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FBS, a leading global broker, has published a new market analysis highlighting Ethereum’s growing role as the financial backbone for Wall Street. According to FBS analysts, billionaire investor Peter Thiel’s backing of ETH-focused treasuries is a strong signal that institutional capital now views Ethereum not just as a crypto asset, but as core financial infrastructure. Ethereum’s transformation is being accelerated by its staking economy. With more than $170 billion worth of ETH staked, the asset is evolving into a yield-bearing instrument, comparable to bonds. Annual yields of 3–4% make it increasingly attractive for pension funds, corporate treasuries, and institutional investors…

Blockchain venture studio Thesis*, has appointed Victoria Chan as its new chief operating officer, the company said in a press release Tuesday. The new appointment is part of a push to scale the company’s BitcoinFi ecosystem, and follows the launch of Mezo in May and Thesis’ acquisition of Bitcoin rewards platform Lolli last month. Chan, a veteran operations leader with over 20 years in tech, joins Thesis* after serving as director of developer global services at crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), where she oversaw vendor and operational teams across blockchain operations, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and developer tools, with an emphasis on…

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has listed cryptocurrencies among the main threats for the future of the country’s financial market. In an overview of its expected development, the regulator indicated it intends to boost crypto oversight and combat anonymous trading. Russia’s central bank sees crypto as a threat Cryptocurrencies and stablecoins will be a major risk for the Russian financial sector in the next few years, according to the monetary authority in Moscow. The conclusion comes from a report titled “Key Directions for the Development of the Financial Market of the Russian Federation” which covers the 2026 – 2028…

Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands — Crypto is taking another step into everyday life. KuCoin Pay, the payments arm of global exchange KuCoin, has teamed up with Swiss provider DFX.swiss to roll out a new payment integration at more than 100 SPAR stores across Switzerland.—The partnership plugs KuCoin Pay into DFX.swiss’s OpenCryptoQR system, enabling shoppers to settle their grocery bills with stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies. For users, the process is as simple as scanning a QR code in the KuCoin app; for merchants, settlements happen instantly in fiat—no conversion headaches, no exposure to crypto volatility.Why It MattersThis integration turns digital…

Optopia, an AI-led L2 network, has partnered with EDITH, a decentralized AI infrastructure platform. The partnership seeks to merge the agent-based execution of user intents with the tokenized compute, agent infrastructure, and energy of EDITH. As the platform disclosed in its official announcement on X, the collaboration denotes the comprehensive synergy between the blockchain ecosystems and AI. Keeping this in view, the development is set to enhance innovation by strengthening AI agents by offering real-world and scalable computing resources. 🤝 Partnership AnnouncementOptopia x @edithAPP ⚡Optopia: AI-driven Layer2 where agents execute user intents with tokenomics.EDITH: Decentralized AI supergrid tokenizing compute, energy…

BNB Chain is now once again established as a leader in decentralized finance, and the most recent figures indicate a total value locked (TVL) of $9.87 billion. The expansion indicates how the chain can draw in a broad spectrum of DeFi apps comprising of decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, yield applications and physical asset tokenization. TOP 10 #TVL ON #BNBCHAIN $CAKE $XVS $LISTA $SOLV #DeSyn $PENDLE $ASTER $AAVE $AVL $COW pic.twitter.com/aLXiVWBUkZ — PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) September 19, 2025 The ecosystem is not only powerful in terms of pure value but also the diversification of projects that make…

While Bitcoin (BTC) raced from record to record in 2025, Ethereum (ETH), which fell behind, finally broke its 2021 ATH and experienced a sharp correction just as it was on the rise. With this correction, Ethereum fell to $4,200 levels, and one analyst said that Ethereum could make a big move soon. Popular cryptocurrency analyst Ali Martinez said in his X analysis that Ethereum has entered the squeeze zone of the Bollinger Bands. Ethereum’s Bollinger Bands have narrowed sharply and entered ‘squeeze’ territory. It could make a big move soon. Generally, when the width of the Bollinger Bands narrows, price…

President Donald Trump’s top adviser on crypto, David Sacks, is working under a “special government employee” status that’s meant to be for officials serviing an important but temporary duty with the federal government, and Senator Elizabeth Warren penned a letter with other Democrats in Congress asking him whether he’s overstepped that window. Such an employee isn’t allowed to serve more than 130 days in a year, according to the law, and the Wednesday letter to Sacks asks him to put a number on the days the prominent venture capitalist has worked for Trump in the role as crypto and artificial…

Coinbase’s presence in XRP has almost disappeared. At the start of summer, the exchange held around 970 million XRP across 52 cold wallets. Ten of these wallets held approximately 26.8 million coins each, while the remaining wallets held a further 16.8 million. Three months later, only four of those wallets are still active, each holding around 16.4 million XRP, according to XRPWallets. This equates to approximately 65.6 million XRP remaining — less than 7% of the total held in June. I’ve been watching a few of them like these. New subwallets then more is added. I was hoping to see…

NBA champion Tristan Thompson is teaming up with Improbable CEO Herman Narula and co-founder Hadi Teherany to roll out a new web3 experience designed to reinvent basketball fandom for the digital era. The project, named basketball.fun, will debut in October ahead of the NBA season and will attempt to gamify the way fans interact with players and games, Thompson announced. It has been developed on Somnia, a layer 1 blockchain that went live at the start of this month, already notching billions of dollars worth of trading volume in its first two weeks. “This is how we experience moments together,…