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Jupiter, the leading Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator, has announced it will support trading for the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM), marking a notable expansion of tokenized asset offerings within the DeFi ecosystem. The move allows users on Jupiter to gain exposure to a curated basket of global memory semiconductor companies directly through their crypto wallets. What Is the DRAM ETF? The Roundhill Memory ETF is a thematic exchange-traded fund that invests in companies central to the memory and storage semiconductor industry. Its top holdings include South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, U.S.-based Micron Technology, and SanDisk, a leader in…

Ethereum Holders Reach 293 Million Despite 30% Drop in Market Value Ethereum began 2026 with a mixed but revealing quarter. Usage hit new highs, while market value and fee revenue moved lower. According to the Q1 report published by Token Terminal, monthly active users on Ethereum’s layer-1 averaged 13.2 million, up 53.5% from the prior quarter and 85.9% from a year earlier. Transactions reached 200.4 million, up 38% quarter over quarter, while throughput rose to 25.78 transactions per second. The striking part is what happened to fees. Layer-1 transaction fees fell to $39.9 million, down 47.9% from the previous quarter…

STRC trading well below its $100 target level simply makes Strategy’s bitcoin acquisition and funding engine less efficient, because the company can no longer issue the preferred shares on attractive terms, as Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer previously noted. That is very different from suggesting the model is failing. The bigger issue is one of confidence rather than solvency. STRC was marketed as a low volatility income product designed to trade near $100, and its sharp decline has undermined investor trust. The real damage is to credibility, Two Prime CEO Alexander Blume argues, not the company’s ability to keep paying dividends.…

RBCH, the biggest external investor in Solana treasury firm Solmate Infrastructure, has filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court accusing the company’s board and officers of fiduciary breaches, self dealing, and making misleading statements to shareholders. The complaint targets Solmate’s current directors and officers. RBCH is affiliated with Viktor Fischer, the founder and CEO of RockawayX, who holds ~22.74% of Brera Holdings, Solmate’s parent company, after leading a $300 million PIPE investment in September 2025 with an additional $50 million commitment. What the complaint alleges The lawsuit claims that board members sold their own shares while other investors…

Regulatory Readiness Meets Market Demand HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has launched a tokenized deposit service in the United Arab Emirates, introducing around-the-clock blockchain-based cash management for corporate clients and adding the dirham to a growing multicurrency digital network. The new service allows eligible corporate and institutional clients to move funds instantly across borders and between internal treasury entities, integrating blockchain rails with traditional bank deposits. The network already supports euros, British pounds, U.S. dollars, Hong Kong dollars and Singapore dollars. Mohamed Al Marzooqi, chief executive officer of HSBC UAE, said the rollout reflects both regulatory readiness and market demand.…

Bitcoin sits near $60,000, down more than half from its October peak, with traders in extreme fear and institutions pulling money out for six straight weeks. The single question that decides where it goes next is whether the famous four-year cycle still governs Bitcoin, or whether institutions have broken it for good. Bitcoin is trading near $60,000, and depending on which framework you believe, that number is either the early stage of a painful but normal correction that ends with a familiar recovery, or the beginning of something the old playbook cannot explain. The price is down roughly 52% from…

Money market funds (MMFs), Treasury products, private credit and, more recently, stocks have all been tokenized as financial institutions and crypto firms expand their onchain offerings. The next step is using those assets as collateral in lending markets and across decentralized finance (DeFi), according to Marcin Kaźmierczak, co-founder of blockchain oracle provider RedStone. RedStone supplies price data for DeFi applications. According to DeFiLlama, it is the third-largest blockchain oracle by total value secured (TVS), securing about $4.1bn across 95 protocols. “Right now, only a very small fraction of those tokenized assets are used as collateral or as any kind of…

UBS and Nethermind completed two Ethereum compliance proofs of concept on Sepolia without live funds or mainnet transactions. One test used a customized Ethereum node to apply compliance and risk rules before outgoing transactions reached the network. The second routed approved transaction bundles through relays to selected block builders, suggesting regulated firms may use public Ethereum while keeping controls above the base layer for institutional blockchain deployments. UBS and Nethermind have completed two Ethereum compliance proofs of concept on Sepolia, giving institutional users a new argument for public blockchain infrastructure without demanding protocol-level changes. The tests used Ethereum’s public test…

“As intelligent machines become increasingly autonomous and operate around people, the requirements for safety, security, reliability and real-time determinism become even more important,” CEO John Giamatteo said during an earnings call. “Unlike probabilistic AI systems, QNX technology is deterministic and safety certified, which is exactly why it is so hard to replicate and why customers trust it for systems where failure is not an option.” Investors are taking notice, and the stock is up nearly 23% on Thursday, after a massive earnings beat and a revised upward guidance. Meanwhile, sell-side analysts are falling over themselves to praise BlackBerry’s mission-critical infrastructure…

Solana’s price is no longer moving in lockstep with the broader crypto market. Social trends data from Santiment shows a clear divergence, with $SOL gaining 15% since June 9 while other major assets traded sideways. The catalyst is not speculation about a new Solana protocol or a meme coin wave — it’s tokenized stocks. According to the Santiment update published on June 26, tokenized equities have quickly become one of crypto’s hottest narratives, and Solana has emerged as the blockchain of choice for much of that momentum. The offerings provide 24/5 trading, near-instant settlement, and DeFi compatibility — a combination…