21 banks just put about $270M behind one stablecoin, and it doesn't have a name yet. The incumbents it's aiming at, $USDT and $USDC , already hold 84% of a $293B market.
Goldman Sachs and Citi are in the group, along with Santander and Deutsche Bank. Bloomberg reports the money covers five years of running costs for a new US-based issuer, working name Project Faro. It's still looking for a CEO. The target is the first half of 2027, with a dollar token first and a euro one next.
Quick maths: $270M over five years is $54M a year. If all 21 chip in evenly, that's about $2.6M per bank per year. Small change for these balance sheets, which tells you this is a test run, not an all-in bet.
Tether alone has about $176B in circulation. Circle has about $70B. The banks are starting from zero with a lot of distribution and a year of waiting.
Tokenized equities just hit a record $4.8B in AUM. bStocks on BNB Chain ($BNB ) got $1.5B of that in 145 days.
Rankings change. The bigger point is the whole category is growing, and it's still a small slice of the stock market. Early days.
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Fed Governor Waller said overnight he'd back a December hike even if inflation came in cool. October CPI then came in at 0.4% against a 0.3% forecast. $BTC was near $74,300 before the number. It's around $73,200 now.
Core CPI, the version without food and energy, rose 0.3% against 0.2% expected. September's headline was 0.6%, so prices did slow down, just not as much as anyone hoped. There's still no year-on-year figure, because October 2025 was never fully collected during the shutdown.
Waller had a second line ready too: a hot print could make a 50bp move worth considering. The 2-year Treasury yield jumped about 14bp after the release as traders priced in a small chance of exactly that.
Bitcoin dipped to about $73,500 in the first five minutes and kept sliding from there. Roughly $200M of crypto longs were closed out around the release.
A hike was already the base case before the print. The data didn't change the plan. It just signed it.
October CPI lands at 21:30 UTC+8 tonight, and Fed Governor Waller already said he wants a December hike even if it comes in cool. $BTC is parked near $74,300 waiting on one number.
The forecast is 0.3% for the month, down from 0.6% in September. Stretch both over a year and September's pace works out to about 7.4%, October's to about 3.7%. Half the speed, still not slow enough for Waller.
Traders already price a 25bp hike for Dec 9. Waller said a hot print could justify 50.
There's no year-on-year figure tonight either. Last year's government shutdown meant October 2025 prices were never fully collected, so the market gets one monthly number and its own imagination.
Options desks are leaning nervous. The most-traded Bitcoin contract is the $74,000 put expiring Friday, sitting right under the price, and analysts keep drawing the floor at $73,000.
Soft print buys a bounce. Hot print and $73K gets its test before New York lunch.
Initia paused its rollups at 03:30 UTC+8 to look into an infrastructure issue. Fifty minutes later $INIT was up another 23%. Crypto will buy anything, including the outage.
In the buyers' defence, INIT was already climbing before the notice. It sat near $0.159 when the post went up and touched $0.196 before 04:30.
The team says it hasn't found any impact on user funds, the L1 is still live, and rollups should resume "soon". No restart time yet. This lands seven days after Initia came back from more than nine days offline over a $2.7M exploit in October.
Then the turnover. The whole market cap is about $42M. About $86M of INIT traded in the last 24 hours, so the float changed hands roughly twice in a day. That's a trading crowd passing the same coins around fast, and it says nothing yet about who holds next week.
After a 57% day, INIT still sits about 86% under its $1.42 high from May 2025.
Two halts in under three weeks and the chart is green. The rollups still aren't making blocks.