Layer-1 blockchain Aptos has announced a collaboration with the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial to deploy USD1 stablecoins. Aptos CEO Avery Ching said that they have been in conversation with the Trump-linked DeFi project for a while and “they view us as some of the best tech partners they could work with.” Speaking to Cointelegraph…
Crypto will be necessary for artificial intelligence-powered agents to operate effectively in the financial market, as the infrastructure for the traditional finance system is outdated, says John D’Agostino, the head of institutional strategy at Coinbase. If AI agents are going to operate on behalf of people, then they need to operate on “true sources of…
Tokenized equities will be a big benefit to traditional markets, but may not be a boon for the crypto industry that others have predicted, says Rob Hadick, general partner at crypto venture firm Dragonfly. “There’s no doubt it has a big effect on TradFi,” Hadick told Cointelegraph at the TOKEN 2049 conference in Singapore. “They…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission staff has opened up to allowing investment advisers to use state trust companies to custody cryptocurrency assets. In a rare no-action letter, the SEC’s Division of Investment Management said on Tuesday that it wouldn’t recommend that the SEC take enforcement action if advisers used state trust companies as a…
Global payments firm Stripe is deepening its crypto offerings with a tool it says will allow any business to launch and manage their own stablecoin “with just a few lines of code.” The tool, called “Open Issuance,” will allow businesses to “mint and burn coins freely, and customize their reserves to manage the ratio between…
Blockchain oracle provider Chainlink announced one of the first products from a pilot with UBS Asset Management and Swift, the global financial messaging network, designed to let banks trigger onchain transactions using their existing infrastructure. According to a Tuesday announcement, Chainlink integrated its execution layer, the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), with Swift messaging. The move…
Key takeaways: AI can process massive onchain data sets instantly, flagging transactions that surpass predefined thresholds. Connecting to a blockchain API allows real-time monitoring of high-value transactions to create a personalized whale feed. Clustering algorithms group wallets by behavioral patterns, highlighting accumulation, distribution or exchange activity. A phased AI strategy, from monitoring to automated execution,…
Ethereum may have been first to pioneer decentralized finance, but in 2025, questions about scalability still linger. According to Kyle Samani, chairman of Forward Industries, Ethereum’s limitations leave the door wide open for Solana. He argues that Solana is the only blockchain already capable of supporting capital markets on a global scale. Recently dubbed the…
Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization company Republic plans to tokenize equity in major Hong Kong-based Web3 investment company Animoca Brands. According to a Tuesday Republic announcement, Animoca Brands’ equity tokenization on Solana will allow more investors to access exposure to the company. Animoca is not listed on any public exchange but has invested in more than…
Opinion by: Nic Puckrin, CEO of Coin Bureau The great decentralization experiment that began with the creation of Bitcoin is being progressively domesticated; collared, tagged and rehoused inside the very architecture it was built to route around. Wall Street’s wrappers and government rulebooks are metamorphosing a peer-to-peer (P2P) monetary network into a product line. The…