Societe Generale deploys stablecoins on Canton for tokenized finance

Metaplanet now holds nearly 87% of Bitcoin owned by Japan’s publicly listed companies. Japan is advancing stablecoins and tokenized bonds through new financial infrastructure initiatives. Simon Gerovich says Bitcoin will anchor future digital-native capital markets globally. Bitcoin Standard is gaining traction in Japan as Metaplanet expands its treasury strategy around the digital asset.  Metaplanet CEO […] The post Metaplanet Bets Big on Bitcoin as Japan Advances Digital Capital Markets appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

KDDI Corporation, one of Japan’s largest telecommunications companies, invested approximately $65 million to acquire a 14.9% stake in Coincheck Group N.V. and signed a business alliance agreement with Coincheck, Inc. to build blockchain-based financial services for Japanese consumers. Japan Telecom Giant KDDI Invests $65 Million in Coincheck to Bring Crypto to 30 Million au Customers […]

Anchorage Digital integrated stablecoin payment rails with Grupo Salinas to speed up cross-border dollar settlements. Coinpro will use Anchorage infrastructure to enable programmable real-time USD transfers across Mexico corridors. The partnership links regulated blockchain payment rails with Banco Azteca’s large retail banking ecosystem. Crypto firm Anchorage Digital has struck a cross-border payments partnership with Mexican […] The post Crypto Firm Anchorage Strikes Cross-Border Payments Partnership in Mexico appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

The European euro-backed stablecoin EURCV issued by SG Forge has grown its market cap by more than 200% over the past year.

Solana's Alpenglow upgrade could reshape blockchain economics by reducing MEV profitability, potentially enhancing network fairness and stability. The post Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko discusses Alpenglow’s impact on MEV appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The U.K.’s central bank is “not picking winners” in the debate over tokenized deposits and stablecoins, Sasha Mills said Wednesday.

The post FalconX Brings Tokenized Credit Vaults to Monad Network appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. FalconX has expanded its tokenized structured credit facility to the Monad network, allowing institutional credit vault deposits to be used as collateral in decentralized finance protocols such as Morpho.  Tokenization takes traditional credit facilities and represents them as digital tokens on a blockchain. In this case, the facility packages loans originated through FalconX’s lending business into tokenized credit products accessible through Pareto vaults curated by M11 Credit. RWA.xyz data shows real-world assets issued onchain have grown to more than $31 billion, including Treasurys, credit products and other financial assets. Credit-related assets alone account for more than $5 billion in distributed value across blockchain networks. The FalconX deployment adds support for using AA_FalconXUSDC vault tokens in onchain lending markets, enabling investors to borrow against institutio

The post The Boring Market Crypto May Actually Fix appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Crypto has spent years chasing its grand institutional moment. Most of the attention has gone to Bitcoin ETFs, tokenized funds, stablecoins, and the promise of Wall Street moving on-chain. Yet one of the clearest use cases may sit in a far less glamorous corner of finance: trade finance. That is the market Travis John, Head of Institutional DeFi at XDC Network, believes blockchain can improve in a practical way.  Speaking at Consensus Miami, Travis described a global trade system still dependent on fragmented records, slow bank coordination, paper-heavy processes, and expensive financing. “Since 2019, we’ve been building these rails,” Travis said. The goal, he explained, is “a better, faster, cheaper, more transparent way to track global commerce.” Global Trade Still Runs on Broken Records The problem is easy to understand. A shipment of coffee can involve nine parties. Copper can involve eleven. Ba