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Figure's $717M Kiavi deal brings real estate tokenization into focus Figure Technology Solutions Inc. is buying Kiavi for $717 million. My take: that price tag is the headline, but the real signal is where Figure wants the loans to go. Not into the same old financial plumbing. Into block ...

NFTfi shuts down after $737M in loans as NFT market slump makes the business unworkable NFTfi, one of the first NFT lending platforms, will shut down by August 31, 2026 after processing more than $737 million in loans, according to its official announcement. My take: this is not a dramat ...

Coinbase Adds Two USDC Lending Vaults on Morpho, Offering Tiered Yields Coinbase has added two onchain USDC lending vaults on Morpho. Simple pitch: pick the risk level you can live with, stay inside Coinbase, earn on USDC. My take: the yield is not the most interesting part. The distribu ...

Japan's Crypto Tax Bill: A 20% Bitcoin Rate and Why Traders Care Japan's lower house has passed a crypto bill that would cut tax on Bitcoin and Ether gains to a flat 20%, down from a current top rate of up to 55%. That is a real change. My take: traders will not treat this like another p ...

Bitcoin's BIP-110 fork fight: a custody headache waiting to happen Bitcoin may be heading into another fork fight. This one centers on Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, or BIP-110, with an activation window expected around block 961,632. ...

Nakamoto Cuts Debt, Starts Buyback as Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Gets More Practical David Bailey's Nakamoto cut $45 million in debt and approved a $25 million share buyback, giving investors a clearer look at how a public Bitcoin company is using its balance sheet. On T ...

Bitcoin is less than 10,000 blocks away from its most contentious fork fight in years Bitcoin is approaching a deadline that could turn one of its longest-running arguments into the ...

XRP ETFs Hold Up in Crypto Selloff, Beating BTC and ETH on Inflows Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart says XRP exchange traded funds are still drawing money while Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs are losing it. Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs have been hit by heavy outflows. XRP fu ...

FTX/Alameda unstakes $12.9 million in Solana: a predictable ripple, not a tidal wave An address tied to the bankrupt FTX exchange and Alameda Research unstaked 200,241 Solana ($SOL), worth about $12.99 million, according to Onchain Lens. The move showed up about 32 minutes before the rep ...

Citi's Tokenized Private Shares: A New On-Ramp for Institutional Crypto Adoption Citigroup has opened another route into private markets with a tokenized share product. Dry on paper. Not trivial. The launch gives institutional and wealthy investors a blockchain based way to get exposure ...