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Securitize tokenized stocks launch tests crypto's real-world asset trade Securitize tokenized stocks are blockchain-based versions of stock exposure. Plain English: they could let people trade stock-like products through crypto rails instead of the usual brokerage path. Securitize, Jump ...

Crypto Fear and Greed Index Rises to Neutral as BTC Risk Appetite Returns The crypto fear and greed index is a fast read on whether traders look scared or ready to take risk again. It scores the market from extreme fear to extreme greed. Over the past 24 hours, the index climbed 10 point ...

MetaMask Balance Not Showing Puts Wallet Trust Back in Focus A MetaMask balance display issue sounds minor until it is your wallet doing it: the number on the screen does not match what you expect from blockchain or token records. MetaMask had that kind of problem, with some users seeing ...

Polygon launches private stablecoin payments with ZK tech, eyes corporate treasuries Polygon turned on private stablecoin payments using zero-knowledge proofs through an integration with Hinkal Protocol. Institutions can now hide sender, receiver, and amount data, while still pa ...

Standard Chartered backs GSR, and bank crypto adoption gets real Standard Chartered just put equity into crypto market maker GSR. Not a partnership badge. Not another "exploring blockchain" press release. It's the first time a global systemically important bank (G-SIB) has taken a direc ...

Sevilla FC Players Crypto Scam Hits €24M as Shirtum Probe Widens The Sevilla FC players crypto scam is a Spanish criminal investigation into six former Sevilla FC footballers accused of promoting Shirtum, a sports-NFT and BNB Chain token venture that allegedly took at least €24 ...

Chainlink Leads Best Privacy Coins 2026 by Developer Activity as Monero Slides to No. 9 Chainlink ranks first among privacy-focused crypto projects by 30-day developer activity in 2026, per Santiment's GitHub commit data, ahead of Monero, Zcash, and Dash. I'll be honest: an oracle proje ...

Trump's "8 or 9 More Years" Remark Reignites Trump Crypto Policy 2028 Bets Amid White House Lockdown Trump floated staying in office "8 or 9 more years" on stage at a White House event while the perimeter was sealed and gunfire was reported a few blocks away. He kept talking. ...

Trump goes after Powell again, and Bitcoin's liquidity trade keeps eating it up Trump is leaning on Jerome Powell again, and that pressure feeds the same rate-cut story that has carried Bitcoin through 2025. The president called the Fed Chair "Too Late" and "a disaster ...

Ondo Finance DTCC Tokenization Push Pulls Wall Street Giants Into RWA Race Ondo Finance just got a seat at a DTCC-led tokenization working group next to BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Franklin Templeton, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citadel Securities, NYSE Group, Circl ...