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Top 5 Crypto Stories This Week: From Bitcoin $50K to Ether Rock $600K
Blockhead presents our favorite stories this week, Bitcoin's return to $50K, Ether Rock's potential $600K sale, Coinbase's return to profit, Crypto.com's Hong Kong license application, and Franklin Templeton's ETH ETF race
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Wall Street Calls Tokenization Strategic – Its Own Survey Says Equities Are the Exception
A new Broadridge poll of 200 financial services executives finds near-unanimous conviction on tokenization broadly, but muted enthusiasm for stocks specifically, even as onchain data shows tokenized equity transfers up more than 170-fold in a year.
What's in Store for Cryptos in Q3
Three straight quarters of losses, collapsing volumes, and ETF outflows have stripped crypto down to one question: can rates and flows stabilize the market in Q3?
Cryptos See Risk After Oil Races Above $90
Brent’s war premium is back above $90, but Bitcoin isn’t flinching – tracking macro liquidity and rate expectations instead of missiles, exposing a growing gap between oil’s geopolitical sensitivity and crypto’s monetary tether.
Base's Blocked Buidling
A three-year build that circles back to square one: Base remains fully centralized despite repeated decentralization pledges, raising harder questions about whether Coinbase is operating a dressed-up money transmission system—and how long regulators will tolerate it.
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Mirae Asset Rebrands Korbit as 'Digital X,' Unveils 'Mirae Asset 3.0' Vision
Chairman Park Hyeon-joo framed the newly acquired exchange as the foundation for a broader tokenization and stablecoin platform, not a standalone trading venue, days after Mirae Asset pushed its stake in the exchange to 97%.
Kraken Parent Payward Partners With GTN to Take xStocks Tokenized Stocks Global
The expansion starts with Hong Kong-listed equities and will extend to the UK, Europe and South Korea, using GTN's 90-market brokerage infrastructure to move xStocks beyond its US-stocks-only starting point.
New CLARITY Act Draft Adds Sunset Ethics Ban on Trump's Crypto Ties, But Democrats Aren't Sold
The near-final text, circulated to industry groups before Senate Democrats saw it, would have the Justice Department enforce a conflict-of-interest rule that expires in 2029, a structure one Democratic co-sponsor already calls unserious.
Wall Street Calls Tokenization Strategic – Its Own Survey Says Equities Are the Exception
A new Broadridge poll of 200 financial services executives finds near-unanimous conviction on tokenization broadly, but muted enthusiasm for stocks specifically, even as onchain data shows tokenized equity transfers up more than 170-fold in a year.