Solana Hits 300,000 RWA Holders as Ethereum’s $16.3 Billion Value Lead Starts to Slip

Solana’s real-world asset holder base has climbed to an all-time high above 300,000 wallets, ranking the network first among all blockchains even as Ethereum keeps a commanding lead in tokenized value. A Change of Guard The number of wallets holding tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on Solana topped 300,000 for the first time earlier this week, … Read more

Saylor Hoards $3 Billion in Cash as Strategy’s $55 Billion Bitcoin Bet Sinks $9.9 Billion Underwater

Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) now pairs a $3 billion U.S. dollar reserve with 843,775 BTC worth roughly $55 billion, a barbell structure executive chairman Michael Saylor is pitching as the company’s path through the bear market. A New Strategy, No Pun Intended The world’s largest corporate bitcoin holder has stopped stacking and started hoarding dollars. … Read more

Luno Pushes South Africa to Rewrite Crypto Rules Through Parliament, Not Proclamation

Luno has formally challenged South Africa’s proposed capital flow regulations, which aim to place digital assets under a modernized exchange control regime. Strict Enforcement and Steep Penalties Cryptocurrency exchange Luno has launched a formal challenge against a proposed overhaul of South Africa’s foreign exchange laws, arguing that the National Treasury’s plan to bring digital assets … Read more

Emirates NBD Launches Real-Time USD Blockchain Payments, Cutting Cross-Border Delays

Emirates NBD has gone live on the blockchain-based Partior network, becoming the first financial institution in the region to offer blockchain-enabled cross-border U.S. dollar payments. Instant Settlement via JPMorgan Dubai-based Emirates NBD has become one of the first financial institutions in the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye (MENAT) region to launch real-time cross-border U.S. … Read more

CFTC Blocks Kalshi From Cancelling Michigan Sports Trades Ordered Voided

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has stopped Kalshi from liquidating sports event contracts that a Michigan court ordered cancelled and refunded. The intervention leaves Michigan’s restriction on new sports trades intact while opening a direct federal-state confrontation over who controls transactions already executed on a regulated derivatives exchange. Federal order protects completed trades, not new … Read more

Cleanspark Lands $6.6B AI Lease as 20-Year Deal Reshapes Bitcoin Mining Strategy

Cleanspark has signed a 20-year triple-net lease at its Sandersville, Georgia, campus, expected to generate $6.6 billion in contracted revenue. The tenant has also secured exclusivity over Cleanspark’s 885 MW Texas portfolio, signaling a broader artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure partnership. Cleanspark Turns Georgia Mining Site Into 175 MW AI Campus With $6.6B Lease Cleanspark is … Read more

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