Cryptocurrencies supporting the real-world asset tokenization space pumped 11% this week as the total value of tokenized RWAs hit a new record high
Over the past seven days, the RWA token market cap has surged from around $67 billion to an all-time high of just below $76 billion on Friday,

Metaverse-related non-fungible token sales rose 27% in August from the month prior, suggesting people could be “slowly sneaking back into virtual worlds,” according to an analyst from DappRadar
There was $6.5 million in metaverse trading volume across August, down slightly from July but coming fro

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Former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, serving a 25-year sentence after his conviction on seven felony counts, will take the next step in his appeals process with a hearing scheduled for November.
According to a Wednesday notice in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Bankman-Fried’s ap

Bitcoin Foundation co-founder and former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem is auctioning off items connected to his guilty plea over charges involving the darknet marketplace Silk Road.
In a Thursday notice, a spokesperson for Shrem said he would be opening up 12 items related to his time in prison and

Ethena, the team behind the USDe synthetic dollar protocol, has withdrawn its bid to issue Hyperliquid’s USDH stablecoin, conceding to concerns raised in direct discussions with community members and validators
In a X statement Thursday, the Ethena team acknowledged pushback over not being a Hyper

Crypto often makes mainstream headlines for the wrong reasons, but beneath the surface lies a story of innovation, resilience and a community working to build a safer financial future.
This week’s episode of the Clear Crypto Podcast, brought to you by StarkWare and Cointelegraph, takes a hard

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Bitcoin (BTC) price action has painted two inverse head-and-shoulders patterns on the weekly time frame,

Zodia Custody, the digital asset custody firm backed by Standard Chartered, has dissolved its joint venture with Japan’s SBI Holdings two years after launching the initiative.
The venture, known as SBI Zodia Custody, was 51% owned by SBI and 49% by Zodia Custody. According to its website, the

Sui-based yield trading protocol Nemo lost about $2.59 million due to a known vulnerability introduced by non-audited code being deployed, according to the project.
According to Nemo’s post-mortem analysis of the Sept. 7 hack, a flaw in a function intended to reduce slippage allowed the attacker to

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Latin America’s developer community is increasingly focused on building within established blockchain ecosystems like Ethereum and Polygon rather than launching new base-layer protocols, according to a report by consultancy firm Sherlock Communications.
The study, which included qualitative