• Cryptocurrencies,  Staking

    Upshift’s New Vault Platform Allows Instant RWA Redemption

    USDC vaults will provide instant liquidity to RWA holders

    Onchain vault provider Upshift has partnered with asset tokenization firm Superstate to launch a new redemption platform for tokenized real-world assets. Upshift Clear will bridge the settlement gap in the real-world asset (RWA) tokenization sector by “applying the logic of traditional bridging capital onchain,” Upshift said in a release Dedicated USDC stablecoin vaults will provide instant liquidity to RWA holders…

  • Cryptocurrencies

    Charles Schwab Launches Spot Crypto Trading

    Customers will be able to trade bitcoin and ether to begin with

    Charles Schwab has begun rolling out spot trading of cryptocurrency to its retail brokerage clients. The discount brokerage giant announced on X today that an initial group of clients can now trade bitcoin and ether alongside traditional stocks and exchange-traded products. Trading of additional crypto assets will be rolled out over time. In an April preview of the launch, Schwab…

  • Cryptocurrencies,  Security

    North Korean Hackers ‘Industrialized’ Crypto Theft

    AI security saved $10 billion: Binance

    North Korea has “industrialized” cryptocurrency theft, turning it into a primary mechanism of revenue for the pariah state. That’s the conclusion of a new report by crypto security firm CertiK, which found that North Korean hackers have stolen $6.75 billion over the past decade, $2.6 billion of it in the past 18 months alone. The biggest incident by far was…

  • Cryptocurrencies,  Technology

    Boundary to Launch ‘Verifiable’ Stablecoin for Institutions

    USBD will be for pre-approved institutions only

    Boundary Labs today announced that it has closed a $2 million pre-seed funding round to launch a new stablecoin, designed for institutions, that will provide onchain verification of its backing reserves. Exclusively for financial and blockchain institutions, the USBD stablecoin is engineered from the ground up for pre-approved participants who require “a new standard of onchain verifiability,” Boundary labs said…