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Convera said Tuesday it is partnering with Ripple to roll out crypto-enabled payment and treasury services for businesses, marking another sign that stablecoins are moving deeper into mainstream cross-border finance. The collaboration combines Convera’s commercial payments and FX network with Ripple’s blockchain-based liquidity and settlement infrastructure. Convera says the offering is designed to help businesses move money faster and more reliably, especially in payment corridors where traditional rails remain slow or costly. The structure is built around the stablecoin sandwich model, where a payment starts in fiat, settles through a regulated stablecoin, and ends in fiat again. That means enterprise…
The Ethereum price temporarily flipped bullish on Wednesday and has moved back above the $2,100 level, but underlying signals are hinting at a potential continuation of the upward move. During this renewed upside strength, investors across cryptocurrency exchanges are demonstrating positive sentiment toward $ETH as they have withdrawn a massive portion of the altcoin from these platforms. A Massive Ethereum Outflow From Exchanges With the cryptocurrency market slightly recovering, Ethereum is starting to showcase upside potential again. Meanwhile, a striking trend is emerging across the $ETH market as investors are choosing to hold on to their coins rather than trade…
BlackRock’s head of digital assets, Robbie Mitchnick, signaled a shift in how large investors view crypto, pointing to artificial intelligence (AI) as a more meaningful driver than the expansion of new tokens. Speaking about client behavior, Mitchnick described a market that has moved away from broad exposure to smaller assets. He said the turnover among top tokens has been “pretty ferocious,” with only bitcoin BTC$70,122.25 and, later, ether (ETH) maintaining consistent positions. Many newer tokens, he suggested, fail to hold long-term relevance. That pattern has shaped investor demand. “The majority of that is nonsense,” Mitchnick said at the Digital Asset…
Ondo Global Markets’ tokenized securities are now accessible through Talos, one of the leading platforms empowering institutions across 30+ countries to trade and manage digital assets. Banks, brokers, exchanges, and asset managers across the globe (outside the U.S.) can now seamlessly access Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs on Talos’ platform via an integration with Gate, a top 3 global cryptocurrency exchange. This landmark integration marks a major turning point for institutional adoption of tokenized securities. Institutions can now expand their product offering to include 260+ Ondo tokenized stocks, ETFs, and commodity-linked products. In the initial phase, Talos clients can access…
Seven days of DAO activity produced a buyback proposal from Lido, a major Aave V4 deployment decision, a painful restructuring at Balancer, tokenomics overhaul at Lista, ongoing fallout from the Resolv incident, and an ECB paper that put a number on something DeFi insiders have long suspected about governance concentration. What happened in DAO proposals and discussions in the last 7 days 🧠👇1. @LidoFinance DAO proposed a $20 million $LDO token buyback, using 10,000 stETH from the treasury.2. @aave DAO is voting on the updated Aave Will Win Framework.3. Aave DAO approved to deploy Aave V4 on… pic.twitter.com/abt4JYiQ37 — Pink…
Ethereum price failed to stay above $2,120 and extended losses. $ETH is now struggling to stay above $2,040 and might continue to move down in the near term. Ethereum started a fresh decline from the $2,150 zone. The price is trading below $2,120 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There was a break below a bullish trend line with support at $2,075 on the hourly chart of $ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a fresh decline if it stays below the $2,120 resistance. Ethereum Price Dips Further Ethereum price failed to continue higher above $2,120 and started…
Hong Kong’s largest English-language newspaper published a pointed debate on stablecoins on March 25, as the city’s self-imposed March deadline for its first stablecoin licenses nears its end with no official word. The conversation raises a question that every non-US jurisdiction now confronts: Does embracing dollar stablecoins deepen dependence on the very system many governments want to diversify away from? The Dollar Paradox The South China Morning Post paired Gary Liu, co-founder of Terminal 3 and former SCMP chief executive, with Liu Xiaochun, an economist at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Gary Liu argued that the GENIUS Act may have been…
A significant collaboration aimed at expanding the use of blockchain and stablecoins in global payment infrastructure has been announced. Ripple Labs and Convera have announced a strategic partnership to improve cross-border payments. According to today’s announcement, the two companies aim to offer faster and more reliable international payment solutions using stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure. Convera, formerly known as Western Union Business Solutions, is a global fintech company that processes transactions in over 140 currencies across nearly 200 countries and regions. Convera CEO Patrick Gauthier stated that with the increasing adoption of digital assets, the company closely monitors its customers’ needs,…
Wall Street spent the first quarter of 2026 systematically narrowing DeFi’s claim to the future of finance. In January, ICE announced NYSE was building a tokenized securities platform with 24/7 operations, instant settlement, dollar-based order sizing, and stablecoin funding, with BNY and Citi providing tokenized deposits for clearinghouse funding outside normal banking hours. In February, WisdomTree launched 24/7 trading and instant settlement for tokenized money-market fund shares under SEC relief. In March, the Fed, FDIC, and OCC jointly said that eligible tokenized securities should receive the same capital treatment as their non-tokenized counterparts, calling the framework technology-neutral. The SEC then…
Ethereum [$ETH], the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has entered a critical phase as global and regional flows begin to diverge sharply. While global markets react defensively to rising geopolitical risk, particularly tensions between the United States and Iran, localized demand pockets suggest a more complex positioning beneath the surface. Ethereum traded at a 4% discount from its previous day’s high, reflecting immediate risk-off sentiment. However, underlying flow data shows that not all investors are aligned with this bearish shift. Derivatives markets lead Ethereum’s decline $ETH faced an aggressive wave of selling in the derivatives market after President Donald Trump…