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Introduction
If you’ve searched for “mt gox” recently, it’s probably because the name showed up in a headline again — more than a decade after the exchange collapsed, a dormant wallet linked to it still makes news whenever it moves Bitcoin. To understand why that keeps happening, it helps to know what Mt. Gox actually was, how it fell apart in 2014, and why a bankruptcy case from over a decade ago is still, in a very real sense, unfinished business for the Bitcoin market.
What Was Mt. Gox?
Mt. Gox was a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange that, at its peak, handled more than 70% of all Bitcoin transactions worldwide, according to Investopedia’s sourced history of the exchange. The name is an acronym for “Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange” — the site was originally created by Jed McCaleb as a place for players to trade cards from the collectible card game before it was repurposed into a Bitcoin exchange. Mark Karpeles took over as the largest shareholder and CEO in 2011, and under his management Mt. Gox grew into the dominant Bitcoin exchange of the early 2010s.
What Caused the 2014 Collapse?
The mt gox hack that led to the exchange’s downfall unfolded gradually rather than as a single event. In February 2014, Mt. Gox suspended withdrawals after discovering what it described as suspicious activity in its digital wallets. The company ultimately disclosed that it had lost approximately 850,000 Bitcoins — worth hundreds of millions of dollars at the time — through a combination of hacking incidents and technical failures. Roughly 200,000 of those Bitcoins were later recovered, but the bulk of the loss destabilized the exchange and, briefly, the broader Bitcoin market. Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo District Court shortly afterward.
Mark Karpeles was later found guilty in 2019 of falsifying data to inflate the exchange’s holdings, though he was acquitted of the more serious embezzlement charges against him. Separately, in 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice charged two Russian nationals in connection with laundering funds tied to the hack — a reminder that the “who did it” question took nearly a decade to produce any formal charges at all.
Bankruptcy vs. Rehabilitation: Why Repayment Took So Long
Here’s the part that surprises a lot of people: Mt. Gox’s original 2014 bankruptcy filing did not directly produce the repayment process creditors are living through today. Creditors objected to the initial bankruptcy liquidation approach, which pushed the case into a different legal track in Japan called civil rehabilitation. That process, overseen by a court-appointed Rehabilitation Trustee, took years to work out exactly how creditors would be compensated — cash, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, or some combination — and wasn’t finalized until November 2021, per Investopedia’s account of the legal timeline. Actual repayments to creditors didn’t begin until July 2024, a full decade after the exchange collapsed.
This slow-moving legal process is the direct reason Mt. Gox is still relevant today: the Rehabilitation Trustee still controls a large amount of Bitcoin that hasn’t yet been distributed to creditors, and every scheduled mt gox payout step requires moving funds out of trustee-controlled wallets — which is exactly what a mt gox wallet transfer represents when it hits the news.
Why Does a Mt. Gox Wallet Moving Coins Still Make News?
Because those wallet movements are, functionally, the trustee actually executing the repayment plan — not random activity. When a dormant Mt. Gox wallet suddenly transfers a large sum, it’s typically the Rehabilitation Trustee moving funds toward distribution to creditors or reorganizing holdings ahead of a repayment deadline, not a hack or a sale decision in the ordinary sense. Given the sums involved — Mt. Gox’s remaining holdings are still counted in the billions of dollars — any of these transfers is large enough to be visible on-chain and, historically, has sometimes coincided with short-term Bitcoin price volatility, which is why outlets cover each movement individually. Recent examples of this exact pattern show up regularly in crypto news coverage, including transfers following months of wallet silence.
It’s worth being clear about what these transfers are not: they are not evidence of a new hack, and a transfer alone doesn’t mean coins are being sold on the open market. Some analysts have drawn comparisons between how markets react to Mt. Gox-related movements and how they reacted to other large defunct-exchange holdings like FTX’s, since both involve large, closely-watched wallets tied to bankruptcy proceedings rather than active trading.
What’s the Current Repayment Status?
As of this writing, the Rehabilitation Trustee’s official deadline for the main mt gox repayment categories — Base Repayment, Early Lump-Sum Repayment, and Intermediate Repayment — is October 31, 2026, according to the Trustee’s own announcements posted directly on mtgox.com. That date is not fixed in any permanent sense: it has already been pushed back multiple times, moving from October 2023 to 2024, then 2025, and now 2026, as the trustee works through the logistics of verifying and paying out a large number of creditor claims. If you’re checking on repayment status specifically, treat any date you read — including this one — as subject to further extension, and check the trustee’s official site directly for the current figure.
The trustee has also repeatedly warned creditors about phishing sites and fraudulent emails impersonating either “MTGOX” or the Rehabilitation Trustee, asking for personal information or wallet connections — a real and ongoing risk for anyone still owed a payout from the case.

イーサリアム財団は、匿名のセキュリティ研究者として知られるpcaversaccioを取締役会に任命し、構成人数を4人にした。CoinDeskの報道で最初に詳述されたこの動きは、世界第2位のブロックチェーンを支える非営利団体で進む、より広範なリーダーシップ再編と同時期に行われた。
pcaversaccio—開発の場では単に「pc」と呼ばれる—は、イーサリアムのセキュリティ分野において鋭い監査人であり、教育者でもあるとして評判を築いてきた。今回の任命は、彼が仮名で活動している点で異例だ。仮名での活動は、プロトコルのアップグレード、助成金、エコシステムの方向性の調整を担う財団の取締役よりも、開発者の間でより一般的だという。イーサリアム財団は、席に任期の制限があるのか、あるいは具体的にどのような監督の職務が付随するのかについて、直ちには明らかにしていない。

日曜の午前3時に暗号資産ウォレットから、証券会社を介さずに、アップル株の1スライスを買って、数秒で決済する——それがトークン化された株式の約束です。そして今年、その約束は机上の空論ではなくなりました。トークン化された株式のオンチェーン移転（取引）量は、たった1か月で92.2億ドルに到達しました。このガイドでは、トークン化された株式が実際に何なのか、どのように機能するのか、誰がそれを構築しているのか、そして1つ購入したときにあなたが本当に得るものは何か、さらに多くの報道で見落とされがちなリスクについて解説します。
トークン化された株式とは何ですか？
トークン化された株式とは、実在企業の株式に対する所有権、または経済的なエクスポージャーを表す、ブロックチェーン上のトークンです。アップルやテスラの保有が証券会社のデータベースの中だけに存在するのではなく、それを表すトークンはブロックチェーン上に存在し、24時間いつでも送金・売買・他のアプリケーションでの利用が可能になります。

Binance上でトークン化された株式に半十億ドルが眠っている、というのは、同取引所の通常のETFやデリバティブの物語にきれいに当てはまる見出しではありません。とはいえこの節目は、2021年の規制強化で姿を消したわけではない何かを静かに裏づけています。個人ユーザーは、暗号資産のインフラに包まれた形での小口株式（フラクショナル）のエクスポージャーを今も求めているのです。水曜日に公表された元のレポートでは、Binanceのトークン化証券プロダクトであるbStocksが、2億5,000万ドルに到達してから7か月後に運用資産（AUM）が5億ドルを超えたことを確認しました。2021年の初回ローンチ時に伴っていた喧騒とは対照的に、その規模は倍増しています。

2026年の厳しい局面の後、すべてのビットコイン保有者が抱くのはこの問いです――底は打ったのか？ コインベースのCEOは、安値は約6万ドル付近だったと言っています。ビットワイズのCIOも同意しています。スタンダード・チャータードはなおも年末までに10万ドルを見込んでいます。にもかかわらず、ビットコインはそれらの見通しが出た後の数週間で5万8,000ドルを下回り、上場投資信託（ETF）も依然として今年の累計で数十億ドル単位の下落となっています。このガイドでは、双方の主張を裏づける実際の証拠、底打ちを確認するシグナル、そしてなぜ「自信満々の結論」よりも「正直な答え」のほうが役に立つのかを解説します。
ビットコインはどこに立っているのか

The European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation was meant to bring order to the stablecoin market. Yet a new disclosure from Circle shows that almost nobody is playing by those rules yet. According to the original report from WuBlockchain, Circle Senior Director of EU Strategy and Policy Patrick Hansen outlined a stark picture: across the top 50 stablecoins globally, only three—USDC, USDG, and EURC—are currently compliant with MiCA.
Twenty-one entities have issued roughly 35 regulated e-money tokens across the EU under the new framework. That number sounds substantial in isolation, but the fact that the largest stablecoins by user holdings remain outside the tent has immediate practical consequences. Exchanges that are serious about operating in Europe face restricted listings. Liquidity pools that rely on non-compliant assets might need to be rebalanced. For traders inside the bloc, the choice set is shrinking unless issuers move quickly to obtain authorization.
What compliance actually means under MiCA
MiCA treats stablecoins as e-money tokens if they peg to a single fiat currency. Issuers must obtain authorization from a national competent authority, hold sufficient reserves, meet governance and prudential standards, and provide redemption rights. The framework is not a checkbox exercise—it imposes capital requirements and ongoing supervision that few offshore issuers have historically had to deal with. For many projects that launched in jurisdictions with looser oversight, meeting these standards would require a fundamental restructuring of their operations.
This compliance gap is not just an administrative detail. European crypto exchanges and trading venues are under pressure to delist non-compliant tokens, and market makers may find it harder to manage euro on-ramps and off-ramps if the dominant stablecoins are not MiCA-approved. The result is a fragmentation of liquidity that hurts efficiency and raises costs for users who just want to move in and out of crypto positions.
A framework designed to be reviewed
Hansen made clear that the current situation is not a finished product. The regulation is expected to undergo a review process that could reshape how the EU handles stablecoins issued outside its jurisdiction. Circle’s argument—unsurprising given its own compliance posture—is that the review should focus on three things: improving the competitiveness of EU-regulated stablecoins, strengthening global coordination between regulators, and eventually creating a formal recognition regime for foreign-regulated stablecoins that meet equivalent standards.
That last point is the one that could matter most to international issuers. If the EU eventually allows recognition of, say, a stablecoin regulated in Singapore or Japan under equivalent rules, it might reopen the market. Right now, however, there is no such pathway. The only stablecoins an EU-based user can hold with full legal clarity are the very small set that Circle has enumerated.
The disconnect also feeds into a larger pattern of regulatory patchwork. As Europe tightens its rules, other major markets are moving in their own directions, sometimes at cross purposes. Similar regulatory friction is playing out in the United States, where banking interests are pushing back against a landmark crypto bill ahead of a Senate vote. Without harmonization, stablecoins risk becoming balkanized—regional instruments that work well in one jurisdiction and become legal liabilities in another.
What remains uncertain and who is watching
The timing of the MiCA review is not yet fixed, and it is unclear whether European authorities will feel pressure to expand the list of acceptable stablecoins quickly or whether they will double down on enforcement first. For the largest issuers outside the compliant trio, the cost-benefit calculus of applying for EU authorization is probably taking shape behind closed doors. Some may decide the European market is worth the compliance burden. Others may simply block EU users and stay offshore.
For European crypto businesses that built their infrastructure around USDT or other popular stablecoins, the path forward is uncomfortable. They must either support a multi-stablecoin structure that includes smaller MiCA-compliant tokens, risk regulatory action, or pull back from the market entirely. That tension is likely to surface more often as MiCA’s stablecoin provisions move from paper to actual enforcement. The three compliant coins are not just a curiosity—they are a preview of what the EU’s on-chain dollar and euro infrastructure will look like for the foreseeable future.

今日、暗号資産に同時に影響を与えているのは3つの出来事で、それぞれが別方向に引っ張っています。きょう午後、FRBが決定を発表し、利上げの可能性が現実的にあります。さらにSECの議長は、上院で遅れ続けている暗号資産法案を、いま公の場で後押ししました。そして中国での半導体のブレークスルーが、昨夜、アジア市場を横に揺さぶりました。全体像はこうです。各要因が何を意味し、どの水準が引けにかけて重要になるのかをまとめます。
ビットコインは7月29日、2026年に約64,200ドルで取引されており、荒れた火曜日のあとで63,000ドルの水準を回復しました。一方、イーサリアムは約1,920ドル（CoinGeckoのライブ価格）近辺です。ビットコインの支配率は約59%で、市場は午後の主要イベントを前に様子見の局面にあります。取引は薄く、ポジショニングは慎重で、マーケット全体が待ち構えています。

Not every crypto acquisition is about technology. Some are about doors that are simply not open to most. HashKey Group’s plan to buy 100% of Asia Pacific Exchange (APEX) fits squarely into the second category. The group’s wholly owned subsidiary, HKDAG (Singapore), has signed a non-binding framework agreement with APEX and its major shareholders, as detailed in the original report. The target: a prized set of licenses from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) that few other companies hold.
APEX operates under an Approved Exchange license, while its unit Asia Pacific Clear carries an Approved Clearing House license. In a jurisdiction that has been methodical and sparing with its regulatory blessings, those two permits represent a scarce asset. HashKey already has a strong presence in Hong Kong, but adding a fully MAS-licensed venue would give it an operational beachhead in Singapore’s tightly controlled market infrastructure.
Why the Licenses Matter More Than the Entity
Singapore’s licensing regime for digital payment token services is often conflated with full exchange status, but the Approved Exchange and Approved Clearing House designations are a different tier entirely. They signal that MAS oversees the entity as a market operator and systemic clearing facility, not merely as a custodian or broker. The deal is subject to definitive agreements and MAS approval, and that final regulatory nod is far from a formality. MAS will weigh HashKey’s fitness, the integration plan, and any concentration risk.
The timing is instructive. Asian crypto firms are scrambling to lock down compliant infrastructure before the next regulatory tightening cycle. Earlier this year, Bullish closed a $4.2 billion acquisition of Equiniti’s trust and fund administration business, underscoring the premium placed on regulated rails, as we reported in a weekly roundup that captured how dealmaking is reshaping the space. HashKey’s move extends that pattern into exchange operations rather than custody or tokenization infrastructure.
The Asian Exchange Chessboard
For months, licensed exchanges in Singapore have been limited to a small group, and the barriers to obtaining new licenses remain high. HashKey’s approach—acquiring an existing licensee rather than building from scratch—mirrors a broader playbook among institutions that want to bypass multi-year application timelines. If the deal completes, HashKey would operate regulated venues in two of the region’s most watched markets, positioning itself to serve institutional flow that demands both regulatory clarity and deep liquidity.
What remains uncertain is the integration of APEX’s existing operations. The exchange has not been a top-tier venue by volume, and the clearing house adds complexity that may not be needed for pure spot crypto trading. HashKey may use the licenses to launch new product lines, including derivatives or tokenized securities, but the non-binding agreement leaves room for structure changes. Regulators will also examine any overlap that could affect competition or market integrity.
What the Broader Market Will Watch
The acquisition will test how open Singapore’s regulators are to the consolidation of critical infrastructure under a single group. While the city-state has encouraged innovation, it has also protected its financial stability with strict oversight. The approval process could surface new policy signals, especially as U.S. lawmakers wrestle with their own crypto frameworks—a contrast highlighted by ongoing battles over meaningful legislation that put major American banking interests on edge.
If the deal goes through, the industry will see one more piece of Asia’s regulated puzzle locked into place by a firm with deep pockets and a multi-jurisdictional strategy. The gap between fully licensed venues and the rest of the market will grow, raising barriers for new entrants and shifting how global liquidity providers allocate capital. For now, all eyes are on the MAS desk that will decide whether this acquisition creates a stronger marketplace or an uncomfortable concentration of approved infrastructure.

現在のサイクルにおける持続的なパズルの一つは、中央銀行のバランスシートが拡大しているにもかかわらず、ビットコインが上昇（ラリー）を維持できない点だ。通常の手順では、金融緩和が余剰資金を希少な資産へ押し流すはずだ。だが、その動きは暗号資産市場では実現しておらず、今週再流通している（アーカイブされた）2026年6月のインタビューで、アーサー・ヘイズはその責任を人工知能にきっぱりと帰している。WuBlockchainが共有した議論によれば、AIの設備投資（capex）が、かつてデジタル資産へ流れ込んだのと同じ限界的な1ドルの取り合いで、今や最大の競合になっている。

The loudest conversation in crypto right now isn’t about spot Bitcoin ETFs or the next memecoin launch. It’s about derivatives—and specifically, perpetual futures. In a column published Wednesday, Jito Foundation president Brian Smith laid out an argument that perps are not just another DeFi primitive but the most direct conduit for traditional finance to move on-chain. The original report framed the push in stark terms: a battleground that Solana cannot afford to lose.
The logic is straightforward. Perpetual futures resemble the total-return swaps and rolling futures contracts that institutional desks have traded for decades. Unlike fixed-expiry futures, they don’t require constant roll management. For a hedge fund or proprietary trading firm accustomed to centralized venues, perps are the easiest crypto-native product to understand and the hardest to ignore.
Why Perps Are a Familiar Handshake for Wall Street
Spot crypto markets remain volatile, fragmented, and custody-intensive in ways that deter many traditional participants. Perps, by contrast, allow directional exposure without touching the underlying asset. Market makers already use off-exchange settlement models that mirror on-chain perp mechanics. Jito’s thesis is that if the plumbing is right—low latency, deep liquidity, predictable fees—the capital will follow.
That’s where Solana enters. The network’s sub-second finality and negligible transactions costs have turned it into the fastest-growing venue for perpetual trading. Jito’s own MEV infrastructure, which reduces harmful frontrunning while boosting validator revenue, addresses a pain point that has historically scared off professional traders on other chains.
Solana’s Infrastructure Edge
Over the past year, Solana-based perp protocols have quietly absorbed a rising share of global derivatives volume. The network’s top validators now include firms that specialize in low-latency execution for high-frequency strategies. Jito’s liquid staking and block-building software give those traders a more predictable execution environment than they’d find on most other blockchains, including Ethereum’s fragmented layer-2 landscape. That predictability is pivotal—it blurs the line between a decentralized exchange and a traditional electronic trading venue.
Still, technology alone doesn’t win. The broader momentum around on-chain finance is pulling in the same direction. Tokenized Treasuries, credit protocols, and real-world assets have collectively crossed $20 billion in on-chain value, as detailed in the latest tokenization roundup. Those assets are not held for speculation; they represent genuine yield-seeking capital that starts to look a lot like traditional fixed-income markets.
Regulatory Strains Beneath the Optimism
For all the enthusiasm, the path from perps to institutional adoption runs through Washington. Lawmakers are currently negotiating a sweeping crypto market-structure bill that banks are trying to water down just days before a Senate vote, as this legislative update shows. If the final rules fail to provide clear definitions for decentralized derivatives platforms, the entire thesis gets pushed further into the future. Uncertainty about whether certain perp protocols could be classified as unregistered swap execution facilities remains an open question that institutional capital allocators cannot ignore.
Even so, the developer community on Solana hasn’t blinked. The network consistently ranks among the top three blockchains by weekly developer commits, staying ahead of several rollup-centric chains, according to the developer activity rankings. That kind of sustained builder attention suggests the ecosystem isn’t just a short-term trading venue—it’s accumulating the tooling that institutional desks will eventually require.
What Remains Unsettled
What’s less clear is whether perpetual futures alone are enough to tip the balance. Competing layer-1 networks and Ethereum’s rollup ecosystem are also building bespoke derivatives infrastructure. Liquidity is still thin in several Solana perp markets during off-peak hours. And the jump from a sophisticated crypto-native trading firm to a large multi-strategy fund with compliance obligations is far bigger than a few milliseconds of latency improvement.
Jito’s framing is correct in one critical sense: the product that matters most for institutional onboarding may not be a spot ETF or a stablecoin, but a derivative instrument that Wall Street already buys and sells every day. If Solana can turn that battleground into a genuinely institutional-grade market, it won’t just win a chain-versus-chain rivalry. It will have done something no blockchain has yet achieved—make DeFi feel like finance.

Introduction
If you’re asking whether NFTs are dead, the honest answer is: much smaller than they were, but not zero. Monthly NFT sales have fallen from over $1 billion at the 2021–22 peak to roughly $300 million as of early 2026 — a real and lasting contraction, not a rumor. At the same time, a genuine (if much smaller) market of collectors is still buying, selling, and holding digital art and collectibles. Whether NFTs are “dead,” “still a thing,” or somewhere in between mostly comes down to which part of that story you’re looking at.
So, Are NFTs Dead?
Not entirely, but the market has clearly cooled off hard. According to Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu, speaking to CoinDesk in January 2026, NFT sales have dropped from over $1 billion a month at the 2021/22 peak to around $300 million a month today. That’s a roughly 70% decline — a serious contraction by any measure, but still hundreds of millions of dollars in monthly activity, not zero.
Siu argues NFTs specifically aren’t dead because a community of wealthy, long-term collectors continues to drive real demand — people who buy digital art the way a traditional collector buys a Picasso or a vintage car, not to flip for a quick profit. Siu described his own NFT portfolio as down roughly 80% in value, but said these were never purchases he intended to resell, framing them instead as long-term collectible assets.
What Happened to NFTs?
The short version: a speculative bubble popped, and most of what was built on top of it didn’t have lasting demand behind it. A 2024 report by NFTevening — covered by ArtNews and based on data from NFTScan covering more than 5,000 NFT collections and 5 million transactions — found that roughly 95% of studied NFT collections met the report’s criteria for being considered “dead”: zero trading volume, no social media activity, and fewer than 20 sales in a seven-day period.
That same report found the average NFT holder had experienced a 44.5% loss on their investment, and calculated the average lifespan of an NFT collection at only about 1.14 years — far shorter than most other crypto projects, reflecting how speculative and short-lived much of the 2021/22 NFT boom turned out to be. Not every collection fared the same way, though: the report found the Azuki collection among the most profitable for holders, while Pudgy Penguins holders who bought at the top saw losses of around 97%. In other words, “what happened to NFTs” isn’t one uniform story — a handful of projects retained real value while the overwhelming majority became effectively worthless by trading-activity measures.
It’s worth noting that an older, even more widely cited “95% of NFTs are worthless” claim traces back to a 2023 study that is no longer accessible at its original web address — so if you see that older figure repeated elsewhere, treat the more recent, verifiable 2024 NFTevening data above as the more currently checkable source for the same general conclusion.
Are NFTs Still a Thing?
Yes, in a meaningfully smaller and more concentrated form. The NFT market didn’t disappear — it consolidated around fewer, more established collections and a narrower base of serious collectors, rather than the broad speculative frenzy of 2021/22 when almost anything with a JPEG attached could sell. The roughly $300 million in monthly sales volume as of early 2026 represents real, ongoing activity, just a fraction of peak-era numbers.
Separately, the 2026 cancellation of NFT Paris — historically one of the sector’s flagship events — added to the “NFTs are over” narrative, but the reasoning behind it wasn’t really about NFT demand. Per Siu’s comments to CoinDesk, the cancellation reflected France’s broader shift away from a pro-crypto stance and rising security concerns (including a spate of kidnapping attempts targeting crypto executives and investors), not evidence that collectors had lost interest in NFTs themselves.
Where Does the NFT Market Stand Today?
Today’s NFT market looks less like a mass retail phenomenon and more like a niche collectibles market with genuine long-term participants. If you’re curious what’s still active, the site’s existing marketplace reviews cover where that ongoing trading happens: OpenSea remains one of the largest general NFT marketplaces, Magic Eden is a major hub specifically for Solana-based NFTs, and Blur is geared toward more active traders rather than casual collectors.
This is also a topic that tends to need revisiting: search interest in “are NFTs dead” spikes with a year attached (2022, 2023, and so on) almost every year since the crash, which is a reasonable pattern — the honest answer genuinely shifts year to year as sales volume, collector activity, and individual project fortunes change. The figures in this piece are current as of early 2026 and should be checked against more recent data if you’re reading this well after that.

金は構造的なモメンタムを持っており、ビットコインのトレーダーは注意すべきだ。JustMarketsによる新しいレポートでは、2026年までに金価格を形作る中核となる要因を分解しており、同レポートで示されるマクロ変数は、暗号資産市場全体でリスク・プレミアムを圧縮しているまさにそのものだ。水曜日に発表され、オリジナルのレポートで閲覧可能なこの分析は、実質金利、中央銀行の準備行動、ドルの流動性の条件に焦点を当てている。これらの力は、金塊（バリュート）の金庫の扉のところで止まるわけではない。
ビットコインに関しては、読み替えの重要性がもはや否定できないものになっている。デジタル資産はリスクオンとリスクオフの物語の間で揺れ動いてきたが、過去2年の間にマクロのストレス局面では金との相関が強まっている。実質金利がマイナスに転じたり、ソブリン（政府・国）による買いが強まったりすると、一般にハードアセットは買いが入る。JustMarketsの論文はコモディティ部門向けではあるものの、来年、資本が不足（スカーシティ）に裏打ちされた資産へ回るのか、それとも逆に離れていくのかを左右するロードマップを実質的に描き出している。

Introduction
The Trezor Safe 5 is SatoshiLabs’ mid-tier hardware wallet, sitting between the entry-level Trezor Safe 3 and the flagship Trezor Safe 7. It’s built around a color touchscreen and haptic feedback rather than the older two-button interface, aiming to make secure crypto storage feel less intimidating without cutting corners on the security side. This review covers what’s actually inside the device, how it compares to the rest of the Trezor lineup, and whether it’s worth buying.
What Is the Trezor Safe 5?
Trezor Safe 5 is a hardware wallet — a physical device that stores your crypto’s private keys offline, away from internet-connected devices that malware or phishing attacks can reach. According to Trezor’s official product page, the Safe 5 combines a 1.54-inch color touchscreen (240×240 pixels) with tactile Trezor Touch haptic feedback, letting you view, tap, and confirm transactions directly on the device rather than trusting a computer screen alone.
It’s built on Trezor’s decade of open-source hardware wallet development, and it manages coins and tokens through the companion Trezor Suite desktop and mobile app, which handles sending, receiving, buying, selling, and staking supported assets.
Security and Hardware Specs
The Safe 5 uses a certified EAL6+ Secure Element chip alongside PIN and passphrase protection entered directly on the device, which Trezor’s product documentation describes as its primary defense against both online and offline threats. The screen itself is protected by Gorilla Glass 3, a scratch-resistant glass surface also used on many smartphones.
For backup and recovery, the Safe 5 supports the standard 12-, 20-, and 24-word backup phrase formats, plus an Advanced Multi-share Backup option that splits your recovery data across multiple physical backup cards instead of relying on a single phrase. Connectivity is USB-C, and the device includes a microSD card slot. Physically, it’s a compact device — about 66 x 40 x 8mm and 23 grams — powered by a 160MHz ARM Cortex M33 processor.
Trezor Safe 5 vs. Safe 3 vs. Safe 7: How It Fits in the Lineup
Trezor currently sells three hardware wallet models side by side, and Trezor’s own comparison page lays out exactly where the Safe 5 sits between them:
Trezor Safe 3 — the entry-level model, with a smaller 0.96-inch monochrome display and a two-button interface instead of a touchscreen. It still includes a Secure Element chip for device security, just without the touchscreen convenience.
Trezor Safe 5 — adds the 1.54-inch color touchscreen and haptic feedback described above, positioned as the more comfortable, everyday option.
Trezor Safe 7 — the flagship model, with a larger 2.5-inch high-resolution display, a next-generation TROPIC01 secure chip in a dual-Secure-Element architecture, Bluetooth wireless connectivity, Qi2 wireless charging, and IP54 dust/water resistance — features the Safe 5 does not include.
Trezor’s own product FAQ frames the Safe 3 vs. Safe 5 choice specifically around comfort: the Safe 5’s touchscreen and haptic feedback are the upgrade over Safe 3’s two-button navigation, while both share the same Secure Element security foundation. The jump to Safe 7 is a bigger step up in build (aluminum unibody vs. Safe 5’s PC-ABS plastic body) and adds wireless features the Safe 5 doesn’t have at all.
Is the Trezor Safe 5 Worth Buying?
For most people choosing between a hardware wallet and leaving crypto on an exchange, the core case for the Safe 5 is the same case for any reputable hardware wallet: your private keys never touch an internet-connected device, so an exchange hack or a phishing site targeting your browser can’t reach funds stored on it. Trezor’s device security also includes tamper-evident packaging and security seals, intended to give buyers confidence the device hasn’t been altered before it reaches them — which is also why Trezor recommends buying only through its official store or vetted resellers, not third-party marketplaces of unknown origin.
Within Trezor’s own lineup specifically, the Safe 5 makes sense if you want the touchscreen convenience without paying for the Safe 7’s wireless features and premium build. If budget is the main concern and you’re comfortable with a two-button interface, the Safe 3 covers the same core security fundamentals for less. If you want Bluetooth, wireless charging, and the toughest build quality, the Safe 7 is the step up.
Compared to a different category of hardware wallet — like the Tangem card-based system, which skips a screen entirely in favor of NFC-tap cards — the Safe 5’s on-device touchscreen confirmation is a meaningfully different security/usability trade-off: you get a visible display to verify transaction details directly, at the cost of a bulkier form factor than a credit-card-sized device.
If you’re weighing a hardware wallet against a software wallet altogether, that’s a different trade-off than comparing models within Trezor’s lineup: a software wallet like Trust Wallet or 1inch Wallet is free, instantly accessible on your phone, and fine for smaller everyday amounts, but its private keys live on an internet-connected device. The Safe 5 (and hardware wallets generally) exist specifically for the amounts and long-term holdings where that offline isolation is worth the extra step of carrying a physical device.
Pricing and Where to Buy
As of this writing, Trezor’s own store lists the Safe 5 (Black Graphite) at $103 on sale, with $129 as the standard list price — pricing is subject to change and promotions, so check Trezor’s current pricing directly rather than relying on any fixed figure. The device ships with a USB-C to USB-C cable, two 20-word backup cards, a start-up guide, and Trezor stickers.

With layer-1 blockchains demonstrating their capacity to process high-frequency real-world data feeds, Sol SyncUp is bringing together all the physical operators behind this expansion. At an upcoming infrastructure summit in Singapore, all global players working to develop the hardware behind the network supporting the global decentralized ecosystem will come under one roof. From data center builders, distributed network engineers, and alternative energy providers, to formalize the operational standards necessary to anchor decentralized physical networks into the global supply chain, this event is expected to promote growth and development. Blockchain Marketing Ninja acts as the exclusive strategic media and distribution partner to drive international positioning and narrative amplification for the summit.
The focus of this year’s summit reflects an underlying shift in how decentralized infrastructure projects scale. Instead of relying on slow, costly, patchworked networks, modern builders are leveraging high-speed, parallelized blockchain execution layers to coordinate global node networks in real time. The summit acts as a bridge, ensuring that the teams manufacturing the hardware and running the power grids are aligned with the software engineers building these tokenized coordination systems.
The agenda features an intense line-up of roundtables covering tokenomic model design for hardware scaling, hardware-level security validations, and cross-border regulatory compliance for decentralized wireless and storage networks. The ultimate goal is to build long-term, institutional confidence in DePIN as a legitimate asset class for traditional infrastructure investors.
This infrastructure summit in Singapore focuses on the industrial standardisation of decentralized hardware arrays. By creating a standard framework for device validation and network participation, the summit eliminates technical fragmentation, which has usually choked large-scale enterprise adoption. The event establishes the necessary parameters for hardware interoperability, data authentication, and localized resource distribution, transforming decentralized physical infrastructure into a predictable, highly scalable utility that integrates seamlessly with existing enterprise software stacks.
Participants include major ASIC distribution hubs, renewable grid developers, and cloud infrastructure specialists operating across the Asia-Pacific corridor. Working alongside Blockchain Marketing Ninja ensures that the operational models and structural agreements developed at the summit are distributed directly to institutional allocators and corporate enterprise networks globally.
The technical tracks will also delve into the mechanics of data transmission and storage optimization. Operators will review engineering papers on reducing packet loss across distributed node networks and maintaining data integrity under varying network loads. This focus on empirical performance data ensures that the solutions discussed are immediately applicable to real-world infrastructure deployments.
The closed-door format of the summit encourages candid data-sharing regarding operational margins, hardware performance limits under tropical climates, and the legal structures governing decentralized physical assets within tight urban jurisdictions like Singapore. This guarantees that the event remains focused on engineering execution rather than speculative market theories.
If you’re an individual who takes a keen interest in all the hardware required to grow a decentralized ecosystem, or you’re someone who is actively working on supporting growing hardware infrastructure, then this is the place for you to be. The seats at this event are limited to be sure to secure your spot soon!
This article is not intended as financial advice. Educational purposes only.

はじめに
最近「Coinbase Pro」を探しているなら、簡単に言うとそれはもう存在しません。Coinbaseは2023年11月20日に公式にCoinbase Proを終了（サンセット）し、先進的な取引機能を新しい名称の「Coinbase Advanced Trade（コインベース・アドバンスト・トレード）」としてメインのCoinbaseプラットフォームに統合しました。Coinbase Proの口座を持っていた場合、資金や取引履歴が消えたわけではありません。移動しただけです。このガイドでは、何が起きたのか、何が変わったのか、そしてCoinbase Proの後をどのように引き継げばよいかを具体的に説明します。

As AI agents evolve beyond chatbots into autonomous digital assistants, Animoca Brands is betting that the next phase of the internet will be driven by persistent, intelligent agents. In this interview, co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu discusses the launch of MINDS, the rise of the Agentic Web, AI-powered commerce, digital ownership, and how autonomous agents could reshape gaming, finance, education, and everyday productivity.
What led Animoca Brands to introduce MINDS, and how can personal AI agents drive the next phase of internet evolution?
The internet is shifting from a participatory model to an agentic one. The next phase of internet evolution is not just about users reading, writing, or interacting with digital spaces; it is about delegating to AI agents. And we believe the biggest barrier to Web3 adoption was not conviction, it was usability. Crypto wallets, seed phrases, gas fees, bridging, signing transactions — for most people that is simply too much friction. But if you put an AI agent in front of all of that, the agent handles it. You just tell it what you want in plain language, and it executes.
That is what Minds by Animoca Brands (“Minds”) does. You send an email or a message and your Mind goes to work. No complex local hardware or server configuration, no technical knowledge required. Everyone can use it with ease.
Minds is the gateway into the agentic world. Each Mind has persistent memory, its own identity, and its own wallet. It does not reset after every conversation like a chatbot. It compounds knowledge over time. The longer you use it, the more useful it becomes, because it actually remembers who you are and what you are trying to do. Today Minds is amongst the top AI personal agents and productivity tools on Openrouter, just behind Hermes and Openclaw.
What factors contributed to the swift adoption of MINDS, ranking it among the leading five personal agent productivity entities?
I think it comes down to a few things. First, we made it radically simple. You do not need to handle hardware or server setup or write any code. You can easily awaken your Mind on our website in minutes. That removes the biggest barrier for most people, which is simply getting started. Second, the agents are persistent. They do not forget. They keep working even when you are offline. That is a very different experience from a chatbot that resets every time you open a new session. Third, Minds are social and relational. You can share a Mind with your family, your team, or your colleagues, and multiple Minds can collaborate with each other. That is something most agent platforms do not do well yet.
We are also launching different programs to support builders and developers using Minds, including our up to US$10 million Minds Investment Programme, the vibecode.game game jam with YGG, Build East agentic AI demo day with HKSTP, and Creative Minds Jam with The Sandbox and Open Campus.
What is the difference between MINDS and conventional AI assistants such as ChatGPT when it comes to real-world utility and autonomy?
The fundamental difference is that conventional AI assistants are primarily reactive tools, while Minds is a proactive agent. A chatbot waits for you to ask, answers, and then forgets. A Mind is active 24/7. It has persistent memory, so it remembers your context across every session. It also has its own identity, personality, and DNA that you define. It can execute multi-step tasks in the background without you being present. It can proactively reach out to you when something needs your attention. It can also collaborate with other Minds to get things done.
The other big difference is autonomy. A Mind does not just give you information; it makes decisions and takes actions on your behalf. It can manage your calendar, track flights, monitor portfolios, handle sales outreach, and eventually transact with a wallet with your permission. That is a very different category of product from something that just answers questions.
You have developed over 300 AI agents through MINDS for your family and yourself. What crucial lessons have you obtained from the respective experience?
The number keeps growing. The key lesson is that agents are like humans; they have their own strengths, areas of specialty, and domain knowledge. If you ask them to do something they are not good at, the result probably will not be great. That is why I have so many agents, and different agents do different tasks for me that they are good at.
The second lesson is that you do not interact with all agents directly. I probably interact closely with 30 to 40 agents regularly, and the rest are supporting agents or experiments. You need orchestrator agents that manage other agents, because no human can meaningfully talk to hundreds of agents at once. It is similar to how you run a company.
The third lesson is that agents are most powerful when they collaborate. A single agent is useful, but a network of agents with different specializations, for example a researcher, a fact-checker, plus a slide designer, that is where you start to see something that feels like a real team working for you around the clock.
The fourth lesson is that persistence changes everything. I set up a researcher Mind and a fact-checker Mind to trace my family history, and within hours they were finding things I had no idea about. They kept going for days, pulling threads, hitting dead ends, trying other routes, cross-referencing archives in different languages. A chatbot cannot do that because it resets. These agents do not stop unless you tell them to.
How will the exclusive VISA collaboration assist MINDS in revolutionizing AI-driven online payments and digital commerce?
Until now, most AI assistants can help users search, compare, plan, and present their findings, but they stop before the checkout button. By working with Visa, we aim to change that. We have developed a skill that Minds can equip, allowing them to identify relevant Visa rewards to their users. At Leap East, we demonstrated how agents can evaluate purchasing options and actually complete transactions on the Bruce Lee Club Ltd eShop on users’ behalf within spending limits and permissions they define. It was a successful proof of concept.
We are trying to bridge the agentic world with established payment infrastructure. The agent uses tokenized payment credentials, authentication, and fraud protection, so the transaction is secure and trusted. The experience for the user is simply that your agents find the best option, apply the right rewards, and make the purchase for you.
What is the significance of persistent identity, autonomous execution, and memory in increasing AI agents’ utility for daily consumers?
Without persistence, an agent is just a chatbot. Memory is what makes an agent actually useful over time, because it means it remembers your preferences, your context, your past decisions, and your ongoing projects. You do not have to re-explain everything every time. That is the difference between working with someone who knows you and working with a stranger every day.
Autonomous execution is what moves an agent from being a tool to being a worker. A tool waits for your input. An agent is like a worker who takes initiative. Your Mind can monitor things, follow up, and proactively alert you when something needs attention. That means it is working for you even when you are not watching.
And identity is what makes all of this trustworthy. If agents are going to act, transact, and interact on your behalf, then other agents, platforms, and people need to know who they are dealing with. That is why we are building Moca Network as an identity and reputation layer — so that agents can carry verifiable, portable credentials across apps and chains without relying on a centralized gatekeeper.
What are the top business opportunities for the deployment of AI agents via MINDS to strengthen consumer engagement and productivity?
Personal productivity, in work or personal life, is one of the biggest use cases: managing calendars, tracking goals, summarizing documents, coordinating across teams. Commerce is another major one, which is why we are working with Visa so agents can discover credit card rewards relevant to the users and will be able to complete purchases on behalf of users.
Gaming is also very interesting to us. Agentic user-generated content and agentic NPCs will change how games are built and played. Our subsidiary The Sandbox is working on integrating Minds to help users design user-generated content and gaming experiences. Education is another area, where parents can use personalized agents that adapt to how each child learns, monitor their progress, and suggest areas of focus.
And then there is the whole category of agent-to-agent economies, where Minds create skills, share them on the Bazaar marketplace, and earn from every install. That is a flywheel that has already resulted in over 3,000 skills live on the Bazaar.
Based on the long-held leading position of Animoca Brands in the case of digital property rights, what is the contribution of digital ownership and AI agents to the advancing Agentic Web?
Digital property rights are what make the agentic web different from just a more intelligent version of Web2, where the system is dominated by major corporations without fair reward distribution to users. If agents are going to create, transact, and interact at machine scale, then the question of who owns what, who can use what, and who gets compensated becomes absolutely foundational. Without ownership, agents just operate inside someone else’s platform, and the value flows to the platform, not to the people.
That is also why we see tokenization as essential. If your assets, data, and rights are represented on-chain, they become legible to agents. Agents can see them, use them, trade them, and attribute compensation back to the owner. That is the bridge between Web3 and Web4, the agentic web. Web3 gave us the ownership layer, and Web4 adds the agentic layer on top. They are not separate stories; Web4 is the extension of Web3. And I think the companies that understand that connection will be the ones that strike for the next generation of the internet.
As MINDS integrates with Gmail, Google Calendar, Telegram, GitHub, and Slack, why is interoperability primary for AI agents?
Because agents need to live where people already work. If you have to go to a separate app or a separate interface to use your agent, most people simply will not do it. But if your Mind is already in your email, in your Telegram, in your calendar, in your Slack, then all you need to do is send a message to your agents, and they will do the work across different platforms for you, simplifying your workflow and increasing your productivity.
Interoperability is also what makes agents useful across contexts. A Mind that only works in one silo is limited. A Mind that can reach across your email, your messaging, your code repository, and your project management tools can actually coordinate complex workflows. And when Minds can collaborate with each other across these platforms, you start to get something that looks like a real digital workforce.
How are AI agents redefining industries like gaming, enterprise, education, and finance?
In gaming, agents are changing not only how games are built but also how they are played. Agentic NPCs can have persistent memory, personality, and their own goals, which makes game worlds feel alive and personalized to the players, be it the difficulties, the challenges, or the NPC buddies’ emotions and dialogues that go through the whole story with players.
In enterprise, agents handle sales, operations, research, and coordination, the repetitive and operational work that takes up most of the day. Humans will still remain important, because agents free people’s time so they can focus more on high-level tasks like judgment, strategic decisions, and creativity.
In education, personalized agents can adapt to how each student learns, provide tutoring, track progress, and adjust in real time. We are working in this space through Open Campus.
In finance, agents can manage portfolios, monitor markets, execute trades, and transact with wallets. We have been working with SuperiorTrade to make this happen. And because agents operate on blockchain rails, they can do all of this in a way that is transparent and attributable.
The common thread is that agents are not just making these industries more efficient; they are restructuring how value flows through them.
What are the priorities of developers and entrepreneurs to develop scalable AI agent apps through MINDS?
We are looking for teams with a clear product thesis and a practical path to something people will actually use. We have launched the up to US$10 million Minds Investment Programme that is open to any vertical, including but not limited to gaming, finance, productivity, and social, as long as Minds is being used as a core layer of the apps or products.
I would also suggest developers think about skills, not just agents. Skills are what make a Mind more useful, and the Bazaar marketplace lets you build once and earn every time your skill is installed. That is a real business model, not just a feature.
Looking ahead, what is Animoca Brands’ long-term strategy for MINDS in transforming everyday commerce with AI agents?
The long-term vision is that Minds becomes the layer through which most people experience the agentic web.
On the commerce side, the Visa collaboration is just the beginning. We want to get to a place where telling your agent what you want is enough for the agent to handle the rest within your permissions and preferences, whether that is booking a business or family trip, finding and buying a gift for your partner, purchasing daily necessities based on what you need and when you need it, managing your dozens of subscriptions that you probably already forgot about or are not using anymore, or handling financial accounting and payments for your business.
The strategy is to keep making it simpler and more convenient for users’ day-to-day use. We are not trying to build a closed platform; we are trying to build the open infrastructure for the agentic economy, and we hope that Minds is how people will find a way into the AI age and economy, given that we make it extremely simple and easy to set up a persistent autonomous agent in just minutes.

暗号資産の普及は、しばしば需要の問題として語られてきた。前提は、人々がブロックチェーンを基盤とする金融商品を使えるようになるには、より多くの教育や説得、あるいは別の市場サイクルが必要だというものだ。
その見解は問題の一部を見落としている。多くの人はすでに、より速い決済、安定したデジタル価値、資産に対するより明確な可視性、そしてそれらの利点が実際に使える製品として提供されたときに得られる資金へのより直接的なコントロールの魅力を理解している。難しさが始まるのは、製品がその利点の背後にある仕組みをユーザーに管理させるときだ。

小口トレーダーは、ウォレットで10〜10,000BTCを保有する層がわずか8日間でおよそ19,700コインを静かに吸収しているまさにそのタイミングで、ビットコインから身を引こうとしている。サンティメントのオンチェーン・アップデートとして共有されたデータは、小売の慎重さとクジラの確信とのギャップが拡大していることを示している。これは、マーケット構造のアナリストがしばしばワイコフの蓄積シグナルとして指摘するような分岐（ダイバージェンス）だ。
リアルタイムで見るワイコフ・フェーズCの教科書的事例
クジラとサメのコホートが蓄積した19,700BTCは、2026年半ばの評価額で見れば10億ドル超に相当する資本注入を意味する。ワイコフの枠組みでは、フェーズCは大口が、前の下げ局面で弱い投資家が売った供給を吸収し終える局面を指す。小売の押し目買いが冷めてきても続く静かな買いは、賢い資金が一般の人々が気づく前に積極的にポジションを取るという図式の考え方と一致する。さらに注目すべきなのは、このシグナルが、小口トレーダーのリスク志向が低下している局面で現れていることだ。小口は通常、再参入する前に価格のポジティブな確認を必要とする。

ビットコインは長年にわたり、規制当局、敵対的な政府、競合するチェーンなどからの外部攻撃に直面してきました。しかし、Strategyの創業者であるマイケル・セイラーは、さらに存在的な危険として、ネットワークのコンセンサス規則を書き換えようとする内部派閥の動きを挙げています。市場アップデートの中で詳述した発言で、セイラーはビットコインのコンセンサスメカニズムを憲法に例え、BIP‑110、追加のコベナント機構、ブロックサイズの引き上げといった提案は、取引の自由を弱め、ブロックスペースの希少性を損ない、検証コストを増大させると主張しました。

人気のブロックチェーン・セキュリティ企業であるAmerican Fortressは、ポスト量子セキュリティ・モデルを公開しました。新しい量子耐性（クオンタムセーフ）の枠組みにより、American Fortressは将来の計算上の脅威から、現在の暗号資産ウォレットを保護することを目指しています。
American Fortressの公式リサーチペーパーによると、提案された技術は、消費者がアドレスやブロックチェーンを切り替えてコアとなるプロトコルを変更する必要なく、ウォレットを保護します。同社のアプローチは、イーサリアム財団が提示した提案と比較して、報道によれば21倍以上効果的だとされています。