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Omnes and Apex Group have announced plans to launch a tokenized debt note tied to Bitcoin mining activity on Base. The product will package Bitcoin hashrate exposure into an onchain financial instrument aimed at professional investors outside the United States. Summary Omnes and Apex will issue OMN on Base, bringing Bitcoin hashrate exposure to approved

Invesco, a global asset manager with over $2.2 trillion in assets under management, will assume portfolio management of Superstate’s tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, USTB, the company announced Tuesday. USTB offers exposure to short-term U.S. Treasury Bills, targeting stable income, liquidity, and returns near the federal funds rate. Since its launch in early 2024, the fund

Fidelity’s latest quarterly crypto livestream framed the second quarter of 2026 as a transition period for crypto assets, with the firm’s speakers pointing to a mix of macro, regulatory, and on-chain developments that could shape the next phase of the market. The discussion centered on bitcoin’s current consolidation, the growing role of stablecoins, and whether

French cryptography startup Zama is integrating its protocol with Apex-backed T-REX Ledger to add a confidentiality layer for ERC-3643-based tokenized assets, a standard that lets issuers embed identity checks and transfer restrictions into tokenized securities. Zama, which raised $73 million in Series A funding in 2024 to commercialize fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), said the integration

The Siren (SIREN) token plunged nearly 70% on Tuesday, reversing a rapid rally as onchain analysts warned that a small cluster of wallets may control a large share of the token’s supply. According to CoinGecko data, the token dropped nearly 70% from a high of $2.56 early Tuesday to a low of $0.79 on the

Bitcoin (BTC) has been among the best-performing assets amid the US–Iran war, but signs of upside exhaustion are emerging due to an “out-of-control” bond market. Key takeaways: US benchmark yields may rise by 200 basis points if the US–Iran war drags on further. Past oil-linked conflicts boosted inflation and reduced risk appetite, hinting BTC price

Bitcoin Yardstick data confirmed a new record for BTC price "deep value" in February as miners battled the lowest price levels in 15 months. Bitcoin (BTC) is “off the chart” in terms of value-for-money as price diverges from hash rate, a market analyst says. Key points: Bitcoin price action is diverging from hash rate to

Tokenized deposits and stablecoins need tokenized central bank money as a public settlement anchor if Europe’s tokenized financial markets are to scale, Piero Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board, said on Monday. Cipollone pointed to Pontes, the Eurosystem’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) settlement initiative, which is designed to connect market DLT

Nasdaq will integrate its Calypso risk and collateral platform and trade surveillance system with digital asset infrastructure firm Talos’s institutional trading tools. The integration announced Monday aims to offer institutional clients a “unified” workflow for managing tokenized collateral and monitoring crypto and traditional assets for market abuse. It aims to ease a bottleneck in institutional

Aave’s decentralized autonomous organization backed a proposal to move its V4 protocol toward deployment on Ethereum mainnet, signaling broader support for the upgrade after weeks of governance tension and contributor exits. On Monday, the proposal to deploy Aave V4 on the Ethereum mainnet garnered near-unanimous support from the DAO, with more than 645,000 votes in