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Aave, Athena leaders outline push to build onchain interest markets in DeFi

Cryptofinance is only now beginning to provide an environment that matches traditional finance: ways to earn steadier, more predictable returns — similar to bonds or savings products, according to Aave Labs founder Stani Kulechov and Athena CEO Guy Young. “Most fixed income is like the distribution of risk in different formats … basically just slicing […]

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BTC Volatility Signals A Bottom As Tradfi Rolls In Uncertainty

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Some care about bitcoin BTC$70,957.35 could still see a deeper selloff, but a key indicator suggests the bottom may already be behind us. This indicator is the 30-day implied volatility, which is an option-based measure of expected price turbulence over four weeks. The widely tracked 30-day implied volatility indices such as Deribit’s DVOL and Volmex’s

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Tether (USDT) says it selected a ‘big four’ firm for its first audit

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Tether, the crypto firm behind the most popular stablecoin USDT, said on Tuesday that it has selected a “Big Four” accounting firm to conduct its first full accounting audit. “The Big Four firm was selected through a competitive process because the organization already operates under the Big Four audit standard,” said Simon McWilliams, Chief Financial

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Polkadot (DOT) is down 2.3% as the index trades lower

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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2044.07, down 0.2% (-3.83) since 4 PM ET Monday. Ten out of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: APT (+4.4%) and XLM (+1.5%). Laggards: DOT (-2.3%) and XRP (-1.3%).

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Foundation launches developer platform for institutions, taps Mastercard, Western Union and Worldpay

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The Solana Foundation is launching a new developer platform aimed at making it easier for financial institutions to build blockchain-based products with early adopters including Mastercard, Western Union and Worldpay. The Solana Developer Platform (SDP), currently available for developers to test, is a toolkit that enables businesses to build and scale financial applications on Solana

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Securitize (CEPT) collaborates with NYSE (ICE) on new platform

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The New York Stock Exchange (ICE) is teaming up with tokenization specialist Securitize to help design the infrastructure behind tokenized securities trading, according to a Tuesday press release shared with CoinDesk. Securitize aims to go public this year via a SPAC deal with Cantor Equitize Partners (CEPT). CEPT shares are up 6% pre-market. ICE shares

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Invesco ( IVZ ), a $2.2 trillion asset manager, joins BlackRock and peers in tokenized fund push

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Invesco, a US-based asset manager overseeing $2.2 trillion in assets, will take over management of Superstate’s tokenized US treasury fund in a move that brings a large traditional asset manager deeper into blockchain-based finance. The USTB fund holds short-term U.S. Treasury securities and represents more than $900 million in assets. It ranks among the largest

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Crypto-friendly fintech Revolut sees profits rise 57% to $2.3 billion by 2025

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London-based crypto-friendly fintech giant Revolut reported record earnings for 2025 as it scales across emerging markets. Pretax profit rose 57% year over year to $2.3 billion, while revenue rose 46% to $6 billion, according to its annual report. The company posted its fifth consecutive year of net profit of $1.7 billion for 2025, with margins

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Fund service giant Apex to tokenize Omnes’ Bitcoin mining note on layer-2 blockchain Base

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Apex Group, the fund services giant with over $3.5 trillion in assets under administration, expanded its tokenization space with a structured product that offers institutions exposure to bitcoin BTC$71,199.87 mining to be issued and managed on US exchange Coinbase’s Ethereum overlay platform, Base. Since buying real-world asset (RWA) specialist Tokeny last May, Apex has been

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Here’s how US Treasuries could shape Trump’s Iran war and bitcoin

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As the Iran war rages on, yields on US Treasuries – the market’s measure of borrowing costs – have risen to multi-month highs, pricing in delayed Fed rate cuts and higher inflation expectations. The question is at what point the financial market, which underpins global finance, begins to cause problems for both the government and

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