U.S. spot solana ($SOL) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended their inflow streak to a fifth day on Monday, adding $33.5 million in the largest single-day total this year. The additions pushed the total cumulative net inflows to a record $1.22 billion and total trading volume to $166.8 million, the highest since October 2025, according to SoSoValue
Hong Kong regulated crypto exchange Hashkey has teamed up with financial giant Franklin Templeton to distribute its flagship tokenized money market fund, Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Liquidity Fund (grBENJI), to digital asset investors in Asia. The move reflects growing institutional demand for yield-generating instruments backed by real-world assets on regulated digital platforms. Tokenized U.S. Treasury
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, a former mentor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, has a lesson for his onetime protege: governments cannot indefinitely fight market fundamentals. That lesson comes in response to the Treasury’s recent decision, under Bessent’s leadership, to increase bond buybacks to $4 billion in an effort to tame longer duration yields or
Fundstrat co-founder and analyst Tom Lee said that expectations that the U.S. Treasury Department may deploy approximately $1 trillion to expand its long-term bond repurchase program could be positive for financial markets. According to Lee, a large-scale buyback of long-term government bonds by the U.S. Treasury Department could put downward pressure on long-term interest rates.
Bitcoin’s $BTC$80,733.47 recent staggering price rise has some traders paying millions for upside exposure. On Monday, one or more traders bought 2,000 bitcoin call-option contracts with an $82,000 strike price expiring on Sept. 4, according to data tracking platform Laevitas. The trade effectively bets that bitcoin’s spot price, currently near $80,000, will rise above $82,000
$BNB Smart Chain (BSC) activated its Pasteur hard fork on Tuesday, closing bridge verification and validator authorization gaps while introducing a new route intended to fit more transactions into each block. In a Tuesday post, $BNB Chain confirmed that Pasteur was live on the BSC mainnet. The team said the upgrade strengthens the network’s bridge,
Coinbase has chosen Chainlink to offer price infrastructure for its tokenized stocks, thus allowing shares of companies like Apple and NVIDIA to move around freely in decentralized lending and trading marketplaces. The agreement is of particular importance for crypto users outside the US, as it allows them to take advantage of blockchain-based versions of US
US Debt Creates a Costly Feedback Loop Rising federal interest costs could intensify financial-market pressure without an economic downturn or new emergency, Devere Group CEO Nigel Green warned on Aug. 24. He argued that borrowing required to finance existing interest expenses creates larger future obligations as older, lower-cost debt matures and is refinanced at higher