Nike’s NFT Shutdown Sparks $5M Securities Lawsuit

Nike’s moon-shot into digital couture is now a legal meteor shower. On Friday, a group of collectors led by Australian investor Jagdeep Cheema filed a class-action complaint in Brooklyn federal court, alleging the sportswear titan vaporized the value of their RTFKT non-fungible tokens when it shuttered the studio in December 2024. They’re demanding upward of […]

Tokenized Real Estate Could Top $4 Trillion

Deloitte’s Center for Financial Services has done the math, and the numbers are staggering: by 2035, more than $4 trillion worth of global real estate could be represented on public or permissioned blockchains—up from under $300 billion today. That projection, delivered in a new report on April 24, implies a compound annual growth rate north […]

Nasdaq Firm Bets Big on Solana Treasury

DeFi Development Corp, the company Wall Street once knew as Janover, has officially pivoted from commercial-property matchmaking to crypto-native capital deployment. A freshly filed S-3 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission outlines an ambition to raise more than $1 billion—and funnel a meaningful chunk of those proceeds straight into Solana (SOL). The plan is […]

Citi Sees Stablecoins Hitting $3.7 Tn

Citigroup’s blue-chip research arm, the Citi Institute, has published one of the boldest outlooks yet for the fast-maturing stablecoin sector. In a 62-page report titled “Digital Dollars,” analysts model three scenarios for tokenized cash by 2030: a bearish $0.5 trillion market, a baseline $1.5 trillion landscape—and a turbo-charged $3.7 trillion if regulation and adoption align […]

PayPal Offers 3.7% on PYUSD

PayPal is about to turn its dollar-backed stablecoin into a savings vehicle. Beginning this summer, U.S. users on PayPal and Venmo will earn up to 3.7% annual reward simply for holding PYUSD in their balances, the payments giant announced on Tuesday. From payments rail to yield engine PYUSD, launched last August, was pitched as a […]

Sovereign Wealth Funds Quietly Stack Bitcoin

When Bitcoin’s price action stalled below $80,000 this spring, on-chain data showed retail wallets tapping out—yet Coinbase’s head of strategy John D’Agostino spotted a very different cohort stepping in. Speaking on CNBC, the former NYMEX director said sovereign wealth funds are now among the most active buyers of BTC, accumulating while mom-and-pop investors rotate into […]

El Salvador Taps Nvidia for Sovereign AI

Only three years after putting Bitcoin on par with the U.S. dollar, El Salvador is ready to leapfrog again—this time into the realm of sovereign artificial intelligence. Over the weekend, President Nayib Bukele’s National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) revealed a letter of intent with U.S. chip titan Nvidia, pledging to equip the volcanic nation with cutting‑edge AI hardware, […]

Coinbase Adds Solana Token Recovery Tool

For years, a single mis‑click could banish crypto to limbo: send an unsupported token to a Coinbase address and your funds were functionally irretrievable. In late 2022 the exchange softened that blow with an Ethereum‑based recovery portal, later extending it to BNB Chain and Polygon. Now the safety net stretches further. Coinbase revealed on April 21 that […]