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DTCC's first live production trades using tokenized securities show how blockchain could reshape the infrastructure behind Wall Street.

Crypto exchanges are increasingly becoming distribution platforms for Wall Street exposure as trading in tokenized stocks and real-world asset derivatives accelerates across crypto markets. Tokenized assets became the most-listed category across major centralized exchanges in the first half of 2026, accounting for nearly one in every five new listings, CryptoRank data shows. The category represented […] The post Crypto exchanges are becoming the new distribution channel for Wall Street assets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Tokenized sovereign debt spent years sounding like a conference phrase in search of a market. But now, the category has enough working components to deserve serious attention: tokenized government money funds, onchain ownership records, programmable transfer rails, and a growing effort to turn government paper into collateral that digital markets can actually use. While this […] The post A $407 million Treasury fund reveals how Wall Street is building crypto’s missing collateral layer appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Wall Street banks, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are restricting employee prediction market trades as insider trading fears spread across Polymarket and Kalshi. Wall Street banks are restricting employee trading on prediction market platforms due to fears that they may use nonpublic information to trade event contracts. Goldman Sachs has reportedly banned its employees from trading on event contracts that are specific to the bank, including financial markets, macroeconomic events, elections and geopolitics, CNBC reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Unidentified sources from Morgan Stanley also told CNBC that the bank has policies regarding prediction market trading by employees, while a spokesperson for Bank of America said the bank was in the process of issuing new prohibitive measures for employees on prediction market trading. Read more

Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain this month, describing it as a permissionless Layer 2 built on Arbitrum for tokenized stocks, real-world assets, DeFi lending, and AI-native finance. One week in, the chain's loudest retail activity is driven by CASHCAT, a memecoin built on Robinhood's own discarded “CashCat” name. The token reached nearly […] The post Robinhood launched a Wall Street layer 2 chain and the market crowned a $150M cat coin first appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Perpetual futures and Hyperliquid’s blockchain infrastructure are expanding into traditional asset classes with around-the-clock trading, according to Pantera Capital. Perpetual futures are on track to become one of the dominant trading instruments in global finance, with decentralized exchange Hyperliquid demonstrating how blockchain-based infrastructure could challenge traditional markets, according to Pantera Capital. The blockchain-focused asset manager said in a Wednesday X post that perpetual futures offer structural advantages over traditional derivatives, including 24/7 trading, no contract expiries, simpler position management and continuous price discovery, making them increasingly attractive beyond crypto markets. Pantera, an investor in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, said Hyperliquid has become the leading example of that shift by expanding perpetual futures beyond cryptocurrencies into equities, commodities and stock indices as part of founder Jeff Yan's vision of “housing all of finance.” Read more

The roadmap gives institutions a stronger settlement story, but also a clearer checklist for doubt. The post Vitalik’s new Lean Ethereum plan puts ETH’s Wall Street pitch on a 4 year clock appeared first on CryptoSlate.

With Wall Street and ETF rails shut, BTC keeps trading, proving that always-on access can also mean thinner liquidity. The post Bitcoin’s Freedom Money to set Independence day liquidity benchmark while Wall Street shuts down appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto was founded on a simple premise: people should be able to send, hold, and manage money without going through a bank. Fifteen years later, some of the industry's most significant developments involve banks doing that, on blockchains, for their own institutional clients. JPMorgan now settles payments in its own deposit token on a public […] The post Crypto wanted to replace Wall Street – Instead, Wall Street took over crypto appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Glassnode's latest Week Onchain report shows that roughly 10.83 million BTC are now in the red, against 9.22 million still in profit. Loss-making supply now accounts for roughly 54% of the measured total, compared with 46% still in profit, meaning underwater coins exceed profitable coins by about 1.61 million BTC. Glassnode describes this as one […] The post Wall Street is selling Bitcoin but the old holders are now buying it back appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Over the past six weeks, investors have pulled roughly $5.94 billion from US spot Bitcoin ETFs, marking the longest unbroken run of weekly outflows since these funds first opened for business in 2024. Galaxy Research puts the worst 30-day stretch at $6.35 billion through June 20. Bitcoin has been sliding right alongside those redemptions, and […] The post Did $6B in ETF outflows just mark Bitcoin’s first Wall Street capitulation? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Celsius froze withdrawals in June 2022 before filing for Chapter 11 in July 2022, and Genesis froze redemptions after FTX's collapse and filed for bankruptcy in January 2023, owing approximately $3.4 billion to its 50 largest creditors. BlockFi, Celsius, Genesis, and Voyager together accounted for 40% of the crypto lending market and 82% of CeFi […] The post Crypto lending turns to Wall Street credit rules to win back institutional trust after 2022 collapse appeared first on CryptoSlate.

tZERO and Securitize are squaring off over tokenization patents as the market attracts more of Wall Street's attention.

Options on Bitwise's HYPE ETF give Wall Street a regulated venue to price risk on a 24/7, perpetual futures exchange that trades only during US market hours. BHYP began trading on the NYSE on May 15, holding spot HYPE with in-house staking built into the fund. Options on those shares now also trade, connecting four […] The post Wall Street can now hedge Hyperliquid’s HYPE, but weekends carry a real risk appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A megawatt leased to an AI tenant now commands a different price on Wall Street than a megawatt sitting in a Bitcoin miner's pipeline, and the distance between the two has become the central pricing question for the entire sector. VanEck's latest framework for valuing publicly traded miners shows that companies with signed AI and […] The post Wall Street is paying up for Bitcoin miners’ AI infrastructure before most of it is built appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The reported $100 UNI target hinges on tokenized assets leaving closed rails for liquid, composable markets. The post Standard Chartered’s $100 Uniswap call exposes the open DeFi problem Wall Street may need to solve appeared first on CryptoSlate.

One month after THYP launched on Nasdaq, the three US-traded spot HYPE ETFs have pulled in $161 million in net inflows. June 5 was the only session to register an outflow, a $2.9 million redemption from BHYP, and every other trading day has closed in the green. The clean flow record partly reflects access mechanics, […] The post HYPE ETFs quietly pulled $161M in one month as Wall Street buys crypto’s on-chain exchange bet appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving to dismantle a stock-trading rule that has governed Wall Street for two decades. On June 11, the agency submitted a proposal that would rescind Rule 611 of Regulation NMS, the trade-through rule that requires trading centers to prevent stock trades from executing at prices worse than protected […] The post SEC targets 20-year-old rule standing between Wall Street and blockchain trading appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Digital Asset raised $355M in an a16z‑led round at a $2B valuation, extending a Wall Street‑backed funding run as banks ramp up pilots on its Canton Network blockchain. [Update June 11, 1:50 pm UTC. Adds commentary from Yuval Rooz, cofounder and chief executive of Digital Asset, in the fourth and fifth paragraph] Digital Asset Holdings has raised $355 million in a new round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, highlighting Wall Street’s accelerating push into permissioned blockchain infrastructure. A16z crypto contributed $100 million, alongside 7RIDGE, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Citadel Securities and Optiver, in a deal that values Digital Asset at around $2 billion, according to a Thursday Bloomberg Law report citing people familiar with the matter. Read more

The total value locked (TVL) on DeFi fell from $172 billion to $148 billion as the sector logged $635 million in exploit losses across April alone. Coinbase Ventures bought Ethena's ENA token on the open market, Janus Henderson took its own strategic ENA position, and Morpho closed a $175 million round structured entirely around the […] The post Wall Street is buying DeFi tokens again, even as everyone worries the code is unsafe appeared first on CryptoSlate.