The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says tokenization could fundamentally reshape how financial markets operate, marking one of the strongest acknowledgments yet from a global policymaker that blockchain-based infrastructure is moving into the financial mainstream. In a blog published Thursday, Tobias Adrian, the IMF’s financial counselor and director of its Monetary and Capital Markets Department, said…
Institutions will be able to combine custody, banking and stablecoin services through a single onboarding process. Standard Chartered has become the first globally systematically important bank (G-SIB) to let institutional clients mint and redeem USDC directly through its banking platform, the lender has said. The service removes the need for eligible clients to open separate…
Bitcoin (BTC) passed $62,000 at Thursday’s Wall Street open as crypto reacted to weak US employment figures. Key points: US nonfarm payrolls data delivers a crypto market boost as job additions for June fall short. Investors eye an easing in the inflation outlook as optimism over BTC prices increases. Crypto begins its forecast “green July”…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ripple USD, the RLUSD stablecoin, is becoming a bigger part of the XRP Ledger activity story. According to research attributed to Evernorth, RLUSD has now generated more than $2.5 billion in total XRP Ledger settlement volume, while RLUSD/XRP trading volume has approached…
Here’s a breakdown of the most important recent developments across the Pi Network and its ecosystem. Pi Network rarely stays out of the spotlight, as the Core Team consistently rolls out ecosystem upgrades and major announcements. Yet despite the steady stream of updates, the project’s native token has continued to slide, recently tumbling to a…
Most crypto investors still obsess over price charts. But in 2026, a growing share of attention is shifting back to improving the fundamentals of the protocols. Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche are preparing some of their largest protocol upgrades in years, while Coinbase’s Base network rolled out its Beryl hard fork last Friday in a bid…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Solana’s meme coin machine is heating up again, with daily token creation reportedly climbing to an 80-day high in late June and early July. The jump has been tied to meme coin launch programs, Raydium-linked activity, and renewed attention around new tokens…
Ethereum is having a troublesome time in the intervening time, with sentiment at all-time low, however underlying provide dynamics paint a distinct image. Ethereum has a “wall of fear” the place unfavorable sentiment is assembly staking absorption, reported CryptoQuant on Tuesday. The Coinbase Premium, a measure of institutional curiosity, is 230% beneath its three-month common,…
Standard Chartered and USDC issuer Circle have developed a system that lets institutional clients mint and redeem the USDC stablecoin through a bank-led onboarding process. Standard Chartered said Thursday it is the first Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) to offer such services for USDC, bringing stablecoin access into the same risk, compliance and governance frameworks…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Sui Foundation has announced a partnership with African payments company Paga to explore tokenized real-world assets and blockchain-based financial tools across African markets. The collaboration brings together Sui’s high-speed blockchain infrastructure and Paga’s payments reach in a region where mobile financial services…
