Nifty Business

Highlighting companies that use crypto & blockchain technology

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@WOLF_Bitcoin_ Let's go RWA crew!

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@WOLF_Crypto_X What's the OC? I'm out of it

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COINBASE $COIN NOW OFFERS US STOCKS AND INDICES WORLDWIDE

Perpetuals provide exposure to price movements without the same restrictions as traditional equities

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

NEW: @Coinbase launches stock perpetual futures for non-U.S. traders, offering 24/7 exposure to U.S. equities including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, and S&P 500 ETFs with up to 20x leverage.

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POLYGON $POL IS EMERGING AS A LEADER IN INSTITUTIONAL CRYPTO SERVICES

Analysts estimate tokenized securities could bring up to $30 trillion on chain by 2034

RWAs are not a new buzzword driven by hype

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🇪🇺 EUROPE’S LARGEST ASSET MANAGER JUST COMMITTED $100 MILLION TO RWAs

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🇪🇺 EUROPE’S LARGEST ASSET MANAGER JUST COMMITTED $100 MILLION TO RWAs

Amundi has €2.3 trillion in assets under management.

They launched the Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund (SAFO), which operates on Ethereum $ETH and Stellar $XLM.

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VITAlLIK LEFT OFF CFTC COMMITTEE

[Tahj (Tropic) 🇯🇲 @TropicVibes]

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a committee of 35 executives to provide crypto guidance.

Vitalik Buterin is called the crown prince of Ethereum $ETH, but he is not on the committee:

1. Hayden Adams, CEO, Uniswap Labs
2. Brian Armstrong, CEO, Coinbase
3. Andrej Bolkovic, CEO, Options Clearing Corporation
4. Thomas Chippas, CEO, Rothera Markets
5. Shayne Coplan, CEO, Polymarket
6. Professor Harry Crane, Representative
7. Chris Dixon, Managing Partner, a16z crypto
8. Craig Donohue, CEO, Cboe Global Markets
9. Terry Duffy, Chair & CEO, CME Group
10. Tom Farley, CEO, Bullish
11. Adena Friedman, Chair & CEO, Nasdaq
12. Brad Garlinghouse, CEO, Ripple
13. Christian Genetski, President, FanDuel
14. Luke Hoersten, CEO, Bitnomial
15. Frank La Salla, President & CEO, DTCC
16. Walt Lukken, CEO, FIA
17. Tarek Mansour, CEO, Kalshi
18. Kris Marszalek, CEO, Crypto[.]com
19. Nathan McCauley, CEO, Anchorage Digital
20. Peter Mintzberg, CEO, Grayscale
21. Sergey Nazarov, CEO, Chainlink Labs
22. Scott D. O’Malia, CEO, ISDA
23. Alana Palmedo, Managing Director, Paradigm
24. Vivek Raman, CEO, Etherealize
25. Professor Carla Reyes, Representative
26. Jason Robins, CEO, DraftKings
27. David Schwimmer, CEO, LSEG
27. Arjun Sethi, Co-CEO, Kraken
29. Peter Smith, CEO, Blockchain[.]com
30. Vance Spencer, Co-founder, Framework Ventures
31. Jeff Sprecher, CEO, Intercontinental Exchange
32. Vlad Tenev, CEO, Robinhood
33. Don Wilson, CEO, DRW
34. Tyler Winklevoss, CEO, Gemini
35. Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO, Solana Labs

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CASH APP LAUNCHED ZERO FEE BITCOIN $BTC

Users now have low-cost access to Bitcoin:

• No fees on large Bitcoin buys
• No fees on recurring Bitcoin purchases
• No fees when spending through the Lightning Network

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COINBASE $COIN IS AT WAR WITH REGIONAL BANKS

The Clarity Act is stalled because banks do not want stablecoins offering 5% yields while they offer 0.35%.

Now they are running ads to shape public opinion in their favor.

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Interactive Brokers has added 24/7 account funding via stablecoins.

The platform supports:

$USDC by Circle $CRCL
$RLUSD by Ripple
$PYUSD by PayPal $PYPL

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Stripe is building its own Layer 1 blockchain for payments and has partnered with major tech and financial players:

Anthropic
Deutsche Bank $DB
DoorDash $DASH
Kalshi
Klarna
Mastercard $MA
Mercury
OpenAI
Payoneer $PAYO
Shopify $SHOP
UBS $UBS
Visa $V

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Ripple and LMAX Group have formed a $150M multi-year strategic partnership, integrating Ripple’s $RLUSD stablecoin as core collateral across LMAX’s institutional FX and digital asset platforms.

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The New York Stock Exchange just announced it is developing a platform for trading and on-chain settlement of tokenized securities, moving its core market infrastructure toward digital assets.

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Fireblocks acquired crypto accounting platform TRES Finance for $130M in cash and equity.

This is Fireblocks’ second acquisition in three months, following its $90M purchase of wallet startup Dynamic in October.

[Tres.finance @TresDotFinance]

Huge announcement from the TRES team! Today, TRES has been acquired by @FireblocksHQ!

Together, we now complete the first complete operating system for digital assets.

TRES brings accounting, reporting, and controls to onchain activity - built for auditability, scale, and real-world financial operations. Today, more than 200 leading companies across traditional finance and digital assets rely on TRES  to deliver compliant, audit-ready financial records.

@FireblocksHQ is the trusted infrastructure institutions use to build, operate, and scale digital asset businesses. With TRES, those operations now extend seamlessly into accurate, contextualised, compliant records that meet enterprise standards - bringing operations and back-office finance into a single system.

Michael Shaulov, Co-founder and CEO of Fireblocks:

“With digital assets now part of day-to-day financial operations, both crypto-native firms and traditional institutions need clear, accurate accounting and auditability. Crypto companies must meet higher standards around tax reporting and disclosures, while banks and fintechs need reconciliation and controls that align with their existing ERP and ledger systems. By bringing TRES into the Fireblocks ecosystem, customers can now run both their operations and their back-office finance on one secure, compliant, and scalable stack.”

Together, Fireblocks and TRES form the foundational infrastructure for an onchain financial world.

🔗 Read the @FortuneMagazine article: https://t.co/xac7zILJQH
🔗 Read our CEO’s blog: https://t.co/FlLFJN6ti5
🔗 Read Fireblocks’ announcement: https://t.co/ecUCmyzJdy

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Strategy $MSTR bought 13,627 Bitcoin $BTC for $1.25B last week.

This is its largest purchase since July 2025.

Bitcoin bulls are celebrating, but MSTR investors are asking a harder question.

How does Michael Saylor plan to turn this growing Bitcoin position into revenue?

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Phantom now offers crude oil perps.

Once known as the Solana wallet of choice, Phantom has expanded to other chains.

Now it is becoming a one stop finance app that just happens to connect to blockchains.

[Phantom @phantom]

A new perps market is now live for trading:

CL-CRUDE OIL

Go long or short with up to 20x leverage.

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Spot Bitcoin $BTC products have found a market.

Bitcoin is now treated as a mainstream portfolio diversifier at:

Bank of America $BAC
Morgan Stanley $MS
JPMorgan $JPM

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@anxietymsgs We sure do!

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Vitalik Buterin views Ethereum $ETH like Linux or BitTorrent.

It is an operating system or a protocol businesses can build on.

Not money.

Not a store of value.

Not competition to Bitcoin $BTC.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

⚡️ JUST IN: Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum should be like Linux or BitTorrent, open and decentralized at its core while scaling globally and remaining trusted by enterprises.

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NEWS CORP. $NSWA EMBRACES BLOCKCHAIN

Polymarket signs exclusive partnership with Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Crypto prediction platform Polymarket announces exclusive partnership with Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal.

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Ripple partnered with three of Japan’s largest banks.

Mizuho Bank, SMBC Nikko, and Securitize Japan partnerships will accelerate XRP Ledger adoption.

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