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Retail traders can now fund their IBKR accounts with stablecoin transfers.Interactive Brokers (IBKR), one of the world’s largest brokerage services, now allows users to deposit stablecoins in their brokerage accounts.According to a Bloomberg report, the feature will have a staggered rollout beginning in the United States, allowing eligible accounts to fund their brokerage accounts with stablecoins.The move presents a much-needed alternative for those who made their wealth in crypto, as before, users were required to offramp via a centralized exchange, transfer funds to their bank account, and then transfer money from a bank account to a licensed brokerage, while paying…

Memecoins are not dead because the market is down and the narrative has faded, according to president of payment infrastructure company MoonPay, Keith A. Grossman, who said that memecoins will be back but in a different form.The real innovation of memecoins is that attention can be tokenized easily and at low costs through blockchain technology, democratizing access to the attention economy, Grossman said. He continued:“Before crypto, attention could only be monetized by platforms, brands and a small group of influencers. Everyone else generated value and gave it away for free. Likes, trends, inside jokes and communities created massive economic value.”…

This approval allows DTC to begin offering a tokenization service for traditional, DTC custodied assets. The service will operate in a controlled production environment. The service to Tokenize Traditional Market Assets is expected to begin rolling out in the second half of 2026. It marks one of the most significant steps yet toward connecting traditional finance with emerging digital asset technology. Tokenizing Assets with Full Investor Protection The SEC’s No Action Letter authorizes DTC to tokenize certain assets for participants and their clients on pre approved blockchains for three years. Tokenization is the process of creating a digital version of…

Willemstad, Curaçao, December 14th, 2025, Chainwire Whale.io has officially launched the $WHALE NFT collection on Solana, introducing the next phase of the platform’s native token rollout and bringing the community one step closer to the upcoming Token Generation Event (TGE). The $WHALE NFTs – presented as fully tradable digital cards – represent a new value layer within the Whale ecosystem. Each card holds a fixed amount of $WHALE tokens locked on-chain and backed 1:1, making them redeemable at any time for the underlying tokens. Minting is now live exclusively at mintwhale.io, where users can acquire these asset-backed cards and begin…

Satellite-to-Phone Service Market The Satellite-to-Phone Service Market size reached US$ 6.22 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach US$ 10.95 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 7.32% from 2025 to 2032. This robust growth is driven by the increasing demand for uninterrupted global connectivity in remote and underserved areas, the integration of non-terrestrial networks (NTN) with direct-to-device (D2D) capabilities, advancements in LEO satellite constellations, rising adoption of satellite-enabled smartphones and IoT, and critical applications in emergency response, maritime, aviation, and defense sectors.Get a Free Sample PDF Of This Report (Get Higher Priority for Corporate Email ID):-https://www.datamintelligence.com/download-sample/satellite-to-phone-service-market?sindhuriNorth America:…

Bitcoin’s ownership profile is changing. Corporate treasuries and governments are now holding sizable portions of the circulating supply. In 2025, Bitcoin underwent a major transformation as institutional holders steadily absorbed the world’s largest crypto asset. In fact, new data revealed that nearly six million bitcoins are now held by large entities. This has left smaller investors with shrinking influence over supply. ETFs, Governments, and Corporations Tighten Their Grip Bitcoin (BTC) holdings are becoming increasingly concentrated among large institutions and custodians, according to the latest findings by Glassnode. Publicly listed companies hold about 1.07 million BTC. The top public BTC treasury…

Semilore Faleti is a cryptocurrency writer specialized in the field of journalism and content creation. While he started out writing on several subjects, Semilore soon found a knack for cracking down on the complexities and intricacies in the intriguing world of blockchains and cryptocurrency. Semilore is drawn to the efficiency of digital assets in terms of storing, and transferring value. He is a staunch advocate for the adoption of cryptocurrency as he believes it can improve the digitalization and transparency of the existing financial systems. In two years of active crypto writing, Semilore has covered multiple aspects of the digital…

On Dec. 9, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency put out a press release with a very direct message for US banks: you are allowed to sit in the middle of crypto trades.In the memorably titled News Release 2025-121, the OCC published the somehow even worse-titled Interpretive Letter 1188 and confirmed that national banks may run “riskless principal” crypto-asset transactions as part of the business of banking, acting as the buyer to one customer and seller to another, while keeping no meaningful inventory of tokens themselves.A day earlier, Comptroller Jonathan Gould stood before a room of industry participants…

Bitcoin-heavy firm Strategy (MSTR) will remain in the Nasdaq 100 index, surviving the annual reshuffle that saw several household names dropped.The firm, which began as business software provider MicroStrategy, pivoted in 2020 to stockpiling bitcoin as its core strategy. It has since then accumulated 660,624 BTC worth $59.55 billion, and it was added to the index last December.Unlike traditional companies in the index, Strategy’s performance is tightly tethered to bitcoin’s price. Its business model, which involves buying and holding massive quantities of the cryptocurrency, has inspired similar moves by smaller firms but drawn criticism from analysts and index providers.That criticism…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The XRP ecosystem is taking a major step forward with the launch of Wrapped XRP (wXRP) on the Solana and Ethereum blockchains. A crypto expert has provided a thorough breakdown of what this new development could mean for XRP, noting that it not only strengthens the cryptocurrency’s credibility among other blockchains but also significantly boosts its utility.   A Look Into XRP’s Launch On Solana And Ethereum XRP is expanding its presence beyond its native blockchain with the introduction of Wrapped XRP on Ethereum and Solana. Hex Trust,…