TradFi

David Chaum’s ecash in the 90s offers insights into balancing priorities in DeFi today

Bitcoin ETF outflows are leveling off, Ethereum’s price action is increasingly sentiment-driven, and TradFi’s role in crypto is expanding

Industry experts predict an institutional embrace of crypto, but warn of “stagnation,” bitcoin dominance and innovation slowdown

Tokenized private equity is the next “greatest” opportunity, BWR analyst Carlos Gonzalez Campo writes

Standard Chartered’s Waqar Chaudry pointed to some initially believing that tokenized money market funds could replace stablecoins

Fundamental investors are turning to token buybacks

The memecoin token frenzy suggests mid-cycle speculation, aligning with 2020-2021 patterns: 21Shares exec

The yield-trading protocol is also moving to offer KYC’d yields to TradFi

Fundamentals are starting to play a big part in crypto, so here are the metrics to watch

Maple’s Sid Powell said that TradFi firms have been in contact with the firm about lending and borrowing in crypto

An EF-backed group focused on institutional adoption wants to be a resource for TradFi

The banking giant’s new permissioned layer-2 points to Ethereum’s growing role in TradFi

Margarita Finance allows users to mix their yield appetite and risk tolerance — just like a cocktail

The company did about 2.5 times the amount of crypto-backed collateral financing in November compared to the rest of 2024, exec says

BlackRock’s Samara Cohen said “a fair amount of plumbing” is needed to unlock the ability for pensions and endowments to gain BTC exposure

A pilot project from Swift, UBS and Chainlink demonstrates how tokenized funds can bridge traditional and crypto rails

T. Rowe Price’s technology ETF invests in companies across the hardware, software, internet and payments segments

Financial institutions are weighing the business case for tokenizing assets and regulatory considerations, Ripple’s James Wallis says

Institutions to test out the settlement of “digital assets and currencies” on a network that annually carries more than 5 billion financial messages

The Web3 community is stacking bricks when it should be building bridges

Plus, solana flipping ether is looking more likely than the popular “ETH flipping bitcoin” narrative

The $360 billion asset manager’s innovation head says firm is prepping for a future in which blockchain tech transforms the investment industry

Crypto advocacy group’s policy counsel notes the “coordinated attempt to choke off the digital asset industry’s access to the traditional banking system”

There’s a misunderstanding that TradFi players don’t want to transact in bitcoin, says Cantor Fitzgerald’s Howard Lutnick