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Bitcoin is increasingly attracting institutions looking for an alternative form of collateral and an asset deemed particularly resilient. In recent months, several US states, including New Hampshire, Arizona and Texas, have passed legislation to incorporate Bitcoin into their reserves, signalling a shift in adoption beyond the circle of individuals and
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The institutional appetite for Bitcoin began in 2020 with the first strategies for listed companies to buy BTC. But it really asserted itself with the arrival of spot Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024. The largest asset managers then gave their clients access to the asset via regulated, structured products that
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Since the launch of Aave in 2017 and Compound in 2018, decentralised credit has boomed. Yet, despite billions of dollars locked up, the majority of flows are concentrated in standard products that are ill-suited to institutional requirements. With the rise of tokenised Real-World Assets (RWAs), the limitations of the initial
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The stablecoin market continues to expand. With a capitalisation of almost $255 billion and payment volumes that now exceed those of Visa, this segment has established itself as a pillar of the crypto economy. It alone now accounts for 96% of daily trading volumes on platforms, or around $172 billion.
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Decentralised finance is built on the idea of a system that is free from traditional circuits and government control. It is even one of the founding principles of the ecosystem. Yet the product that has established itself as a pillar of DeFi is stablecoin, an asset that, in its dominant
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What you need to know about Raydium Since 2021, Raydium has occupied a central position among the decentralised finance protocols on Solana. It is based on a hybrid architecture that combines traditional market making automation (MMA) with direct access to Open Book order books. This model reduces transaction costs and
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What you need to know about Raydium Since 2021, Raydium has occupied a central position among the decentralised finance protocols on Solana. It is based on a hybrid architecture that combines traditional market making automation (MMA) with direct access to Open Book order books. This model reduces transaction costs and
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With a market estimated at 3,600 billion dollars, mergers and acquisitions occupy a central place in the workings of the global economy. For many companies, buying out an existing player remains a faster and cheaper strategy than building everything in-house: it enables them to grow, capture market share or
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While the total value of USDT on Tron has surpassed that on Ethereum, and Justin Sun recently found himself having lunch with the President of the United States (due to his holdings of TRUMP memecoins), it's a good time to take stock of this low-key but very active
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Since the very first bitcoin was mined in the Genesis block by Satoshi Nakamoto on 3 January 2009, an industry has grown up around the idea that computing power can be converted into an extremely rare digital reserve. In the early days, mining was an accessible activity that could be
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The world's economic systems are mired in ever-increasing debt. In an attempt to cope, central banks are firing up their "printers" - or rather their fiat money generators -, fuelling growth on credit while trying to repay the ever-increasing maturities. Since the end of the gold
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Built on the idea of a system without intermediaries, decentralised finance (DeFi) has rapidly developed infrastructures that operate autonomously via smart contracts. Decentralised exchanges (DEX), aggregators and inter-chain bridges are based on automated mechanisms that guarantee a certain level of transparency and efficiency. But this autonomy reaches its limits in