How SBI Built Japan's Largest Crypto Business
SBI Holdings is a Tokyo-listed financial conglomerate that has spent 10 years turning itself into one of Japan's largest regulated crypto operators. Its exchange passed 2 million registered a
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SBI Holdings is a Tokyo-listed financial conglomerate that has spent 10 years turning itself into one of Japan's largest regulated crypto operators. Its exchange passed 2 million registered a
Real-world asset infrastructure provider REAL has become a member of Blockchain for Europe (BC4EU), the Brussels industry body that works with EU policymakers and academics on regulatory fram
Binance, Bybit, OKX, Coinbase, and Kraken are crypto's top five centralized exchanges as of mid-July 2026, ranked by 24-hour trading volume after filtering for trust scores, regulatory standi
Prediction markets within the cryptocurrency ecosystem enable participants to wager on the results of various events, from political elections to sports matches, by leveraging blockchain tech
Grayscale (@Grayscale) has named the five blockchains it believes are best positioned to capture the growth of tokenized equities: Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Avalanche (@avax), and Canton N
XRP settles transactions in three to five seconds, while Bitcoin usually takes about ten minutes to confirm one. The gap comes down to one design choice: XRP does not use mining. Its ledger r
Chainlink verifies tokenized gold through a system called Proof of Reserve, which pulls data from a token issuer's off-chain gold vaults and publishes it on the blockchain so anyone can check

Crypto companies already licensed under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) could still exit the market as compliance costs mount, according to Gate Europe’s CEO.

Brazil’s securities regulator just put a clock on tokenization. The Comissão de Valores Mobiliários wants a blueprint for how securities can be issued, traded, and settled on blockchains, and
The GENIUS Act, short for the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, is the first standalone federal law regulating payment stablecoins in the United States. P

June answered a question builders have been asking for a while: what happens when an application stops and users need to recover their funds? Emergency withdrawals are now live and being test

Bitcoin ETF inflows are back in the spotlight after U.S. funds recorded their longest buying streak in months. The renewed demand points to improving institutional interest, but it comes at a