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For years, stablecoins have been crypto’s most useful invention and its most awkward dinner guest. Useful because they turn blockchains into 24/7 dollar rails, and awkward because while the promise is simple, securing trust rarely is.
A digital token worth exactly a dollar sounds reassuring to non-crypto folk right up until someone asks where the dollars are.
Now Wyoming wants to answer that...
Grayscale has turned Ethereum’s staking yield into something ETF investors instantly recognize: a cash distribution.
On Jan. 6, the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (ETHE) paid around $0.083 per share, totaling $9.39 million, funded by staking rewards the fund earned on its ETH holdings and then sold for cash.
The payout covered rewards generated from Oct. 6 through Dec. 31, 2025. Investors on...
Grayscale has turned Ethereum’s staking yield into something ETF investors instantly recognize: a cash distribution.
On Jan. 6, the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (ETHE) paid around $0.083 per share, totaling $9.39 million, funded by staking rewards the fund earned on its ETH holdings and then sold for cash.
The payout covered rewards generated from Oct. 6 through Dec. 31, 2025. Investors on...
A tax employee in Bobigny used internal software to compile dossiers on cryptocurrency specialists, billionaire Vincent Bolloré, prison guards, and a judge. She passed the information to criminals who paid €800 to attack a prison officer at home in Montreuil.
Her appeal was rejected Jan. 6, as reported by local media.
The case matters less for what happened than for how targets were selected. The...
A tax employee in Bobigny used internal software to compile dossiers on cryptocurrency specialists, billionaire Vincent Bolloré, prison guards, and a judge. She passed the information to criminals who paid €800 to attack a prison officer at home in Montreuil.
Her appeal was rejected Jan. 6, as reported by local media.
The case matters less for what happened than for how targets were selected. The...
Bitcoin’s $25 billion legacy exodus secretly cemented Wall Street’s grip on liquidity within 2 years
Two years ago, Bitcoin gained something it had chased for a long time: a place in the tradfi default menu.
Plenty of people could get exposure to Bitcoin in 2023, as anyone with an exchange account and a tolerance for operational risk could click “buy.” Yet most capital in the US moves through brokerages, retirement accounts, advisory platforms, model portfolios, and compliance checklists.
For...
Banks are fighting stablecoin rewards to protect a secret $360 billion revenue machine.
When Coinbase chief policy officer Faryar Shirzad posted a thread on Jan. 8 warning that stablecoin rewards “remain under debate” as Congress marks up market structure legislation, he attached numbers that banking groups would rather keep quiet.
US banks earn $176 billion annually on roughly $3 trillion they...
BlackRock is telling clients to stop looking at artificial intelligence as software and start treating it as energy.
In its 2026 Global Outlook, the BlackRock Investment Institute argued that the AI buildout is pushing against physical limits and highlighted electricity as the constraint investors are underpricing.
The report’s headline-grabber is its warning that AI-driven data centers could...
Tokenized real-world assets reached $19.72 billion on Jan. 9, the closest the market has come to the $20 billion threshold.
That figure measures distributed assets, which are tokens that circulate on-chain and can be transferred between user wallets. As a result, it excludes another $19.78 billion in active private credit loans, which are tracked as represented assets on-chain for recordkeeping...
Stablecoins used to be a crypto convenience, a way to park dollars between trades without touching fiat. However, the industry has matured enough that BlackRock now treats them as foundational rails for the market.
In its 2026 Global Outlook, the BlackRock Investment Institute argued that stablecoins are widening beyond exchanges and becoming integrated into mainstream payment systems. It also...