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 $1 trillion to expand its long-term bond repurchase program could be positive for financial markets. According to Lee, a large-scale buyback of long-term government bonds by the U.S. Treasury Department could put downward pressure on long-term interest rates.
US Debt Creates a Costly Feedback Loop Rising federal interest costs could intensify financial-market pressure without an economic downturn or new emergency, Devere Group CEO Nigel Green warned on Aug. 24. He argued that borrowing required to finance existing interest expenses creates larger future obligations as older, lower-cost debt matures and is refinanced at higher
FalconX Bravo wants US regulators to treat cash-settled perpetuals tied to a single security or a narrow-based security index as security-based swaps under SEC rules when they fall outside the joint SEC-CFTC security-futures framework. The filing expressly includes comparable contracts offered through DeFi protocols. The firm submitted its proposal to the Securities and Exchange Commission
India is the world’s largest country in terms of crypto usage. Yet, as per BitcoinTreasuries, the Indian government currently has zero disclosed Bitcoin holdings. This large difference between strong private adoption and zero sovereign holdings raises an important concern about the country’s approach to Bitcoin. However, private crypto adoption and government ownership are not necessarily
CleanCore Solutions has largely shifted its focus from a Dogecoin ($DOGE)-oriented treasury strategy to artificial intelligence infrastructure. According to SEC filings, the company sold nearly all of its approximately 463 million $DOGE tokens on July 20 for about $33.4 million. The proceeds from the Dogecoin sale were used to fund CleanCore’s AI data center investments,
Stablecoins can cross borders within seconds, but converting them into spendable local currency remains a slower and more fragmented process, Gravity Team CEO Mārtiņš Beņķītis told crypto.news as the firm launched its institutional OTC desk. Stablecoin payments depend on two types of liquidity Mārtiņš Beņķītis, co-founder and CEO of emerging-markets liquidity provider Gravity Team, told