@Ondo Finance and Alpaca are giving institutions a direct route to bring existing stock holdings onchain.
Approved firms can now use shares they already own to mint Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs.
The Instant Tokenization Network supports both minting with existing shares and redemption back into the underlying assets. It is now live across @Ethereum and $BNB Chain.
X is turning cashtags into gateways for stock and crypto trading.
Users can now jump from market conversations directly to partner trading platforms through a new Trade button.
Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, Moomoo, and Interactive Brokers are among the launch partners. X handles discovery from the timeline, while trades still happen on the partner platforms.
Circle is giving institutions another way to unlock Bitcoin liquidity without selling.
Eligible Circle Mint clients can now borrow $USDC against $BTC through Morpho.
Bitcoin is wrapped into cirBTC and used as collateral for USDC loans on Morpho markets on Arc or Ethereum, letting institutions keep their BTC exposure while accessing on-chain liquidity.
Google $GOOGL and Apple are hiring for roles tied to stablecoins, tokenization and blockchain technology, signaling growing interest in digital-asset infrastructure.
Neither company has announced a new stablecoin, but the roles show crypto-related technology is entering their payments and financial-services strategies.
XRP Ledger’s next payments upgrade is already attracting commercial use cases. Batch V1.1 can bundle up to eight linked transactions and settle them together as one operation.
RippleX says asset managers and other commercial projects are already building around Batch V1.1 ahead of activation, with delivery versus payment among its key potential applications.
Binance Wallet is opening a new route to tokenized pre IPO exposure.
Its new Pre Access campaigns let eligible users subscribe to private company-linked opportunities hosted through PancakeSwap.
Users retain control of their assets through self-custody wallets, while each campaign operates within a defined subscription window. Binance has not yet revealed the first participating private company.
The ECB is bringing central bank money into tokenized financial markets.
Its new Pontes system enables banks to settle wholesale tokenized transactions in euros.
Pontes gives banks an alternative to privately issued stablecoins for settling tokenized transactions, while the ECB continues developing a separate digital euro for retail payments.
Bastion has secured conditional OCC approval to become a U.S. national trust bank.
The charter would bring its stablecoin issuance, custody, and conversion infrastructure under one federally regulated entity.
Beyond custody, Bastion’s approved business model includes white-label stablecoin issuance and related issuer services, giving companies regulated infrastructure for launching their own dollar tokens.
A former Hong Kong banker has been jailed for taking $470K in crypto bribes.
Lam Chun-yin, a former China Construction Bank (Asia) relationship manager, was sentenced to 4 years in prison after accepting more than $470,000 in $USDT between April and June 2022.
In exchange, he authenticated false standby letters of credit and collateral letters with a combined stated value of more than $1.6 billion.
Lam was not authorized to handle commercial credit facilities or letters of credit.
The case was uncovered through CCB Asia’s internal investigation, which found that the bank had not issued the documents. The court also ordered Lam to repay approximately HK$3.7 million.
A French family was held captive over a crypto transfer.
Four masked men broke into a home in Vendin-le-Vieil, tied up the parents and their two children, and forced the father to hand over access codes to his crypto accounts.
Around €40,000 in cryptocurrency was reportedly stolen. The family was held for more than three hours before the attackers fled.
No arrests had been reported in the latest coverage. Investigators are also examining whether the father's work in crypto was the reason the family was targeted.
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