Japan’s SBI is using XRP to solve a banking problem
SBI Shinsei Bank is reportedly offering crypto deposit rewards to customers, with vouchers worth 20% of their interest payments redeemable for BTC, ETH, or XRP through SBI VC Trade. A three-month...
View ArticleBitcoin is being packaged for income investors, but the yield comes with a...
Bitcoin's protocol rewards miners through block subsidies and transaction fees, leaving holders who sit on coins with no claim on the network's output, no interest, no dividend, no staking reward of...
View ArticleDeFi’s next institutional wave may come from users who never see “behind the...
For years, DeFi's growth strategy was to pull users on-chain, and the next institutional wave is testing where users may never know they're touching DeFi at all. Matt Fisher, CEO of Katana, shared with...
View ArticleCrypto lending turns to Wall Street credit rules to win back institutional...
Celsius froze withdrawals in June 2022 before filing for Chapter 11 in July 2022, and Genesis froze redemptions after FTX's collapse and filed for bankruptcy in January 2023, owing approximately $3.4...
View ArticleRipple bets XRPL lending can give XRP a future beyond payments as price...
Ripple is trying to move the XRP Ledger (XRPL) deeper into institutional credit, a push that could expand the network’s role beyond cross-border payments and give XRP a broader claim on the next phase...
View ArticleIs OpenUSD the answer to bank push back on CLARITY? Hints stablecoin yield...
Open Standard's Open USD is trying to make the stablecoin yield fight about distribution before the token is live. The company announced Open USD on June 30 as a stablecoin for global money movement....
View ArticleBlackRock’s 2% Bitcoin cap has a hidden impact – advisors may have to sell...
BlackRock's 1% to 2% Bitcoin allocation range reads as a bullish nod to advisor adoption, but it also works as a boundary. Once Bitcoin is included in a model portfolio, its upside runs through...
View ArticleTether’s $20 billion mountain of gold – equal to a national reserve – to be...
Tether is already the world's largest stablecoin issuer, with approximately $141 billion in direct and indirect exposure to US Treasuries. It reported $15 billion in revenue in 2025 and $1.04 billion...
View ArticleHow a zeroed oracle signature unlocked $9M from Hedera DeFi lender Bonzo Lend
Hedera-based lending protocol Bonzo Lend has locked withdrawals after an oracle verifier accepted a proof containing a zeroed signature and public key, allowing a wallet to borrow $9.05 million against...
View ArticleBitcoin treasuries already faced two collateral calls in 2026 and some loans...
Public companies' Bitcoin treasury reserves become something very different once pledged to lenders. They become collateral, measured against loan ratios that can force a company to post more Bitcoin,...
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