A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value over time and is being rapidly used as an alternative to traditional money. Christopher Louis Tsu, CEO of Venom Foundation, elaborates on the query hidden behind the generation of stablecoins’ own blockchains. Most of the financial press is still framing money as a technology
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has reportedly acquired REAP, an Asia-based stablecoin infrastructure provider, for $600 million. The deal, first reported by Unfolded, marks one of the larger acquisitions in the digital asset sector this year and signals Kraken’s strategic push into stablecoin technology and Asian markets. What the Deal Entails According to the report, Kraken’s acquisition
The tokenized real-world assets sector just crossed a major threshold. Total value locked in RWAs surpassed $31 billion in 2026, up nearly four times from $7.8 billion at the start of 2025. Market capitalization reached $19.3 billion by the end of Q1 2026. With a 256.7% increase in just fifteen months, according to CoinGecko’s RWA
Quantum computing continues to pose a threat to Bitcoin ($BTC) and altcoins, prompting a warning from quantum computing research firm Project Eleven to investors. Speaking at the Consensus conference in Miami, Project Eleven CEO Alex Pruden urged Bitcoin developers to prepare for the threat of quantum computing. Alex Pruden emphasized the need for Bitcoin developers
$3 trillion. That’s the scale of the opportunity bitcoin treasury executives see in digital credit, a fast-growing class of bitcoin-backed debt instruments designed to generate yield on bitcoin holdings. The market has already grown to about $10 billion in less than a year, participants say. “What we’re seeing with digital credit right now is exponential
Grayscale Investments, a crypto asset management company, announced changes to its DeFi Fund, a decentralized finance-focused investment fund, as part of a rebalancing process for the first quarter of 2026. The company removed the Aerodrome Finance (AERO) token from the fund and replaced it with the Ethena ($ENA) token. According to data shared by Grayscale,
Crypto data analytics firm Swissblock has assessed that Bitcoin’s ($BTC) upward momentum is strengthening again, signaling a potential move toward the $84,000 to $86,000 range. The firm’s analysis, shared on X, outlines a familiar cyclical pattern: an initial rise, a corrective phase, an acceleration, and a post-overheating correction. According to Swissblock, Bitcoin has now entered
Pantera says the tokenization market has grown to $321 billion, but remains structurally immature. Its Tokenization Progress Index found most tokenized assets still operate as wrappers around traditional financial products. Pantera says tokenization is growing fast, but not yet becoming the financial redesign many in crypto expected. Most tokenized assets are still wrappers The crypto
The current trend of treating creator content and digital data as raw material for centralized platforms across the Internet has revealed a growing need to develop an equitable system to distribute value. As a leader in blockchain advertising technology, Verasity has announced that its new consumer-facing ecosystem, PLRL, is going live on Base. Developing $PLRL