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In brief Twenty One Capital is set to become the third-largest Bitcoin treasury company after merging with Cantor Equity Partners and receiving major Bitcoin contributions from Tether and Bitfinex. CME Group will launch XRP futures on May 19, entering a $3.9 billion market where Coinbase and Kraken are already active. Upexi shares soared 335% after announcing a $100 million raise to build a Solana treasury, adopting a long-only strategy focused on SOL. Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. This week: Twenty One Capital makes a huge Bitcoin operating company splash,…

New data from RWA.xyz, a platform tracking tokenized real-world assets, shows that six entities are responsible for 88% of all tokenized US Treasurys. The data suggests a concentration among a few funds as the market continues to develop.The largest issuer of tokenized treasures continues to be BlackRock. The company’s tokenized US treasury fund, called BUIDL, has a market capitalization of $2.5 billion, 360% higher than its nearest competitor. BlackRock disclosed a total of $11.6 trillion in assets under management in the first quarter of 2025. Rounding out the top six are Franklin Templeton’s BENJI, with a market capitalization of $707…

Bitwise Asset Management has made its decentralized finance (DeFi) debut via an allocation with Maple Finance. The firm’s decision to wade into DeFi will grant it access to on-chain credit markets with regulatory compliance at the heart of the partnership. Bitwise Makes First DeFi Allocation Through Maple Finance Maple Finance has announced a partnership with Bitwise that will see the asset management firm access on-chain credit. According to a press release, Bitwise entered the DeFi space via an institutional allocation with Maple Finance in a pioneering move for the crypto index fund manager. The partnership will see Bitwise lean on…

This is a segment from The Drop newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. The period drama television series Peaky Blinders has been licensed for a blockchain game, Banijay Entertainment and crypto startup Anonymous Labs announced on Thursday. The game will have an in-game cryptocurrency and a mix of “interactive experiences” and action sequences, according to a blog post.  The game will be set in the post-World War I era in Birmingham, England, like the show. The show follows the gang known as the Peaky Blinders and stars Irish actor Cillian Murphy. It aired from 2013 until 2022 on BBC networks…

Paul Atkins’ first public event as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was a crypto roundtable on Friday, where the new agency chief devoted his inaugural speech to assuring the industry that he’ll continue to remake securities policy to favor digital assets innovation.The agency and industry have been awaiting congressional action to establish crypto market-structure oversight that will likely set guardrails, and Atkins told an audience at the SEC’s Washington headquarters that the regulator will work toward delivering “a rational, fit-for-purpose framework” for crypto.However, in answer to a question from CoinDesk after his speech, Atkins indicated that the…

Cryptocurrency firms and centralized exchanges are launching more traditional investment offerings, bridging the divide between traditional financial and digital assets.With investors seeking more flexible product offerings under one platform, the “line is blurring” between traditional finance (TradFi) and the cryptocurrency space, as the two financial paradigms signal a “growing synergy,” according to Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, the world’s sixth-largest crypto exchange.In the wider crypto space, Securitize partnered with Mantle protocol to launch an institutional fund that will generate yield on a basket of diverse cryptocurrencies, similar to how traditional index funds track a mix of stocks.The developments come after…

Global bank Citi has predicted 2025 could be a possible inflection point for blockchain adoption driven by stablecoins, akin to the breakout year artificial intelligence (AI) had with popular application ChatGPT.”2025 has the potential to be blockchain’s ‘ChatGPT’ moment,” the bank’s analysts said in a report published earlier this week.At the center of the Citi’s projection are stablecoins, a class of cryptocurrencies pegged to traditional currencies like the U.S. dollar. These tokens, led by Tether’s $145 billion USDT and Circle’s $60 billion USDC, have seen tremendous growth recently and are increasingly being used for payments and remittances globally.Citi sees the…

More than 19,800 CloneX digital avatars developed by non-fungible token firm RTFKT Studios have reappeared after Cloudflare blacked out the NFTs for apparently violating its terms of service.“This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare’s basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service. Please visit cfl.re/tos to learn more,” the message read on April 24.RTFKT’s head of tech, Samuel Cardillo, has refuted claims that it missed a payment, attributing the issue to changes happening with RTFKT’s “current Cloudflare setup.”NFT content creator Wale Swoosh earlier speculated that RTFKT may have subscribed to an inadequate Cloudflare plan for…

This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. While dozens of public companies currently hold bitcoin on their balance sheets, a world where thousands — yes, thousands — more follow suit is inevitable. At least according to panelists at Bitwise’s Bitcoin Standard Corporations Investor Day.    “To everyone wearing an orange tie…It’s good to be on the team with you,” Strategy founder Michael Saylor told the Thursday event crowd. He then wanted the Pier 59 window shades lowered to prevent light from obfuscating his PowerPoint presentation. As if the bitcoin Gods heard him, they started…

The Solana-based NFT marketplace, Tensor, managed by the Tensor Foundation, is gearing up to launch a governance token named TNSR. The announcement was made public by the foundation of this through a post on a social media platform with generated curiosity among the communities of cryptocurrency and NFT. The shift is in line with the trend of decentralized governance in the digital asset space, where users and stakeholders have more power and influence over the direction of the platform. Growth in Trading Volume The announcement from Tensor is a result of remarkable trading activity on its platform. The foundation has…