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Top 5 Real-World Asset Categories Tokenizing Fastest On-Chain
Tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) is advancing faster than many investors expected, but a major constraint remains: DeFi access and infrastructure. A recent research note by Standard Chartered’s head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick, argues that on-chain finance could rapidly absorb tokenized products—provided DeFi ecosystems can actually integrate them.
Kendrick estimates that only about 3% of stablecoins and 10% of tokenized real-world assets are currently used in DeFi. He projects that these shares could rise to 30% by 2030. That would represent a dramatic shift in how tokenized assets flow through decentralized markets, according to the note—though the pace will likely hinge on regulatory clarity and, just as importantly, practical trading and custody plumbing.
Key takeaways
- Standard Chartered expects DeFi’s use of tokenized assets to expand sharply, with Kendrick projecting 30% usage by 2030.
- Tokenized Treasuries remain the largest RWA on-chain category by distributed value, around $15 billion, supported by yield-bearing demand.
- Tokenized private credit is growing but still far smaller than Treasuries, at roughly $6.2 billion across major issuer platforms.
- Tokenized stocks are still a small share overall, yet growth is accelerating alongside broader market-structure pilots.
- Tokenized commodities have shown resilience during market closures, with on-chain perpetuals seeing sharply higher weekend volumes in early 2026.
Why DeFi adoption could be the real bottleneck
Tokenization is not the same as decentralized utility. Kendrick’s research frames the current gap: stablecoins and RWAs do exist on-chain, but only a limited portion is deployed inside DeFi strategies. The difference matters because DeFi liquidity, lending, hedging, and derivative markets typically require robust token standards, reliable custody, and operational integrations with trading venues.
The research note’s optimistic outlook for DeFi usage rests on a broader expansion in tokenized markets. According to data compiled by RWA.xyz, tokenized real-world assets reached $32.22 billion in distributed on-chain value by the end of June, nearly three times the $11.8 billion reported a year earlier. When stablecoins are included—understood here as tokenized representations of fiat—the wider tokenized market stands above $328.8 billion, per the same dataset.
RWA.xyz also reports that RWA asset holders grew to 937,928, up 13% in a single month—an indicator that the ownership layer is widening even if DeFi penetration is not yet where it could be.
Treasuries lead on-chain: yield, familiarity, and expanding access
Within RWAs, US Treasury instruments are currently the standout. Tokenized Treasuries are the largest category by on-chain value at about $15 billion. The appeal is straightforward: investors get familiar assets, low perceived risk, and yield—capabilities that stablecoins do not provide on their own.
BlackRock’s BUIDL fund, launched in March 2024, reached over $2.9 billion in total asset value by June 2025, and it was at $2.23 billion at the time of reporting. The article notes that some funds declined as capital was reallocated, reflecting competition among platforms and shifting allocations rather than a universal withdrawal.
Importantly for DeFi, tokenized funds are beginning to connect to decentralized trading venues. In February 2026, Uniswap Labs and Securitize announced that BUIDL shares were available for trade on UniswapX. The integration is described as restricted—meaning access is not fully open-ended—but it still signals a step toward bringing regulated, institutional-grade tokenized assets into DeFi-style execution.
Elsewhere, Franklin Templeton’s OnChain US Government Money Fund is represented by the BENJI token, which the article says has reached $2.44 billion. It runs across multiple networks, including Avalanche and Arbitrum as well as others listed in the report.
Beyond these flagship products, the piece highlights several additional Treasury offerings including Circle’s USYC (about $3.1 billion), Ondo’s tokenized suite (around $3.7 billion), and WisdomTree’s WTGXX (about $764 million). Together, these illustrate that Treasuries are not just the largest category by distributed value—they’re also where momentum is most visible across platforms.
Private credit and tokenized credit: liquidity where lockups used to dominate
Private credit—loans issued, negotiated, and held by non-bank institutions—has emerged as another growth lane within RWAs. The rationale overlaps with Treasuries but with a different incentive: private credit can offer higher yields than government debt, while tokenization can also address a long-standing pain point. Traditional private credit is often characterized by extended capital lockups; tokenization can make positions more transferable, usable as collateral, and redeemable.
According to RWA.xyz data cited in the article, the largest tokenized private credit platforms are Maple Finance and Stokr, each holding about a 22% market share. The total value of tokenized private credit is reported at approximately $6.2 billion—small relative to Treasuries, but meaningful for a sector that historically lacked liquid secondary markets.
Stocks and ETFs: pilots begin, but scale is still early
Tokenized stocks remain a fraction of the broader RWA ecosystem. RWA.xyz data referenced in the article places tokenized stocks at about $2.19 billion, with growth of nearly 50% in the previous 30 days at the time of writing.
The next potential step-change is market-structure modernization. In May, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced plans to pilot tokenized securities trading. DTCC clears and settles almost all US stock trades and custodies over $114 trillion in securities, according to the report. The pilots are described as beginning in the current month, with a full commercial launch considered possible by October. The pilot assets include Russell 1000 equities, major index ETFs, and US Treasuries, with participation listed across a wide range of financial firms including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Circle, Ondo Finance, and Ripple Prime.
In the tokenized equities space specifically, the article says Ondo Finance holds roughly 60% of the tokenized equity market through its Global Markets platform. It also points to partnerships Ondo has made to expand tokenization coverage, including a March 2026 partnership with Franklin Templeton to tokenize five ETFs and an April deal with Broadridge Financial Solutions aimed at enabling token holders to submit voting preferences for underlying shares.
Commodities, real resilience: trading around clock gaps
Tokenized commodities have delivered one of the clearest “use it or lose it” demonstrations of why on-chain markets can matter in real time. While tokenized gold and other commodities have existed for years, 2026 introduced a more stressful test.
The article describes a period of heightened US–Iran tensions when traditional markets faced closures, while tokenized oil and gold markets remained available. After US and Israel attacks on Iran earlier in the year, trading desks reportedly turned to on-chain perpetual futures platforms as a pricing venue during off-hours when conventional markets were not operating.
Weekend volumes on on-chain commodity perpetuals are described as increasing ninefold since the beginning of 2026, and commodity perpetuals now represent more than 67% of builder-deployed contracts on DEXs, according to the piece. While volumes have pulled back from March—when tokenized commodities reached $5.8 billion—the article says current figures are about $4.7 billion, with gold still comprising the majority.
On-chain and traditional markets have also started to move together more reliably. The article notes that the correlation between tokenized gold volumes and traditional gold markets crossed a 0.70 threshold in Q1 2026, suggesting that the on-chain commodity market is maturing rather than trading in isolation.
Real estate: still small, but approvals in regulated markets are changing the outlook
Real estate tokenization has historically been more promise than large-scale reality. As a slice of the RWA pie, the article places real estate at about $202.7 million in assets currently, while arguing that expansion could accelerate as tokenized property enters major regulated markets.
Dubai’s Land Department began the second phase of its real estate tokenization project in February 2026, opening tokenized property units for resale. In the same quarter, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission approved real estate tokenization products from Derlin Holdings, the article states.
For investors, the potential benefit is fractional exposure. The token represents a share of a building, which can translate into proportional rents and, crucially, the ability to trade positions without waiting for a property sale—though the long-term impact will depend on liquidity and secondary-market depth.
Growth is real—but RWAs are still dwarfed by traditional markets
Despite rapid progress, tokenized RWAs remain early-stage by most benchmarks. Tokenized Treasury products, though the largest category at nearly $15 billion, are still far smaller than the traditional US Treasury market, estimated at around $30 trillion by SIFMA research referenced in the article. Tokenized stocks are also described as a rounding error compared with the DTCC’s $114 trillion in securities under custody.
Liquidity is another limiting factor. The article points to thin secondary trading and long holding periods across many RWA segments—conditions that can frustrate DeFi strategies that rely on consistent market access and tight spreads.
Regulation may determine how quickly these frictions ease. In March, the SEC reportedly approved a Nasdaq proposal allowing certain stocks to be traded and settled via tokens, according to Reuters coverage cited in the article. Observers described in the same reporting expect broader approval ahead, with SEC Chair Paul Atkins potentially supporting RWAs through an “innovation exemption.” Either way, the article frames the remaining question as timing: not whether tokenization will expand, but how fast infrastructure and oversight can keep up.
For investors and builders, the next watch items are clear: whether integrations like DeFi-friendly token trading of regulated funds scale beyond restricted access, and whether regulatory pilots for tokenized securities translate into sustainable liquidity. If DeFi penetration rises as Kendrick expects, it will likely be because tokenization finally meets the operational needs of on-chain markets—not just because RWAs exist.
David Schwartz, an XRP Ledger co creator and current Ripple board member, proposed a Bitcoin inheritance setup on Aug. 3 that separates access to duplicate hardware wallets from the PIN needed to unlock them.
Summary
- David Schwartz proposed giving two duplicate Bitcoin wallets and their shared PIN to separate people.
- The setup uses one seed across devices, so it remains a single signature wallet structure.
- Four suspected Coldcard waves moved about 1815 BTC from more than five thousand addresses overall.
- Coinkite says fixed firmware protects new seeds but cannot repair phrases generated on affected devices.
- Multisignature inheritance systems require separate keys, unlike duplicate devices sharing one recovery phrase between them.
His post followed a renewed debate over paper backups after the Coldcard firmware failure. Ripple identifies Schwartz as an original XRP Ledger architect, while its current leadership page lists him as a board member.
Schwartz described the idea as “one way” to handle inheritance, not as a finished product or guaranteed security model. He suggested loading the same 24 word recovery phrase onto two additional cold wallets, setting the same PIN on both, giving one device to each of two relatives, and sharing the PIN with two trusted friends who would disclose it after the owner’s death. The post did not name a wallet model or use the “nuclear briefcase” label.
How the Bitcoin inheritance plan would work
The proposed setup creates two physical copies of the same wallet. Each relative would hold a signing device but lack the PIN. Each friend would know the PIN but hold no device. Under normal conditions, neither group could access the Bitcoin without cooperating with someone from the other group.
Schwartz’s argument came during a discussion about whether paper backups are simpler than hardware wallets. Paper avoids firmware exposure, but it remains vulnerable to theft, fire and accidental destruction. Bitcoin Design notes that metal backups offer greater physical durability, while hardware wallets isolate recovery phrases and private keys from connected devices.
Meanwhile, the arrangement does not create a multisignature wallet. Both devices contain the same recovery phrase, so each represents the same signing authority. One relative and one friend could therefore gain full control together. A leaked PIN paired with a stolen device could create the same result.
True multisignature systems use separate keys and require more than one signature before funds move. Unchained describes a common two of three structure where one compromised key cannot spend the Bitcoin alone. Schwartz’s proposal instead divides one complete credential into a physical component and a knowledge component.
Coldcard losses make seed quality the central risk
The debate follows a Coldcard flaw that weakened randomness during seed generation on affected firmware. Coinkite has released corrected versions, but updating firmware cannot repair an earlier recovery phrase. Affected users must create a new seed and move their Bitcoin. Coinkite says sufficient private dice entropy or a strong passphrase may provide additional protection in some cases.
Block’s security team traced the issue to a deterministic software fallback and limited reseeding process. It cautioned that it had “not done full empirical testing to confirm exploitability,” while reporting that active theft was underway. The findings show why copying a wallet is safe only when the original seed was generated securely.
As crypto.news reported, a fourth suspected attack wave moved 448.7 BTC from 709 possible victim addresses. Four observed waves may total about 1,815.75 BTC across 5,294 addresses if there is no overlap. Those figures remain onchain estimates rather than losses confirmed by every wallet owner, Coinkite or law enforcement.
A complete inheritance plan needs legal steps
Schwartz’s outline addresses access, but inheritance also requires clear instructions, legal ownership records and a process that heirs can execute under stress. Unchained advises documenting the security model and ensuring an executor or trustee understands how to use the relevant keys. In related coverage, crypto.news noted that self custody can leave assets permanently inaccessible when owners fail to prepare heirs.
The setup also depends on relatives and friends remaining reachable, trustworthy and capable of coordinating. Device failure, forgotten PINs, disputes or premature disclosure could still disrupt the transfer. The claim that heirs are “guaranteed” to receive the funds would therefore be too strong.
Schwartz’s post did not announce a commercial service, audit or formal technical specification. Independent review would need to compare the approach with multisignature wallets, time based controls and professional estate planning. Any recovery process should also be tested with a small balance before it is trusted with long term Bitcoin savings.
Gold has had a rough year. After hitting an all-time high near $5,602 in January, the metal has since dropped roughly 27% from that peak, weighed down by rising Treasury yields, a firmer dollar, and cooling demand for safe-haven assets.
This week brought a fresh twist. Gold climbed back above $4,050 on Monday after President Trump signaled that peace talks with Iran would resume, following pressure from regional allies like Saudi Arabia to pause military strikes. The news pushed oil prices lower and eased inflation fears, but it also reduced some of the safe-haven demand that had been supporting gold.
Despite the sharp correction, most analysts still expect gold’s long-term uptrend to eventually reassert itself. In the near term, though, all eyes are on Friday’s US jobs report, the week’s key catalyst: a weak print could revive rate-cut expectations and give gold fresh support, while a strong one could extend the current pullback.
Technical Analysis of XAU/USD Chart
As the XAU/USD chart shows, gold remains locked in a broader downtrend since January’s record high, currently testing the descending trendline from below while holding just above the 3,900-4,000 support zone.
Bullish Scenario
Gold has already shown signs of life bouncing from the 3,900-4,000 support, and the RSI divergence lends some credibility to this reaction. Should price break decisively above the descending trendline, the next real test becomes the 4,400 resistance zone, where the 200-period EMA also converges—a level that has proven highly significant over recent months. A confirmed break above this confluence would mark a meaningful shift in gold’s broader structure.
Bearish Scenario
Should gold instead reject the trendline once again, price risks getting trapped between resistance above and support below. In that scenario, Friday’s NFP report looms as a potential catalyst: a strong print could tip the balance, breaking the 3,900-4,000 support and opening the path toward the next meaningful level, the former resistance-turned-support zone at 3,400-3,500.
With price squeezed between a stubborn trendline and a battle-tested support, and a major data release just days away, gold’s next move could finally answer the question traders have been asking since January’s peak: is the correction over, or just catching its breath?
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Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stopped recommending that all children get an annual influenza vaccine. Instead, it made the shot a matter of “shared clinical decision-making”—something for parents and a doctor to weigh case by case—citing, among other reasons, a lack of randomized controlled trials proving the vaccine’s efficacy in children, including the very young.
After a lawsuit from public health organizations, a federal court blocked it, leaving the previous recommendation in place. But the case is ongoing, and earlier this year President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the government to treat a recent HHS assessment as a “guiding resource” and to revisit the childhood vaccine schedule. That assessment argues that recent evidence behind annual flu shots for children, much of it from observational studies rather than randomized trials, is thin. While we believe that the evidence base, which in fact includes many clinical trials, is stronger than suggested by that assessment, it is correct to note that observational studies of annual flu shots suffer from various statistical biases.
In a new study published this summer, we showed one way that vaccine efficacy can be reliably measured each season using data we already collect, minimizing statistical bias without running a randomized trial at all. In principle, it’s a measurement that could be repeated every year.
Randomized trials have earned their reputation as the “gold standard” because they address a real statistical problem. When we simply compare children who got the flu shot with those who didn’t, for example, the two groups can differ in ways that have nothing to do with the vaccine, like how cautious their parents are or how often they visit a doctor. A randomized trial solves this by assigning the shot purely by chance, so the only way the groups differ is in whether they got a flu shot.
But randomized trials are not the only place to find randomized data. Sometimes the world randomizes people for us by accident.
Young children tend to have their annual checkup around their birthday, and that visit is a convenient moment for a flu shot if the vaccine happens to be available in the pediatrician’s office. Children with fall birthdays, who tend to see their pediatrician in the fall, just as the season’s vaccine arrives, can get it then and there. Children with summer birthdays have to make a separate trip, which many families never get around to doing. And birth month is essentially random when it comes to the flu; there is no biological reason a child born in October should need a flu shot more than a child born in June.
This lottery has real consequences. In a prior study, we showed that among children aged two to five, those with fall birthdays are more likely to be vaccinated, less likely to be diagnosed with the flu, and less likely to have a family member catch it than children with summer birthdays.
For this new study, we took advantage of this same randomization, but this time we used it to estimate how effective the vaccine was in each of five recent flu seasons, tracking vaccination and influenza rates among two- to five-year-olds with fall vs. summer birthdays.
In a given flu season, if children with fall birthdays were vaccinated more than children with summer birthdays, but didn’t get the flu less often, it would suggest that the flu shot wasn’t very effective in that season. This could happen if the strains of influenza that the flu shot protected against didn’t end up circulating that season. Alternatively, in a season where children with fall birthdays got vaccinated more and also avoided more flu than the summer-born children, it would tell us the vaccine was effective in that season.
In every season we examined, the vaccine clearly worked as intended: for every 100 children vaccinated because of the timing of their birthday—the children whose shot hinged on that convenient scheduling—there were between 9 and 14 fewer diagnosed cases of influenza, depending on the season.
If children with fall and summer birthdays are truly comparable—as they would be in a randomized trial—we shouldn’t see differences in conditions the flu shot doesn’t prevent. So, we compared their rates of non-influenza infections, like stomach viruses and common colds, and found no difference. That result suggested our flu findings weren’t the result of one group simply seeing the doctor more often, or being more health-conscious than the other.
As helpful as accidental randomization can be, producing what are called “natural experiments” like this one, true randomized controlled trials remain the most rigorous form of evidence. But it is simply not feasible to run a trial to settle every question medicine and public health face each year. Trials are slow, expensive, and logistically challenging. And when it comes to research on existing treatments, they can be unethical, since researchers cannot withhold treatments believed to be effective just to keep proving the point.
If the federal government’s concern is that we lack fresh randomized evidence that a long-established treatment is effective, the solution isn’t to stop the treatment and wait for a trial that may never come. Using the enormous quantity of data the health care system already generates—that is largely sitting idle and unexamined—to its fullest potential is an excellent alternative. Birthdays handed us a natural experiment that, unlike a randomized trial, didn’t require enrolling thousands of patients, spending millions of dollars, or waiting years to complete.
With a bit of creativity and rigorous statistical methods, that evidence can be drawn from the data we already have in the form of natural experiments. The efficacy of flu shots in children is just one of thousands of questions we could answer this way—no new trial required.
The crypto market will welcome tokens worth around $630.2 million in the first week of August 2026. Major projects, including Hyperliquid (HYPE), Succinct (PROVE), and Ethena (ENA), will release significant new token supplies.
These unlocks could introduce market volatility and influence short-term price movements. So, here’s a breakdown of what to watch.
1. Hyperliquid (HYPE)
- Unlock Date: August 6
- Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 433,000 HYPE
- Released Supply: 454.99 million HYPE
- Total Supply: 1 billion HYPE
Hyperliquid is a leading decentralized perpetual futures exchange built on its own Layer-1 blockchain. It offers high-performance trading with low latency, on-chain order books, and sub-second transaction finality.
On August 6, the team will unlock 433,000 HYPE worth $22.74 million. The tokens account for 0.19% of the released supply.
The team has allocated the unlocked supply to core contributors. Tokenomist pointed out that HYPE has historically claimed far fewer tokens than its projected unlock amounts.
2. Succinct (PROVE)
- Unlock Date: August 5
- Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 208.33 million PROVE
- Released Supply: 200 million PROVE
- Total Supply: 1 billion PROVE
Succinct is a zero-knowledge proof infrastructure project built around SP1, a zkVM that lets developers generate ZK proofs from ordinary Rust code without custom cryptography. The Ethereum-based PROVE token handles payments, staking, and governance.
The team will release 208.33 million tokens on August 5. The tokens are worth $34.7 million. The unlock exceeds the token’s entire released supply, representing 104.17% of tokens currently on the market.
Succinct will split the supply five ways. The network will direct 83.33 million tokens towards the ecosystem and research and development. Contributors and investors will get 73.75 million tokens and 26.25 million tokens, respectively.
In addition, the team will allocate 16.67 million PROVE to public allocation and incentives. Finally, the Succinct Foundation will get 8.33 million tokens.
3. Ethena (ENA)
- Unlock Date: August 5
- Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 171.88 million ENA
- Released Supply: 8.73 billion ENA
- Total Supply: 15 billion ENA
Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol built on Ethereum (ETH). The protocol’s flagship product is USDe, a synthetic dollar stablecoin. Furthermore, ENA is the protocol’s governance token.
The team will release 171.88 million ENA tokens on August 5. The tokens, worth $15.36 million, account for 1.97% of the released supply.
Ethena will award the 93.75 million tokens to core contributors. In addition, the investors will receive 78.13 million ENA.
In addition to these three, Opinion (OPN), BounceBit (BB), and Momentum (MMT) will also experience new supply entering the market in the first week of August.
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In Ethereum news today, the application layer generated $1.79Bn in fees during Q2 2026; rollups are processing 1,270 user operations per second, and $17.2Bn in real-world assets sit on-chain.
However, the ETH price remains below $2,000, roughly -60% off its all-time high near $4,950 set in August 2025. The network activity is real. The value accrual to the ETH token is not keeping pace, and that gap is now the central structural debate in the Ethereum ecosystem.
On-chain analyst @Tanaka_L2 published a detailed breakdown on July 31 that quantifies the severity of the divergence. Ethereum L1 itself captured only 4.9% of the economic value generated by its application layer in Q2, $88.4M in Real Economic Value.
This came against $1.79Bn flowing through the apps built on top of it. That ratio is the arithmetic explanation for ETH’s underperformance against both its own history and Bitcoin, which has shed roughly 11% year-to-date in 2026 while ETH has dropped by closer to 32%.
The value capture collapse stems from structural issues rather than cyclical ones. Layer 2 rollups are now the primary driver of user activity, with Tanaka’s data showing rollups at around 1,270 UOPS compared to just 20.4 UOPS on the Ethereum mainnet.
Ethereum News: The Blob Fee Era Broke the Burn Thesis
Although this scaling has worked well, the introduction of cheap blob fees to make L2 data posting affordable has diminished the fee pressure that previously led to ETH burn.
As a result, the seven-day blob fee burn was only about 0.22 ETH, which is minimal. With a 0.85% annual supply growth and a 2.6% staking yield, the dynamics supporting the “ultrasound money” concept have stalled. The ETH/BTC ratio reflects this, compressing to multi-year lows as Bitcoin benefits from consistent institutional buying.
This is all while Ethereum faces ETF outflows and lacks a strong demand anchor. Understanding these diverging flows requires analyzing the current rotation of institutional capital across altcoins, where narrative clarity is as crucial as fundamentals.
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Tanaka’s Revised Thesis: Settlement Layer, Not Gas Token
Tanaka argues that the old model of ETH is outdated and proposes a new framework in which ETH serves as reserve capital and the settlement medium for institutional tokenized finance, rather than just a fee-accruing asset. He notes that increased on-chain financial assets will boost demand for ETH as collateral and gas, shifting the demand driver away from retail transactions.
Current data supports this view, with stablecoins on Ethereum valued at about $299.4Bn and RWA tokenization reaching $17.2Bn. Tanaka emphasizes that Ethereum’s strengths lie in institutional liquidity, settlement credibility, and a significant portion of ETH supply being staked, rather than in transaction costs. This evolving thesis is gaining attention among major asset managers, despite ETH’s current price performance.
However, Tanaka highlights three key conditions for price translation: the economic scarcity of L2 throughput-generating fee revenue; active turnover of stablecoins and RWAs rather than their sitting idle; and institutions holding ETH as a reserve asset rather than merely using the network. None of these conditions has been met at a substantial scale yet.
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What Has to Change for ETH to Close the Gap
In other Ethereum news, the forward scenario hinges on a transition from using network activity as a metric to using it as a revenue source for L1. If RWA settlement volumes and stablecoin turnover grow to the point where blob space demand outstrips supply, fee pressure returns to L1 and the burn mechanism reactivates.
That is the path where the current technical scaling investment pays off in token terms. The alternative, sustained high activity with low L1 fees, continues to compress the ETH/BTC ratio and validates the market’s current skepticism about Ethereum’s value accrual mechanics.
ETH’s near-term price action remains constrained by macro sensitivity; ETH carries a higher Nasdaq correlation than Bitcoin, and by the absence of a near-term catalyst that directly addresses the L1 revenue capture problem. Tanaka’s position is that Ethereum is in a deliberate margin-compression phase.
It subsidized cheap execution to build ecosystem scale, and the economic return to L1 has been deferred. Whether that deferral resolves into a structural re-rating or becomes a permanent feature of the modular architecture is the question the market is currently pricing at a significant discount.
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Crypto-friendly trading platform Robinhood (HOOD) is now registered to offer cryptocurrency services in the U.K.
Robinhood’s U.K. arm was added to the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) list of registered cryptoasset companies as of July 31.
The company’s existing FCA registration means it meets the regulator’s requirements where it comes to anti-money laundering (AML). A regime for crypto firms has been in effect since 2020 and now numbers over 50 approved companies, including Ripple, Kraken and traditional finance (TradFi) giants like BlackRock and BNY.
Winning the regulator’s permission to offer crypto services has added significance ahead of the inception of the more comprehensive framework for crypto regulation in the U.K. The authorization process opens at the end of September and closes at the end of February next year, ahead of the full regime coming into force in October.
The relatively brief window for companies to register and obtain full regulatory approval means those firms already registered under the FCA’s existing regime may have done a lot of the heavy lifting in advance.
ZeroStack’s plan to fund operations through 0G token reward sales is in jeopardy after a sharp drop in the token’s value. The downturn has also cast doubt on the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
ZeroStack ended June with a $61.3 million first-half loss, negative working capital, and $2.6 million in cash.
ZeroStack’s Form 10-Q Disclosure
According to its Form 10-Q disclosure for the quarter ending June 30, ZeroStack held $2.6 million in cash, negative working capital of $600,000, an accumulated deficit of $339.1 million, and a $61.3 million net loss. The company also reported an accounting loss of $82.5 million after re-measuring its assets at fair value.
ZeroStack held 75.1 million 0G tokens with a fair value of $15.17 million and a recorded cost of $163.33 million. It also held a small Bitcoin (BTC) position, taking the total fair value of ZeroStack’s holdings to $15.21 million and the total recorded value to $163.43 million.
The downturn in the value of ZeroStack’s 0G tokens represents a 90% decline and has cast serious doubts on the company’s financial stability and its ability to continue operations without securing additional funding.
Staking Reward Sales To Fund Operations
ZeroStack received 6.62 million 0G tokens through staking rewards in the first half of 2026, earning $3.78 million in revenue. The company sold 4.94 million 0G tokens for $2.4 million and used $2.47 million in cash for other operational activities. The company plans to monetize staking rewards and fund operations.
It may also sell some of its underlying holdings. ZeroStack stated in its disclosure that the staked tokens are held in company wallets and can be withdrawn when needed. The company also noted that staking rewards could decline or disappear entirely, and that any sale depended on prevailing market conditions and token value.
However, ZeroStack’s strategy could be at risk due to the significant decline in the 0G token’s value. The token is currently trading at $0.14, declining nearly 5% in the past 24 hours.
Investor Confidence Shaken
ZeroStack’s 0G bet and the subsequent decline in the token’s value significantly impact its investors. The downturn could result in further write-downs, affecting stock price and investor confidence.
Investors will closely monitor ZeroStack’s next steps. The company can raise funds through asset sales, a capital raise, or restructuring efforts. However, its current model could fail if the 0G token’s value continues declining.
ZeroStack’s July 20 acquisition of Texas Blocker increased its 0G token holding to 223.77 million, amplifying its exposure to the token’s downturn.
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HashKey Exchange said it received approval to open client money accounts with JPMorgan, weeks after it launched customer fund accounts with DBS Bank.
The flaw allowing the exploit traces to a March 2021 firmware build that routed seed generation to a predictable software randomizer instead of the chip’s hardware one, leaving the resulting keys reproducible offline by anyone who works out the range. Coldcard manufacturer Coinkite released emergency firmware for every affected model and told users who had generated a seed on the flawed software to move funds to a wallet address made with a fresh one.
Thorn said he had no direct victim report and published his findings on pattern matching alone, choosing speed over confirmation to warn people while the transactions were still unconfirmed.
If it holds, however, the running total across four waves had reached about 1,816 bitcoin, near $114 million, from more than 5,200 addresses since July 30.
Thorn advised users to check funds, move anything off an affected device and bid the fee up.
The pattern covered blocks 960,778 to 960,792, with 218 transactions hitting 462 victim addresses at a rate of about 14 sweeps per block against 0.3 in a pre-incident control window, roughly 45 times normal.
Each of the spent coins that arrived after the Coldcard firmware boundary, and the destinations were fresh addresses with no prior history, one per victim rather than the shared collectors that made the first two waves easy to map.
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Learn how to choose the best crypto payment gateway for businesses by comparing settlement, compliance, integrations, automation, and fees in 2026.
Companies serving international customers, digital-first audiences, or markets with limited card and bank transfer coverage may use crypto payments to fill the gap. A crypto payment gateway allows a business to accept crypto payments without building blockchain infrastructure internally. The provider can generate addresses, monitor confirmations, convert assets, screen transactions, and route settlements. The key question in 2026 is which provider can support the required assets, jurisdictions, settlement model, compliance process, and volume.
What defines the best crypto payment gateway for businesses?
The best crypto payment gateway for businesses depends on how the payment flow is expected to work.
Supported cryptocurrencies determine which assets customers can use, while blockchain coverage determines the available networks. The same stablecoin may operate on several blockchains with different fees and confirmation times.
The next question is what happens after payment. Some businesses retain crypto, while others convert it into stablecoins or fiat. Settlement options and automatic conversion should therefore be reviewed together. Auto-conversion can reduce volatility exposure and manual exchange work, while fiat settlement can simplify accounting and treasury management. However, availability may depend on the provider, jurisdiction, banking partners, and compliance checks.
Businesses must also decide how the gateway will connect with existing systems through an API, hosted checkout, or payment links. An API provides greater control over checkout logic and transaction handling, while hosted checkout reduces development work. Payment links support invoices and direct sales that do not require a conventional online store. Webhooks complement these methods by sending updates when a transaction is confirmed, underpaid, expired, or refunded.
Security and compliance determine whether the gateway fits internal policies. Relevant controls include KYB onboarding, AML screening, access permissions, withdrawal allowlists, transaction monitoring, and audit records. Transaction histories, exports, and reconciliation reports also reduce manual interpretation of blockchain records.
Finally, businesses need to assess reliability and total cost. Uptime and support affect payment continuity, while a headline fee may exclude blockchain charges, conversion fees, payouts, or fiat withdrawals. Providers should therefore be compared across the complete payment and settlement flow.
Comparison of leading crypto payment gateways
| Provider | Best suited for | Supported crypto | API | Fiat settlement | Auto-conversion |
| PassimPay | International digital businesses requiring multi-chain payments, automation, and several collection or payout methods | 74+ | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CoinGate | Merchants seeking an established checkout ecosystem, major assets, e-commerce plugins, and scheduled settlement | 10+ core assets | Yes | EUR, GBP, and USD | Yes |
| NOWPayments | Projects prioritizing broad asset coverage, flexible integrations, subscriptions, or mass payouts | 350+ | Yes | Available through fiat processing and withdrawal tools | Yes |
| CryptoProcessing by CoinsPaid | Larger organizations requiring managed payment infrastructure, permanent deposit addresses, exchanges, and batch payouts | 20+ | Yes | Crypto-to-fiat exchange and bank withdrawal | Yes |
The table reflects publicly available product information. Exact availability can vary by jurisdiction, asset, network, account type, and onboarding outcome.
PassimPay overview
PassimPay combines payment acceptance, fund management, conversion, and payout tools in one crypto payment solution. The platform supports more than 74 cryptocurrencies across over 18 blockchains and is available in 122 countries.
Businesses can integrate through a Payment API or use Hosted Checkout when a ready-made interface is more suitable. Payment Links support remote billing, while Static Deposit Wallets provide reusable addresses for account-based deposits. Webhooks connect transaction events with merchant systems.
Beyond incoming payments, Mass Payouts and Batch Transactions support transfers to multiple recipients. Auto Conversion can move received assets into another supported currency, while Fiat Settlement provides an off-ramp for companies that do not want to retain all revenue in crypto. The Merchant Portal includes Transaction History and Reports for tracking and reconciliation.
PassimPay also provides AML Screening, checkout customization, and payment monitoring. It has more than 530 merchants, over 750,000 monthly transactions, more than $4 billion processed, and 99.99% uptime. Fees start at 0.5%, although the final cost depends on the services and transaction flow used.
This feature set suits SaaS, gaming, AI, hosting, e-commerce, and other digital services that need multi-market payments, user deposits, automated updates, conversion, or recurring payouts.
When different providers may fit different business needs
CoinGate may fit companies that value an established merchant ecosystem, e-commerce integrations, core cryptocurrency support, and settlement in major fiat currencies. Its standard plan lists a 1% processing fee and weekly automatic settlement.
NOWPayments may suit projects that prioritize asset breadth. It supports more than 350 cryptocurrencies, API-based payments, subscriptions, payment buttons, custody options, mass payouts, and auto-conversion. Its published service fee is 0.5% for single-currency payments and 1% when conversion is required.
CryptoProcessing by CoinsPaid may fit enterprise-oriented operations that need permanent deposit addresses, payment links, internal exchanges, mass payouts, e-commerce plugins, and crypto-to-fiat withdrawal. Its documentation lists support for more than 20 cryptocurrencies.
PassimPay may fit companies that need multi-chain coverage together with hosted payments, static wallets, automated conversion, fiat settlement, reporting, and payout functions. The final decision depends on the assets, networks, countries, controls, and settlement routes required by the business model.
Conclusion
Selecting the best crypto payment gateway for businesses requires more than comparing supported coins. Companies need to assess integration depth, blockchain coverage, settlement currencies, compliance controls, reporting, uptime, support, and total processing costs.
CoinGate, NOWPayments, CryptoProcessing by CoinsPaid, and PassimPay address different operational priorities. PassimPay stands among the more functionally complete options in this group for international digital businesses requiring multi-chain acceptance, automated fund management, and both collection and payout tools. Still, the appropriate provider is the one that matches the company’s payment flow, risk policy, technical resources, and settlement requirements.
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