While there is a classic technology hype cycle related to tokenization – the representation of any asset on blockchains like Ethereum – we are only at the beginning. This is the view of Min Lin, general manager of global expansion at Ondo, who pointed out that the US Treasury market alone is worth $29 trillion. […]
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong is ready to start issuing the first of its stable licenses next month, the financial secretary of the special administration region said Wednesday. Hong Kong will initially issue only a small batch of licenses, Hong Kong’s Paul Chan Mo-Po said Wednesday at CoinDesk’s Consensus Hong Kong conference. “By granting our
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HONG KONG — Thomas Lee, president of Ether ETH$1,948.79 Treasury firm BitMine Immersion (BMRN), said the next-generation big financial institution may not come from Wall Street but from YouTube. Speaking on stage at Consensus Hong Kong on Wednesday, Lee argued that MrBeast’s move into banking could position the video creator as the leading financial platform
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is working with crypto-friendly trading firm Franklin Templeton to offer an institutional off-exchange guarantee program, making digital markets safer and more capital efficient. The new service allows eligible customers to use tokenized money market fund shares issued through Franklin Templeton’s Benji technology platform as off-exchange collateral to trade on
EMB: February 11, 06:00 UTC Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Spark is pushing one of DeFi’s deepest stablecoin liquidity pools further into institutional markets, unveiling new lending infrastructure designed to connect on-chain capital with off-chain borrowers who have largely stayed outside of DeFi. The protocol introduced Spark Prime and Spark Institutional Lending in an announcement during
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong financial regulators will unveil a framework for trading platforms to offer perpetual contracts, the head of the region’s Securities and Futures Commission said Wednesday. Hong Kong brokers will soon be able to provide funding to Bitcoin-backed clients BTC$67,683.14 and ether ETH$1,975.31 and platforms will be able to offer market making
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SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci said Wednesday that he is buying Bitcoin. BTC$67,676.34 during the market downturn and described Donald Trump as a “crypto president.” “10 days ago we were buying Bitcoin at 84,000 last week, we’re buying Bitcoin at 63,000 bitcoins this week, we’re long Bitcoin again in this market,” Scaramucci said in a
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Industry leaders discussed the demand for tokenized real-world assets (RWA) at a Consensus Hong Kong 2026 panel featuring Evan Auyang (Group President at Animoca Brands), Christian Rau (Senior Vice President, Digital Assets and Blockchain at Mastercard), Nicola White (VP of Crypto Institutions, Robinhood) and moderator Marcin Kazmierczak (Co-Founder, RedStone). The panel echoed BlackRock COO Rob
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During a fireside chat at Consensus Hong Kong 2026, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu presented her vision for “Internet Capital Markets” with moderator Michael Lau, President of Consensus. Liu asserted that the real strength of blockchains lies in finance and markets, not a general-purpose utopian technology. Liu envisioned tokenizing all global assets on-chain, enabling seamless
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HONG KONG — Robinhood launched its public testnet for its own Ethereum layer 2 blockchain on Wednesday with plans for a wider launch later this year, as the brokerage app aims to move more trading activity onto the chain. The new network, called Robinhood Chain, is built on Arbitrum and is designed to support real-world
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