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Trump’s crypto empire is facing fresh scrutiny ⤵️

A new report estimates that investors have suffered $4.7 billion in losses across Trump-linked digital asset ventures. At the same time, Real Trump Coins denies authorizing the controversial GOLD token after it appeared across its online channels.

The developments raise bigger questions about crypto, political branding, investor protection, and accountability.

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#Trump #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #DigitalAssets #Blockchain #Web3 #TrumpCrypto #GOLDToken #CryptoRegulation #InvestorProtection

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🚨 $3.2B Floods Into Crypto Funds in Just One Week

Crypto investment funds just recorded their strongest weekly inflows since October 2025, with $3.2 billion pouring into the market.

Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs led the charge, attracting $2.6B combined, with Bitcoin ETFs taking in $1.9B and Ethereum ETFs $697M.

That’s a dramatic reversal from the $392M outflow just one week earlier, signaling a sharp comeback in institutional appetite for digital assets.

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#Crypto #Bitcoin #Ethereum #CryptoETFs #DigitalAssets #InstitutionalInvestors #CryptoInvesting #BitcoinETF #EthereumETF #Blockchain #Web3 #DigitalAssetMarket

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Why Zondacrypto’s Collapse Would Unfold Differently in the UAE https://t.co/iJu7m4mOin @zondacryptopl @varadubai @ADGlobalMarket #UAE #zondaCrypto

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@krakenfx 's latest “dust attack” reveals a new attack surface in crypto: #compliance itself.

Nearly 12,000 tiny crypto transfers were sent to #wallets linked to #Kraken customers, apparently creating connections to sanctioned or high-risk funds and triggering compliance reviews.

No systems were hacked. No customer assets were reported stolen.

The attack exploited a basic feature of public blockchains: you cannot stop someone from sending tokens to your wallet.

That creates a difficult problem for regulated exchanges. If receiving a tiny, unsolicited transfer from a sanctioned address is enough to trigger an account restriction, attackers can cheaply manufacture suspicious transaction histories for thousands of innocent users.

Kraken has since restored affected accounts while continuing to isolate the disputed funds.

The bigger lesson is clear: on permissionless blockchains, sanctions and AML controls can themselves become an attack surface.

Read more: https://t.co/abrti1ET0o

#CryptoSecurity #Blockchain #AML #Sanctions #CryptoCompliance #DustAttack

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The #UK is moving beyond simply regulating #stablecoins.

Under a proposed new statutory objective, the @bankofengland would be required to support innovation in stablecoins and other forms of digital money—while keeping financial stability as its primary responsibility.

The UK is not just building rules around stablecoins. It is increasingly positioning digital money as part of its future financial infrastructure, alongside #tokenizeddeposits and next-generation payment systems.

The Bank has already eased some proposed restrictions, replacing planned holding limits with a temporary £40 billion issuance guardrail for each systemic stablecoin.

The bigger shift is institutional: innovation in digital money could become part of the central bank's formal mandate.

Read more: https://t.co/KzIfHAmuj5

#DigitalAssets #BankOfEngland #Fintech #Payments

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@Revolut 's #EURR launch is about more than adding another euro stablecoin.

The token starts with just €374 in circulation—but that number tells us little this early in the rollout.

The more important advantage is distribution.

EURR is issued by @stripe -owned #Bridge, while #Revolut distributes it through its app and #RevolutX, putting a regulated #eurostablecoin directly inside an established financial ecosystem.

For European users, EURR also addresses a clear gap: moving euro-denominated value on-chain without first converting into a dollar-backed stablecoin and taking EUR/USD exposure.

And there is a longer-term angle to watch.

Revolut is expanding its regulated presence in the #UAE, including @centralbankuae payment licences and @varadubai 's in-principle approval for virtual-asset services.

The company has not announced an #AEDstablecoin, but if it eventually adds one, its European and UAE footprints could create new opportunities for cross-border digital money.

The real question isn't how much EURR is circulating today. It's what Revolut can build around it tomorrow.

Read more: https://t.co/EeQP0pQ77P

#stripe #Stablecoins #Europe #MiCa #Dubai #VARA #DigitalAssets #Fintech

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@Bitwise Asset Management is bringing professional stock portfolios onchain.

The crypto asset manager has launched Automated Token Portfolios, allowing eligible non-U.S. investors to automatically replicate Bitwise-designed portfolios of tokenized U.S. stocks while keeping the assets in their own non-custodial wallets.

The portfolios, powered by @coinbase 's tokenized stocks and #Glider's automated rebalancing technology, will initially target the Magnificent 7 plus SpaceX, AI leaders and robotics companies.

The bigger shift: portfolio management itself is moving onchain.

Instead of placing assets into a traditional pooled fund, investors can retain custody while software applies the portfolio strategy directly to their #wallets.

Read more: https://t.co/wrPz0WMh1C

#Bitwise #Tokenization #RWA #DigitalAssets #Blockchain #Coinbase #tokenizedStocks

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Chainalysis vs TRM Labs: The $94.6M US Crypto Intelligence Fight https://t.co/iFrbhkSEYu @chainalysis @trmlabs #legal_challenge #USA #intelligence #monitoring

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39 U.S. banking associations are moving from debating blockchain to building it.

The newly launched #BankChainAlliance plans to develop an industry-owned blockchain network for tokenized deposits, stablecoins and smart payments, with a target launch next year.

The significance goes beyond the technology.

After months of clashes with the crypto industry over stablecoin regulation, U.S. banks are increasingly building the infrastructure they need to compete in digital money — collectively rather than through isolated blockchain projects.

The bigger question is now shifting from whether banks will move onchain to who will control the networks on which bank money moves.

Read more: https://t.co/qEtsC2Ig80

#Banking #TokenizedDeposits #Stablecoins #Blockchain #DigitalFinance

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Issuing a token is only the beginning.

What happens over the next five, seven or ten years is where institutional tokenization gets much more complicated.

Who calculates NAV? Who reconciles on-chain activity with the books? Who keeps the legal investor record accurate? Who handles distributions, redemptions and corporate actions when the asset is already live?

In her contribution to the Unlock Thought Leadership Series, Christiane El Habre, Regional Managing Director Middle East and Global Head of Family Offices at Apex Group Ltd looks at the part of tokenization that gets far less attention than issuance: the asset-servicing infrastructure needed to make tokenized markets work day after day.

The piece explores how fund administration, transfer agency, reconciliation, governance and lifecycle servicing may need to evolve as tokenized and conventional assets increasingly sit within the same operating environment.

Because proving that an asset can be issued on-chain is one thing. Building the machinery that keeps it running reliably at institutional scale is another.

Read: https://t.co/dIuZezU53x

#Tokenization #RWA #AssetServicing #InstitutionalAdoption #CapitalMarkets #FundAdministration #DigitalAssets #ApexGroup

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Zand is expanding its stablecoin infrastructure to support @circle's USDC alongside its own fully regulated, dirham-backed stablecoin, creating a digital link between UAE dirham liquidity and global dollar markets.

The planned integration is aimed at eligible businesses, with potential use cases including:

• Cross-border payments
• Settlement
• Corporate treasury operations
• Trading
• Moving value between UAE and international digital financial ecosystems

The key piece is interoperability: businesses could potentially use Zand’s dirham stablecoin for the local side of a transaction and USDC for dollar-denominated international flows, rather than relying entirely on traditional cross-border banking rails.

This puts Zand’s move within a much bigger shift: banks and financial institutions are increasingly exploring stablecoins not simply as crypto assets, but as 24/7 payment and settlement infrastructure.

Could regulated stablecoins become the bridge between local currencies and the global digital dollar economy?

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#USDC #Stablecoins #Zand #UAE #DigitalAssets #Blockchain #FinTech #Crypto #Payments #Web3‌‌

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What happens when banks start preparing for a quantum threat that doesn’t exist yet?

A new cross-regional pilot is putting the question to the test.

Banks including Bison Bank and DK Bank, alongside regulators from the UAE, Malta and Bhutan, are testing post-quantum security for digital-asset wallets and blockchain transfers on the NEAR testnet.

The pilot combines ML-DSA-65 post-quantum signatures with multi-party computation (MPC) to explore how financial institutions could protect digital assets against future quantum attacks without abandoning the custody and operational controls they rely on today.

And this is more than a technical experiment. The initiative will also examine cross-border interoperability, operational resilience, and governance, with plans to eventually open-source the underlying protocol and publish the testing findings.

The quantum threat may still be ahead, but the financial industry is already preparing for it.

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#QuantumComputing #Blockchain #DigitalAssets #Cybersecurity #FinTech #PostQuantumCryptography #Crypto #Banking #Web3

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Bitcoin is no longer staying on the crypto exchange 🇦🇪

@Rakbanklive Islamic has brought Bitcoin trading directly into its mobile banking app through Bitpanda’s VARA-regulated platform.

For the UAE, it is another sign that digital assets are moving from the edges of finance into the banking system itself.

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https://t.co/fSHXWF21j9

#Bitcoin #Crypto #IslamicBanking #UAE #DigitalAssets #Blockchain #Fintech #VirtualAssets #RAKBANK #Bitpanda #VARA

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Stablecoins and tokenized deposits are converging on the same problem: how to move digital money at scale.

But they are built around fundamentally different economic models.

Tokenized deposits keep money on the bank’s balance sheet. Stablecoins make digital dollars portable beyond a single banking relationship.

That distinction is becoming increasingly important as major banks build shared tokenized-deposit infrastructure, stablecoin circulation expands, and institutions begin integrating both models into their payment strategies.

The real competition may therefore be less about blockchain technology than about who controls liquidity, funding and the networks through which digital money moves.

The next phase of digital finance may not see stablecoins replace bank deposits, or banks replace stablecoins.

It may see both compete, coexist and ultimately become interoperable.

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#Swift is moving from messaging toward #blockchain settlement.

@HSBC and @StanChart completed the first live interbank transaction on Swift's blockchain ledger pilot using tokenized deposits.

The bigger story: Swift isn't building a parallel financial network.

It's putting blockchain infrastructure behind a system already connecting 11,500+ financial institutions.

#Tokenizeddeposits could also coexist with #stablecoins, with #banks targeting wholesale settlement while stablecoins serve other payment use cases.

The race is shifting from whether banks will use blockchain to which digital payment infrastructure becomes the standard.

Read more: https://t.co/ANQ5bPivzo

#digitalpayments #HSBC #StandardChartered #tokenization

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#Crypto's latest rally has a macro backdrop.

The @USTreasury will raise its buyback cap to $4B per operation from September 9, as #Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies recover alongside lower #Treasuryyields and a softer #dollar.

#Bitcoin: $69,400 at the time of writing
#Ethereum: reached $2,250

But the $4B figure is a cap, not guaranteed spending.

The key question: Can lower yields persist long enough to keep supporting risk assets?

Read more: https://t.co/vrqszX6XgD

#cryptomarkets #BitcoinPrice #USTreasury #CryptoRally #Riskassets

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#Regulation is increasingly becoming part of the stablecoin distribution strategy.

@BitcoinCom is adding #UAE-regulated #USDU to its self-custodial wallet through a partnership with #ADGM-based Universal Digital Intl.

USDU is regulated by the #FSRA and registered with the #CBUAE as a Foreign Payment Token, with 1:1 USD reserves and monthly independent attestations.

The partnership also targets #payments and stablecoin education.

The bigger shift: regulated stablecoins are moving beyond issuance toward distribution, payments and everyday utility.

Read more: https://t.co/izyQPtVHWE

#Stablecoins #DigitalWallets #CryptoWallets #MiddleEast #AbuDhabi @ADGlobalMarket @Universal_USDU

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#Tokenizedstocks are moving from experimentation into U.S. market infrastructure.

#DTCC has processed production transactions using tokenized securities. #Nasdaq is developing a tokenized-equity framework. Ondo and Securitize are testing regulated models.

Meanwhile, #Robinhood is pushing for a U.S. path after launching tokenized stocks in #Europe.

The real question is no longer whether stocks will move onchain.

It is what a tokenized share should legally represent.

Ownership, voting rights, corporate actions, custody and settlement cannot be left ambiguous.

The U.S. doesn't need a separate “crypto stock market.” It needs rules that allow blockchain to become another layer of securities infrastructure—without weakening investor rights.

The race is not to put stocks onchain. It is to define what happens when they get there.

Read more: https://t.co/OTYxa47GXh

#CryptoRules #WallStreet #USCryptoPolicy #Tokenization #RWATokenization #TokenizedSecurities

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#Tokenizedstocks are moving from experimentation into U.S. market infrastructure.

#DTCC has processed production transactions using tokenized securities. #Nasdaq is developing a tokenized-equity framework. Ondo and Securitize are testing regulated models.

Meanwhile, #Robinhood is pushing for a U.S. path after launching tokenized stocks in #Europe.

The real question is no longer whether stocks will move onchain.

It is what a tokenized share should legally represent.

Ownership, voting rights, corporate actions, custody and settlement cannot be left ambiguous.

The U.S. doesn't need a separate “crypto stock market.” It needs rules that allow blockchain to become another layer of securities infrastructure—without weakening investor rights.

The race is not to put stocks onchain. It is to define what happens when they get there.

Read more: https://t.co/OTYxa47GXh

#CryptoRules #WallStreet #USCryptoPolicy #Tokenization #RWATokenization #TokenizedSecurities