Day one trading volume across all nine products stood at less than $2 million. The rush of excitement that accompanied the launch of nine new Ethereum futures exchange-traded funds (ETFs) appears to have yielded little in the way of investment dollars in comparison. On Oct. 2, nine new ETF products, which are designed to track…

Speaking at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha event, Jenny Johnson discussed how digital assets are disrupting securitization and the financial markets. Securitization, a practice with over 50 years of history, is undergoing a dramatic transformation, believes Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest asset managers. During CNBC’s Delivering Alpha event, Johnson noted that tokenization —…

What are crypto synthetic assets? Blockchain-based financial instruments called crypto synthetic assets imitate the value and behavior of actual assets or financial instruments. Crypto synthetic assets, also known as “synthetic assets,” are a class of digital financial instruments created to mimic the value and performance of actual financial assets or assets from the real world, such as…

The Mixin Network cross-chain protocol accounted for almost two-thirds of the crypto exploit losses in September. September has officially become the worst month in 2023 (so far) for crypto-related exploits — with a whopping $329.8 million in crypto stolen. On Oct. 2, blockchain security firm CertiK said the most significant contributor to the month’s totals…

Centralized finance platforms may offer convenience and liquidity, but their history of catastrophic failures calls for a shift to their decentralized alternatives. Centralized finance (CeFi) services such as crypto exchanges have accelerated the adoption of digital assets and blockchain solutions. Despite this, while retail traders can still use them for convenient crypto transactions and day-to-day…

Understanding leased proof-of-stake LPoS is a type of PoS meant to increase mining power, address inherent issues found in PoW, and improve other types of PoS, such as delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS). Regular cryptocurrency users have probably come across the term proof-of-stake (PoS) when dealing with crypto staking, but what is leased proof-of-stake (LPoS), and is there a…

The Ethereum co-founder proposes a solution that could lower the likelihood of any individual liquidity pool growing to a point where it poses a systemic risk. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has expressed worries regarding decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) exerting a monopoly over the selection of node operators in liquidity staking pools. In a September…

The losses on U.S. Treasurys recently surpassed $1.5 trillion, and the likely outcome is turbulent markets, but how will Bitcoin price fare? The United States economy has been facing turbulent times lately, with the U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) inflation index rising by a significant 3.5% over the past 12 months. Even when excluding the…

Pond0x reported that its DEX reached $100 million in cumulative volume, citing a Dune dashboard as evidence. The Pond0X decentralized exchange (DEX) has reached more than $100 million in total trading volume, according to a Sept. 28 social media post from its official channel. Investors previously lost over $2 million in the launch of the…

A new report indicated Bitcoin ETFs could release $600 billion in new demand — double Bitcoin’s current market cap. Here’s some math behind the estimates. A United States appellate court directed the Securities and Exchange Commission in August to reassess its denial of Grayscale’s application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). A little-noted consequence of that decision…