organic demand, writes the volume print.

Same-day settlement through Euroclear on existing shelf documents shows the clearing rail, not the token, is the product.

A ten-day review clock and an undisclosed filing at OMB leave the definition of a venue's headline volume number to the venue itself.

With Clarity dead, institutional crypto capital is repricing a rulebook of expiring agency accommodations and buying the only durable position left: the exit.

The SEC's tokenized-stock pass comes with a 0.25% volume cap, halt switches, and a five-year sunset; the only durable positions are custody, issuer notice, and synthetic exclusions.

Ondo's Fund/SERV seat, Tenka's secondary market, and Payward's venue request are three versions of one trade: own the exit, because the entrance can be withdrawn by the next commission.

Ten institutions are financing the valuation convention their custodians will inherit, while Kraken's leveraged credit strategy puts depositor principal at risk for a 2% yield.

Balances are holding, so the ABA's Washington fight is not the one its members are losing.

Robinhood's debt defense, Valinor's empty contract, and ARK's narrow filing share one design choice: route around the consent step, and bill for the routing.

U.S. Bank's live dollar token on Stellar and Swift's second live payment on its ledger point to one product: settlement on the issuer's terms.

Two infrastructure moves this week show the economics of institutional digital assets moving from the settlement rail to the edges where tokens become useful.

Compound's whitelisted pool, ARK's tokenized share class, and REC's sandbox bond all treat the ledger as a back-office detail rather than a product to sell.

Blockstream got most of the frozen bitcoin back by talking to the draining address; the 15% left behind is the cost of social settlement, and Nasdaq Texas now offers the rulebook alternative.

Nasdaq Texas gets an SEC-cleared spot ETP rule while Hyperliquid's reported perpetual-futures talks target a CFTC-regulated exchange, leaving institutions with two separate U.S. markets.

Blockstream immobilized 3,998 bitcoin and said no key was stolen. The open question is which named party controlled the funds.

Payward's xStocks trade as debt against a Jersey share pool, making tokenized equity a crypto-native index wrapper rather than onchain stock trading.

Payward's xStocks will trade as debt against shares in a Jersey vehicle, not as onchain equity—and the wrapper is the product.

Stellar's $3 billion RWA stack backs only $2 million in loans; Bullish's $100 million GPU facility is a bet that stablecoin capital can learn to lend.

Bitwise's self-custodied stocks, Ethena's equity-perp dollar, and EDX's yield-bearing collateral show the tokenized product layer earning its keep.

The $4.1 billion synthetic dollar is becoming a stock-market carry trade.

The Malaysian pilot closes the delivery-versus-payment loop that earlier bank tokenization tests left to legacy settlement.

Revolut puts Bridge's license in front of 75 million customers while EDX prices yield-bearing collateral and Visa wires the rails.

Term Labs has permanently closed its Meta Vaults after a governance exploit PeckShield estimated at $8.5 million, and depositor recovery remains unresolved.

ATLAS, the protocol's exchange engine, ships with no frontend and burns 75% of residual fees, a bid to capture value from venues that would never build on a competitor's rails.

A $36 million liquidation on Morpho exposes the flaw in pricing a $67.5 million collateral book off an $8.97 million pool.

Converting the Zcash Trust into an NYSE fund asks the agency to say whether a transaction-hiding token belongs inside the most tightly surveilled wrapper in regulated markets.

Eleven bank validators and half a billion test transactions have not answered whether a permissioned chain can settle without central-bank money.