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🇯🇵LATEST: @Backpack is looking to connect crypto trading with traditional banking in Japan.
The exchange has signed an MOU with @minnano_ginko to explore integrating its onchain infrastructure with the bank’s digital financial services.
The proposed partnership could bring yen deposits and withdrawals directly into Backpack’s Japanese platform, with tokenized deposits also under consideration.
🇬🇧UPDATE: @Payward, @krakenfx's parent company, is expanding its xStocks platform beyond US equities, adding more than 200 tokenized stocks from the UK and Europe through a partnership with GTNglobal.
The new offering includes major companies such as @HSBC, @Shell, LVMH, @Siemens and @Airbus, as well as every constituent of the FTSE 100 and Germany’s DAX index.
The tokenized assets will be available to eligible investors across 110+ markets and supported on @solana, @ethereum, @ton_blockchain, Ink and X Layer.
The expansion takes xStocks' total offering beyond 1,500 tokenized assets.
The first international expansion is here. More markets are expected to follow.
🎙 What if AI doesn't improve the product, but the product improves AI?
In this clip from Cryptic Talks, Botanika Founder @ifyouc1 explains how Botanika takes a different approach to AI by building the underlying infrastructure designed to make AI more efficient, rather than simply adding AI features to a Web3 product.
Follow @botanika_sol and watch the full conversation here: https://t.co/oxSVzAmaku
🇩🇪LATEST: @DeutscheBank has moved from plans to live operations in crypto custody.
The German banking giant has officially rolled out its institutional service, supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum and three stablecoins.
The service was announced in September but has only now gone live.
Deutsche Bank is also looking beyond Europe, with plans to expand into Asian financial centres in 2027 as it develops additional digital asset services.
🚨UPDATE: Suiball is shutting down just as its first hardware wallets were ready to ship.
The Sui-based project says every pre-order customer will receive a refund in USDC after the @SuiFoundation withdrew its support.
The team said the Foundation considered the risks of supporting a hardware wallet project too high following recent industry attacks. The decision brings the project to an end despite its device reaching the manufacturing stage.
Tokenized stocks supply has surpassed $4 BILLION, reaching a new all-time high in November.
@BNBCHAIN leads the market with approximately $1.82 BILLION in tokenized stock supply, accounting for around 45% of the total, according to @CryptoRank_io.
@ethereum and @solana follow, with other networks including @avax, @arbitrum, X Layer and Base also contributing to the growing market.
🚨 LATEST: @telegram has recorded over 1 MILLION self-custodial Gram wallet activations in just 48 hours, founder @durov announced.
The dashboard shared by Durov showed 1,008,151 activations as of November 11, surpassing the 700,000 milestone he reported just two days earlier.
🚨 NEW: @okx and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the @NYSE, are launching a 24/7 tokenized securities exchange on November 23.
The joint venture, OKXICE, is expected to offer more than 70 assets, including tokenized shares of @coinbase, @circle, @RobinhoodApp and @Strategy, alongside 59 Direxion ETFs.
Eligible US customers will be able to trade these securities around the clock through OKX's X Layer network. Securitize will provide the tokenization infrastructure, while Uniswap v4 liquidity pools will facilitate trading.
Each token will represent a security entitlement backed 1:1 by an underlying US share, with applicable shareholder rights and economic benefits.
🎙 Cryptic Talks: Who Owns the Future of AI? | @botanika_sol
In our latest episode of Cryptic Talks, we sit down with Botanika Founder @ifyouc1 to explore the future of decentralized AI infrastructure, data ownership, and DePIN.
From rethinking cloud storage with NIMBUS and HOA SEN to building private AI experiences with NURA, we discuss how Botanika is approaching some of the biggest infrastructure challenges facing the AI economy.
Watch the full episode below and follow Botanika for more updates.