Tokenization platform Ondo Finance was shopped to prospective buyers after the sudden death of its founder and CEO, Nathan Allman, earlier this year, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The outreach occurred sometime after Allman’s death on May 25, according to two of the people who spoke on condition of anonymity, as
Shielded Bitcoin is a proposal put forward by [[alloc] init] researchers Clara Shikhelman, Misha Komarov, and Aleksei Moskvin for a novel privacy metaprotocol on the Bitcoin base-layer to enable shielded Bitcoin transactions without requiring operators, soft forks or other changes to Bitcoin consensus. You can find the whitepaper here and blog announcement here. The protocol
Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) shares traded near $91 in Thursday premarket trading after closing Wednesday at $91.72, down 3.03%. Two September transactions highlight how much equity Circle has issued — and may still issue — under separate deal structures. No reliable evidence links CRCL’s latest decline to Circle’s pending deal to acquire Tazapay. Current
Bitcoin’s 1-Hour Chart Puts $83,000 Under the Microscope Bitcoin’s price on the 1-hour chart shows the clearest short-term pressure after the run to $87,374 gave way to a stair-step decline characterized by lower highs. The price eventually reached roughly $83,000-$83,400, where a modest bounce developed from the current shelf, while Bitstamp’s order book showed size
TL;DR Optimism says aggregate TVL across the Superchain has moved above $14 billion. The figure combines multiple OP Stack networks rather than representing OP Mainnet alone. The milestone highlights the growing economic footprint of Base, World Chain and other interconnected OP Stack chains. Optimism’s Superchain has crossed a reported $14 billion in aggregate total value
AMC CEO Adam Aron called Robinhood’s tokenized AMC shares a “quasi-fake market” and threatened legal action. Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev pushed back, saying a public company does not get to approve every product built on its stock. In the wake of their social media dust-up, an argument over which kind of token is legitimate has ensued:
Bullish (BLSH), Equiniti, Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions and DriveWealth have formed a new industry group focused on building standards for tokenized securities that remain directly tied to the companies that issue them. The Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition, unveiled on Thursday, was convened by CoinDesk parent company Bullish and Equiniti, a shareholder-services and market-infrastructure firm that
Brazil’s energy market, valued at $200 billion, faces inefficiencies despite its abundant clean power production. Exa’s announcement of tokenizing energy supply on Solana aims to bridge the gap between generators and buyers, fostering a more streamlined market. This initiative could significantly reduce costs for businesses, enhancing the overall efficiency of Brazil’s energy sector. source The
VanEck’s Matthew Sigel says Bitcoin has little long-term correlation with bond yields, while its relationship with the U.S. dollar remains more persistent. Sigel attributes Bitcoin’s recent pullback more to DXY strength than movements in Treasury yields. He points to lower realized volatility and growing institutional adoption as reasons the current drawdown looks more contained than