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Tokenization is rapidly reshaping global finance into a nonstop ecosystem, as digital assets and programmable money drive trillions in traditional markets toward 24/7 trading, seamless tokenized credit, and continuous cross-border liquidity that redefines global capital access. Tokenization Drives Shift Toward 24/7 Global Markets Digital asset innovation is accelerating a shift toward uninterrupted global finance. Robinhood Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: HOOD) Chief Executive Officer Vlad Tenev stated on Nov. 10 that tokenization will enable 24/7 trading, removing the traditional limitations of stock market hours. He shared the vision on social media platform X, emphasizing the inevitability of continuous access. The Robinhood executive…

A fire in Massillon, Ohio affected two buildings belonging to publicly traded Bitcoin miner Bitdeer, the firm announced.  The Tuesday fire was extinguished shortly after the local fire department was dispatched, and no injuries were reported.  “Earlier yesterday afternoon at around 2pm, on Tuesday, Nov 11, Bitdeer’s Massillon site sustained a fire that affected 2 buildings within the facility,” the firm posted on X. “The facility is under construction and site management is investigating to determine the cause of the fire and extent of the damage.” Earlier yesterday afternoon at around 2pm, on Tuesday, Nov 11, Bitdeer’s Massillon site sustained…

Your foundation describes Session as “designed to protect privacy, robustness through decentralization, and choice through interoperability.” Can you walk us through the core architectural decisions that make Session resilient to government blocks and centralized outages? Session is built from the ground up to avoid single points of failure. Rather than sending messages through a single server, traffic moves across a community-run network of thousands of independent nodes, so there is no centralized “pot” of messages which can be monitored or breached. Nodes only hold messages temporarily while a user is offline. Content is protected with end-to-end encryption, so even when…

U.S. Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller kicked off the central bank’s first payments-innovation conference by vowing the Fed will embrace the crypto sector’s innovations and saying he’s asked staff to explore a lighter version of the so-called “master accounts” that give financial firms access to U.S. payment rails. “My view from the Fed from now on is embrace the disruption, don’t avoid it,” Waller said to open the Tuesday event. “The Fed intends to be an active part of that revolution.” Waller, who is one of the governors on the seven-member Fed board, is reportedly among President Donald Trump’s potential…

This week saw the Second Circuit Court of Appeals hear arguments in Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal of his criminal conviction. The three-judge panel appeared very skeptical of his attorney’s arguments. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. The narrative FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal was always going to be an uphill journey. Senior Judge Lewis Kaplan, the Southern District of New York jurist who oversaw the trial, is generally well-respected and the bar for securing a new trial is high. Why it matters Short…

Binance has launched a mock trading feature designed to significantly lower the barrier to entry for all crypto users. Risk-Free Learning Environment The leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has unveiled a feature that simulates an actual trading environment to significantly lower the barrier to entry for cryptocurrency users of all skill levels. Known as Binance Demo Trading, the feature is an upgrade from the previous mock trading feature and offers a unified, risk-free platform for learning both spot and derivatives trading. According to a media statement, the initiative reinforces Binance’s commitment to global crypto education amid market excitement about broader adoption.…

IBM has once again pushed the boundaries of computing innovation with the announcement of its Quantum Nighthawk chip, a next-generation processor engineered for the future of quantum computing. The processor reportedly has the capability to conduct nearly 5,000 two-qubit gates, which is a more than tenfold increase in capability over previous generations with the ambition of having approximately 15,000 two-qubit gates by 2028. This leap in technology has fueled yet another cycle of discussion and dialogue in technology and finance conversations. Yet the biggest promise is not really about computing performance; it is really about security against quantum cryptographic capability.…

Advocates for financial anonymity have shared their displeasure with the perceived heavy-handedness in the sentencing of Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez. Privacy advocates are fighting back against what they believe is regulatory hostility toward privacy-enhancing crypto tools, rallying support to potentially escalate their lobby to the level of the White House. The Bitcoin community disapproves of the Samourai dev sentencing The Bitcoin Policy Institute and several well-known libertarian activists are gathering support after Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez was sentenced to five years in prison for running an unlicensed money-transmitting business. The case is being viewed as part of a…

What started as a typical account script turned into one of the strangest XRP Ledger glitches of the last few months. BitGo, a popular crypto custodian and wallet provider, accidentally released a flood of failed XRP transactions after one of its accounts ran out of a balance. The issue started when BitGo’s automation kept trying to activate new XRP accounts, each requiring the standard one XRP reserve fee. But once the wallet’s funds were gone, the process did not stop. Instead, the script entered what looked like an endless cycle of sending small payments that could not be covered. Soon,…

The Canton Network said that Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform is now live on its blockchain, expanding the asset manager’s presence in regulated digital markets and giving institutional investors wider access to tokenized investment products. The move links Franklin Templeton’s blockchain infrastructure to Canton’s Global Collateral Network, a distributed system designed to connect traditional finance with on-chain markets. The integration gives market makers and institutions a new source of liquidity and collateral while maintaining compliance and privacy standards, according to an emailed announcement on Wednesday. Tokenization is the process by which real-world assets (RWA) are converted into blockchain-based tokens. In…