Ether tested $1,950, liquidating bearish positions, but weak onchain activity and low DEX volumes suggest trader caution. Record staking at 34% reduces sell pressure, yet sustained upside depends on broader market sentiment and upcoming corporate earnings.
Arcus, a decentralized exchange backed by Robinhood Crypto, has launched tokenized stocks and perpetual futures on Robinhood Chain, offering over 95 stock tokens and derivatives. The platform uses a self-custodial model, but its stock tokens are unavailable in the US, Canada, and the UK due to ongoing regulatory questions.
SBI Holdings acquires majority stake in Coinhako, a Singaporean crypto platform, post-MAS approval, aiming to combine customer base and network with its financial and digital asset services.
Tokenized sovereign debt, once a niche concept, is maturing into a functional market with real products like Ondo's OUSG fund. These tokenized claims on short-duration government exposure are gaining scale, with OUSG holding $407.24 million and investing in other tokenized Treasury products, indicating a shift towards portfolio building blocks.
Ether (ETH) price rose 3% driven by tokenization growth and Robinhood Chain, despite weak onchain data. Ethereum leads RWA tokenization, and Robinhood Chain attracted $106M in deposits. However, DApp revenue and active addresses are down, and funding rates are low, raising concerns about a potential retest of $1,700.
Hyperliquid Policy Center et Phantom demandent à la CFTC de moderniser sa réglementation pour l'adapter à la finance décentralisée, arguant que le code open source ne devrait pas déclencher d'obligation d'enregistrement et que les interfaces non-custodiales ne devraient pas être considérées comme des courtiers.
A crypto user lost nearly $1 million in USDT on Ethereum after signing a phishing token approval. This incident highlights the ongoing threat of social engineering scams in the crypto industry, which have already resulted in hundreds of millions in losses this year.
Glassnode reports 54% of Bitcoin supply is in loss, marking a sharp deterioration in investor profitability. This suggests an unusual bottoming process where long-term holders accumulate while ETF investors sell, indicating a controlled migration of BTC to patient hands despite price weakness.
Theo, an onchain capital markets platform, has invested $20 million in Fidelity International's USD Digital Liquidity Fund (FILQ). This marks Theo as the first crypto-native platform to invest in the asset manager's tokenized fund, which is integrated into Theo's thBILL product via Sygnum.
Ripple proposes a lending upgrade (XLS-65/XLS-66) for the XRP Ledger to attract institutional credit, allowing borrowing against on-chain assets without the blockchain making credit decisions. This aims to expand XRPL's role beyond payments into broader institutional finance.
Vitalik Buterin proposes using indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) with blockchain to enable private, collusion-resistant onchain voting, reducing trust assumptions and manipulation risks, though the technology remains impractical for now.
Solana's SOL token rose to $72, boosted by tokenized stock trading and airdrop hopes. However, declining TVL, low DEX volumes, and reliance on Pump.fun indicate fragile onchain demand and potential competition.
Crypto exchange Kraken and onchain asset manager Maple have launched an onchain warehouse financing facility for crypto-backed loans, utilizing a bankruptcy-remote special purpose vehicle (SPV) and USDC financing to expand Kraken's institutional lending business without tying up additional balance-sheet capital.
XRP is trading at its lowest price of the year, just above $1, yet onchain data reveals a different trend with falling exchange supply, consistent Binance withdrawals, positive whale flows, and significant spot ETF inflows, suggesting underlying network strength despite price struggles.
Kraken and Maple have launched an onchain warehouse financing facility for crypto-backed loans, applying a traditional credit market structure to institutional digital asset lending. The facility uses a bankruptcy-remote SPV and USDC to fund Kraken's OTC lending business.
Franklin Templeton has acquired crypto asset manager 250 Digital, integrating its team and strategies into a new division, Franklin Crypto. This move expands Franklin Templeton's digital asset business, aiming to offer actively managed crypto strategies to institutional investors.
Three cryptocurrency wallets, mintblade, GRIMDRIP, and EndlessFate, collectively profited $24.25 million from World Cup prediction markets before consolidating their winnings to a single Binance deposit address. This raises questions about potential single-trader control and the source of their success.
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Blockchain.com partnered with Ondo Finance to add 173 tokenized stocks and ETFs, expanding its catalog to over 430 offerings across multiple blockchains. The new listings include private company shares, Treasury products, and themed baskets, with SpaceX's SPCX token highlighted. This move aims to leverage potential regulatory unlocks for tokenized US equities trading in DeFi.
Hyperliquid's perpetual futures open interest exceeds $10 billion, driven by crypto assets and expansion into equities, commodities, and synthetic pre-IPO trading via HIP-3, drawing attention from traditional financial firms.
Morpho Labs secured $175 million in a funding round led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital. The company, known for its DeFi lending protocol, aims to become a credit infrastructure layer for traditional financial institutions, indicating a shift in investor focus towards onchain credit markets and stablecoin infrastructure.
Tokenization is a consistent growth area in crypto, with Kraken launching tokenized SpaceX IPO access via xStocks. Prediction markets surpassed onchain gambling in Q1 2026 volume, while former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried formally requested a pardon from Donald Trump.
Exodus has partnered with Ondo Finance to launch a marketplace for tokenized assets, including stocks and ETFs, on the Solana blockchain. The new service, Exodus Markets, allows eligible users to trade over 200 tokenized real-world assets directly from their crypto wallet.
Trad.Fi plans to bring $650M in private credit onchain over 48 months to digitize US equipment financing, reducing approval times to one business day. An onchain investment pool will offer investors exposure, excluding US investors initially.
