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The real-world asset tokenization (RWA) is expanding rapidly, with the total value across the sector now amounting to the quite astonishing figure of 22 billion dollars. Leading this charge, quite commanding in fact, is Securitize, a tokenization platform with now more than 3.5 billion dollars in tokenized real-world assets. That 3.5 billion, by the way, apparently represents a 31 percent market...
The stablecoin market is in one of its most thunderous growth phases, with the combined market capitalization of the sector reaching a new milestone—one that is now well over $230 billion. This figure is largely being pushed by the sector’s two heavyweight champions, Tether (USDT) and the politically-linked USD1, which has enjoyed a surprising, meteoric rise to stablecoin prominence. With its...
The Aptos blockchain has experienced terrific growth lately across the metrics that matter most, moving strongly in the direction of application adoption and ecosystem activity. For the most part, this has translated into a huge upswing in application-generated revenue. Over the past five months, our best estimate is that this workstream has ramped up over 30x to now generate revenues of around...
Collectively, by April 2025, governments across the world held 463,741 Bitcoin—about 2.3% of the total in circulation. This is a striking decrease from the 529,591 BTC held in July 2024, and represents a decidedly international and state-level trend in the management of cryptocurrency reserves. From 2024 to 2025, the number of BTC held by global governments fell by 65,850 coins; from 2023 to 2024...