The Bank of Italy has released a report indicating that stablecoin-based cross-border remittances often fail to deliver the cost and speed advantages they promise, particularly when users convert digital assets back into local fiat currency. The central bank’s analysis, which examined 10 real-world remittance corridors linking Italy with Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, the United Arab
Gnosis Chain is transitioning from a standalone Layer 1 to an Ethereum-settled rollup and retiring its independent validator set, according to an announcement from Gnosis Chain and a proposal published on GnosisDAO’s governance forum. For $GNO stakers, the approved direction would unlock roughly 350,000 $GNO when the validator set is sunset and end the treasury-funded
According to a new X post by Jim Chanos, who profitably short-sold Michael Saylor’s $BTC acquisition company a year ago, there is still $80 billion of “pure arbitrage” on the table. Chanos called the catalyst of Strategy selling its own stock a trading opportunity. “One of the greatest pure arbitrage situations, ever,” he stated, also
In brief The Base accelerator plans to select 10 startups for its eight-week Batches 004 accelerator. Each selected team will receive a $100,000 investment from the Base Ecosystem Fund. The program is targeting startups building AI agents, trading, payments, and financing products. The team behind Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, is narrowing its startup accelerator
Abu Dhabi has been quietly turning itself into one of the world’s proving grounds for digital assets, and last week’s announcement from Coinbase confirmed just how far that ambition has traveled. The crypto exchange giant said it is establishing an international tokenization hub inside Abu Dhabi Global Market, a move that industry figures describe as
SpaceX is trading below its $135 IPO price. Marathon Digital is down 34% year to date. Coinbase has outperformed both. The math on which tech bet delivers risk adjusted returns has not been done until now. The largest IPO in history arrived in June 2026 and immediately became the most traded stock in the world.
Blockchain data platform Sentora has reported that 55% of stock token trading volume occurs when the U.S. stock market is closed. The finding suggests that price discovery for tokenized equities is increasingly moving on-chain, operating beyond traditional exchange hours. What the Data Reveals Sentora’s analysis of blockchain trading data indicates that a majority of activity
The cryptocurrency market experienced a strong upward movement after a long period of calm. According to data, Bitcoin ($BTC) briefly rose above $69,000, gaining approximately 5.7% in the last 24 hours. Ethereum (ETH) also climbed above $2,100, rising nearly 8.8%. The total value of the cryptocurrency market also increased by 4.7%, reaching approximately $2.4 trillion.
Japanese $BTC treasury company Metaplanet has disclosed a deal that will put a man Bloomberg describes as “Tokyo’s King of Death Spiral Financing” on both sides of the takeover. Metaplanet wants to take control of Nasdaq gaming company Super League Enterprise in a $135 million deal. Once the takeover is complete, Evo Fund, a Cayman