Stablecoins
Taxes
France wants to tax unrealized crypto holdings but also hoard 420,000 BTC
France’s parliament is debating two radically different visions for crypto, one treating it as idle luxury, the other as strategic money for the republic.
DeFi
If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down?
For all its talk of decentralization, Web3 still lives inside the same data centers as everyone else, and October’s cloud failure made that impossible to ignore.
Adoption
Has Mastercard accepted the inevitability of crypto? Spends $2B on tokenization platform
Mastercard’s rumored deal for Zero Hash marks the moment stablecoin settlement leaves the sandbox and enters the payments mainstream.
DeFi
Will Fusaka keep users on L2? Upcoming Ethereum upgrade eyes up to 60% fee cuts
The Fusaka upgrade cements Ethereum’s modular vision: L1 as settlement, L2 as the user layer.
Derivatives
Why $13B in Bitcoin options expiring this week is a price nothing burger
A $13 billion Bitcoin options expiry sounds dramatic, but on Deribit, it’s just another Friday in the market’s quiet volatility cycle.
RWA
Ferrari tokenizing its Le Mans race car may pump gas but not your bags
Ferrari’s latest experiment with blockchain looks sleek, but beneath the carbon fiber, there’s barely any real crypto fuel.
Macro
Fed cuts 25 bps, but there is another hidden macro challenge looming
A key macro marker may prove more important for Bitcoin than the rate cut itself.
TradFi
$1.8 trillion Wall Street giant files active multi-coin ETF to challenge BTC dominance
Forget Bitcoin-only exposure: T. Rowe wants a managed crypto basket with room for Solana and XRP.
ETF
Hong Kong’s first spot Solana ETF goes live – what it means for flows
As Solana joins Bitcoin and Ethereum in Hong Kong’s ETF lineup, the launch could reshape liquidity and price discovery for SOL across Asian and global markets.
Analysis
$8.3B real world assets now on-chain: Can tokenization make banks top crypto custodians?
Banks once shunned crypto custody; now they’re racing to tokenize trillions in cash and securities. The quiet rebuild is underway, and it’s happening inside the balance sheets of Goldman, Citi, and BlackRock.
Analysis
Bitcoin vs. Gold: Does October’s near zero correlation shatter ‘digital gold’ myth?
Bitcoin and gold told two different stories in October, and neither matched what traders expected.
Market
Bitcoin ETFs break 4-day, $1B outflow streak as BTC holds $108K
ETF flows snapped back into positive territory Monday, helping Bitcoin defend $108,000 after a weeklong test of investor conviction.
