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A significant increase in housing costs makes home ownership unattainable for many Gen Z individuals, leading to financial nihilism, said CoinFund's David Pakman.

As the crypto market hemorrhages value, scrutiny has increased on the impact of President Trump’s crypto dealings on investor confidence.

Executives from both firms say the next phase of tokenization must prioritize functionality and compliance during a panel at Consensus in Hong Kong.

BlackRock is bringing its $2.1 billion tokenized Treasury fund to Uniswap, expanding institutional access to DeFi and deepening Wall Street’s push into onchain finance. Asset management giant BlackRock is making its first formal move into decentralized finance by bringing its tokenized US Treasury fund to Uniswap, marking a milestone moment for institutional adoption of DeFi. According to a Wednesday announcement, BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) will be listed on the Uniswap decentralized exchange, allowing institutional investors to buy and sell the tokenized security.  As part of the arrangement, BlackRock is also purchasing an undisclosed amount of Uniswap’s native governance token, UNI, the announcement said. Read more

The Ripple XRP price could explode soon after today’s announcement of a first-of-its-kind partnership with UK-based global asset manager Aviva Investors, bringing tokenized assets to traditional fund structures.The news comes on the back of heightened institutional activity around the tokenization of real-world assets. US online brokerage Robinhood revealed yesterday on its Q4 2025 earnings call […] The post XRP Price Could Explode After Tokenization Deal With Fund Manager appeared first on Cryptonews.

The U.S. agency's chairman said in a House hearing that he's open to a confidential briefing for lawmakers on the topic.

After bitcoin fell below its estimated production cost, the bank said stronger fundamentals and rising institutional inflows could lift crypto in 2026.

Crypto firm BlockFills said it has temporarily halted deposits and withdrawals on its platform amid falling crypto prices and volatility.

With capital tightening, investors are backing “what’s working,” like stablecoins and tokenization, while selectively betting on AI and prediction markets.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Haider Rafique of OKX shares a firm study on the generational perspectives of crypto investing. Then, Sky defies 2026 downturn in Chart of the Week.

The pilot programs explore wholesale settlement between institutions and real-world use cases, along with stablecoin development and tokenized bank deposits. Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the country’s central bank, said on Wednesday that its Digital Asset Innovation Hub (DAIH) is piloting three regulatory sandbox programs to research and develop stablecoins and tokenized bank deposits. BNM’s initiatives center on using ringgit stablecoins, the fiat currency of Malaysia, for cross-border settlement and developing tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), according to the announcement. The pilot also aims to test tokenized bank deposits, with all research potentially applicable to the development of a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC), onchain fiat currency issued and managed directly by a central bank. Read more

Uniswap’s governance token jumped after the decentralized exchange’s creators announced an integration with BlackRock's tokenized fund.

It's shades of 2022, when any number of crypto platforms were forced to suspend withdrawals as prices crumbled.

Bitcoin price could still reach $150,000 by year-end, but several things must happen for BTC price to find its technical footing and spark a new bull run. Bitcoin (BTC) may recover from its ongoing slump and reach $150,000 by the year’s end, according to a recent Bernstein outlook. Key takeaways: Bitcoin must hold the 200-week SMA and see new-investor flows turn positive. Read more

Also: Citadel Securities backs LayerZero chain, MegaETH mainnet debut and ENS scraps L2 plans

Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz believes crypto's speculative era is ending, replaced by real-world asset tokenization with lower returns.

"The human brain is better at taking the imaginative leap to understand the unknown ... We should enjoy it for a couple more years."

At 8:30 a.m. Eastern, the U.S. labor market handed traders a breaking story with two timelines, one for today, one for last year. Nonfarm payrolls grew by 130,000 in January, unemployment held at 4.3%, and wages kept climbing. The details came straight from the BLS, the monthly snapshot that tells markets how hiring and paychecks […] The post Bitcoin price is sliding today because the government admitted nearly 1 million jobs from last year never existed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

With so many other asset markets in rally mode, investors for the moment appear to have moved on from crypto.

Infrastructure providers, including Chainlink, Alchemy, and LayerZero, are already integrating with Robinhood Chain's newly launched testnet.