Category: Bitcoin News

Investor appetite for staking-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States appears strong, with Bitwise’s new Solana product seeing substantial inflows on its first day of trading. The Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL), which began trading on Tuesday, has already attracted roughly $222.8 million in assets, according to Bloomberg Intelligence senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. Balchunas characterized the size as significant for a newly launched crypto ETF, indicating increasing institutional engagement and confidence in staking strategies. Source: Eric Balchunas Bitwise previously launched a Solana staking exchange-traded product in Europe last…

Institutional staking provider Figment has expanded its integration with Coinbase, allowing the exchange’s institutional clients to stake a broader range of proof-of-stake (PoS) assets directly from Coinbase Custody — a move that could drive adoption beyond Ethereum. Through the integration, Coinbase Prime customers can now use Figment’s staking infrastructure to access additional PoS networks, including Solana (SOL), Sui (SUI), Aptos (APT), Avalanche (AVAX) and others, the companies announced Tuesday. The partnership, which began in 2023, has already facilitated more than $2 billion in staked assets through Coinbase Prime. Source: Figment…

What is ISO 20022, and why does it matter? ISO 20022 is a global standard that defines how financial institutions exchange information for transactions such as payments, securities and remittances. It replaces older, fragmented messaging systems with a unified, structured format that enables banks, fintech companies and payment networks across the world to communicate in the same digital language. Adopting ISO 20022 enhances cross-border compatibility by enabling secure and efficient sharing of richer, structured transaction data (such as payment purpose and sender and receiver information). This improves transparency, reduces the…

BlackRock-backed real-world assets (RWA) tokenization company Securitize is going public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at a $1.25 billion pre-money valuation. According to a Tuesday announcement, Securitize is merging with Cantor Equity Partners II, Inc. — a blank-check company sponsored by an affiliate of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald — to be listed on Nasdaq. The company’s co-founder and CEO, Carlos Domingo, said the company was founded “to democratize capital markets by making them more accessible, transparent, and efficient through tokenization.” Domingo said the next step…

The party of Argentine President Javier Milei, La Libertad Avanza (LLA), has won the 2025 midterm elections handily. But the crypto industry doesn’t necessarily have cause for celebration. Milei endeared himself to many in the crypto space with his pro-crypto rhetoric. He has called central banks “a scam” and said that Bitcoin (BTC) was “the natural reaction against the central bank scammers.” The economist-turned-president has publicly stated that cryptocurrencies can address some of Argentina’s economic problems. He said, “There will be free competition of currencies, so if you want to…