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DTCC plans October launch of tokenized securities platform as part of Wall Street’s blockchain push

Leading Wall Street operator Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced Monday that it will begin limited production trading of tokenized securities in July, with a broader launch of its platform planned for October. The service, built within DTCC’s Depository Trust Company, will allow companies to issue digital versions of assets already owned, while maintaining […]

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Tom Lee says ‘crypto spring’ has begun as Bitmine buys $238 million worth of ether

Bitmine (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury company, purchased 101,745 ether (ETH) last week as Chairman Thomas Lee said a new “crypto spring” was underway, although market sentiment remains subdued. The purchase brought the company’s holdings to over 5.18 million ETH, or approximately 4.29% of the token’s outstanding assets, according to an update on Monday. Bitmine’s

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Binance Launches Withdrawal Lock to Help Deter Crypto Key Attacks

Binance is launching a user-controlled withdrawal lock aimed at combating a threat the crypto industry has spent the last year reckoning with: physical coercion of holders, also known as so-called key attacks. The “Withdrawal Protection” feature allows users to freeze their own account from chain withdrawals for one to seven days, the exchange said on

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Trump-affiliated World Liberty sues Justin Sun for ‘defamation’ after Tron creator’s lawsuit

World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company affiliated with U.S. President Donald Trump and his family, filed a defamation suit against Tron creator Justin Sun in a Florida state court on Monday, alleging “gross misconduct” by Sun regarding the WLFI tokens he purchased. The lawsuit follows Sun’s own lawsuit against World Liberty, which was filed in

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Laywer appears on Arbitrum DAO forums seeking funds for victims of decades-old North Korean terrorist acts

Arbitration delegates are determining whether to release 30,765 ETH frozen after last month’s rsETH exploit as part of a coordinated recovery effort. But a lawyer for victims of North Korean terrorism showed up at the forum and told them that wasn’t possible. Ether was drained from holders of reinvested ETH (a representative token of ETH

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Kraken Parent Payward Closes $550M Bitnomial Deal, Underwriting Entire CFTC Derivatives Stack

Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has completed its acquisition of Bitnomial, giving the company a full stack of US derivatives products regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The deal gives Payward control of Bitnomial’s futures broker, exchange and clearinghouse licenses. This structure allows Payward to offer regulated crypto derivatives in

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Crypto Marketers Wrong Again, Losing $300 Million in Liquidations: Crypto Markets Today

The bears were wrong again. Bitcoin BTC$78,955.87 briefly marked $80,594 early Monday, its highest level since January 31, before retreating to trade around $79,851 at the time of writing. The move triggered $370 million in total crypto liquidations over the past 24 hours, affecting 97,235 traders, according to CoinGlass data. Of this total, $301.93 million

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Coinbase boosts Solana trading with DFlow integration

US-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has integrated the DFlow trading protocol, allowing traders to trade value in spot and prediction markets natively on Solana, the companies announced Monday. Coinbase adding DFlow as a primary router will result in eight times fewer trade failures. The move also increases the liquidity of tokens that were previously non-tradable and

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