Originally published in American Banker on 26 May 2026 A recent note from the IMF highlights tokenisation as a structural shift in financial architecture; it reconfigures trust, settlement, and risk management to the benefit of investors and issuers, but in their view also risks amplifying financial instability. To counter these risks, the Note emphasizes the
NFT sales have fallen 35.37% to $42.13 million over the past seven days, while trading activity has picked up and Ethereum has returned to first place among blockchains. Summary Weekly NFT sales totaled $42.13 million, despite more participating wallets and a higher transaction count. Buyer addresses rose 44.10% to 216,012, while transactions climbed 30.54% to
Something potentially transformative could be approaching for BNB by January 1, 2027. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI predicts that even as a $6.3Bn Binance hack continues to unravel, its BNB crypto token could be set for a historic Q4. The prediction is based on an intentionally extreme, over-the-top scenario built around a hypothetical landmark catalyst. The
Monad co-founder Keone Hon has urged crypto teams to make security their top priority, sharing operational-security guidance and promoting the foundation’s open-source Ultrafuzz tool as attackers gain access to more capable AI. Summary Hon has encouraged developers to run Ultrafuzz on their contracts and strengthen operational security. Monad’s OpSec guide covers phishing, credential management, employee
The 18,270 BTC haul is worth about $1.4 billion and comes within 442 coins of SpaceX’s disclosed holdings. Blockchain investigators link the attack to North Korea. Source link
Tachyon Group and Shielded Labs have proposed cutting off Zcash Community Grants’ future funding and requiring a 50,000 ZEC treasury donation, while keeping the program open to support new grants. Summary ZCG’s 8% block subsidy allocation would move into a separate development and legal defense lockbox. The committee would retain its remaining treasury and continue
The full analyst Q&A from Strategy’s (MSTR) Q3 2026 earnings call. Phong Le and Michael Saylor take questions from BTIG’s Andrew Harte, Treasury’s Khing Oei, Galaxy’s Alex Thorn, Citi’s Pete Christiansen and Scott Melker on digital credit, Stretch (STRC) returning to par, the other preferreds, Bitcoin’s financialization and tokenization. Chapters:00:00 Strategy’s Balance Sheet vs. the
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have attracted $440.8 million over four consecutive trading sessions through Oct. 29, with BlackRock taking most of the inflows before Friday’s sell-off following Binance’s $6.3 billion hack. Summary BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for $410.6 million of the four-session total, leading other U.S. Bitcoin funds. Thursday’s net inflows slowed to $17.2 million as
Trezor CryptoBilis implant concerns are now driving an early buyer warning. The company says a Safe 5 report looks credible enough to act on. It is telling March 2026-onward buyers to move funds to a new seed before its lab has the device in hand. Hardware wallet maker Trezor spoke on October 30, 2026. Its
A Bitcoin options trader known as Crash has claimed to have turned $250,000 into roughly $3.4 million this week, sharing an account screenshot alongside a separate claim of a 150x return on a BTC put. Summary Crash described the $250,000-to-$3.4 million result as a weekly gain across his trading. A separate options trade allegedly turned
