Dubai Starts Real Estate Tokenization Pilot, Forecasts $16B Market by 2033
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The Dubai Land Department (DLD), a government agency for the real estate industry, said it started a real estate tokenization pilot program, claiming to be the first property registration authority in the Middle East to use blockchain technology for property title deeds. The initiative was developed with the digital assets watchdog Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority […]

Lessons from the Bybit Hack
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The recent security breach for around $1.5 billion at Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, sent ripples through the digital asset community. With $20 billion in customer assets under custody, Bybit faced a significant challenge when an attacker exploited security controls during a routine transfer from an offline “cold” wallet to a […]

Multicoin’s Samani Explains Why SOL ETF Could Trounce ETH’s
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Solana doesn’t yet have an exchange-traded fund, but one of the asset’s biggest backers is betting the Wall Street-friendly vehicle could come in 2025 — and believes it’s well-positioned to trounce Ethereum’s various similar products. Multicoin Capital’s Kyle Samani — a major investor in SOL and countless subordinate protocols — has been publicly pressing the […]

Solana Protected Gender Identity Before Panning It in Anti-Queer Ad
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The Solana Foundation nixed an ad widely criticized for being anti-queer late Monday, nearly nine hours after seemingly invoking the culture wars as a mechanism to boost conference attendance. The now-deleted spot imagines “America” in therapy. A human embodiment of the nation desperately wants to think big – about tech, crypto, space travel. But he […]

Ethereum Welcomes a New Testnet
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Ethereum developers launched a new test network, Hoodi, on Monday that will be used to carry out the blockchain’s upcoming ‘Pectra’ upgrade. Pectra will go live on Hoodi on March 26, and if all goes well, the long-awaited upgrade will proceed to Etheruem’s mainnet roughly 30 days later, according to the network’s core developers. Hoodi […]

Gold ETFs Inflow Takes Over BTC ETFs Amid Historic Rally
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Gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have overtaken bitcoin ETFs in assets under management as investors shift toward the traditional safe-haven asset as BTC price tumbled more than 19% over the past three months, while the precious metal climbed 12.5%. Bitcoin ETFs, which saw significant inflows following their U.S. launch in January last year, have experienced major […]

Coinbase (COIN) Stock Decline Can’t Stop Highly Leveraged Long ETF Rollouts
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Leverage Shares by Themes has launched a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) tied to the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) stock despite a downturn in the crypto-related shares. The Leverage Shares 2X Long Coinbase Daily ETF (COIG) is designed to deliver twice the daily return of Coinbase’s stock price, offering traders an amplified exposure to the […]

21Shares to Liquidate Active Bitcoin and Ether Futures ETFs Amid Market Downturn
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Crypto asset manager 21Shares is set to liquidate two actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to bitcoin and ether futures amid a wider market downturn. The funds slated for liquidation are the ARK 21Shares Active On-Chain Bitcoin Strategy ETF (ARKC) and the ARK 21Shares Active Bitcoin Ethereum Strategy ETF (ARKY). Investors can trade shares until […]

New Canadian P.M. Carney Closes Gap on Polymarket with BTC-Friendly Poilievre
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Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who recently won a leadership contest of the Liberal Party to replace Justin Trudeau, has dramatically increased his odds of winning the next federal election in the eyes of Polymarket bettors. (Polymarket) Carney now has a 49% chance of winning the next Canadian election, compared to 26% a […]

Deep Dive on the Trump Reserve Token Whose Blockchain Ignores TVL
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Trading volumes for Cardano’s ADA token have exploded of late with daily figures averaging around $720 million in February while exceeding an average of $1.4 billion in March. This rise was spurred by a social media post by U.S. President Donald Trump, who mentioned ADA as one of the tokens that would be included in […]

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial (WLFI) Completes $590M Token Sale
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World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Donald Trump-backed crypto project, has closed its token sale after raising approximately $590 million. (World Liberty Financial) The project’s raise of $590 million would put it in the top-10 list of token raises, according to data curated by ICODrops. To date, the largest token sale is EOS, which raised $4.21 […]

BlackRock’s Tokenized Fund BUIDL Tops $1B with Ethena’s $200M Allocation
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Global asset manager BlackRock’s BUIDL token, issued in partnership Securitize and backed by U.S. Treasuries, crossed the $1 billion milestone in assets on Thursday, Securitize said. Pushing the fund’s size above the threshold was a $200 million allocation this afternoon by crypto protocol Ethena, a Securitize spokesperson told CoinDesk. Ethereum blockchain data by Arkham Intelligence […]