On September 30, Republic proclaimed its plan to tokenize Animoca Brands’ equity, promising global access within a framework that pretends to be compliant. Animoca, a collector of over 600 Web3 investments, brands itself as a maestro who uses tokenization and blockchain to hand over digital property rights to investors, as if ownership could be measured by melody and ledger lines. 😄🪙
Chainlink declared it had wrought a clever mechanism, permitting banks to speak in the tongue of tokenized investment funds through Swift-the venerable interbank message-post that underlies much of the established financial order. One imagines a telegram machine suddenly whispering blockchain secrets.
And thus, a bullish whisper winds through the market alleys: XRP might, perhaps, dare to ascend to $33. Such optimism is as infectious as a cough in a stuffy railway carriage.
Governments, those ever-watchful eyes, have turned their gaze upon the crypto realm. The United States, the United Kingdom, India, Canada, Australia, Japan-all have declared crypto a taxable asset. 🕵️♂️ Even the “free” airdrop, the staking income, the ETH-for-token swap-all are ensnared in the taxman’s net. Ignore this at your peril, for audits and fines lurk like specters in the shadows. 👻
The fund is going to operate through the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), which sounds like a sophisticated place where big ideas and expensive suits meet. And, of course, it’s being managed by the Qazaqstan Venture Group-talk about a group of movers and shakers! The big goal here? To build long-term investment reserves in the ever-evolving crypto market while keeping a tight grip on regulatory oversight. It’s almost like a dance between innovation and control. Very diplomatic.
The question lingers, heavy as a winter fog: will her decline stretch further, as technical indicators whisper of weakness in the weeks to come? 🕰️ Only time, that cruel arbiter, shall tell.
As the press release unfolded like a dusty scroll from the vaults of Brussels, SWIFT revealed its plan to graft a blockchain-based ledger onto its ancient infrastructure. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT as the kids call it, is the kind of cooperative that probably still uses fax machines. Now it’s partnering with 30+ banks to build a system that makes real-time payments feel less like waiting for a reply from Neptune and more like a text message. Because the future is now, but so is the caffeine. ☕
Tensions between traditional finance and digital asset firms are escalating as policy debates over stablecoin rewards heat up. Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) shared on social media platform X on Sept. 29 that banks are pressing for measures that would prevent customers from earning rewards on stablecoin holdings. The crypto exchange framed the effort as an attempt to secure a bailout for traditional banks while undermining consumer benefits and suppressing competition. 🤯
If you thought international payments were stuck in the financial Stone Age, think again. Swift just dropped news at its Sibos conference in Frankfurt on September 29 that it’s diving headfirst into the blockchain pool. Picture this: a shared digital ledger that keeps the cash flowing 24/7 across borders, like a financial espresso shot, fueled by more than 30 banking giants spanning 16 countries. The goal? To twist Swift’s usual role into something that sounds like fintech magic-real-time tokenized value flying across the globe, wrapped in a snug blanket of compliance, resilience, and interoperability. Sounds fancy, right?
