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Crypto exchange Bybit will offer eligible customers access to tokenized bond funds managed by PIMCO and China Merchants Bank International, expanding its push into real-world assets through partnerships with Plume and DigiFT. Bybit’s new RWA Earn platform launched with two tokenized bond funds: the PIMCO Dynamic Income Opportunities Fund (PDO), which invests across fixed-income assets including corporate debt, mortgage-backed securities and government bonds, and the CMBI Investment Grade Bond Fund, which focuses on investment-grade credit in Asian and global markets. According to Monday’s announcement, the funds are tokenized through DigiFT, a digital asset exchange regulated in Singapore and Hong Kong,…

Chainlink has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination conducted by Big Four accounting firm Deloitte and Touche LLP, covering its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Data Feeds products, making it the only oracle platform in the blockchain industry to hold SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type 2, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification simultaneously. NEW: Big-4 firm Deloitte & Touche LLP completed SOC 2 Type 2 examination for Chainlink CCIP & Data Feeds.Chainlink is the only data and interop oracle platform meeting key institutional security standards:• SOC 2 Type 2• SOC 2 Type 1• ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification pic.twitter.com/bnuYrbCYX7 — Chainlink…

The rest of the Clarity Act depends on that guarantee, because there is no digital asset market to regulate if the people who build it cannot afford to build it in the U.S. The provision survived the committee markup intact, despite a filed amendment that would have gutted it, and it must stay in through the final vote, fully and without dilution. Here is why this matters to people who will never read a word of the statute. The engineers who write this software, from core Solana contributors to the designers of new DeFi protocols, publish code that anyone in…

In brief Multi-chain perps exchange Satori Finance is closing its doors next month. The firm raised $10 million from Coinbase Ventures, Jump Capital, and others in 2022. Satori said the extended market downturn had a significant impact on its financial situation. Satori Finance, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange backed by Coinbase Ventures and Jump Capital, is sunsetting its platform due to financial stress amid a declining crypto market. The firm, which raised $10 million from investors in 2022, supported perps trading on Ethereum, BNB Chain, and prominent layer-2 networks like Base and Arbitrum, among other crypto networks. “Unfortunately, due to…

Moody’s Ratings is rolling out its credit ratings to Solana (SOL), allowing issuers of tokenized bonds and other fixed-income securities to embed the firm’s assessments directly into blockchain-based assets. The move, announced Wednesday in partnership with Solana-focused tokenization specialist Alphaledger, expands Moody’s Token Integration Engine (TIE) to a major public blockchain after its first deployment earlier this year on the institutional-focused Canton Network (CC). The move builds on a pilot project completed last year, when they demonstrated how municipal bond ratings could be attached directly to tokenized securities on Solana. Tokenization — the process of creating blockchain-based versions of traditional…

Despite the late-Q1 bounce, the broader quarter still played out as a bearish phase for the market. From the technical standpoint, Bitcoin [$BTC] may have closed March up 1.5%, but it ultimately finished Q1 down more than 22%. Similarly, the $BTC-to-gold ratio briefly rebounded by over 17% during the month, yet it still ended Q1 down more than 28%, extending the 31% drawdown seen in Q4. In other words, Bitcoin’s relative strength against gold continued to weaken. Meanwhile, tokenized gold (XAUT) attracted notable capital flows. As the chart below shows, spot trading volume in tokenized gold hit $90.7 billion in…

Wang Chun, co-founder of F2Pool — the world’s fourth-largest Bitcoin mining pool by hashrate — has accumulated a significant position in Ethereum following a sharp price decline. On-chain data tracked by EmberCN reveals that Chun withdrew 54,500 $ETH, valued at approximately $93.25 million, from the Binance exchange over a roughly 15-day period after the price of ether fell below $1,700. Whale Accumulation During Market Weakness The move, which began shortly after $ETH broke below the psychological $1,700 support level, signals a strong vote of confidence from one of the crypto industry’s more established figures. Chun subsequently staked 37,400 $ETH of…

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Korbit has listed Spacecoin (SPACE), a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project. To celebrate this milestone, Korbit announces an airdrop of 4.2 million SPACE tokens. This event runs until May 4, 2025, and targets both new and existing users. Korbit Airdrop Details and SPACE Token Distribution Korbit, one of South Korea’s major digital asset platforms, is distributing the tokens to eligible participants. The airdrop requires users to complete specific tasks, such as trading or holding SPACE. This strategy aims to boost liquidity and user engagement. The 4.2 million SPACE tokens represent a significant incentive for the…

Chilean prosecutors have just issued an arrest warrant for Jose Manuel Rios Guaido, the founder of crypto platform Plusspay, after an investigation revealed that his fintech business was connected to a money laundering network run by a criminal organization called Tren de Aragua. The Southern Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor’s Office conducted the raid as part of a broader crackdown on Tren de Aragua’s financial infrastructure in Chile, also known as “Operación Tokio”. However, prosecutors have not yet filed formal charges against Ríos Guaidó. Chilean founder implicated in gang crypto laundering Detectives from Chile’s Organized Crime Investigation Brigade raided Plusspay’s offices in…

Coinbase, one of the largest publicly traded cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States, has announced plans to list the Re (RE) token. The listing will make RE available for trading on Coinbase’s platform, providing increased liquidity and accessibility for the token, which powers a decentralized data verification and reputation network. What is Re (RE) and Why Does This Listing Matter? Re (RE) is the native utility token of the Re blockchain, a platform designed to create a decentralized infrastructure for data verification, digital identity, and reputation management. The project aims to address challenges in online trust and data integrity by…