HONG KONG – Thomas Lee, chairman of ether ETH$1,948.79 Financial company BitMine Immersion (BMRN), said the next generation major financial institution may not come from Wall Street, but from YouTube. Speaking on stage at Consensus Hong Kong on Wednesday, Lee argued that MrBeast’s move into banking could position the video creator as the primary financial […]
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is partnering with crypto-friendly trading firm Franklin Templeton to offer an off-exchange institutional collateral program that makes digital markets safer and capital efficient. The new service allows eligible clients to use tokenized money market fund shares issued through Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform as off-exchange collateral to trade on
EMB: 11 February at 06:00 UTC Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Spark is pushing one of DeFi’s deepest pools of stablecoin liquidity further into institutional markets, unveiling new lending infrastructure designed to connect on-chain capital with off-chain borrowers who have largely stayed out of DeFi. The protocol introduced Spark Prime and Spark Institutional Lending in an
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HONG KONG – Financial regulators in Hong Kong will unveil a framework for trading platforms that can offer perpetual contracts, the head of the region’s Securities and Futures Commission said on Wednesday. Brokers in Hong Kong will soon be able to provide financing to clients backed by bitcoin BTC$67,668.26 and ether ETH$1,976.46 and platforms will
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SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci said Wednesday that he is buying bitcoin BTC$67,676.34 during the market downturn and described Donald Trump as a “crypto president.” “So 10 days ago we bought Bitcoin at 84,000 last week, we’re buying Bitcoin at 63,000 bitcoin this week, we’re buyers of Bitcoin in this market again,” Scaramucci said during
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Industry leaders discussed demand for tokenized real-world assets (RWA) during a Consensus Hong Kong 2026 panel featuring Evan Auyang (Group President at Animoca Brands), Christian Rau (Senior Vice President, Digital Assets and Blockchain at Mastercard), Nicola White (VP of Crypto Institutions, Robinhood) and moderator RedcoStone CEO Marcin Kazfomierc. The panel echoed BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein’s
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In a Consensus Hong Kong 2026 fire chat, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu unpacked her “Internet Capital Markets” vision with moderator Michael Lau, Chairman of Consensus. Liu argued that blockchain’s true strength lies in finance and markets, not utopian general-purpose technology. Liu envisioned tokenizing all the world’s assets on the chain, enabling seamless access from
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HONG KONG — Robinhood launched its public testnet for its own Ethereum layer-2 blockchain on Wednesday, with plans for a wider launch later this year as the brokerage app aims to move more trading activity onto the chain. The new network, called Robinhood Chain, is built on Arbitrum and is designed to support real-world tokenized
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HONG KONG – Hong Kong is a growing place for Web3 and crypto innovation, its chief executive said on Wednesday. John KC Lee, CEO of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, opened CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference with a brief speech about the city’s work to grow its crypto communities and businesses. “The HKSAR government
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LayerZero Labs on Tuesday unveiled Zero, a new blockchain aimed at powering institutional financial markets, along with a strategic investment from Citadel Securities in ZRO, the network’s native token and governance asset. ARK Invest is also investing in LayerZero’s equity and ZRO token, with CEO Cathie Wood joining a newly formed advisory board alongside ICE
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