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Citigroup, a key player in global finance, is weighing a potential acquisition of a US regional bank or brokerage to boost deposits, expand branches, and strengthen lending operations, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. Discussions have included banks with around $500 billion in assets and brokerages like Stifel and Raymond James, with regulatory approval required under existing consent orders, according to the report. A successful acquisition would represent a major step under CEO Jane Fraser and could transform Citigroup’s footprint to better compete with JPMorgan and Bank of America. Capital freed by recent divestitures The report…
Blockchain infrastructure firm $REAL has announced a strategic partnership with RedStone, aimed at fortifying the data and transparency layer of its tokenized asset ecosystem. — $REAL’s platform enables the tokenization, management, and onchain representation of real-world financial instruments. As these markets scale, reliable and verifiable data inputs are critical for institutional trust and market efficiency. Loading tweet… View Tweet RedStone Oracles Provide Auditable Price Feeds Through this collaboration, RedStone will provide Oracle infrastructure for price feeds across assets in the $REAL ecosystem. This integration ensures consistent, verifiable, and auditable market data for issuers, custodians, and participants, a foundational step toward…
Michael Saylor quoted a CNBC TV anchor who repeated his marketing spiel about STRC on live television. On Thursday’s edition of CNBC’s Power Lunch, Saylor was asked by host Brian Sullivan, “Am I offending you if I call it a money market fund?” Sullivan was referencing Strategy’s publicly-traded STRC, a 11.5% dividend-paying preferred share that is definitely not a money market fund. Saylor, who’s spent months likening his uninsured STRC to insured savings products like FDIC-insured bank accounts and SIPC-insured money markets happily agreed. “It’s meant to be like a money market,” Saylor replied, continuing months of misleading statements about…
Europe’s first tokenized equity exchange, Lise – Lightning Stock Exchange, and Kaiko, the global leader in independent digital asset market data, are joining forces to provide the pricing infrastructure institutional investors need for tokenized securities. — Under the first phase of the collaboration, Kaiko will aggregate, normalize, and distribute real-time and end-of-day pricing for all tokenized securities listed on Lise, starting with equities. By integrating this data into existing institutional workflows, custodians, fund administrators, and asset valuators gain access to independent, auditable pricing — a prerequisite for regulatory compliance and informed decision-making. Filling the Missing Market Data Gap The alliance…
Crypto usage in Latin America shifted from a financial survival tool to a reliable infrastructure. Stablecoin usage rose by 60% year-on-year, showing the region built a lifeline of liquidity. Crypto usage in Latin America accelerated in 2025, rising by 60%. According to estimates by Bitfinex, the region recorded more than $730B in crypto transactions, most of them using stablecoins. In the earlier years of crypto adoption, Latin American countries were among the prime users of P2P services. Hyperinflation shocks and the difficulty of cross-border payments led to crypto as a makeshift solution. Payments and anti-inflation reserves used BTC, ETH, as…
FinChain, a blockchain financial infrastructure that specializes in the tokenization of RWAs, decentralized identity, and digital finance, today announced a strategic partnership with Chainlink, a decentralized oracle network designed to connect smart contracts with multiple blockchains, real-world data, APIs, and external systems. Using this collaboration, FinChain integrated Chainlink’s cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP) to advance the circulation of its tokenized assets across the Asian continent. FinChain is a Hong Kong-based financial infrastructure platform that facilitates regulated on-chain circulation of RWAs (real-world assets) to reach various users across the world, particularly in Asia. Since its launch in 2024, FinChain continues to advance…
Most of the online reaction to Google Quantum AI’s paper, released late Monday, focused on bitcoin. The nine-minute attack, a 41% theft probability and the 6.9 million in possibly exposed BTC. Ethereum’s section got less attention. It deserves more. The whitepaper, co-authored with Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake and Stanford’s Dan Boneh, mapped five ways a quantum computer could attack Ethereum, each targeting a different part of the network. The combined exposure exceeds $100 billion at current prices, and the knock-on effects could be far larger. Wallets that can never hide On bitcoin, your public key (the cryptographic identity tied…
Major crypto-related stocks fell sharply Friday, with some hitting their lowest prices in at least a month as markets reacted to continued uncertainty around the Iran war, and Bitcoin fell to its lowest price since March 2. Bitcoin was recently trading at $65,804, down more than 4% on the day. It fell as low as $65,720 earlier Friday, which is the lowest price registered since March 2, the first business day after the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, as markets reacted to the surprise weekend assault. Other major cryptocurrencies are similarly feeling the pain, with Ethereum down about…
ENI and Audiera have announced a partnership to build an agent-native economy on $BNB Chain. The idea is straightforward but uncommon: AI agents stop being tools that humans use and start being participants with their own economic identities, wallets, and stakes in what they create. Through the Audiera platform, powered by the $BEAT token, AI agents can own wallets, earn and spend on-chain, compete in rhythm-based experiences, and create and monetize content without human intermediation at every step. @ENI__Official 🤝 @Audiera_web3 The future isn’t human vs AI, it’s human + agent economies.With Audiera, AI agents evolve from tools into economic…
The top 1,000 wealthiest wallets on the Ethereum ($ETH) network could be systematically drained in 9 days by an attacker equipped with a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, according to new research. The research published on March 31 by the Google Quantum AI team found that the majority of Ethereum accounts have already initiated at least one transaction, thereby making their public keys visible and their funds quantum-vulnerable. Together, the top vulnerable Ethereum accounts hold approximately 20.5 million $ETH, which is valued at about $4.27 billion at press time. Ethereum account vulnerability. Source: Google The Ethereum accounts that have never sent…