For decades, wholesale dollar settlement has meant waiting for Fedwire to open, and JPMorgan just stopped waiting. The bank converted its permissioned “JPM Coin” system into JPMD, a deposit token backed by insured balances at JPMorgan, and placed it on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 (L2) Base.
Coinbase’s new token pre-reserve platform reopens US retail participation in public token sales for the first time since regulators shut down the ICO boom in 2018. The mechanism looks familiar, with curated projects, fixed sale windows, and algorithmic allocation.
Bitcoin set an all-time high near $126,000 in early October while the altcoin market (excluding stablecoins), measured by TradingView’s TOTAL2ES index, remains below its November 2021 top, around $1.
NFT-related tokens delivered the strongest sector performance in the second quarter, gaining an average of 55. 4% even as dollar-denominated NFT trading volume fell to multi-year lows. Artemis data shows that the average gains from NFT-related tokens surpassed the second-best performance, which was Ethereum’s (ETH) 37.
Bitcoin (BTC) registered a new all-time high of $118,287. 46 on July 11 and is up 3. 3% in the past 24 hours, but major altcoins are leading the gains during the same period. Ethereum (ETH) breached the $3,000 threshold for the first time since Feb.
The average stablecoin liquidity per token declined from $1.8 million in 2021 to just $5,500 in March 2025, a 99.7% drop, forcing protocols to demonstrate sound reasons for investors to hold. According to a recent report by research firm Decentralised, the drop illustrates how rising token issuance, now surpassing 40 million assets, has diluted available […]
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Canary Capital has filed an S-1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) that provides exposure to the PENGU token and the Pudgy Penguins non-fungible token (NFT) collection.