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Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Oct 10, 2025
Real-world asset tokenization needs compliance frameworks and verified ownership checks built into the infrastructure to prevent fraud and build institutional trust. Opinion by: Vincent Kadar, CEO of Polymath When a company sold tokenized shares in dozens of homes in Detroit that it did not actually own, it was more than a real estate scandal. It served as a warning to the entire real-world asset (RWA) sector. The deal seemed modern, including blockchain tokens, fractional ownership and the promise of rental income. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:00 Oct 10, 2025
Can SWIFT’s blockchain match Ripple’s technological edge? Explore the key challenges it faces and its potential impact on global payments. SWIFT powers most of the world’s bank transfers through its messaging network, while Ripple uses XRP to make cross-border payments faster and cheaper. Beyond payments, XRP is also used for remittances and is being explored for tokenized loyalty and DeFi applications, with institutions like SBI Holdings testing integrations. SWIFT is developing a blockchain-based ledger for real-time payments, interoperable with major networks and supporting tokenized assets. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:28 Oct 10, 2025
Changpeng Zhao’s warning highlights a resurgence of threats from state-backed hacking groups, such as the North Korean Lazarus Group. Hackers attempted to infiltrate the account of Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, signaling potential attacks from state-backed hacker groups, such as the North Korean Lazarus Group. “Government-backed attackers” were attempting to steal Zhao’s Google password, according to a Google warning shared by CZ, who suggested that it may be another attempt by North Korea’s Lazarus Group. “I get this warning from Google once in a while. Does anyone know what this is? North Korea Lazarus? Not that I have anything important on my account,” said Zhao in a Friday X post. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:27 Oct 10, 2025
Bitcoin’s drop to $118,000 is a possibility, but traders might see futures’ open interest drop by $4.1 billion as a potential dip-buying opportunity. Key takeaways: BTC price may drop to the $118,000-$120,000 range before resuming its uptrend, analysts say. Bitcoin futures open interest fell by $4.1 billion from its peak, potentially indicating a “healthy” reset. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:56 Oct 10, 2025
Gold has hit its highest share of central bank reserves in decades, potentially shaping Bitcoin’s path as a future reserve asset, according to Deutsche Bank. Global central banks have been increasing their gold reserves over the past few years in a trend that may have major implications for Bitcoin, according to a recent report from Deutsche Bank. Gold’s share of central bank reserves reached 24% in the second quarter of the year, its highest share since the 1990s, Deutsche Bank strategists reported Thursday. With official demand for gold running at twice the pace of the 2011–2021 average, some Deutsche Bank analysts see growing parallels between gold and Bitcoin (BTC), which has seen a record-breaking performance in 2025. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:36 Oct 10, 2025
A new integration allows South Africans to spend Bitcoin, stablecoins and other crypto directly at more than 650,000 merchants nationwide. South Africans can now pay with cryptocurrency at thousands of retail stores nationwide, following a new partnership between QR payments provider Scan to Pay and Bitcoin payments company MoneyBadger. According to a Tech Central report, the integration allows users of major exchanges, including Binance, Luno, Blink and VALR, to pay using Bitcoin (BTC), stablecoins and other crypto assets at over 650,000 Scan to Pay-enabled merchants. Crypto holders can pay for their purchases through QR codes at checkout counters, while the merchants will receive their settlements in rand. The system works through the MoneyBadger platform, linking payments to users’ exchanges or Bitcoin Lightning accounts. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:31 Oct 10, 2025
In one of their first moves in two months, the Bitcoin whale returned to short Bitcoin and Ether for hundreds of millions of dollars, betting on their short-term price decline. A large cryptocurrency investor who surfaced two months ago with about $11 billion worth of Bitcoin has opened almost $900 million in short positions against Bitcoin and Ether, signaling expectations of a market correction despite widespread optimism for October. The whale returned to trading on Thursday with a $360 million Bitcoin (BTC) transfer that piqued the interest of cryptocurrency investors, Cointelegraph reported. On Friday, the whale opened a $600 million 8x leveraged short position on Bitcoin and a leveraged short worth over $300 million on Ether (ETH), according to blockchain data platform Onchain Lens. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:00 Oct 10, 2025
Discover how Bitcoin mining runs in 2025: From halving rewards and ASIC rigs to mining pools, hashprice shifts and power use. Bitcoin mining is the process that keeps the BTC network secure and operational. Bitcoin (BTC) miners collect pending transactions, bundle them into blocks and repeatedly perform hashing attempts (trial and error) until they produce a hash that meets the network’s difficulty target. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:02 Oct 10, 2025
Democratic senators have been criticized for pitching a counter-proposal to the market structure bill that could effectively “kill DeFi.” Despite previously supporting a crypto market structure bill, several Democratic US senators have reportedly introduced a counter-proposal that could see decentralized finance protocols placed on a “restricted list” if deemed too risky. This move, among others they proposed, could “kill DeFi” or move it offshore from the US, according to critics. The Senate Banking Committee Democrats sent a proposal to the committee’s Republicans on Thursday seeking to impose Know Your Customer rules on the frontends of crypto apps — including non-custodial wallets — and to strip protections from crypto developers, Punchbowl News reported on Thursday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 Oct 09, 2025
Alibaba founder’s company backs another Ethereum-based project, South Korean whales account for 91% of the market: Asia Express. Anthea Holding Limited, a Bermuda-based crypto insurance firm, has raised $22 million in Series A financing led by Yunfeng Financial Group, a Hong Kong-listed fintech company co-founded by Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Anthea said the new capital will fund the launch of its first Ethereum-based life insurance product, alongside expansion into the Asian market. The investment comes just over a month after Yunfeng Financial purchased 10,000 ETH (about $44 million), which serves as a strategic reserve for real-world asset tokenization and DeFi-linked insurance applications. Read more
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