Cathie Wood, the Ark Invest CEO who heralded AI as “the most transformative technology in history” while investing millions of dollars in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, was seemingly duped this week into wishing an AI-generated child happy birthday. Wood has previously denounced claims that AI is a “bubble,” and spent $16.2 million on Tempus AI stock
Investors, policymakers and builders are reassessing how RWA tokenization can scale from isolated pilots to a coherent, global on-chain asset market. Summary Scope, methodology and market context From fragmented pilots to a unified global market Toward a universal interoperability layer Institutional demand and platform evolution Economic implications of on-chain real-world assets Regulatory developments and supervisory
KindlyMD (NAKA), whose share price has undergone a drastic collapse since its SPAC merger with Nakamoto Holdings, has been given the go-ahead by its board for stock buybacks. “This share repurchase program reflects our confidence in the long-term value of the Company and adds an important degree of flexibility to our capital allocation framework,” said
JPMorgan Chase has moved its digital deposit token, JPM Coin, from its internal blockchain to Coinbase’s public Ethereum-based network Base. The move comes six years after JPMorgan first introduced blockchain-based deposit accounts for institutional clients in 2019, using a permissioned version of Ethereum later branded Kinexys. According to JPMorgan executives, the bank has witnessed ballooning
The rise of digital asset treasury (DAT) companies will go down as a meta-narrative of 2025, but the longevity of the movement will be decided by capital management and sound business strategies. According to Solmate CEO Marco Santori, all DATs have to contend with the value of the underlying token they hold on their balance
An API that charges for queries has always been awkward. Subscription tiers and monthly billing break down when autonomous agents make thousands of microtransactions per hour across new services. x402 is Coinbase’s bet that the missing piece is a payment primitive wired directly into HTTP. The mechanism revives HTTP status code 402 “Payment Required.” When
Fragmentation across blockchain networks is costing the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to new research from data analytics platform RWAio. The report, created with input from 17 companies including Coinbase, Franklin Templeton, and Polygon, estimates that fragmentation across blockchains is causing between $600 million and $1.3 billion
While most countries attempting to experiment with tokenization get bogged down in regulatory indecision over tokenization, the United Arab Emirates focuses on the real-world application of tokenized assets. That distinction is what makes the UAE arguably the world’s most advanced living lab for tokenized economies. From policy experiment to economic engine Don’t get me wrong:
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2718.77, up 2.5% (+65.09) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. All 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: UNI (+8.4%) and ETH (+3.8%). Laggards: APT (+0.1%) and SUI (+0.3%). The
Autonomous AI agents have become increasingly proficient at searching and recommending shopping options, but most stop short of completing transactions. Fetch.ai said Thursday that it will roll out a payment system in 2026 designed to let AI agents execute purchases and deposits on a user’s behalf. The new feature set to launch in January addresses