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BTC rises slightly but remains lower for the day after strong jobs numbers

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US job growth strengthened significantly in the first month of 2026. 130,000 jobs were added in January, according to a Wednesday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists’ forecasts had been for 70,000 added jobs, up from job growth of 48,000 in December. The unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, compared to forecasts of 4.4% […]

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Aviva Investors tokenizes funds on XRP Ledger in Ripple partnership

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Aviva Investors, the asset management arm of UK insurer Aviva (AV), plans to tokenize traditional fund structures on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) in a deal with blockchain firm Ripple, the companies said in a press release on Wednesday. The collaboration will see Ripple support Aviva Investors in issuing and managing tokenized funds on XRPL, a

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Bearish sentiment prevails as BTC price falls below $67,000, Ether (ETH) falls: Crypto Markets Today

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Bitcoin BTC$67,016.00 fell 2.4% in the past 24 hours to around $66,900, while ether ETH$1,950.42 lost 2.7% to trade back below $2,000. The broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index fell 3.7%. The declines weighed on crypto-related stocks. Coinbase (COIN) fell about 4% in premarket trading, while rival exchange Bullish (BLSH), which owns CoinDesk, fell 2.3%. Bitcoin

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Tokenization still at the start of the hype cycle, but requires more use cases, specialists say

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If there is a classic technology hype cycle attached to tokenization – the representation of any asset on blockchains like Ethereum – we are barely getting started. That’s according to Min Lin, managing director of global expansion at Ondo, who pointed out that the US Treasury bond market alone is worth $29 trillion. Adding the

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Hong Kong ready to issue first stablecoin licenses in March, finance minister says

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HONG KONG – Hong Kong is poised to start issuing the first of its stablecoin licenses next month, the Special Administration Region’s finance secretary said on Wednesday. Hong Kong will only issue a small batch of licenses initially, Hong Kong’s Paul Chan Mo-Po said Wednesday at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference. “By granting our licenses,

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Arkham Intelligence is said to be shutting down the trading platform as the crypto bear market bites

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Arkham Exchange, the cryptocurrency trading platform built by data analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, is shutting down, according to a person familiar with the matter. Arkham, whose backers include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, did not respond to requests for comment. The company, which was founded in 2020 and now boasts over 3 million registered users, shot

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Mr. Beast’s financing effort could be the young generation’s Schwab, Robinhood, says Tom Lee

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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

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Binance teams up with Franklin Templeton to use tokenized money market funds as off-exchange collateral

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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

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Spark pushes DeFi stablecoin liquidity into institutional crypto lending

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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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