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On Sunday, March 22, the stablecoin USR — issued by the Resolv protocol — lost its dollar peg after an attacker exploited a compromised private key to mint roughly 80 million tokens against a trivial collateral deposit. The incident resulted in an estimated $25 million extraction and triggered cascading effects across several
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The modest rebound that had been taking shape since early March is now over. On Wednesday, Bitcoin gave back roughly 7.3% from its weekly high, pulling the broader market down with it, off nearly 8%. Crypto ETFs, which had recorded $1.36 billion in net inflows the previous week,
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The Big Whale: Could you explain exactly what RailNet is? Laszlo Szabo: To understand RailNet, you have to see it as the "invisible" yet essential infrastructure layer for the upcoming era of on-chain finance. It is an orchestration solution that unifies yield sources—which are currently fragmented—within
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The Big Whale: After several years of a "crossing the desert" phase for equity tokenization, we’re seeing a sudden, sharp acceleration, particularly in the U.S. How do you view the current market dynamics? Joris Delanoue: Things are looking up; the market is finally opening. We’ve
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Last week, Strategy’s STRC preferred shares reached a significant milestone, hitting a series of daily volume records with trades oscillating between $267 million and $747 million. The catalyst for this surge is clear: the announcement of an 11.5% dividend rate on a $100 par value per share. It
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Since the escalation of tensions between the United States, Israel, and Iran in late February 2026, traditional financial markets have been navigating a classic risk-off environment: the S&P 500 has shed 3% since the onset of hostilities, rising oil prices are feeding inflation expectations, and gold — ostensibly fulfilling
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The Big Whale: At your keynote at the Web3 Banking Symposium in Zurich, you mentioned the three things banks and asset managers can no longer ignore. What are they? Christian Leger: I am not going to focus on price predictions or the idea of getting everyone to buy Bitcoin. That
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The Big Whale: What was the starting point for your strategic pivot toward digital assets? Arnaud Dubreuil: Our mission within Ingenico Labs is to analyze market friction and design solutions that will become industry standards within the next three to five years. We operate as a highly practical laboratory: we
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The latest flare-up in Middle East tensions has once again underscored a structural lag in traditional commodities markets when geopolitical shocks hit. Over a weekend marked by strikes on energy infrastructure and rising tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, oil went through a sharp bout of price discovery that closed,
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The Bitcoin mining sector is currently navigating a period of significant volatility. For over a month, profitability has remained in the red; production costs now frequently exceed generated revenue, placing operators under genuine financial strain. Between the recent price correction and the reduction in block rewards following the last halving,
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Circle reached a symbolic milestone this week at its latest earnings call. The company beat sales forecasts by 2.8% in Q4, posting sales of $770 million, $21 million above consensus. But it was on net profitability that the biggest surprise came: earnings per share (EPS) came in at $0.
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This is yet another signal that "institutional DeFi" tolerates no risk management errors. MEV Capital, a central player in the sector, is going through a major existential crisis. The breaking point dates back to October 10th, when deUSD (the stablecoin issued by Elixir) suddenly lost its peg to