Project Acacia has now tested how tokenized asset markets could settle in Australia.The Reserve Bank of Australia and Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre released findings from Project Acacia, a wholesale experiment that moved digital money and tokenization from policy theory into market plumbing.The project tested 20 wholesale tokenized asset market use cases across issuance, servicing, trading, and settlement, spanning fixed income, managed funds, repos, structured products, private markets, carbon credits, and trade payables.The key result is about money, rather than the asset wrapper. Institutions need finality, legal certainty, liquidity, and operational reliability at the same time, and the settlement asset…
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VanEck launched VBNB as the first U.S. spot ETF offering direct exposure to BNB. A bearish breakdown below the two-month-long channel pattern signals a significant downside risk for the coin price. The Binance coin price could face dynamic resistance from the 20-day and 50-day exponential moving averages amid the current market correction. VanEck has launched a new exchange-traded fund (ETP), known as VBNB, which is the first U.S.-based instrument to directly replicate the price of BNB, the primary token associated with the BNB Chain network. VanEck Expands Crypto ETF Lineup With VBNB Launch According to a recent press release, VanEck’s…
XRP’s crowd sentiment has plunged into extreme fear, a zone that in the past has often been followed by a short-term price recovery. The reading came from the Santiment update, shared by CryptoWendyO, which tracks social media chatter and on‑chain discussions weighted for emotion. When the crowd grows this bearish, contrarian traders begin paying attention. Extreme fear doesn’t guarantee a bounce. But Santiment’s data has repeatedly shown that periods of unusually negative crowd sentiment tend to mark local bottoms for XRP, as panic selling exhausts itself. The indicator measures the ratio of positive to negative mentions across major crypto social…
Bitcoin fell toward the $72,000 level after a new wave of reported US military strikes on Iran pushed oil higher and sent another shock through risk assets.The largest cryptocurrency fell as much as 3.6% over a 24-hour window, touching an intraday low of $72,792, according to CryptoSlate’s data. It has slightly recovered to $73,274 as of press time.BTC’s slide coincided with a sudden spike in energy prices after the US military launched a fresh wave of airstrikes against Iranian targets. This disrupted an already fragile geopolitical landscape and soured investor appetite for risk-bearing assets worldwide.The downside momentum quickly spilled into…
Stablecoins are graduating from crypto exchanges into the apps people already use to move money. With Cash App rolling out support for USD Coin (USDC), the line between traditional fintech and on-chain dollars is thinning fast. This guide explains what Cash App’s USDC move could mean for users, merchants, and the wider payments stack. You’ll learn how it works, which networks matter, how fees compare with cards and bank rails, and where the biggest risks hide. Whether you plan to send money to friends, pay a creator, or move funds between apps and exchanges, understanding stablecoins inside everyday wallets will…
All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Bybit will move to single-counted open interest reporting from June 11, 2026. The change will make displayed OI figures appear lower, but traders’ positions, margins and risk exposure will not change. Bybit is changing how it reports open interest across its derivatives markets. The Dubai-based exchange said the update will take effect on June 11, 2026, moving its methodology from bilateral, or dual-sided, counting to unilateral, single-counted measurement. The change sounds technical, and in a way it is. But it matters for traders who watch…
A single off-exchange transaction involving nearly 29 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust rattled crypto markets and drew fresh scrutiny to the growing influence of institutional behavior on Bitcoin’s price.On a Tuesday morning in late May, a trader quietly sold 29.2 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) through a dark pool — a private, off-exchange trading venue used by institutions to execute large orders without exposing them to the open market. The transaction, executed at $43.16 per share, totaled approximately $1.3 billion, making it one of the largest single off-exchange trades ever recorded in the Bitcoin ETF…
President says the U.S. must remain the global leader in digital assets as states push for tighter regulation of event-based betting platformsPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday reaffirmed his support for the cryptocurrency industry and prediction markets, pledging to protect both sectors as regulatory tensions escalate between federal authorities and state governments.In a post published on Truth Social, Trump stressed the importance of maintaining the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s authority over prediction markets and said his administration would continue supporting the growth of digital financial technologies.“It is critically important that the CFTC’s exclusive authority over Prediction Markets is maintained, and that…
Bitcoin is down 3.35% over the past 24 hours to $73,281.93, underperforming an already weakening crypto market as renewed Middle East tensions and heavy institutional selling pressure continue weighing on risk assets. The asset is also showing a strong 83.6% correlation with gold, signaling that macroeconomic fears are heavily influencing current price action.Amid the latest market weakness, crypto analyst Alex Mason says Bitcoin may still have much further to fall before any meaningful recovery begins.According to Mason, Bitcoin has spent the last two months trading inside an ascending channel that created “fake strength” through slow higher highs, trapping retail traders…
Shiba Inu has fallen to a yearly low of $0.000005236 on Thursday after dipping nearly 5% in the day’s trade. The broader cryptocurrency market is in the red with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP falling between 3% to 5%. So if you invest $1,000 in SHIB today at its lowest point of the year, and hold on till 2027, can the dog-themed token bottom out and deliver profits? In this article, we will highlight how high or low SHIB could trade in the charts next year.Also Read: Shiba Inu: What Went Wrong, And Can It Jump Back Up?$1,000 in Shiba Inu…
