BJ By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Cryptocurrencies fell slightly in the past 24 hours, with the broad market CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index dropping 1.4%. Bitcoin (BTC) is little changed around $95,000. These figures are well within recently volatility ranges and come on the back of a strong monthly performance — BTC is … Read more
DUBAI, UAE — Tokenization firm Securitize and decentralized finance (DeFi) specialist Gauntlet are planning to bring a tokenized version of Apollo’s credit fund to DeFi, a notable step in embedding real-world assets into the crypto ecosystem. The two firms are unveiling Wednesday a leveraged-yield strategy offering centered on the Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (ACRED), … Read more
Bitcoin developers are again at odds over how the world’s oldest and largest blockchain should handle storing information on-chain, with a proposal to relax long-standing limits on the size of data held sparking fierce debate reminiscent of 2023’s battles over Ordinals. The blockchain’s OP_RETURN feature allows people attach a small piece of extra data to … Read more
Digital assets exchange KuCoin has unveiled a new initiative, the “Trust Project,” with a massive $2 billion investment aimed at reinforcing user safety, boosting transparency, and ensuring long-term accountability in the crypto market. The announcement came during TOKEN2049 Dubai, where KuCoin CEO BC Wong, alongside the exchange’s European Union CEO Oliver Stauber, detailed the initiative’s … Read more
A financial deal was supposed to help launch the MOVE token.Instead, it led to a token-dumping scandal, a Binance ban, and behind-the-scenes infighting. Contracts obtained by CoinDesk help explain where it all went wrong. Movement, the blockchain project behind the MOVE cryptocurrency, is investigating whether it was deceived into signing a financial agreement that granted … Read more
The Nasdaq exchange filed a 19b-4 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday to approve listing and trading shares of the 21Shares Dogecoin ETF. Asset manager 21Shares submitted an S-1 registration with the SEC on April 10, as reported, in partnership with the House of Doge — the Dogecoin Foundation’s corporate arm … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest digital asset by market value, recently held steady as President Donald Trump’s trade war spurred a shift away from U.S. assets. The so-called decoupling reinforced the belief of crypto advocates that BTC is as a safe haven and a low-beta play relative to equities. BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets, Robert … Read more
BlackRock is preparing to bring blockchain to the back office of one of its largest funds, filing to offer a digital share class of its $150 billion Treasury Trust money market fund through BNY Mellon. The new “DLT Shares,” short for distributed ledger technology, won’t hold crypto. But BNY Mellon, the fund’s exclusive distributor, intends … Read more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) delayed approval decisions on spot xrp (XRP) and dogecoin (DOGE) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) late Tuesday, in line with analyst expectations. The SEC said it will wait until June 15 for the next steps for the Bitwise DOGE ETF and June 17 for the Franklin XRP Fund, separate filings … Read more
Libre, a tokenization firm that works closely with the likes of hedge fund Brevan Howard, investment management firm Hamilton Lane and Nomura’s digital assets unit Laser Digital, plans to tokenize $500 million worth of Telegram debt as the blockchain-based Telegram Bond Fund (TBF) on the TON network that’s linked to the messaging platform. TBF will … Read more
