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Tokenized Stocks Boom w/ Ondo, Dinari & Cooley: Who Wins After the SEC Exemption?
Galaxy deposits $100M of @SkyEcosystem's sUSDS into treasury and approves it as loan collateral, allowing clients to earn Sky's 3.6% savings rate while pledging assets to the $1.4B lending platform.
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Did the Senate just move crypto closer to regulatory clarity?
Today's procedural vote on the Clarity Act needed at least 7 non-Republican votes to clear the 60-vote threshold — SummerMersinger (@SummerMersinger) from @BlockchainAssn and KevinWysocki (@KevWysocki) from @Anchorage joined us to break down the vote, what's next, and what it means for the industry.
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Will Crypto Get Clarity? The Senate votes today
⚡️ Republicans posted a new draft bill with compromises on the key ethics questions
⚡️ Democrats countered overnight
⚡️ Odds fell 31% → 19%
⚡️ Cloture vote is at 2:15pm today
Discussing live with:
@SKMersinger — @BlockchainAssn CEO, on the CFTC until last May
@KevWysocki — policy chief at @Anchorage
Watch at 10am ET 👇
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Tokenized stocks traded $1.01 billion on Saturday and Sunday, about what they did in Friday's full session.
U.S. exchanges were shut for 89 hours over Labor Day weekend.
The busiest name was a tokenized Nasdaq-100 fund on BNB Chain: $180.5 million.
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Robinhood is surging on @arbitrum's stack, and today we're joined by ARB's @Offchain Labs CEO & co-founder @sgoldfed to break down the boom 💥
We'll discuss:
⚡️ Does the tokenization / meme craze have legs?
⚡️ Spiking Robinhood fees
⚡️ Where's crypto's decentralization promise when Robinhood owns the sequencer?
⚡️ The landlord model and the ethereum:0xb50721bcf8d664c30412cfbc6cf7a15145234ad1 rally
⚡️ Who's the next Robinhood?
LIVE @ 3PM ET 👇
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.@bitwise launches self-custodied tokenized stock portfolio on Base, starting with the Mag7X strategy holding four @coinbase-issued stock tokens. Two additional models coming soon.
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Cosmos Labs is recommending that every public chain running Cosmos EVM below v0.6.2 halt immediately and patch.
Three chains --MANTRA, TAC and KiiChain-- were already drained. Two are still frozen.
The patch shipped Aug 19 with no security advisory attached.
$ATOM is unaffected because Cosmos Hub does not run the EVM module.
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Franklin Templeton manages $1.5 TRILLION.
Its Head of Digital Assets @FTDA_US just told us why blockchain "hugely threatens intermediaries" and why that's good news for investors.
New episode of Converge with Roger Bayston
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"Trade buttons coming soon" to X posts, says @nikitabier.
He left X's product role on Aug. 5.
In February, while still head of product, he said X "is not handling trade execution or acting as a brokerage."
So, are trade buttons coming to X or not?
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$ZRO is up 12% after @LayerZero_Core unveiled ATLAS, a headless exchange built on its Zero blockchain.
Venues plug in and keep 20-65% of the trading fee. 75% of what remains buys and burns ZRO.
No launch date yet, and Zero hasn't reached mainnet.
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A wallet bought yield tokens in a $9 million Pendle pool, dragged the PT price down 2.8%, and liquidated $36.1 million of looped positions on @Morpho in 14 minutes.
@pendle_fi and @SteakhouseFi say the oracle worked as designed. No bad debt.
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Bitcoin hit $79,999.99 on @coinbase—its highest since May—before pulling back. Meanwhile, 65% of the largest altcoins fell, dragging total crypto market value down despite BTC's gains.
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Coinbase Tokenized Stocks are live on @base: NVDAc, METAc, AAPLc, GOOGLc. Non-US only.
~$4.5M minted on day one, $3M of DEX liquidity, $10.8M in 24h volume.
Composable from the start: @AerodromeFi @aave @MorphoLabs @eulerfinance @0xProject @1inch @CoWSwap @wasabi_protocol @SteakhouseFi @gauntlet_xyz @BitgetWallet
@chainlink is the oracle. Its feeds run 24/5 while the tokens trade 24/7.
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.@EricTrump denies launching a new coin as TRUMP token surges 38% in 24h. MELANIA gained 18.4%.
The Sandbox's bridge exploit minted unbacked SAND on Base and BSC.
Upbit and Bithumb froze transfers under South Korea's user-protection rules, with Upbit also halting @ethereum deposits and withdrawals despite the chain being unaffected.
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Circle says @arc is on track for a Sept. 16 public mainnet launch that would open its production blockchain to users and applications while keeping block production within a permissioned validator set.
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Illuvium's team takes wage cuts to extend runway past 12 months, with focus shifting almost entirely to Overworld MMO development.
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MANTRA's Layer 1 has been halted since Thursday. The RWA chain says a @cosmos EVM module issue affected two of its own wallets, with no user funds taken. It hasn't clarified whether anything left those wallets.
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You don't have to own NVIDIA stock to profit from the AI boom.
You can own the hardware itself, and let AI labs pay it off for you.
@viktoriya0x @b3labs
