Gates Inc. and Oasys’s partnership is one of Japan’s largest real estate tokenization projects, with phase 1 aiming to expand liquidity to $34 billion. Japanese real estate investment firm Gates Inc. will tokenize $75 million worth of central Tokyo properties on the Oasys blockchain, marking one of the country’s largest real estate tokenization initiatives to date. The partnership, announced Wednesday, represents a major step for both companies. Gates plans to eventually tokenize over $200 billion in assets — about 1% of Japan’s real estate market — while Oasys continues expanding beyond its gaming roots into real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. Gates, which generated $145 million in 2024 revenue and was listed on the Financial Times’ “High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2023” list, is currently conducting a Nasdaq roadshow after filing its F-1 prospectus. Read more
US President Donald Trump and members of his administration have pushed for the passing of the GENIUS Act, which would regulate stablecoins in the US. The United States views dollar-pegged stablecoins as a tool to help reverse the decline of the dollar’s status as a global reserve currency, according to a new report from digital asset banking group Sygnum. To accelerate that goal, the current administration is encouraging the growth of the stablecoin market and urging Congress to pass related legislation. The insights come from Sygnum’s latest report examining the dollar’s standing as a reserve currency and the US government’s efforts to preserve that. US President Donald Trump and key members of his administration, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and AI and David Sacks, Trump’s “Crypto and AI Czar,” who leads the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, are pushing for the swift passing of the GENIUS Act, which regulates stablecoins and their issuers in the United States. The Act...
As the US and others explore Bitcoin reserves, India faces a pivotal choice: Can BTC boost macro resilience and digital leadership? The global push for Bitcoin as a reserve asset is gaining speed, with the US leading the way by establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in January 2025. By March, an executive order was signed to begin structuring the reserve, signaling a shift in policy direction. The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in the US will be funded by Bitcoin (BTC) confiscated from criminal activities and company bankruptcies. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Marshals Service will manage these assets. This action demonstrates a strategic decision to treat Bitcoin as a long-term store of value, similar to digital gold, rather than a short-term asset. Read more
Donald Trump’s crypto agenda claims to champion financial freedom, but the real beneficiaries are political insiders and wealthy elites. Opinion by: Pauline Shangett, chief strategy officer at ChangeNOW Bitcoin optimism is naturally running high. US President Donald Trump’s trade agreement with the UK has provided a jolt of confidence in global markets, and Bitcoin (BTC), as the ultimate borderless asset, is reaping the benefits. Unfolding behind the Trump administration’s aggressive push to deregulate the crypto industry, however, is a consolidation of power that favors the few while ignoring the many. Read more
NFTs are heating up again as Snoop Dogg’s latest drop showed. Learn from the masters at Flamingo DAO how to invest in NFTs for the long term. Its been called the most powerful collector DAO in NFTs and the numbers back it up. Flamingo DAO, a collective of crypto-native art lovers, investors, technologists and founders, has quietly amassed one of the most formidable NFT portfolios on the planet, which even today is worth well above nine figures. Despite its relatively low public profile, Flamingos has been highly influential since launching in 2020. We launched with support from Tribute Labs (formerly called OpenLaw) at a time when ETH traded near $350, ‘DeFi Summer’ dominated the headlines, and NFTs remained a fringe pursuit, says Flamingo spokesperson and member Chris Cable. That underserved corner of the market felt like the right place for a new experiment in collaborative capital deployment. Read more
Bit Mining’s stock price surged 350% in pre-market trading after announcing a strategic pivot into the Solana ecosystem. Bitcoin mining firm Bit Mining is making a strategic shift into the Solana ecosystem, with plans to raise up to $300 million to support the move. The company said on Thursday it plans to raise between $200 million and $300 million in different phases to build a sizable Solana (SOL) token treasury. The capital will also be used to expand its capabilities within the network and acquire more tokens. As part of the plan, Bit Mining said it will convert some of its existing crypto holdings into SOL and adopt a long-term holding strategy. It did not specify how much of its reserves would be converted initially. Read more
Ant Group is reportedly working with Circle to integrate USDC into its blockchain platform once the stablecoin achieves regulatory compliance. Jack Ma-backed Ant Group is reportedly working with USDC issuer Circle to bring the stablecoin to its blockchain, according to a Bloomberg report published Thursday, citing anonymous sources. The report said Ant Group plans to incorporate USDC (USDC) into its blockchain after the stablecoin becomes compliant in the US. The timeline for the integration is unknown. The news follows recent reports that Circle has applied to establish a national trust bank in the US that, among other responsibilities, would oversee the firm’s USDC reserve on behalf of its US issuer. The US Senate also passed the stablecoin regulation bill, the GENIUS Act, in mid-June, which would provide legal clarity for stablecoin issuers. Read more
Agora, founded by Nick van Eck, aims to boost adoption of its white-label stablecoin platform with $50 million from Paradigm and Dragonfly. Stablecoin issuer Agora raised $50 million in a Series A funding round led by crypto venture firm Paradigm. The investment sets the stage for Agora to expand its white-label stablecoin offering, AUSD, amid growing interest in dollar-backed digital assets. Agora enables companies to launch their own branded stablecoins using AUSD’s underlying infrastructure, benefiting from shared liquidity and interoperability. The project is founded by Nick van Eck, son of VanEck CEO Jan van Eck, alongside crypto veterans Drake Evans and Joe McGrady. “What we wanted to do is really something novel, which is start by building the network,” van Eck told Fortune. “We always had the view that we were going to do white-labeled issuance in a different way to how existing peers had done it.” Read more