Unchained

Payward will issue tokenized versions of the 100 largest London-listed companies within weeks, though UK investors cannot buy them and the exchange’s own leg of the deal still needs regulatory sign-off.

The purchase was funded entirely by common stock sales, with none of Strategy’s four preferred series issuing a single share last week.

Russia’s largest bank will widen its crypto lending beyond bitcoin once the assets are cleared to circulate publicly, a deputy chairman told TASS.

1789 Capital is putting in about $300 million on top of a roughly $200 million stake, lifting Polymarket’s valuation 40% in a matter of months.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

An attacker inflated Tectonic’s own governance token roughly 100-fold and borrowed against it, and Cronos validators froze the entire network in response.

Coinbase just launched fully backed tokenized stocks on Base. Dromos Labs’ Alex Cutler says they’ll chip away at Interactive Brokers “77% profit margin.”

The protocol’s supply cap is checked when a normal deposit mints shares, so the attacker deposited once, then sent 53 million tokens straight to the market and raised what those shares could claim about 3.7-fold.

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

Ethereum wants to slash staking yields toward zero. Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki, DV Labs’ Oisín Kyne, and Ethereum-France’s Jérôme de Tychey debate whether that breaks DeFi.

The crypto industry has been unwittingly hiring North Korean “developers” who are really hackers. But as I found out, an almost incomprehensibly easy question incapacitates them.

Seth Ginns, chief investment officer of Franklin Crypto, used a Bits + Bips appearance to reject EIP-8363 and the premise that institutional buyers have captured Ethereum.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

The proposal would let blockchains serve as the official record of share ownership, rescind one rule, add two new ones, and impose risk-management and cybersecurity duties on the firms that keep the books.

The Chair’s statement from the Asheville meeting commits the group to “clear pathways” for digital asset innovation, but leaves the binding cross-border stablecoin questions to the Financial Stability Board.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

Coinbase just launched fully backed tokenized stocks on Base. Dromos Labs’ Alex Cutler says they’ll chip away at Interactive Brokers “77% profit margin.”

World says the zero-knowledge toolkit behind its World ID checks is now open to outside developers, letting a phone confirm a fact about its owner without handing over the document behind it.

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

Coinkite’s 5.6.1 and 1.5.1Q releases require user-supplied entropy for every new seed, but they do not repair seeds generated on affected firmware.

Trevor Harries-Jones, a director at the Render Network Foundation, lays out how the network is bringing artists and creators onchain, why onchain proof of creation is central to its vision and how AI may accelerate its growth.