Institutional / DeFi

Balancer shuts down while Ondo tokenizes stocks: DeFi’s generation gap is getting hard to miss

If you want to see where DeFi is heading, look at who is shutting down and who is still building. This week gave the...

Pension funds and venture capital are quietly squeezing retail out of crypto

Crypto used to feel like a market built by retail, for retail. That is getting harder to say with a straight face. On one...

The fragmentation thesis: why more bank stablecoins may actually help XRP

Here is the version of the XRP story you do not usually hear. It is not about XRP defeating SWIFT. It is not about...

A DeFi stablecoin breaks while institutions quietly build a safer on‑chain fixed‑income stack

On one side of crypto, an "innovative" stablecoin can still implode overnight because a smart contract lets someone mint tens of millions of tokens...

DeFi wants real‑world yield, but 93% of it is still off‑limits

If you only follow crypto headlines, it is easy to think that tokenized real‑world assets have already broken into mainstream finance. Electric Capital's latest...

Tokenization isn’t a tech toy anymore: Singapore builds the rails while Japan turns USDC into a retail product

Tokenization hype usually starts with blockchains and ends with buzzwords. Singapore’s regulators and Japan’s SBI VC Trade are taking a different route: treating tokens...

24/7 tokenized markets meet Nasdaq’s tokenized‑equity green light

On a typical Friday, a portfolio manager's job ends when the closing bell rings. This year, that line is getting blurry. While the New...

Moody’s goes on‑chain just as the SEC finally draws a map, institutional crypto infrastructure finally grows up?

When Alex opens her dashboard on Monday morning, she’s not looking at memecoins. She runs digital‑asset strategy at a mid‑size asset manager, and today...

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