Month: March 2025

BlackRock’s BUIDL expands to Solana as tokenized money market fund nears $2B

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BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund has expanded to the Solana blockchain as its market capitalization approaches the $2 billion mark. On March 25, Carlos Domingo, the founder and CEO of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform Securitize, welcomed the Solana network to the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL). This marks the tokenized money market … Read more

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Falls 1.9%, Leading Index Lower

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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2780.73, down 0.9% (-23.96) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. Nine of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: AVAX (+4.1%) and ADA (+2.3%). Laggards: BCH (-1.9%) and AAVE (-1.9%). … Read more

Derivatives Trading Giant CME Group to Test Tokenization with Google Cloud

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CME Group, a major marketplace in derivatives trading for institutions, said it is exploring tokenization as a way to improve capital market efficiency with U.S. tech giant Google Cloud’s distributed ledger technology. The two companies plan to start direct tests with market participants later this year and are aiming to launch new services in 2026, … Read more

Hyperliquid Eases Token Transfers for DeFi With Integration Between HyperCore and HyperEVM

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The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector is among the biggest drivers of value accrual and revenue creation for crypto projects, but its complexity often leaves users tangled in a web of blockchains, bridges, wallets and tokens. However, a technical update by Hyperliquid is making that process easier for both developers and users, with the direct linking … Read more

If You’re in Crypto, Pivot to AI Now

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For years, crypto’s positioned itself as the next great technological revolution. But as we witness the explosive rise of AI, it’s time for crypto to face the truth: the true technological revolution of our era is artificial intelligence, and crypto will play a supporting role rather than be the star. This isn’t about diminishing the … Read more

How Roomba got stuck

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In the robot vacuum world, there’s Roomba and there’s everybody else. iRobot’s autonomous cleaner may not have been the very first of its kind, but it was the first one most people knew about, and for many years it was clearly the best one you could buy. But now, more than three decades after iRobot … Read more

eToro trading platform publicly files for US IPO

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Cryptocurrency-friendly trading platform eToro has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States following several previous attempts. The company said in a March 24 announcement that it had submitted a registration statement on Form F-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission related to the IPO of its Class A common shares. … Read more

ETH price to $1.2K? Ethereum's PoS 'deflation' ends with fees at all-time lows

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Ether’s (ETH) price printed a bear flag on the daily chart, a technical chart formation associated with strong downward momentum. Could this bearish setup and decreasing transaction fees signal the start of the second leg of ETH’s drop toward $1,200? Ethereum’s network activity slumps The market drawdown, fueled by US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, … Read more

BlackRock, Securitize Expand $1.7B Tokenized Money Market Fund BUIDL to Solana

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BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund, BUIDL, has become available on Solana, Securitize announced, marking another step in the asset manager’s push into blockchain-based finance. The expansion makes BUIDL available on seven blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Aptos, Arbitrum and Optimism. Only 62 wallets currently hold BUIDL on-chain, however, according to rwa.zyz data. The fund, officially the … Read more

EdTech’s Innovation Obsession Is Leaving Millions of Students Behind

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Almost every article I’ve read about Edtech these days focuses on advancements and new research findings. Yet hundreds of thousands of communities worldwide have no access to basic Edtech solutions. The conversation often overlooks the fact that these communities aren’t even dealing with personalized learning experiences tailored to their language or culture—they don’t have access … Read more

The Premises of a Yield Market Using Perpetual Constant Maturity Options

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Traditional finance relies on mature interest rate markets with instruments like Forward Rate Agreements, Interest Rate Futures, or swaps, to maintain liquid and consistent financial structures. On the other hand, DeFi lacks natural interest rates, making it challenging to replicate such markets. Instead, DeFi can develop its own yield market, leveraging Perpetual Constant Maturity Options … Read more

Bitcoin’s $12B Quarterly Options Expiry Unlikely to Cause Major Market Reaction, Deribit Says

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Bitcoin (BTC) options worth billions of dollars will expire on Deribit on Friday. The impending settlement, though big, may not yield significant market volatility, the exchange told CoinDesk. More than 139,000 BTC option contracts, worth $12.13 billion, representing nearly 45% of the total active BTC contracts across all expiries, are due for settlement this Friday, … Read more