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EXCLUSIVE We interviewed Nadine Chakar, Managing Director and Global Head of Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Digital Assets, just before tokenization went live at the largest U.S. securities depository. "We roughly will make available some $30 trillion of assets is what we’re aiming for," Nadine said on the ground at Stellar | Meridian Oct 28-29 's Meridian conference.
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XRP has been one of crypto's biggest assets since 2012. For most of those years, you could buy it, sell it, and not much else. That changes now. Flare ☀️ is putting XRP to work. Deposit XRP, it becomes FXRP, and a vault curator deploys it so it can start earning yield. Our new video explains what a vault is, who's managing the risk inside it, and what happens when that goes wrong — then walks through earnXRP (Clearstar Labs), MXRPY (Monarq Asset Managment) and Firelight (coming soon).
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Compliance controls brought institutions onchain. Privacy is what they ask for next. Denelle Dixon on how Stellar | Meridian Oct 28-29 makes it composable: enterprises can choose which privacy solutions work best for them and configure them the same way they pick their compliance controls. Full episode with Camila Russo
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New Podcast with Aave founder Stani.eth just dropped: Aave is at a turning point - will the new proposal lead to innovation or chaos? Aave is navigating a pivotal moment with the recent "Aave will win" proposal. This initiative aims to redirect 100% of protocol revenue back to the Aave DAO, a move that many in the community have embraced. But with any major change comes scrutiny. Critics are questioning the governance structure, suggesting that Aave Labs may have too much influence. Stani Kulechov addresses these concerns, clarifying that no votes from Aave Labs swayed the outcome. Stani also discussed the 'Hub and Spoke' architecture of Aave V4, explaining how it will solve liquidity bootstrapping for developers and pave the way for Real World Assets (RWAs) like solar farms and GPUs. It’s clear that Aave is focused on growth and innovation. But will it be enough to keep Aave competitive in the evolving DeFi landscape? 👉 Watch the full interview below
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Hours before the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act, @camirusso asked Anchorage Digital ⚓️'s head of policy what happens if it fails. Kevin Wysocki: the OCC already did custody through guidance. No law was needed. Everyone is applying for a charter. The federal path exists without a bill.
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Remember the "Bitcoin Renaissance" Ordinals. BRC-20s. Runes. Prices surged, blocks filled, and innovation exploded Then everything cooled. So was it just JPEG hype? Episode 2 of our Beyond Digital Gold docu-series in partnership with StarkWare 🥷 breaks down the Bitcoin Renaissance legacy. Featuring: Isabel Foxen Duke⚡️ Binari Casey domo Nathan Jeffay Watch 👇🏻
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With institutional attention growing and ETF discussions heating up, all eyes are on how XRP can finally plug into the broader DeFi economy. Enter Flare ☀️, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 built to bring decentralized data, composability, and real utility to assets like XRP. Full Explainer below 👇 -sponsored-
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"$1,000 can move the price on Polymarket 1.5%. For regular crypto markets, that's nothing. This is why prediction markets desperately need market makers — and why everyone is rushing in." Prediction markets are having their DeFi Summer moment. And the biggest names in trading are paying attention. Alex Momot ( Alex Momot ) from Peanut Trade breaks down why Jane Street, Wintermute & Jump are all pivoting to prediction markets — and what it means for the average trader.
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Banks went from “we can’t touch crypto” to *“if we don’t adopt it, we’ll get left behind.” We sat down with dannyryan from Etherealize to talk about why institutions suddenly have Ethereum FOMO, why tokenizing assets isn’t enough, and how capital markets get rewired from first principles. Trillions are in play. 🎥 Full interview 👇
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The Bull Case For RWAs Sergey Nazarov offers a detailed analysis of RWAs, providing valuable insights into the broader landscape and the direction it's heading in the future. 0:31 Real-World Assets 2:30 Oracles 6:30 Tokenization 10:40 TradFi to DeFi 15:40 Latest on Chainlink 20:06 12 Months 22:22 Billion Users 25:18 ALPHA
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The GPU market in 2026: People posting on Twitter "I need 24 H200s, starting yesterday." Right now, there's no marketplace or transparency. Viktoriya Hying (Viktoriya) from B3 wants to change that, building the Airbnb for compute: Owner-operated GPUs, hosted in Oregon, matched with demand from AI labs and universities from day one. Watch the full conversation with Camila Russo on The Defiant 👇
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