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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Wall Street’s clearinghouse, said Wednesday it plans to connect its tokenized securities platform to the Stellar ($XLM) network, expanding a broader effort by Wall Street firms to move traditional financial (TradFi) assets onto blockchain rails. Tokenized assets custodied by DTCC’s Depository Trust Company could become available on Stellar during the first half of 2027, DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation said in a press release shared with CoinDesk. The firms said the integration would support issuance, settlement and lifecycle management of blockchain-based versions of traditional securities. They also plan to explore use cases…

Crypto analyst and YouTuber Benjamin Cowen suggested that Bitcoin could test the $60,000 level again this year. According to Cowen, this potential pullback could be followed by a new bull cycle in the market. The experienced analyst predicts that the final bottom in the current market cycle will occur next October. Benjamin Cowen pointed out that Bitcoin’s current price movements bear a strong resemblance to past market cycles. According to the analyst, Bitcoin reached its peak in this cycle approximately 1,162 days after the previous low. Cowen noted that in the previous two major cycles, this period was 1,059 and…

For most of Bitcoin’s history, the playbook has been simple: buy $BTC and hold it. Everything else—lending, trading, stablecoins, payments, and capital formation—largely happened on other blockchains. Citrea is betting that’s about to change. The Bitcoin application layer, backed by Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, has launched CTR, a new coordination token designed to power what it describes as a programmable Bitcoin economy. The launch arrives alongside more than $50 million in planned liquidity commitments anchored by institutional participants including Galaxy Digital, the rollout of Citrea’s ctUSD Pre-Deposit Vault, inclusion on the Coinbase roadmap, and listings across major exchanges including…

Ethereum sentiment had already started improving after April’s recovery attempt before derivatives positioning gradually became more aggressive beneath weakening price continuation. Market participants also maintained stronger bullish exposure despite $ETH struggling to reclaim earlier momentum across broader spot markets. Funding Rates later remained positive near roughly 0.0105% while Ethereum traded closer toward the broader $2,114 region. That positioning increasingly contrasted on the 17th of April, when $ETH traded near $2,420 while funding remained negative around -0.0040%. Source: CryptoQuant Similar conditions also appeared near October 2025 highs around $4.12K and January 2026 levels near $3.0K before sharper declines followed afterward. That…

The Fed has released the minutes of its April meeting, which was eagerly awaited by the markets. The minutes indicated that officials were prepared to keep interest rates at high levels for an extended period, and that further rate hikes could be considered if inflation proved persistent. According to the meeting minutes, many policymakers supported removing “pro-easing” language from the monetary policy statement. A majority of officials shared the view that further tightening might be necessary if inflation remains above the 2 percent target. Federal Reserve officials assessed that high inflation, geopolitical uncertainties in the Middle East, rising energy prices,…

Daniel Keller explains why he remains bullish on $XRP Ledger and $XRP despite a 26% drop this year, citing real-world use and ecosystem growth. Keller, who is CTO at Eminence, recently explained why he still believes in the $XRP Ledger in an article on X. He shared his comments at a time when the crypto market remains under pressure, leading to sour investor sentiment, with $XRP down nearly 26% this year. Key Points Keller became bullish in 2020 due to XRPL’s speed, low cost, and real-world utility. His view turned cautious during the 2022 bear market as he questioned whether…

The number of publicly traded companies in the US has dropped by nearly 40% over the past three decades. The SEC just decided that’s a problem worth fixing. On May 19, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed sweeping amendments to the rules governing registered offerings and periodic reporting. It’s the most significant overhaul of these frameworks in over 20 years, and it’s squarely aimed at making the IPO process less painful for companies that have been avoiding public markets. What’s actually changing The proposed rules would nearly triple the threshold for what qualifies as a “large accelerated filer,” raising it…

Grand Theft Auto VI is already set up to be the cultural release of 2026; whether it becomes the first truly “crypto native” blockbuster game is still mostly a Rorschach test for the internet’s hopes and delusions. Rockstar Games has locked in November 19, 2026 as the release date for Grand Theft Auto VI on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, igniting the usual cycle of map speculation, leak hunting and economic hype around what is likely to be the biggest entertainment launch of the decade. A growing subculture inside crypto Twitter and Web3 gaming circles has layered a new…

Cash App just became one of the largest consumer platforms to offer stablecoin payments. Block, the Jack Dorsey-led fintech company, began rolling out $USDC send-and-receive functionality to roughly 15 million users on May 27, covering about 25% of its nearly 60 million monthly active users. The feature settles transactions on the Solana blockchain and lets users instantly convert $USDC to their existing USD Cash balance. How the integration actually works Each Cash App user gets a unique blockchain deposit address for $USDC transactions. That means anyone, not just other Cash App users, can send $USDC to a Cash App account…

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced plans to integrate its tokenization service with the Stellar public blockchain, advancing a strategy to support its multi-chain digital market infrastructure. The collaboration is expected to enable DTC-custodied real-world assets to be issued in tokenized form on Stellar, with availability targeted for the first half of 2027. The initiative follows a December 2025 SEC No-Action Letter permitting DTC to launch a tokenization service for traditional financial assets, allowing them to be used in digital markets while retaining standard investor protections and regulatory safeguards. DTCC said the development would unlock efficiencies such…