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 Jersey's Bergen County to Tokenize $240B in Real Estate Deeds on Avalanche Network

The wealthy New York City suburb will migrate 370,000 property deeds — representing about $240 billion worth of real estate — onto an immutable, searchable blockchain ledger.

The Avalanche booth at HBC 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Conduit Raises $36M to Expand Stablecoin-Based Cross-Border Payments Beyond SWIFT

Stablecoins are one of the fastest-growing sectors in crypto and an increasingly popular tool for global payments, attracting interest from venture capital investments.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Wall Street Giant Cantor Debuts Bitcoin Lending Business With First Tranches to FalconX, Maple

The financing will help Maple Finance, a major crypto lending platform itself, to speed up its growth, CEO Sidney Powell said.

Brandon Lutnick (CoinDesk)

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Trump Media Raising $2.5B for Bitcoin Treasury Strategy

With the move, the operator of Truth Social is joining a growing roster of publicly-traded firms to raise capital for buying crypto assets like bitcoin.

Head and shoulders photo of U.S. President Donald Trump standing behind a microphone.

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Prometheum Eyes U.S. Tokenization Boom With Acquisition and Fully Regulated Stack

The firm has acquired a broker-dealer and launched a SEC-registered digital transfer agent as competition heats up in the tokenization sector.

Aaron (pictured) and Benjamin Kaplan, Co-CEOs of Prometheum, are expanding their custody scope for crypto securities. (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Rally Stalls Below $110K as Short-Term Holders Take $11B Profits

Most U.S. markets were closed for Monday's holiday, but European stocks reacted positively to Trump's moratorium on 50% tariffs.

Bitcoin price on May 26 (CoinDesk)

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Trump Media Seeks to Raise $3B for Crypto Purchase: FT

The capital raise would see the Trump-linked firm joining a slew of public companies following the playbook of Michael Saylor's Strategy.

President Donald Trump (Shutterstock)

Finance

Dubai Unveils Real Estate Tokenization Platform on XRP Ledger Amid $16B Initiative

The new platform lets investors buy fractional ownership in Dubai property, with title deeds tokenized on the XRP Ledger network.

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Crypto Market Sees $300M Liquidations as Trump Tariff Threats Flush Late Bulls

The leverage flush happened as crypto prices quickly dropped on renewed trade war fears, with BTC slipping 3% from near record highs.

Close up image of Donald Trump speaking at lectern

Markets

Centrifuge Expands Tokenized RWAs to Solana, Starting With $400M Treasury Fund

Solana is gaining momentum in the fast-growing tokenized real-world asset space as traditional finance and DeFi gets increasingly intertwined.

Centrifuge is one of the largest blockchain-based credit platform with $270 million of active loans. (Mae Mu/Unsplash)