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For several weeks now, the traditional finance sector and the crypto sector have been converging around the same object: the tokenised share. The seemingly simple idea is winning over more and more investors and platforms. Robinhood's announcement in early July that it would offer tokenised shares to its
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The Sandbox is turning a new chapter in its history. According to our information, co-founders Sébastien Borget and Arthur Madrid have been removed from operational leadership of the metaverse platform, which is owned by Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands. Animoca appointed Robby Yung (CEO of Animoca) as CEO of The Sandbox
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"The crypto business already carries significant weight at Mastercard"
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The rise of stablecoins is transforming the payments sector and accelerating the shift towards transactions carried out directly on blockchains. Faced with this development, incumbent players such as Visa and Mastercard are not standing on the sidelines: they are gradually opening up to cryptocurrencies and stepping up initiatives in the
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And now ether. A few months after bitcoin, ether has, in turn, hit a new all-time high of $4,900. Its previous record, at $4868, dated back to November 2021. The second-largest crypto on the market is enjoying a particularly buoyant 2025. Since January, it has risen by just over
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Is a new wind blowing through Frankfurt? After more than two years of reticence about blockchain, the European Central Bank (ECB) seems to be softening its stance, reveals the Financial Times this Friday. The institution is even reportedly considering launching its digital euro on public blockchains such as Ethereum and
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Slowly, but surely. Rather discreet on matters relating to digital assets, CACEIS is pursuing its strategy. A few weeks after obtaining its MiCA licence, the Crédit Agricole Group subsidiary specialising in securities custody has just invested in French start-up Kriptown. This is a minority investment as part of an extension
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In an unprecedented speech, the new chairman of the SEC, Paul Atkins, on Thursday unveiled the "crypto project", an ambitious set of measures aimed at propelling the United States to the rank of world leader in digital finance. It was a speech that could well mark a historic
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What you need to know before you start Ostium is a decentralised trading platform built on Arbitrum. It mainly offers trading in perpetual contracts on traditional financial assets: commodities, currencies, corporate shares or even indices such as the S&P 500. Unlike most decentralised platforms that rely on an
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"Linea wants to reconcile L2s with Ethereum"
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What you need to know before you start Linea is a layer 2 of Ethereum that relies on a different approach to establish itself in an already dense market. Its positioning is based on four pillars: direct alignment with Ethereum, tokenomics designed for its users, privileged integration with Metamask and
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This is not an insignificant trajectory. In the space of a few weeks, Sharplink Gaming, until then an American company specialising in affiliation for the sports betting sector, has metamorphosed into a financial vehicle centred on Ethereum. Under the leadership of Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and boss of Consensys,