Paul S. Atkins leads one of the most consequential financial regulators in Washington, dominating the discourse around crypto and joining his immediate predecessor, Acting Chairman and current Commissioner Mark Uyeda, in dismantling much of former Chair Gary Gensler's work around crypto. This feature is a part of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2025 list. Having been sworn in on April 21 as the 34th chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) following nomination by President Donald J. Trump on ...

Vlad Tenev, CEO and co-founder of Robinhood, has spent the year turning the  trading app into a serious player in the crypto industry. This feature is a part of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2025 list. Once known for commission-free stock trades, the company is now building its own blockchain, offering staking services, and expanding across Europe with tokenized stocks. The biggest move saw Robinhood complete its $200 million acquisition of Bitstamp, one of the longest-running crypto exchanges. The deal b ...

Uniform Labs, a blockchain infrastructure company founded by former Standard Chartered, UniCredit and other digital banking executives, has put its institutional liquidity protocol Multiliquid into production following build, audit and testing phases, the company said in a press release Wednesday. Multiliquid is designed to allow institutions to swap instantly, around the clock, between blue-chip tokenized money market funds and stablecoins, aiming to remove the days-long redemption lags and liquidity con ...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has partnered with Digital Asset Holdings and the Canton Network to enable the tokenization of DTC-custodied U.S. Treasury securities. DTCC said this is its first move toward making DTC-custodied assets available on-chain, as traditional financial institutions continue to explore regulated, scalable blockchain applications. Earlier this month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cleared the way for DTCC to advance its expansion into blockchain-ba ...

JPMorgan Chase has launched a $100 million tokenized money-market fund on Ethereum (ETH), adding fresh Wall Street backing to the world’s second-largest blockchain. Ethereum is trading around $2,926, down -1% in the past 24 hours, with a market cap of $353 billion, while Bitcoin (BTC) changes hands at $86,782 (-0.5% on the day). The move lands just as high-profile strategist Tom Lee reiterates a bold call for ETH to reach $20,000 within a year, sparking a debate over how fast institutional tokenization can ...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the industry-owned clearing and settlement market infrastructure, has selected the privacy-focused Canton Network as a tokenization partner, the companies said on Tuesday. The partnership, which will enable a subset of U.S. Treasury securities custodied at DTC to be minted on the Canton Network, follows DTCC’s recent receipt of a No-Action Letter from the SEC to implement and operate a new service to tokenize real-world, DTC-custodied assets. The organ ...

India’s Parliament heard an unusually crypto-native pitch on Tuesday, as a Member of Parliament urged the government to bring a “Tokenization Bill,” he says, that could turn office towers, highways, and intellectual property into investable slices for India’s middle class. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, MP Raghav Chadha pushed for a tokenization bill that would enable fractional ownership of real estate, infrastructure projects, and other traditionally expensive assets through digital tokens. "J ...

Crypto investment firm and index fund manager Bitwise thinks Bitcoin will hit new all-time highs again in 2026, even after falling into a rut over the last two months. The firm is predicting that the leading crypto asset will buck the trend of previous four-year cycles thanks to the diminishing strength of previous cycle indicators, and burst through to a new high mark above $126,080—its current all-time high set in early October. “Bitcoin has historically moved in a four-year cycle, with three significant ...

纽交所延长交易时间的提议 - 核心观点是市场对纽交所可能将交易时间延长至每日凌晨4点至晚上8点（随后有1小时维护、测试和清算时间）的提议存在显著担忧 该提议被称为“全球交易时段” [1] - 关键问题包括流动性状况、人员配置安排以及交易行为可能进一步“游戏化”的程度 监管机构需要仔细考量这些问题 [1] 市场演变与潜在影响 - 市场正经历一场可能由数字化、去中心化、游戏化和代币化驱动的演变甚至革命 预计到2026年这些趋势将完全成型 [2] - 交易时间无限延长可能引发投资者行为改变 导致交易活动更加频繁 因为市场将几乎没有关闭的时间 [3] - 在流动性可能不足的凌晨时段 可能出现价格剧烈波动 这不仅会增加市场波动性 还可能在此过程中损害投资者利益 [4] 历史背景与行业反应 - 回顾历史 纽约证券交易所成立于1792年 最初每日仅报价两次 1984年时交易时间为上午10点至下午4点 后来延长至上午9点30分开盘也曾引起巨大争议 [1] - 行业批评声音尖锐 例如富国银行交易部门称此提议是“世界上最糟糕的事情” 并认为这将单方面使股市变得比现在更加游戏化 是使交易更像赌博的极致体现 [1]

TIM: THE S&P 500 CLOSING IN ON A RECORD EARLIER THIS MONTH. BITCOIN STRUGGLED TO FIND FOOTING. MERRILL HOLDINGS KNOWS ALL TOO WELL, DOWN 36% THIS YEAR.WITH MORE WE HAD TO PARIS. GOOD TO HAVE YOU ON THE PROGRAM. THE DECLINE IN ASSET PRICE THIS YEAR, $126,000 WAS A MAJOR HIGH EARLIER THIS YEAR, A BIG MOMENT FOR THE CRYPTOCURRENCY.DOWN MORE THAN 30%, HOW MUCH LOWER DOES BITCOIN GO. FRED: BITCOIN AT THIS LEVEL IS FINDING SUPPORT AT THE HUNDRED 84,000 RANGE. JUST ABOUT WHERE THE BREAKEVEN POINT IS ON MOST ETF PU ...