Securitize will introduce a new onchain trading experience for public stocks in early 2026, blending traditional market access with blockchain-based settlement and trading. Summary Securitize will launch natively tokenized public stocks in Q1 2026, giving investors legal ownership onchain. Shares provide full shareholder rights, including dividends and voting, and are recorded directly on the issuer’s
Turkish cryptocurrency exchange CoinTR is adding support for Tether (USDT) & USD Coin (USDC) on the Aptos blockchain. This move is a strategic expansion into a fast-growing Layer-1 ecosystem. CoinTR will be able to benefit from technical strengths that Aptos offers like transaction times taking under a second and gas fees being 100 times lower
HashKey stepped into the Hong Kong stock exchange with a quick 3% lift, but the excitement faded fast as the stock slid 2.1% by press time. The exchange raised $206 million in the IPO after pricing shares at HK$6.68, close to the top of the HK$5.95–HK$6.95 range.It also pulled in about HK$1.6 billion, a big
Stargate Finance, a cross-chain native asset transfer protocol, today announced that Beldex (BDX), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that enables users to execute public and private transactions, is available on the cross-chain liquidity protocol. The aim of the deployment of BDX on Stargate is to introduce the cryptocurrency into one of the most actively utilized blockchain networks
Key Takeaways Elon Musk’s net worth reached a record $676 billion for the first time. SpaceX is now valued at $800 billion following the recent tender offer. Elon Musk just made history by becoming the first person with a net worth above $600 billion. His fortune is now estimated at approximately $684 billion, according to
The balance is rapidly shifting in the race to appoint the Federal Reserve chairman, a position President Donald Trump will secure. According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Federal Reserve Board member Christopher Waller has joined the ranks of those preparing to interview Trump. Previously considered a “surprise candidate,” Waller has
This morning, credit card giant Visa issued a press release about allowing US card issuers to settle directly with Visa using Circle USD (USDC). Nowhere in this glowing release, amplified by Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, did Visa mention the tax nightmare that will accompany that roll-out. Specifically, any US bank or fintech company that receives
As quantum computing researchers celebrate breakthrough after breakthrough, Web3’s $4-trillion asset base faces a ticking time bomb. Last December, Google announced that their quantum Willow chip performed a computation in less than five minutes that would have taken a state-of-the-art super computer ten septillion years (about 100 trillion times longer than our universe is old).
Animoca Brands is a global digital assets leader building blockchain and tokenized assets to advance the future of Web3 innovation. Animoca Brands has announced its strategic partnership with GROW Investment Group (“GROW”), a leading investment and asset management platform in China, backed by Julius Baer. We have entered into a term sheet with GROW Investment