Real-World Asset DeFi Moves Into Sports Finance With Tokenized Football Club Revenues
Real-world asset DeFi is stepping onto the pitch by targeting a familiar headache for football clubs: short-term liquidity gaps created by uneven cash flows from media and commercial contracts. The protocol, Decentral, runs on the Chiliz blockchain and channels stablecoin liquidity toward clubs. Tokenizing future club revenues to unlock faster cash is the premise behind […]
JPMorgan Launches Tokenized Money Market Fund on Ethereum
JPMorgan has launched a tokenized money market fund on the Ethereum blockchain, according to a report, positioning a traditional short-term cash instrument as a native onchain asset and signalling a broader institutional move toward blockchain-based product distribution and settlement. By bringing a money market fund onto Ethereum, the bank is effectively migrating part of its […]
North Korean ‘Fake Zoom’ Scam Drains Crypto Wallets, $300M Stolen Already
A social-engineering campaign anchored on “fake Zoom” and “fake Teams” meetings has triggered confirmed losses of $300 million among cryptocurrency professionals and firms. The tactic is part of a wider state-linked offensive that analysts say siphoned more than $2 billion in 2025 and exceeds $6 billion cumulatively in crypto thefts.
AFT urges Senate to withdraw Responsible Financial Innovation Act over tokenization risks to the $39 trillion retirement market
The American Federation of Teachers, representing 1.8 million members, has urged the U.S. Senate to withdraw the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, arguing it poses material risks to the $39 trillion retirement market. The union frames its appeal around a tokenization provision in the crypto market structure bill, linking a regulatory change to potential erosion of […]
Solana ETFs See Record Outflow as 21Shares’ TSOL Bleeds $42M
Solana ETFs recorded a record outflow, with 21Shares’ TSOL fund reporting a $42 million withdrawal event. This sharp redemption signals concentrated selling pressure on a flagship Solana-linked exchange-traded product and immediately raises concerns around liquidity and fund-level stress.
Polymarket US app opens to waitlisted users after CFTC green light
Polymarket US app is beginning phased access for users on its waitlist following a regulatory green light from the CFTC. The move immediately narrows the product’s availability to a controlled cohort while signalling regulatory clearance that product, compliance and engineering teams must operationalize.
Polkadot rises 9% after breaking $2.25 resistance amid verification constraints
Polkadot rose 9% after breaking through a previously identified resistance level at $2.25, marking a short-term repricing in market participants’ order flow. An automated retrieval error constrained immediate verification of supplementary metrics, returning a payment-related execution message.
$637M Wiped Out as Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Plunge in Sudden Market Crash
The crypto market recorded $637.57 million in liquidations on December 1, 2025, driven overwhelmingly by long positions and impacting roughly 219,000 traders during a sudden market-wide risk-off shift. Bitcoin fell below $85,653, Ethereum reached $2,807 and XRP touched about $1.91 as macro signals collided with concentrated leverage.
Singapore Grants Ripple Approval to Scale Its Regulated Payments Business
Ripple won expanded approval from Singapore regulators on Dec. 1, 2025, as the Monetary Authority of Singapore broadened the Major Payment Institution (MPI) license held by Ripple Markets APAC. The approval arrives amid ~70% year-over-year growth in Asia-Pacific on-chain activity and enables Ripple to scale regulated services for collection, holding, swapping and payouts.
Institutions Join the Rush as Zcash Becomes the New Treasury Favorite
Zcash has become a tangible destination for institutional treasuries: more than 30% of the ZEC supply — approximately 5 million coins — is now held in shielded pools, a measurable signal of accumulation driven by privacy, control and long-term custody. The surge of capital entering through regulated vehicles reframes Zcash as a viable reserve asset […]