Krisztian Sandor

Krisztian Sandor is a U.S. markets reporter focusing on stablecoins, tokenization, real-world assets. He graduated from New York University's business and economic reporting program before joining CoinDesk. He holds BTC, SOL and ETH.

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Finance

New York Life's $800 billion asset manager makes tokenization debut with Centrifuge fund

The $807 billion asset manager is bringing a high-yield corporate bond strategy onto blockchain with Centrifuge as Wall Street expands beyond tokenized Treasury funds.

New York Life building in New York (Unsplash)

Technologies

Live updates: bitcoin closes out weak quarter; Trump reports over $1 billion in crypto proceeds

IBIT alone shed $300 million while smaller funds absorbed some of the outflow. The selloff lands as the same AI trade that crashed Korea a week ago now powers a record quarterly rally there.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaking at Mar-a-Lago.

Finance

Securitize heads to NYSE debut after investors approve SPAC merger

The tokenization firm is expected to begin trading on the NYSE on Thursday, becoming one of the first publicly traded pure-play tokenization companies.

Securitize's Carlos Domingo (CoinDesk)

Finance

Wall Street's BNY expands stablecoin services for institutions, starting with Circle's USDC

The world's largest custody bank is adding USDC custody and minting services as stablecoins move deeper into traditional finance.

BNY Mellon (Getty Images/Cheng Xin)

Publicité

Finance

BlackRock pushes deeper into DeFi with Ethena integration, sending ENA up 8%

The deal adds Ethena's yield-generating token to BlackRock's risk management platform and create a $100 million liquidity facility for BlackRock's tokenized money market fund.

Blackrock logo on a building

Finance

Tom Lee blames crypto weakness on quarter-end 'window dressing' as Bitmine adds another $43 million of ETH

Bitmine made its smallest purchase since early May as Lee pointed to investors cutting losses before the start of the second half of the year.

Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine and cofounder of Fundstrat, speaking at Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)

Technologies

Live updates: bitcoin pinned to $60,000 as U.S. stocks surge higher

Stocks are about to close out their best quarter since 2020 as crypto continues to get crushed.

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Finance

Crypto's next frontier isn't crypto, it's financing AI and robotics, Framework's Anderson says

Blockchain is becoming the financial layer for capital-intensive industries rather than just crypto-native speculation, Michael Anderson, the crypto venture firm's cofounder, said.

Framework Ventures co-founders Vance Spencer and Michael Anderson

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Marchés

Aave, Solana ecosystem tokens lead crypto rebound as bitcoin steadies near $60,000

Tokenized stock trading fueled fresh momentum across the Solana ecosystem, while Aave founder hinted at token buybacks coming under new framework.

Stani Kulechov, Aave Labs (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Finance

Securitize expects to raise $400 million as tokenization firm nears public debut

The BlackRock-backed tokenization specialist expects to close its SPAC merger next week and start trading on the NYSE, pending shareholder approval.

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo (Securitize)