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Kevin O’Leary says Wall Street’s tokenization boom is just talk without crypto rules

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MIAMI, FL — Kevin O’Leary says the tokenization boom on Wall Street is just hype until Congress finally gives the crypto industry the rules it’s been waiting for. “Tokenization will never be adopted by institutional indexers. Neither will Bitcoin, which remains a marginal asset for the big guys,” O’Leary said at the Miami Consensus, arguing […]

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Why Animoca’s Yat Siu says the future is 100 billion AI agents

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The crypto industry may have fundamentally misunderstood the metaverse, according to Yat Siu, president of Animoca Brands, who says the next phase of virtual economies would arrive not via VR headsets or immersive digital worlds, but via fleets of AI agents transacting on blockchain networks behind the scenes. Siu said the metaverse could perhaps come

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Ripple and JPMorgan settle first cross-border buyout of tokenized Treasury on XRP Ledger

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A key piece of financial infrastructure linking tokenized assets to traditional banking services received a real cross-border test this week. Ondo Finance announced on Wednesday that it had completed the first near real-time cross-border redemption of a tokenized US Treasury fund alongside JPMorgan’s blockchain platform Kinexys, payments giant Mastercard and Ripple. The transaction settled in

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Wall Street’s BNY Expands Custody of Cryptocurrencies in Abu Dhabi, Starting with Bitcoin and Ether

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BNY, the world’s largest custodian overseeing $59 trillion in assets, is expanding its digital asset custody business in the UAE through local partners. According to a press release issued on Thursday, the global financial services giant is working with Finstreet and the ADI Foundation to build a regulated digital asset infrastructure anchored in the Abu

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US Bitcoin costs, backed by the Trump family, fell 23% in the first quarter as the mining industry turns to AI

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The Trump brothers’ Bitcoin mining business has cut its cost per coin by almost a quarter in three months, bucking industry trends. American Bitcoin (ABTC) said in a filing Wednesday that its cost to mine one bitcoin fell to around $36,200 in the first quarter, a 23% decline from $46,900 in the fourth quarter of

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BTC Lenders Say Institutions Want Crypto Lending to Be More Like TradFi

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Bitcoin lenders may need to look more like traditional financial firms, not less, if they want institutional capital to continue flowing into the sector. At Consensus 2026 in Miami, Alexander Blume, founder and CEO of institutional bitcoin lender Two Prime, argued that the next stage of crypto lending growth will depend less on experimentation with

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Dogecoin slips 4%, Bitcoin rally stalls as Iran ceasefire optimism sends stocks higher

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The crypto rally stalled on Thursday as stocks continued to climb. Bitcoin BTC$82,164.36 was trading at $80,945 during Asian hours, down 0.7% over 24 hours but still up 6.9% over the week. Ether (ETH) slipped 2% to $2,326, and DOGE$0.1106 was the main laggard, falling 4.4% to $0.1106 after last week’s run brought its 30-day

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