Tokenized stocks have seen tremendous momentum ever since gaining initial traction last year. Weekly transfer volume across all chains crossed $2 billion for the first time last week, landing at $2.2 billion. Apart from this throughput growth, the number of holders is another metric that has shot up in tandem. This number has tripled since
Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week: Regardless of which coin wins, infrastructure is the prevailing currency in digital assets, writes Caue Teixeira, CTO of Nonco. Using CoinDesk’s liquidation feed, Alen Pavlović of Liquibit Capital shows how early-June forced selling burned out near $68,000, days and nearly $9,000 above the actual
The recent decline in Bitcoin and altcoins is attributed to the growing interest in artificial intelligence. At this point, AI stocks experienced sharp increases, while $BTC and other cryptocurrencies suffered sharp declines. While many wonder when AI stocks will decline and when money will flow back into $BTC, a BlackRock executive has made some important
Bitcoin BTC$60,333.50 dropped to the $60,000 area on Wednesday for the second time this month, continuing its poor price action in the face of risk market rallies elsewhere. Also continuing to lose ground on Wednesday were gold and oil, each falling below key levels — gold $4,000 per ounce and oil $70 per barrel. Read
For over half a year, the price action of Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) acted as a near-perfect proxy for Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency. However, recent market data shows that this lockstep might eventually come to an end, and the two assets have now diverged (as the graph below shows). Since October 2025, $HOOD and
Bitcoin ($BTC) remained under pressure on Wednesday, trading below the $63,000 mark after posting modest losses in the previous session. The world’s largest cryptocurrency continues to face strong technical resistance, suggesting the ongoing correction could extend in the near term. The broader weakness across the crypto market is also weighing on sentiment, with Ethereum (ETH)
Blackrock, Maple, and Figure Compete to Unlock Utility for $31 Billion in RWAs Institutions have moved more than $31 billion of real-world assets ( RWAs) onto blockchains. The problem is that most of it is barely moving. A new report from DWF Labs Research says less than 10% of tokenized real-world assets, or roughly $3
Strategy’s business model has come under a barrage of harsh criticism from experts. Well-known analyst Charles Edwards openly called Michael Saylor’s strategy a “ticking time bomb” that fully depends on the continuous growth of Bitcoin’s price and risks exploding during a prolonged market decline. Fresh financial data as of the end of June 2026 partly
For years, Michael Saylor’s Strategy was one of the market’s favorite ways to gain leveraged exposure to Bitcoin. But after a 72% decline in Strategy’s stock (MSTR) over the past year, Google search interest is cooling, and investors are increasingly debating whether Strategy’s aggressive fundraising model is still benefiting shareholders. MSTR Stock’s Biggest Problem May
Polygon gives developers a framework to build and launch their own blockchains that connect back to the Ethereum network. These chains are not forks or copies of Polygon itself. They are independent networks that projects control entirely, built using Polygon’s Chain Development Kit, known as the CDK. As of 2026, Polygon has repositioned CDK from