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Boerse Stuttgart Digital completes Tradias merger, forms 300‑person institutional crypto unit Boerse Stuttgart Digital and institutional trading firm Tradias have closed their merger after clearing a regulatory ownership control review, creating a unified digital-asset business with roughly 300 emp

Headline: New MiCA CASP Tracker turns ESMA’s crypto authorisations into a searchable EU licence directory The MiCA Crypto Alliance on Aug. 5 launched the MiCA CASP Tracker, a searchable directory that converts ESMA’s public authorisation data into an easy-to-use tool for crypto users, businesses an

Real-world assets (RWAs) have long been heralded as the bridge between traditional finance and DeFi, promising institutional-grade yield with onchain composability. Yet, despite billions in tokenised treasuries and credit already live, true large-scale adoption in decentralized finance remains elusi

Abandoning a token is one thing. Telling holders to sell it themselves is something else entirely. Shaw Walters, the founder of Eliza OS, did exactly that this week. The project’s token is dead, the foundation behind it is winding down, and Walters says he no longer holds or supports any tokens. The

What to KnowBullish divergence between XRP price and RSI suggests weakening selling momentum before broader trend confirmation through resistance breakouts.Key resistance zones at $1.30-$1.60, $1.96 and $3.00-$3.60 must break before analysts consider Wave Three technically confirmed for XRP bulls.El

Huo Xing Finance reports that on August 5, according to BIT (bit.com) market data, the U.S. optical communications sector continued its upward momentum from yesterday: - Pure Photonics ETF FOTO rose 2.2%; - Corning (GLW) increased 0.52%; - Marvell Technology (MRVL) gained 0.5%; - AAOI (Appli

Huo Xing Finance reports that on August 5, according to BIT (bit.com) market data, the U.S. storage sector rose after opening, as leading storage companies SanDisk and Western Digital are set to release their fourth-quarter earnings after Wednesday’s close. Among them: Seagate Technology (STX) rose

BlackRock is preparing a one-for-three reverse split of its iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA), a structural change that will lift ETHA’s share price and could reduce its effective trading spread without changing the value of investors’ holdings.ETHA’s sponsor approved the reverse split on July 31, a

Bitcoin might be setting up one of the biggest liquidation cascades of this cycle.From a technical lens, BTC has chopped around $60k for over two months, while extreme positive Funding Rates show that traders continue to pile into long positions. The question now is whether this positioning reflects

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 (NASDAQ/Toronto Stock Exchange ticker: HUT) announced its second-quarter 2026 financial results. The company stated that significant progress has been made in its “power-first” strategy centered on energy infrastructure, digital infrastructur

Hashdex is shutting down its Bitcoin ETF. It is the first US spot Bitcoin ETF to announce a closure. In its last full quarter, the fund earned $6,453 in fees.Shares trade on NYSE Arca until August 17. Investors who hold on get paid in cash around August 28.SponsoredSponsoredWhy the First Spot Bitcoi

Circle is finally taking its stablecoin empire vertical. The company behind USDC announced that Arc, its purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain, will launch its public mainnet on September 16, bringing with it a validator set that reads like a who’s who of traditional finance.Fireblocks, BlackRock, DTCC,

TL;DRA proposal submitted by six Ethereum researchers suggests progressively burning validator rewards as staked ETH grows.The mechanism would bring net issuance to zero when staking reaches around 60.25 million ETH, equivalent to roughly half of the total supply.The proposal arrived days before the

Odaily Planet Daily reports: On Wednesday morning, SpaceX bond spreads widened. The company’s doubling of AI-related capital expenditures overshadowed the positive impact of better-than-expected quarterly earnings. The spread on SpaceX’s 6.60% coupon bonds maturing in 2046 widened by 8 basis points

China’s Ministry of Commerce just fired another shot in the world’s most consequential trade dispute. On August 5, Beijing announced sanctions against seven US entities and imposed stricter export controls on drones and dual-use technologies headed to America, a direct response to Washington’s recen