Crypto’s Wall Street Moment: Stock & Commodity Trading Explodes to $778 Billion in August Trading in stock and commodity perpetual futures on crypto exchanges surged to a staggering $778 billion in August, accounting for roughly 23.5% of all perpetual-futures trading. That represents a dramatic rise from just 0.5% previously, highlighting how rapidly crypto platforms are expanding beyond Bitcoin and other digital assets into traditional-market exposure. The surge signals a growing appetite for 24/7 trading of assets tied to stocks and commodities through crypto infrastructure. The scale of activity suggests that crypto exchanges are increasingly becoming venues for speculation on traditional markets, potentially blurring the line between conventional finance and digital assets.

Most crypto infrastructure asks: how do we make consensus faster? Wrong question. Unicity asks: what if validation didn't require consensus at all? P2P cryptographic objects. Edge validation. Settlement without a shared ledger.

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This Week in Crypto, brought to you by Holoworld Superhero launched crypto trading through Bitstamp by Robinhood, Solana’s stablecoin supply grew 11x in three years, and Nansen says Robinhood likely won’t need a token for its L2. From trading rails to stablecoins to L2s, crypto infrastructure keeps evolving.

Wall Street's crypto infrastructure is here. This bonus episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys at the @NYSE from @Consensus2026 features @Grayscale's Krista Lynch on the evolution of crypto ETFs, @MorganStanley's Amy Oldenburg on MSBT becoming the firm's most successful ETF launch ever, and @BitGo CEO Mike Belshe on the firm's public journey. Watch with @JennSanasie. Chapters/Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome to Public Keys: A Bonus Episode from Consensus 00:55 Grayscale's Krista Lynch Joins Public Keys 01:30 Eight Single-Token ETFs and the Rise of Crypto Indexing 02:20 In-Kind ETF Creation Brings Crypto Whales to Wall Street 04:00 Why Crypto Whales Want ETF Exposure 06:00 Advisor Education and the State of Crypto Onboarding 07:00 Staking Comes to the ETF Wrapper 08:30 Morgan Stanley's Amy Oldenburg Joins Public Keys 09:00 The 50 bps Spot Crypto Trading Fee 10:00 Top-of-House Alignment at Morgan Stanley 11:00 What Was Happening Behind the Scenes in 2024 12:30 MSBT: $230M and Morgan Stanley's Most Successful ETF Launch Ever 14:00 Over-Hyped or Underrated: $1B in MSBT by Year-End 16:00 BitGo CEO Mike Belshe Joins Public Keys 17:00 Four Months Into Life as a Public Company 17:30 The Institutionalization of Crypto Infrastructure 18:30 Why the Genius and Clarity Acts Matter 20:30 Coinbase Still Charges Retail 130 bps 22:30 BitGo's OCC Charter and the Future of Reserve Banking 23:30 What the Clarity Act Actually Changes 24:30 TradFi Is Waiting for the Legislative Stamp of Approval

Vaults make onchain finance look less like crypto infrastructure and more like financial products. Deposit an asset, set the strategy and rules, and let the vault handle execution. @toby_box, Product Director at RootstockLabs, explains what a vault is and why it matters.

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