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Finance

BounceBit Adds Franklin Templeton Tokenized Fund for Treasury-Backed Yield Strategies

Tokenized Treasuries such as FT's BENJI are being increasingly used for collateral and settlement as real-world asset adoption spreads.

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Finance

Tokenization Specialist Centrifuge Appoints Former Goldman Sachs Executive as COO

Jürgen Blumberg, who spent over two decades at Goldman Sachs, Invesco and BlackRock heading ETF businesses, will focus on bridging DeFi and traditional finance.

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

Finance

Brazil's VERT Capital to Tokenize $1B in Real-World Assets on XDC Network

The deal underscores the growing role of Brazil as a tokenization hub in the region.

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Markets

DeFi Dev Boosts Solana Treasury to $218M After Latest Purchase

The Nasdaq-listed firm funded the acquisition by its $5 billion standing equity line of credit facility.

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Markets

CoinShares Launches Zero-Fee SEI ETP With Staking Yield Across Europe

Crypto ETPs in Europe are plentiful, yet they haven't been adopted the way spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. have.

CoinShares CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti

Finance

Crypto Prediction Market Polymarket Weighs Launching Its Own Stablecoin: Source

Polymarket would create its own stablecoin to own the yield-generating USD reserves that back the amount of Circle’s dollar-pegged token, USDC, a source said.

Shayne Coplan, CEO, Polymarket, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk).

Finance

EDX Unveils International Crypto Trading Platform With Perpetual Futures

EDX International, the Singapore-based global hub of the firm, is offering trading in 44 cryptocurrency pairs, including Bitcoin, ETH, Sol, and XRP.

Banks in Singapore (Aditya Chinchure/Unsplash)

Finance

Trump-Linked WLFI Partners With Vaulta After $6 Million Token Buy

The deal comes after WLFI in May quietly acquired $6 million worth of Vaulta's native token EOS (now rebranded as A).

Banks in Singapore (Aditya Chinchure/Unsplash)

Policy

Photos: Trump Signs the GENIUS Act Into Law

On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the first-ever major piece of crypto legislation into law.

Donald Trump (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockstream Expands in Europe With Acquisition of Swiss Crypto Firm Elysium Labs

Blockstream is building momentum around its European ventures, following the inception of its Lugano Research Center.

Adam Back, CEO Blockstream (second from right) speaks at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)