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The Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has classified cryptocurrencies as one of the possible paths for the world to wean itself off dependence on the US dollar. The president’s remarks came while he was at a government meeting held to discuss the performance of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, rising electricity consumption and proposals for new nuclear capacities. Lukashenko’s faith in crypto as a way to escape dollar dominance The president has asked for a report on the measures taken to increase electricity consumption, their results, and proposals for the further development of the electric power industry and related sectors. In…

Polygon announced today that Calastone, the global funds network, has integrated its tokenised distribution solution with the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling network. The integration enables Calastone’s blockchain-based fund distribution platform to operate on Polygon’s infrastructure, supporting institutional-grade, on-chain fund operations. Polygon and Calastone Join Forces According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, Calastone’s Tokenised Distribution allows fund share classes to function directly on-chain and reduce settlement times as well as operational costs for asset managers while retaining existing administrative workflows. Polygon’s network will facilitate high-volume institutional operations across Calastone’s network, which spans 4,500 financial institutions in 58 markets.…

NFT sales volume has fallen by 5.41% to $79.31 million, down from last week’s $84.44 million. Summary NFT sales dropped 5.41% to $79.31M even as buyers jumped nearly 1,000% this week. Algebra Positions NFT-V2 surged to $7.81M in sales while Pudgy Penguins plunged 37%. Ethereum and BNB Chain led NFT blockchains as Bitcoin and Polygon volume declined. According to CryptoSlam data, NFT buyers have surged by 989.62% to 222,294 and sellers have surged by 714.77% to 189,963. NFT transactions dropped by 20.92% to 1,097,565. This NFT sales drop happened as the Bitcoin (BTC) price has tumbled to the $96,000 level…

Markets thrive on certainty, and for the past 40 days, uncertainty was all anyone had. The U.S. government shutdown choked liquidity, disrupted funding flows, and drained risk appetite. The Senate’s 60–40 vote to advance a bipartisan deal marks the first real step toward reopening — and traders are celebrating. Analysts point out that the shutdown had tightened overnight funding markets, amplifying volatility. With a deal now in sight, investors are repositioning toward risk assets like crypto, anticipating looser monetary conditions and renewed fiscal spending ahead of the midterm election year. This combination — easing political pressure, expectations of fiscal stimulus,…

U.S. stocks traded mixed as jitters around bad loans at regional banks persisted despite President Donald Trump’s latest comments on trade tensions between the United States and China. Summary U.S. stocks opened mixed as investors weighed the latest tariff news from President Donald Trump. Trump’s comments on Friday about tariffs on China not being “sustainable” soothed sentiment. Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq had slipped as Wall Street reacted credit jitters and bad loans news from US regional banks The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 50 points, but the S&P 500 slipped 0.2% despite upbeat sentiment helped…

The United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (USA) are considering a shared sandbox to align licenses and regulations on digital assets: a key step in global crypto regulation. Crypto Regulation UK-USA: Towards a Joint Sandbox? What is the regulatory passport and why it matters What concrete steps are already underway? Is the United Kingdom at risk of falling behind? What Would It Mean for Businesses? Crypto Regulation UK-USA: Towards a Joint Sandbox? The United Kingdom and the United States are in preliminary talks to create a shared testing environment (“sandbox”) for digital assets and licenses. The goal is to…

Publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies had a tough week, with nearly every major miner posting double-digit declines as the sector sharply underperformed Bitcoin itself. Over the past five trading days, names like Cipher, Applied Digital, Core Scientific, CleanSpark and Bitdeer slid between 23% and 52%, while other operators such as Riot and Hut 8 saw mid-teens losses. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading about $94,400 at the time of writing, down about 9% over the past seven days. Source: Bitcoin Mining Stocks Zooming out, a Miner Mag report on Thursday showed public mining stocks have shed over $20 billion in market value…

DMZ Finance and Mantle Network have officially launched the world’s first tokenized money market fund onchain, with the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA)-approved QCDT going live on Mantle. The announcement comes nearly two months after Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, added support for QCDT. Bybit became the first crypto exchange to make the move, disclosing a partnership with QNB Group and DMZ Finance to integrate a DFSA-approved tokenised money market fund as collateral. QCDT now expands to Mantle’s scalable layer-2 infrastructure as the crypto space witnesses further integration of decentralized finance (DeFi) and institutional-grade assets. MNT,…

Vancouver, Canada — Republic Technologies has secured a $100 million zero-coupon convertible note to accelerate its Ethereum validator expansion and increase ETH holdings, marking one of the most unusually favorable financing deals seen in the crypto infrastructure sector. (Cover photo: Daniel Liu, CEO at Republic Technologies (CSE: $DOCT)—The company, which trades on the Canadian Stock Exchange under the ticker DOCT, confirmed that over 90% of the capital will be deployed directly into ETH purchases, beginning with an initial $10 million tranche.A Rare Zero-Interest Structure in Crypto FinancingThe funding comes from a leading institutional investor and carries no interest payments and…

Chia Der Jiun, the Managing Director at MAS, has announced that Singapore plans to rein in stablecoin laws and experiment with tokenized bills. Chia highlighted that the MAS has established a vibrant FinTech sector comprising over 1,800 FinTech firms across different domains. Chia stated that MAS launched the BLOOM initiative to support the industry’s trials with tokenized bills and regulated stablecoins for settlement. He invited FIs (Financial Institutions), as well as clearing and settlement network operators, to help conduct trials under this initiative. He noted that three Singapore banks, including DBS Bank, United Overseas Bank (UOB), and Oversea-China Banking Corporation…