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Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said real-world asset tokenization is dismantling traditional market-making structures and could make automated market makers, or AMMs, central to financial markets. In a post on X, Adams argued that tokenization is not just an infrastructure upgrade but a fundamental shift in how liquidity is provided and which assets are traded. Tokenization Moves Beyond Infrastructure Adams highlighted that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved stock token trading by Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, while the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has also conducted live trading tests. These developments suggest that tokenized securities are…

Ethereum traders have been watching one chart more closely than almost anything else in the crypto market this week, and for good reason. The $ETH $BTC breakout that just played out on the pair’s price chart has broken a downtrend that stretched across several months, and it’s raising a question that hasn’t been asked seriously in a long time: is Ethereum finally about to outperform Bitcoin again? Key takeaways $ETH/$BTC broke above the 0.03205 level, ending a multi-month downtrend and pushing past its previous lower high. A retest zone between 0.0270 and 0.0260 is the next critical test for confirming…

Webull said Wednesday that cryptocurrency trading accounted for $2.25 million, or a little over 1% of the platform’s record $198 million revenue for the second quarter of 2026. Revenue for the period was up 51% year-over-year, according to online brokerage and digital trading platform’s Wednesday earnings release. That’s as equity and options trading generated $112 million of the quarterly income, or about 56% of the total $198 million. Webull president and director Anthony Michael Denier during a Wednesday earnings call said the company was in the process of gradually rolling out crypto deposit and withdrawal capabilities. Online brokerage Robinhood also…

Ripple’s $RLUSD has crossed the $2 billion market-cap milestone this month, which now puts the stablecoin much closer to PayPal USD ($PYUSD), which has a market value of about $2.9 billion. But market capitalization alone doesn’t show which stablecoin is used more. On-chain activity suggests $PYUSD still has the larger user base and generates more transfer volume. Meanwhile, $RLUSD shows a different pattern: fewer active addresses but high activity relative to its supply. $RLUSD Is Smaller, But Its Supply Is Moving As of August 24, RWA.xyz data puts $RLUSD’s market cap at about $2.02 billion, with 84,514 holders. Its monthly…

In brief CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara clashed during a CFTC roundtable in Washington, D.C. Duffy singled out Kalshi while questioning whether prediction markets face the same regulatory scrutiny as established exchanges. The clash comes amid a fight between federal and state regulators over prediction markets. A CFTC roundtable on prediction markets turned heated Thursday when CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded insults over market manipulation and regulation. The confrontation unfolded during a Commodity Futures Trading Commission meeting in Washington, D.C., as executives from traditional finance, crypto, and…

After enjoying a substantial recovery through most of July, Bitcoin ($BTC) began reversing later in the month, and Finbold’s artificial intelligence (AI) predictive machine learning algorithm estimates that the latest downtrend will persist by August 31. Specifically, after analyzing the cryptocurrency using a variety of technical tools, including moving averages (MA), the relative strength index (RSI), and oscillators, the average AI $BTC price prediction came in at $59,981 – 3.87% below the press-time price. Finbold AI Bitcoin price prediction for August 31, 2026. Source: Finbold Out of the eight models included in the predictive system, DeepSeek proved the most bearish,…

Decentralized lending protocol Moonwell has proposed no cbETH repayment in its latest reserve round, even as the Base market for Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH carries a $1.77 million net shortfall. The allocation, published by risk service provider Anthias Labs on Aug. 24, would leave 2.8095 cbETH of listed reserves unused months after a February oracle error created the bad debt. Moonwell’s live Base markets API showed the imbalance was still present at 11:28 UTC on Aug. 25. It reported $1.93 million supplied and $1.94 million borrowed, with negative $8,223.63 liquidity and 100.43% utilization in its cbETH market calculation. Infographic showing…

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange bitbank has introduced an Ethereum ($ETH) staking service, allowing customers to earn rewards on their holdings without a separate lock-up period. The service, first reported by CoinPost, is designed to simplify participation for users who want to generate yield from their $ETH directly within their existing exchange account. How the staking service works According to the announcement, users can participate by holding $ETH in their bitbank account, agreeing to the staking service terms, and enabling reward receipt settings. The estimated annual yield for customers is 1.78%, with rewards distributed every Monday around 11:00 p.m. UTC. Notably, the…

The American mutual fund Kinetics Internet Portfolio, which has $275 million in assets and is part of Kinetics Portfolios Trust, has acquired a direct equity stake in Ripple Labs Inc. The investment was disclosed in the fund’s quarterly Form NPORT-P report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the document, the fund owns Class A common shares (Class A Common Shares) issued by Ripple. SEC Form NPORT-P filing confirming Ripple Labs equity ownership by Kinetics Portfolios Trust. Source: SEC.gov The distinctive aspect of the transaction is that the institutional investor invested directly in the company —…

The Lisk team has unveiled a governance proposal to halt DAO operations and burn 100 million LSK tokens. If approved, the total supply of LSK would drop from 400 million to 300 million, marking a significant reduction in circulating tokens. Details of the Proposal The proposal targets the 100 million LSK that were allocated to the DAO treasury for the period 2027–2033. These tokens would be burned, effectively removing them from circulation permanently. In addition, around 47 million LSK currently in the DAO treasury or allocated through 2026 would be transferred to Lisk Ltd., the company behind the project. The…