Blockchain Fragmentation Is Costing Tokenized Assets Billions

Fragmentation across blockchain networks is already imposing a measurable economic cost on the tokenized asset market, with inefficiencies translating into up to $1.3 billion in annual value drag.  In a report sent to Cointelegraph, real-world asset (RWA) data provider RWA.io argued that while blockchains accelerated innovation, they also created walls that trap liquidity and prevent…

Synthetix Returns To Ethereum Mainnet After 3 Years

Perpetuals trading platform Synthetix is returning to Ethereum’s mainnet, with its founder arguing the network is now more than capable of supporting high-frequency financial applications after years of network congestion drove derivatives activity elsewhere. “By the time perp DEXs became a thing, the mainnet was too congested, but now we can run it back,” Synthetix…

Coinbase Sues 3 States Over Prediction Market Laws

Coinbase is taking three US states to court in a bid to lock in federal protection for its planned prediction markets, opening a new front in the battle over whether event contracts are finance or gambling.​ The exchange has sued regulators in Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan, asking federal judges to declare that prediction markets listed…

Crypto exchange Bybit returns to UK after 2-year break with 100 crypto trading pairs

Bybit, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume traded, said it has returned to the U.K. two years after stricter rules around the promotion and marketing of crypto services forced it out. The company, which boasts some 80 million users worldwide, restarted U.K. services including spot trading on 100 currency pairs on Thursday, the company said…

Bitcoin Gains Near 3% Despite Bank of Japan Rate Hike

Bitcoin (BTC) aimed for $88,000 on Friday after Japan’s central bank raised interest rates to 30-year highs. Key points: Bitcoin joins US stocks futures heading higher in a curiously bullish reaction to Japan’s interest-rate hike. Commentators argue that no further hikes will happen due to economic forces. Bitcoin continues to hammer out a bottom on…

ETH Rally Toward $3K Possibly Halted By Rising ETF Outflows

Key takeaways: US-listed Ether ETFs saw heavy outflows, signaling fading institutional interest as network fees, staking and leverage demand declined. ETH futures premiums and open interest declined, indicating cautious positioning and limited confidence, without a clear shift to outright bearishness. Ether (ETH) plunged to $2,800 on Wednesday, triggering $165 million in liquidations across bullish futures…

Crypto Market Cap Hits 8 Month Low Amid Bearish Sentiment

The total crypto market capitalization has fallen to an eight-month low, wiping out all gains this year, as analysts remain bearish in the short-term. Total market capitalization fell to $2.93 trillion in late trading on Thursday, its lowest level since April, according to CoinGecko. The total market value of crypto has declined by around 33%…

Investor Anxiety Over Quantum Risk Weighing on Bitcoin

The response from Bitcoin developers on the risk of quantum computing to the cryptocurrency is weighing down its price and affecting capital flow, crypto industry executives have argued. Adam Back, a cypherpunk and the co-founder of Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream, argued in a series of X posts on Thursday that it is good for Bitcoin…

Crypto Struggled In 2025 Despite Positive Fundamentals

Analysts and investors are questioning why crypto isn’t in a bull market, given the amount of positive drivers that have taken place this year. “At some point, we need to admit that something is structurally broken in the crypto market,” CNBC crypto contributor Ran Neuner said on Tuesday. He stated that multiple favorable factors should…

Donald Trump Says Fed Chair Nominee Chris Waller Is ‘Great’

United States President Donald Trump offered positive remarks about pro-crypto Fed chair nominee Chris Waller at a recent press conference, as speculation continues over his final choice. “I think he’s great. I mean, he’s been a man who’s been there a long time. Somebody that I was very involved with and sense of his career,…