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Digital Asset, the blockchain firm behind the Canton Network (CC), said Thursday that it has secured strategic investments from four major traditional financial players, as Wall Street’s crypto embrace continues.The investors in this round were BNY, a financial services firm overseeing $57 trillion in client assets, exchange operator Nasdaq, financial intelligence firm S&P Global and iCapital, a fintech firm backed by BlackRock, Blackstone and JP Morgan. The company did not disclose the size of the investment in the press release.The investment underscores the growing support of legacy financial firms for blockchain infrastructure built specifically for regulated markets. The Canton Network…

The year is 2075. The judge does not ask for a deed. She asks for a transaction ID.The landlord’s lawyer queues up a Bitcoin transaction from fifteen years earlier that moved a token representing the property.The tenant’s lawyer concedes the transaction exists, yet claims the signature was obtained under duress.Everyone in the courtroom accepts what the chain records, but no one agrees on what the record means.That scene captures a question that is moving from thought experiment to institutional design problem: at what point does a monetary network stop being treated mainly as money and start functioning as a default…

Bitcoin consulting has evolved into a specialized field as more people acquire bitcoin and choose to take control of their digital wealth rather than relying on others to store it for them.  Read on to discover seven market-leading Bitcoin consulting companies you can consider contacting so that you get step-by-step guidance on how to secure your bitcoin. The Top Bitcoin Consulting Companies The following are the seven best Bitcoin consultants we’ve analyzed based on the services they offer, their target clients, and their strengths.  The Bitcoin Way The Bitcoin Way is a Bitcoin consultancy that helps people build confidence in…

Whales bought 4.73M LINK in 48 hours as the price rebounds and ETF inflows grow. Analysts eye $16 short-term, $100+ in the long run. Chainlink (LINK) has seen a sharp rise in whale accumulation over the past two days. This increase in whale buying, paired with improving technical conditions and a new ETF listing, has shifted short-term sentiment around the asset. Large Holders Accumulate as Price Recovers Over a 48-hour window, wallets holding between 100,000 and 1 million LINK picked up roughly 4.73 million tokens, according to on-chain data shared by analyst Ali Martinez. The total balance of these wallets…

Hua Xia Bank, a publicly traded financial institution linked to China’s government, issued 4.5 billion yuan ($600 million) in tokenized bonds on Wednesday, aiming to reduce clearing friction by removing intermediaries from the auction process.According to Sina, the onchain government bonds were issued by Hua Xia Financial Leasing, a subsidiary of Hua Xia Bank, a state-controlled commercial bank in China. The bonds offered a three-year fixed yield of 1.84% to holders.The $600 million bond tranche was auctioned off exclusively to holders of China’s digital renminbi, also known as the digital yuan. Overview of tokenized government securities market, excluding US government…

The crypto market may have added $160Bn onto its market cap overnight as Bitcoin surged back above $92,000. However, trouble is on the horizon for Celestia (TIA) as a key protocol built on its network was shuttered following an $18M raise back in 2024. TIA price predictions are leaning bearish following the news, even though the token has surged by +10% over the past 24 hours. Astria launched in 2023 after raising $5.5M in a seed round led by Maven 11, followed by a $12.5M strategic fundraise in 2024 led by DBA and Placeholder VC. The shutdown of the Astria…

North Korean operatives were caught on camera, live, after security researchers lured them into a booby-trapped “developer laptop,” capturing how the Lazarus-linked crew tried to blend into a US crypto job pipeline using legitimate AI hiring tools and cloud services.The evolution in state-sponsored cybercrime was reportedly captured in real time by researchers at BCA LTD, NorthScan, and the malware-analysis platform ANY.RUN.Catching the North Korean attackerHacker News shared how, in a coordinated sting operation, the team deployed a “honeypot,” which is a surveillance environment disguised as a legitimate developer’s laptop, to bait the Lazarus Group.The resulting footage offers the industry its…

Ethereum underwent its second major upgrade of the year on Wednesday.The upgrade, Fusaka, further reduces the cost of transactions on layer 2 blockchains.A minor upgrade will follow on December 9.Ethereum underwent its second major upgrade of the year on Wednesday, further reducing the cost of transactions on affiliated layer 2 blockchains while improving user experience and hardening the network against a common exploit. The upgrade, codenamed Fusaka, also sets the stage for future upgrades that could increase the throughput of Ethereum itself. Since the Merge, the network’s momentous 2022 upgrade, improvements have come at an annual clip. But a crisis…

Bitcoin’s recent rebound came as traders raised the probability of a December Federal Reserve rate cut, the dollar eased, and attention turned to who will lead the central bank after Jerome Powell’s term ends in 2026. Futures markets moved the odds of a 25-basis-point cut this month into the mid-to-high 80% range, a shift that loosened financial conditions and coincided with a ninth straight daily decline in the dollar.The move helped pull BTC out of the $84,000–$87,000 range back toward $93,000 after a volatile November that saw leveraged crypto products and proxy equities whipsawed.Spot levels hovered near $92,300 in mid-week…

Coinbase Institutional has painted a brighter picture for digital asset markets going forward than we’ve seen in recent weeks. “With quantitative tightening [QT] ending, the Fed is back in the bond market, and the drain of cash from markets may be behind us,” Coinbase Institutional stated on Wednesday before adding, “That’s usually good for risk-on assets like crypto.” The findings came in the company’s monthly outlook report, which took a deep dive into why Bitcoin and crypto markets performed so poorly last month. Bitcoin has severely underperformed US equities on a risk-adjusted basis, falling over three standard deviations below its…