Garmin’s eTrex Touch navigator can go almost a month without charging

A 3-inch touchscreen for swiping and zooming on roads and trails. Garmin’s $449.99 eTrex Touch is a rugged GPS navigator with preloaded maps for outdoor adventures. It features a 3-inch touchscreen for swiping and zooming in on roads and trails, and comes preloaded with TopoActive maps and the option to add an Outdoor Maps Plus plan ($4.99/month) … Read more

Bitcoin Options Tied to BlackRock’s IBIT Are Now Wall Street’s Favorite

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) exchange-traded fund has overtaken Deribit as the largest venue for bitcoin (BTC) options in an indication of how accreditation and institutional capital is reshaping crypto derivatives trading. Open interest in IBIT contracts hit nearly $38 billion after Friday’s expiry, versus $32 billion on Deribit, which had dominated the market since … Read more

Chainlink, UBS Advance $100T Fund Industry Tokenization via Swift Workflow

Chainlink said it developed a technical process allowing banks to interact with tokenized investment funds through Swift, the interbank messaging system that underpins much of traditional finance. In a pilot with UBS, Chainlink’s Runtime Environment (CRE) processed subscriptions and redemptions for a tokenized fund using ISO 20022 messages, the international standard for financial messaging used … Read more

Deutsche Börse, Circle to Integrate Stablecoins Into European Market Infrastructure

Deutsche Börse Group (DB1) signed a memorandum of understanding with Circle Internet Group (CRCL) to bring regulated stablecoins into Europe’s financial market infrastructure. The agreement aims to integrate Circle’s euro- and dollar-pegged tokens, EURC and USDC, into trading, settlement and custody services across the exchange operator’s platforms, the firms said in a statement on Tuesday. … Read more

Revisiting the Ponzi Patterns Behind FTX’s Notorious Collapse

:::info Authors: (1) Shange Fu, Monash University, Australia; (2) Qin Wang, CSIRO Data61, Australia; (3) Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia; (4) Shiping Chen, CSIRO Data61, Australia. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. What is Ponzi? 3. The FTX Collapse 4. Future Directions 5. Concluding Remarks and References Abstract. FTX used to be … Read more

Societe Generale’s Crypto Arm Deploys Euro and Dollar Stablecoins on Uniswap, Morpho

Societe Generale’s digital asset subsidiary, SG-FORGE, has taken its euro and dollar stablecoins into decentralized finance (DeFi), opening them up to borrowing, lending and spot trading, according to a press release on Tuesday. The move places the bank’s EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) and USD CoinVertible (USDCV) on Ethereum-based protocols Morpho and Uniswap, extending SG-FORGE’s effort to … Read more