DeFi news
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SoFi tie-up shows stablecoins can provide alternative blockchain settlement rail
SoFi dives deeper into payments as it moves its entire card program to blockchain-based settlement using its SoFiUSD stablecoin, with more than $25 billion in expected annualized volume.
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European stablecoin issuer Qivalis sees transformation of global trade finance
Jan-Oliver Sell, the CEO and founder of Qivalis, said the entire trade finance supply chain is moving into stablecoins.
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Brent Johnson: BTC the Best “Pure Play” Asset for Rising Global Liquidity
Bitcoin Magazine Brent Johnson: BTC the Best “Pure Play” Asset for Rising Global Liquidity Is Bitcoin money, or the best pure play on global liquidity? Santiago Capital CEO Brent Johnson makes the case for the latter, explaining why he believes Bitcoin is here to stay as digital assets and...
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Crypto investment firm RockawayX is betting $150 million on yield becoming next big use case
The $2 billion digital-asset investment firm rolls out an initiative to back, build and provide liquidity to projects bringing real-world yields into DeFi.
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Apollo limits private credit withdrawals for third consecutive quarter
The slow-motion liquidity crisis in private credit has rolled into its third quarter, with Apollo gating another three months of withdrawal requests from its flagship retail private credit fund. On Tuesday, the fund disappointed investors who had asked to cash out 14.7% of their shares. It will...
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HIFI raises $37M to expand stablecoin payments, tokenized markets
HIFI CEO Zach Walsh told Cointelegraph the $37 million Series A is the company’s first priced funding round, though HIFI did not disclose its valuation.
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Bitcoin slides to $83,300 as bond yields hit highest level since 2007
The 10-year Treasury yield reached its highest since 2007, sending U.S. stocks and crypto lower before Asian and European traders bought the dip.
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EU banking watchdog calls for crypto lending rules under MiCA
The EBA outlined potential rules for crypto lending and firms providing access to DeFi protocols as part of the European Commission’s MiCA review.
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Bitcoin falls below $84K as 10-year Treasury yield hits 19-year high
Bitcoin traded near $83,200 as Fed hike odds reached about 75% and Treasury prepared a $6 billion buyback of long-dated bonds.
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Trump administration weighs a global stablecoin plan to cement dollar's dominance
Washington is a mulling plan to actively promote USD-backed stablecoins worldwide in a bid to cement the greenback's global reserve status.
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Trump Administration Weighs Overseas Stablecoin Push: Report
The Trump administration is considering promoting dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas through joint ventures with private firms, seeking to reinforce the dollar’s global role and boost demand for U.S. Treasuries, Bloomberg reported Sept. 23, citing people familiar with the plans. The effort......
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Kalshi says CFTC hasn’t contacted it over ‘unusual’ $5B trading activity
Kalshi said nearly $5 billion in similarly sized Ether perpetual trades reflected its liquidity incentive programs and rejected allegations that the activity was wash trading.
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Bitcoin Price Slips While US Treasury Yields Soar, Oil Prices Climb
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Slips While US Treasury Yields Soar, Oil Prices Climb Bitcoin’s price slid on Wednesday, just as U.S. Treasuries surged, with the 10-year yield climbing above 5% and reaching — its highest level since 2007. The price of the leading cryptocurrency was down 2% over a...
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Kalshi says it is not being investigated by the CFTC over trading activity
The prediction market says unusual patterns in its ether perpetual market are the result of liquidity incentives.
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US stablecoin adoption could surge with bank-like protections: Visa survey
The survey released by Visa posited that bank-like protections for stablecoins could increase adoption in the US as companies are preparing for the enactment of the GENIUS Act.
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Borrow Against Your Bitcoin at a Fixed Rate: Coinbase Expands Morpho Loans
The product lets users lock in their rate and repayment date when borrowing USDC against Bitcoin, marking the first enterprise-scale deployment of Morpho Midnight and a shift away from on-chain lending's variable-rate norm.
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Crypto Long & Short: Inside the chain settling $150 billion of stablecoins a week
Tron launched as a content-distribution project and has become the settlement layer for a large share of the world's USDT, processing roughly $150 billion to $190 billion of stablecoin transfers a week. Josh Olszewicz of Canary Capital breaks down how the network's economics work and what...
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BTC Market & Institutional Adoption Forecast with UTXO’s Daniel Hinton
Bitcoin Magazine BTC Market & Institutional Adoption Forecast with UTXO’s Daniel Hinton “Bitcoin plays on hard mode.” Daniel Hinton spent years managing global liquidity relationships at SFOX, and he explains why a 24/7 global market with no clearinghouse outside the blockchain itself is so hard to...
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Winners and losers of the SEC’s new tokenized stocks rules
The SEC has opened a five-year path for tokenized stocks, but only some products and venues fit the model. Will Uniswap, Robinhood, Coinbase or Kraken come out on top?
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Stablecoin adoption intent rises from 36% to 56% with bank-level protections, Visa says
A Visa study shows U.S. stablecoin adoption intent jumps to 56% when paired with hypothetical bank-level consumer protections.
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Stablecoin cross-border flows surge 78%, defying crypto bear market
Cross-border stablecoin transfers surged as the wider crypto market shrank 37%, with Chainalysis pointing to growing use for trade, remittances and savings.
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Galaxy adds $100 million in Sky’s sUSDS to treasury, buys SKY token as firms deepen lending ties
Galaxy added $100 million in sUSDS to its treasury and approved the Sky savings token as institutional loan collateral.
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BitMEX shuts down: perpetuals pioneer officially closes it doors after 11 years
The exchange, co-founded by Arthur Hayes, stopped trading and deposits, but says users can still log in and withdraw funds as its wind-down continues.
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Coinbase users can now borrow USDC against bitcoin at a fixed rate
Coinbase now allows users to borrow the USDC stablecoin against their bitcoin at a fixed interest rate and repayment date.
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Arch Lending eyes tokenized stocks as next collateral market
Arch Lending’s Himanshu Sahay said on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction podcast that the lender plans to move into tokenized equities as onchain stocks gain traction as collateral.
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Revolut Starts EURR Rollout With Bridge as Regulated Issuer
Revolut has begun rolling out EURR, its first euro-backed stablecoin, to selected customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, putting a branded onchain euro inside its app while Bridge Building S.A. serves as issuer and redemption counterparty. Bridge Building is the legal issuer; Revolut...
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CME Expands Crypto Futures Lineup With Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap
The exchange operator is adding standard and micro contracts for BCH and UNI, extending a pattern of altcoin rollouts that already covers Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui.
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a16z And DeFi Education Fund Ask SEC To Put DEXs Outside Exchange Registration
Andreessen Horowitz and the DeFi Education Fund asked the SEC to define when decentralized exchanges and the apps that provide access to them fall outside the exchange registration requirements of the Securities Exchange Act, in a joint letter to Commissioner Hester Peirce published by the...
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Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
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Suspicious Kalshi bot shuts down amid wash trading claims
A trading bot making cheap uniform trades on a Zohran Mamdani Kalshi market has stopped trading after it raised suspicions that the prediction market was wash trading its perp volume. The wash trading allegations began last weekend when “Beni,” a pseudonymous quant analyst, claimed Kalshi’s 24-hour...