Digital Asset Management News

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan called it the “weekend that changed finance” as investors clambered onto Hyperliquid to trade the Israel-Iran conflict.

The Swiss crypto bank will handle strategic asset allocation for corporate crypto treasuries and is already actively managing $200 million in volume at launch.

Tokenized gold without origin verification launders illicit mining. Blockchain must prove provenance from mine to token, not just vault reserves.

The mounting unrealized losses of Bitmine shareholders and Ether’s 60% decline are signaling a critical inflection point that may define Ether’s medium-term momentum, analysts said.

Most quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin sits in wallets holding under 100 Bitcoin, with CoinShares claiming it could take a millennium to compromise each one.

Trend Research has been reducing its Ether exposure, as ETH price closed in on some of the investment company's critical liquidation levels below $1,700.

Corporate BTC hoarding generates zero yield, while regulated DeFi infrastructure enables productive treasury deployment. Passive holdings become capital liability.

Tokenized assets remain trapped in batch settlements. Composability closes the gap between the speed of digital money and the lag in investment infrastructure.

The firm addressed speculation that a multibillion-dollar client trade was motivated by concerns over Bitcoin’s resistance to future quantum computing advances.

The crypto company reported significant net losses to its balance sheet in 2025 due in part to “lower digital asset prices and approximately $160 million of one-time costs.“

Permissioned blockchains and centralized layer 2s rebuild intermediaries for tokenized assets. Based rollups inherit Ethereum security while enabling compliance.

Ether treasury firms are pressured by the crypto market downturn, as Trend Research was forced to sell $77 million in Ether at a loss, while others are holding through paper losses.

DeFi's composability creates cascading exploit risks while protocols handle risk idiosyncratically. Institutional adoption demands TradFi-style standardized frameworks.

Fidelity will issue a stablecoin through its newly approved national trust bank, signaling deeper institutional use of blockchain-based payment infrastructure.

The fund targets institutional investors seeking returns beyond traditional long-only, “vanilla” Bitcoin exposure.