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Terminus and BIXOS Partner to Transform Real-World Assets with Web3

Terminus has officially declared a strategic partnership with BIXOS, a business recognized particularly to being involved in tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs). The partnership will support the combination of the asset digitization services of BIXOS and PayFi-first infrastructure of Terminus to increase the possibilities of blockchain-based financial systems. 🌐 Terminus x BIXOS: New Partnership to Advance Tokenized Real-World Assets 🤝 Terminus is excited to announce a partnership with BIXOS @Bixosinc, a leader in tokenizing real-world assets to bridge the physical and digital worlds. United by a vision to democratize ownership… pic.twitter.com/8YOspkpIuU — Terminus (@terminus_pos) July 3, 2025 The alliance aims to…

BlockchainJul 6

Jack Mallers Announced A New System of Bitcoin Backed Loans at Strike

The Founder and CEO of Strike, Jack Mallers, at the 2025 Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, announced a new system of Bitcoin backed loans at Strike with one digit interest rate. Jack Mallers began his keynote by pointing at the biggest problem. Fiat currency. “The best time to go to Whole Foods and buy eggs with your dollars was 1913,” said Mallers. “Every other time after, you are getting screwed.” What’s the solution? “The solution is Bitcoin,” stated Mallers. “Bitcoin is the money that we coincide that nobody can print. You can’t print, you can’t debase my time and energy,…

BitcoinJul 6

DeFi Is outpacing Bitcoin’s maximalist mindset

The following is a guest post and opinion of Jeff Garzik, Co-founder of Hemi Labs. Ever since Bitcoin stopped being the one and only crypto, a group of its stalwart devotees emerged called “Bitcoin maximalists,” arguing that BTC is the only “true” digital asset. As the crypto industry moves toward all-pervading decentralized finance (DeFi) interoperability, however, this mindset is rapidly becoming not only irrelevant but even harmful to the sector. Bitcoin maximalism really took shape in the early days of crypto, back when Bitcoin was the only truly decentralized and trustless store of value, with a proven protocol and a…

DeFiJul 6

Top NFTs Trending Today, Courtyard Leading the Pack

In the recent 24-hour sales list of non-fungible token (NFT) collections, Courtyard on the Polygon blockchain was ranked number one with a sales volume of 2,516,224. The collection led in revenues but witnessed a negative performance in the most important parameters, such as a 7.33% decline in sales volume and a 13.09 % decline in transactions. The number of buyers declined by 20.25%, and the number of sellers declined by 41.3%. Guild of Guardians (Immutable-Zk) came second to Courtyard with sales of $1,718,156. Nevertheless, it had a 40.71 percent sales volume drop. The number of transactions and the number of…

NFTJul 6

The rise of vibe coding on Solana

This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. If you want to build in Web3, you’ve pretty much always needed to know how to code. Not necessarily at an elite level, but at least a baseline understanding. That plus lots of late nights, semicolon-heavy syntax, compiler errors, and a burly stack of ever-open documentation tabs. The technical barrier was part of the “chewing glass” culture. Gatekeeping, maybe, but also a necessary filter in an ecosystem where one misplaced line in a smart contract could drain a treasury. That filter is eroding fast these days, however.…

AltcoinsJul 6

HSBC Orion to launch MENA’s first digitally native bond with ADX and FAB

HSBC has teamed up with ADX and FAB to introduce the MENA region’s first digitally native bond on blockchain, adding to HSBC’s growing portfolio of digital bond issuances on its Orion platform. HSBC has partnered with Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and First Abu Dhabi Bank to launch the MENA region’s first digitally native bond using distributed ledger technology. As reported by Middle East Economy, ADX has already commenced the pricing process for the product. Issued by FAB, the bond will be launched through HSBC’s Orion platform — a blockchain-based digital asset infrastructure. Orion is operated via the Central Moneymarkets Unit…

BlockchainJul 6

Lyn Alden Makes the Case for BTC at Bitcoin 2025

“Nothing stops this train,” Lyn Alden initially stated at Bitcoin 2025, walking the audience through a>Bitcoin is more necessary than ever. Her first chart, sourced from the Federal Reserve’s FRED database, displayed a stark decoupling: the unemployment rate is down, yet the fiscal deficit has surged past 7% of GDP. “This started around 2017, went into overdrive during the pandemic, and hasn’t corrected,” Alden said. “That’s not normal. We’re in a new era.” She didn’t mince words. “Nothing stops this train because there are no brakes attached to it anymore. The brakes are heavily impaired. Why should Bitcoiners care? Because,…

BitcoinJul 6

Janus Henderson Launches First Native Onchain AAA CLO Strategy

Janus Henderson Investors has launched the first fully native onchain AAA collateralized loan obligation (CLO) strategy in partnership with tokenization platform Centrifuge, backed by a $1 billion allocation from the Grove protocol operating within the Sky Ecosystem. Janus Henderson’s JAAA CLO Strategy Debuts Natively Onchain According to the announcement shared with Bitcoin.com News, Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO Strategy (JAAA) resides natively on the blockchain without using wrapped tokens or intermediaries. Managed by the same team overseeing Janus Henderson’s $21 billion AAA CLO ETF, JAAA aims to provide onchain investors institutional-grade credit exposure targeting capital preservation and yield. The Grove…

DeFiJul 6

Coinbase's Base Sees Over $4B in Capital Outflows Through Cross-Chain Bridges; Ethereum Registers Inflows of $8.5B

Nasdaq-listed crypto exchange Coinbase's Layer 2 scaling solution, Base, has gone from being the leader in 2024 in terms of capital inflows through cross-chain bridges to the top loser this year. Data from the Artemis Terminal shows Base has seen a net outflow of $4.3 billion this year, a stark contrast to the net inflow of $3.8 billion in 2024, which was the highest among the top 20 blockchains. Meanwhile, Ethereum, the world's largest smart contract blockchain, has registered a net inflow of $8.5 billion this year, compared to a net outflow of $7.4 billion in the previous year. Top…

BlockchainJul 6

Strategy Chair Michael Saylor Shares ‘21 Ways to Wealth’ in Vegas Keynote

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Strategy (MSTR) Chair Michael Saylor waxed poetic about bitcoin in a keynote speech at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Thursday, laying out his guiding principles — his so-called “21 ways to wealth” — for a jam-packed audience of fans and conference-goers. “Satoshi started a fire in cyberspace, and while the fearful run from it and fools dance around it, the faithful feed the flame, dreaming of a better world, and bathe in the warm glow of cyberlight,” Saylor said. “What does that mean? It means that a lot of people that look at Bitcoin are…

BitcoinJul 6