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CryptoRank Study Finds Bitget rTokens Recorded Up to 58% Lower Slippage on $50,000 Orders Across Leading Tokenized Equity Platforms
Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), ranked first for large-order execution in a CryptoRank study evaluating liquidity, market structure and execution quality across leading tokenized equity products. The research found that Bitget’s Reality rTokens delivered the lowest simulated slippage across every comparable asset tested, recording up to 58% lower slippage on $50,000 orders than competing tokenized equity products, highlighting the growing importance of execution quality as tokenized equities continue to mature.
The report arrives as the tokenized equity market approaches $2 billion in onchain value with more than 471,000 onchain holders, reflecting growing investor demand for blockchain-based access to traditional financial assets. As tokenized stocks become more widely available across crypto exchanges, CryptoRank examined how differences in product structure, liquidity models and execution infrastructure influence the trading experience beyond simple price exposure.
The study compared tokenized stock offerings across major exchanges and found that products tracking the same underlying equities can differ significantly in investor rights, liquidity mechanisms, redemption models and execution quality. The report evaluated NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta and Tesla, the only four assets that maintained valid two-sided order books across all venues tested. In this comparable set, Bitget’s Reality rTokens consistently produced the strongest execution results for larger trades.
The report found that Bitget delivered the lowest simulated slippage across all four comparable assets for both $10,000 and $50,000 orders, while Reality rTokens recorded the highest balanced displayed liquidity within 50 basis points. CryptoRank attributed these results to Bitget’s liquidity architecture, which combines exchange liquidity with NYSE and NASDAQ-linked underlying market liquidity, enabling deeper liquidity and more efficient execution for larger trades. CryptoRank also examined the legal and operational structures behind tokenized equity products, noting that similar stock tickers can represent different forms of investor claims depending on how each product is issued and settled.
“Tokenization is moving beyond access and into infrastructure,” said Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget. “If even 10% of global financial assets become tokenized by 2030, we’ll witness one of the most significant transformations in modern capital markets. The next phase of tokenization will be defined by quality of execution liquidity and market infrastructure supporting those assets. Independent research like this helps establish the benchmarks the industry needs as tokenzied markets continue to mature.”
The findings build on Bitget’s continued expansion of its Stock+ ecosystem, which gives eligible users access to more than 500 tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities and other traditional financial assets alongside cryptocurrencies through a single unified account. By combining 24/7 market access, fractional investing and NYSE and NASDAQ-linked liquidity, Bitget is building the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of tokenized capital markets.
Read the CryptoRank report here.
About Bitget
Bitget is the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 500+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships such as MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry’s lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.
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Large investors have seemingly decided to offload a substantial amount of ETH, raising concerns among some analysts that the asset could be gearing up for fresh bearish momentum.
At the same time, the optimists are just as vocal, forecasting a powerful move north in the near future.
The Whales’ Latest Move
Ali Martinez revealed that this group of market participants has sold or redistributed 226,435 ETH over the last 24 hours, marking one of the largest spikes in whale activity recently. At current rates, the stash is worth roughly $430 million, and these investors now control 26.64 million coins, about 22% of the asset’s circulating supply.
Such sell-offs from whales are usually viewed as concerning factors that could spread panic across the community and prompt smaller players to cash out, too. In line with the warning, Martinez said he is paying close attention to the $1,773 level, claiming that a breakdown below could “put the current bullish outlook on hold.”
Another analyst who outlined a rather pessimistic prediction is X user Crypto Lens. They think that ETH is stuck at the $1,860-$1,955 range for a reason, suggesting that the real bull trap is just getting started. In their view, the price may jump as high as $2,000, but shortly after, it might collapse to its final bottom test in the $1,400-$900 zone.
“There’s a chance we’ll wick a candle to update the 2022 minimum and sweep liquidity. I see a lot of hate toward Ethereum – this is done to disillusion the crowd. After that, whales will pump positivity around ETH when the price hits a new ATH,” the analyst concluded.
The Bullish Targets
Martinez has been quite indecisive about ETH lately, and earlier this week he was optimistic about an upcoming rally. He spotted the formation of a golden cross on the asset’s price chart, outlining the $1,980-$2,080 range as the first major resistance zone.
“If bulls manage to clear it, the next key level I’m watching for ETH sits at $2,773,” he said at the time.
MikybullCrypto and Gordon have also shared bullish predictions. The former described ETH as “one of the best plays right now” and projected a 5x move from current levels. The latter claimed that once the price breaks above $2K, “there’ll be no looking back.”
The most optimistic forecast came from CrediBULL Crypto, who believes that ETH is about to finish a multi-year base against BTC and is headed toward an all-time high of $20,000.
The amount of ETH stored on crypto exchanges adds weight to the positive scenario. Today (July 29), the figure fell to a new 10-year low of 15.13 million coins, suggesting that investors continue to abandon centralized platforms in favor of self-custody. This, in turn, reduces immediate selling pressure.
The post Ethereum Hit by Heavy Whale Selling: Where Could ETH Go Next? appeared first on CryptoPotato.
Emirates, the Dubai-based flagship carrier, has launched Crypto.com Pay on its website and app, enabling eligible United Arab Emirates residents make flight bookings with cryptocurrencies, the airline said Tuesday.
Mobile users are sent to the Crypto.com app to authorize payment from their wallet, while desktop customers scan a QR code at checkout, the companies said in an announcement. Emirates settles in UAE dirhams rather than holding crypto, with Crypto.com handling the conversion.
The move “reflects the rapidly evolving preferences of a younger, digitally fluent generation who manage their money and plan their journeys primarily from their phones,” said Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ deputy president and chief commercial officer. Neither company indicated whether they would expand the Emirates service beyond eligible UAE residents.
The launch implements a partnership announced in July 2025. Cointelegraph reported in May that Crypto.com had received a UAE central bank Stored Value Facilities (SVF) license, which the company said at the time could support integrations with Emirates and Dubai Duty Free.
An SVF license allows non-bank companies to hold customers’ money or crypto in a digital wallet and process payments under central bank oversight. It lets customers fund payments with cryptocurrencies while merchants receive dirhams or approved dirham-backed stablecoins.
According to CoinGecko, Crypto.com handled around $686 million in trading volume in the 24 hours up to the time of writing.
Emirates is not the region’s first airline to add a crypto checkout option. Air Arabia began accepting the dirham-backed AE Coin stablecoin for flight bookings in May 2025.
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The difference now was that these slogans came from a broader base of largely Hindu students, many of whom had until then been comfortable with the bargain Indians made with Modi. Against this, the government’s usual playbook failed.
In those heady moments, at the protest site, scrolling through social media, it felt as if India was breathing again, as if the fear had lifted and young India was ready to reclaim its constitutional promise. But the dark shadows never quite disappeared. The mood was spirited and free, yet anxious. Every few hours, the threat of more police action and greater repression surfaced. In the aftermath, despite promises to the contrary, a crackdown on protesters across the country has begun. It is these shadows that make any assessment of what comes next a grim exercise.
The battles ahead for India
Still, some democratic space has opened. Never in these 13 years has Modi’s governance been so actively delegitimized. The young are searching for a new political grammar rooted in democracy and accountability. Education reform is the rallying cry. The failures of education are not entirely this government’s making, but it drove in the final nail by placing the education system in service of the Hindu nationalist project: rewriting school curricula, making political appointments, overcentralizing and defunding higher education.
Emirates has added a new way for eligible customers in the United Arab Emirates to pay for flights using cryptocurrencies. The Dubai-based airline launched Crypto.com Pay on its website and mobile app, allowing users to authorize payments from their Crypto.com wallets at checkout.
According to an Emirates announcement shared with Crypto.com, mobile users are prompted to complete the transaction inside the Crypto.com app, while desktop customers scan a QR code to proceed. Emirates will receive payment in UAE dirhams rather than taking custody of crypto itself—Crypto.com handles the conversion during the process.
Key takeaways
- Emirates customers in eligible UAE markets can use Crypto.com Pay to book flights with cryptocurrency, subject to wallet authorization and checkout flow.
- The airline is paid in UAE dirhams; Crypto.com performs the conversion, reducing direct crypto exposure for the merchant.
- Mobile and desktop users follow different checkout mechanics—app authorization for mobile and QR code settlement for desktop.
- The rollout follows a partnership first flagged earlier and comes after Crypto.com received a UAE central bank Stored Value Facilities (SVF) license.
- Emirates is joining a small set of regional airlines testing crypto-linked payment rails, alongside Air Arabia’s AE Coin option.
How Emirates’ Crypto.com Pay checkout works
Emirates says the new payment route is designed for customers who prefer to plan and book travel directly from phones. The airline’s process differs by device: smartphone users are directed to the Crypto.com app to confirm payment from their wallet, while desktop shoppers scan a QR code at checkout to complete the transaction.
This setup keeps the customer experience tied to Crypto.com’s payment infrastructure while maintaining traditional settlement on the airline’s side. By receiving dirhams instead of crypto, Emirates can continue operating its standard accounting and fare ecosystem without needing to hold or manage volatile crypto assets.
Why Crypto.com’s SVF license matters for merchants
Crypto.com Pay’s availability is tied to the company’s regulatory posture in the UAE. Earlier coverage from Cointelegraph noted that Crypto.com received a UAE central bank Stored Value Facilities (SVF) license—an authorization Crypto.com said could support integrations for payments with entities such as Emirates and Dubai Duty Free.
An SVF license generally allows licensed non-bank entities to hold customers’ money or crypto in a digital wallet and process payments under central bank oversight. For merchants, the practical implication is that customers can fund payments with cryptocurrency while the merchant receives fiat (in this case, dirhams) or approved dirham-linked stablecoin instruments, depending on the specific payment design.
That distinction is important: it changes the operational question from “can a merchant accept crypto directly?” to “can a regulated payment processor convert and settle in the merchant’s preferred currency?” Emirates’ approach appears to follow the second model, using Crypto.com for conversion and settlement.
Partnership timing and what the launch signals
Emirates and Crypto.com say the new checkout option implements a partnership first announced in July 2025. In the meantime, regional players have also been experimenting with stablecoin-linked rails. For example, Air Arabia began accepting the dirham-backed AE Coin stablecoin for flight bookings in May 2025.
By launching now, Emirates becomes the latest major travel brand in the UAE to test crypto-enabled payments—specifically through a regulated wallet and payment pathway rather than taking on direct crypto settlement risk. Emirates’ deputy president and chief commercial officer Adnan Kazim described the move as reflecting “the rapidly evolving preferences of a younger, digitally fluent generation” that manages finances and plans journeys largely from mobile devices.
Still, the airline did not specify whether Crypto.com Pay will expand beyond eligible UAE residents. For users outside those eligibility boundaries, the immediate impact is limited, even if the payment rail could theoretically be rolled out further later.
What to watch next for crypto payments in travel
Crypto payments in mainstream commerce tend to advance in stages: first through pilots, then through expansion across more routes and payment channels, and finally through deeper integration with loyalty programs and broader customer identity checks. Emirates’ decision to route crypto payments through Crypto.com’s infrastructure suggests it views this as a distribution and customer-experience upgrade rather than a wholesale shift in how fares are valued.
For the broader market, readers should watch whether the service expands to more customer segments in the UAE, whether additional airlines in the region adopt similar models, and how settlement practices evolve as more merchants rely on SVF-regulated payment processors.
With crypto payments still uneven across jurisdictions and consumer segments, the key uncertainty remains rollout scope: Emirates has launched Crypto.com Pay for eligible UAE residents, but the timeline for broader availability—and whether it will include more payment options beyond crypto-to-dirham conversion—will determine how meaningful this becomes for everyday travelers.
Two photographs supplemented by personal statements from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R, Ky.), who has been absent from Congress since mid-June, have not quelled doubts about his health status. Now, Kentucky’s Democratic governor has demanded that the veteran GOP lawmaker prove his fitness for office or resign.
Gov. Andy Beshear sent a letter to McConnell on Monday, “under the assumption that he is capable of reading and responding verbally, and not incapacitated by means of consciousness or cognition,” following McConnell’s hospitalization on June 14.
In the letter, Beshear called on the 84-year-old to “directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign.” Beshear also sent a similarly worded letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and urged him to “fully investigate” McConnell’s condition, report to the public if the ailing Senator did not voluntarily show his ability to serve, and assess if Senate proceedings were warranted.
In most states, governors appoint new senators to fill vacant U.S. Senate seats, but Kentucky’s state law requires a special election to be held instead.
The letter went public as McConnell’s office released a statement in which the Senator said he could not attend an upcoming event in the state. Beshear doubled down in his own letter on what McConnell has missed since disappearing from public view—including casting crucial Senate votes. “Important events are happening in our country right now during your absence,” Beshear said.
It was only weeks after June 14 that McConnell first disclosed that he was hospitalized due to a fall. The lack of details has fueled rumors of his potential disability and even death, among critics, and has also become a subject of mockery.
McConnell has previously attributed his prolonged silence about his fall and subsequent hospitalization to vulnerabilities surrounding aging and privacy. But the Kentucky Governor said that while he understands the Senator’s concerns, he noted that as a public official, McConnell was expected to “willingly abdicate much of your personal privacy.”
“It’s not like we are asking a lot,” Beshear told CNN Tuesday. “We’re asking the bare minimum.”
Asked about the letter, Thune told NBC News on Tuesday that the issue was between McConnell and Kentuckians: “I’m not sure what [Beshear’s] prerogatives are in that case. But that’s where the issue should be resolved.”
The Democratic Governor has been widely viewed as a potential contender for the 2028 presidential election.
Concerns about gerontocracy
McConnell’s prolonged absence, as well as the sudden death of his colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R, S.C.), at 71, have brought renewed attention to what many say is a growing problem in U.S. politics: the main players are getting too old to play the game.
Data from the Pew Research Center show that the median age of Senators at the start of the current U.S. Congress was 64.7 years. The House leans slightly younger, with a median age of 57.5 years. Americans’ median age, meanwhile, is 39.4 years.
But aging in public office has been particularly spotlighted in the executive.
Donald Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, who was the oldest President to leave office at 82 years and 2 months old, had his cognitive health questioned during the 2024 election cycle. Biden later dropped out of the race following a disastrous debate performance.
Trump returned to the White House in 2025 and became the oldest U.S. President to take the oath of office. At 80, he has faced increasing scrutiny over his physical condition and mental acuity, and his Administration has conducted several health assessments in an attempt to dismiss concerns. And despite his age, Trump has even teased running for an unconstitutional third presidential term.
Ethereum price rose nearly 2% on July 29 as US spot ETF inflows and short liquidations helped ETH defend its rising support structure before the Federal Reserve’s rate decision.
Summary
- Ethereum recovered above $1,900 after rebounding from an intraday low near $1,856.
- US spot Ethereum ETFs attracted $14.53 million, including $5.15 million for Morgan Stanley’s MSSE.
- The 4-hour chart places ETH inside an ascending channel, with resistance approaching $1,970.
- Liquidation clusters near $1,940 and $1,960 could shape the next move before the Fed decision.
Ethereum price returns above $1,900
According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) price was trading near $1,913 at the time of writing, up about 2% over the past 24 hours. The token had traded between approximately $1,856 and $1,926 during the session.
The recovery followed a successful defense of the $1,850–$1,880 region. ETH first reclaimed the daily Bollinger Band midpoint at $1,874 before moving back above the psychological $1,900 level.
Ethereum’s daily chart shows price consolidating between the Bollinger Band midpoint and upper boundary. The upper band sits at $1,973, making the $1,970–$2,000 region the next technical barrier. The lower band remains near $1,775.
Buying pressure has also improved. The Chaikin Money Flow reading stands at 0.08, above the neutral line and indicating that capital inflows currently outweigh distribution. However, the indicator remains below its July high, suggesting demand has not yet reached breakout strength.
Morgan Stanley ETF adds to institutional demand
The rally coincided with the first trading session for the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust, which listed on NYSE Arca under the ticker MSSE.
MSSE attracted $5.15 million in net inflows and generated $19.03 million in first-day trading volume. BlackRock’s ETHB recorded the largest daily inflow at $5.91 million, while combined spot Ethereum ETF inflows reached $14.53 million.
US-listed Ethereum funds held about $10.5 billion in net assets after the session, equal to 4.53% of Ethereum’s market capitalization. Cumulative net inflows stood at approximately $11.21 billion, according to SoSoValue data.
MSSE’s launch expands regulated access to ETH for US investors through brokerage and retirement accounts. Its 0.14% expense ratio also increases fee competition among existing Ethereum funds.
ETF inflows alone do not prove that institutions caused the full price move. However, positive flows arrived as ETH tested a major support area, providing additional spot demand when liquidity was relatively thin.
Short liquidations accelerate Ethereum’s bounce
Derivative positioning added momentum to the recovery. Ethereum short liquidations reached $37.68 million over 24 hours, slightly exceeding the $36.66 million recorded for leveraged long positions.
The largest single liquidation was a $4.74 million ETH-USDT position on Binance, according to CoinGlass data. Forced closures of short positions require exchanges to buy back contracts, which can accelerate an existing price recovery.
The supplied 24-hour liquidation heatmap shows the strongest nearby overhead concentration around $1,938–$1,943. Additional liquidity rests near $1,955–$1,960.
These clusters may attract price if ETH maintains support above $1,900. A move through $1,960 could then expose the $1,970 Bollinger Band resistance and the $2,000 psychological threshold.
On the downside, leveraged positions are concentrated near $1,895–$1,900 and between approximately $1,870 and $1,885. Losing $1,900 could therefore trigger another sweep toward the lower part of the 4-hour channel.
Ethereum charts point toward $1,970 resistance
The 4-hour chart places Ethereum inside an ascending parallel channel that has guided price since early July. ETH recently tested the channel’s lower boundary near $1,880 before recovering toward its midpoint.
The Aroon Up indicator stands at 64.29%, compared with an Aroon Down reading of 7.14%. That difference suggests the recent bullish trend retains control despite ETH’s failure to hold its July 27 high near $1,970.
The Awesome Oscillator also remains positive at 15.66. Its green histogram bars show that short-term momentum has begun to improve following the latest pullback.
A close above $1,940 would clear the first major liquidation zone. Bulls would then need to break $1,970 and the upper Bollinger Band to open a test of $2,000. The ascending channel’s upper boundary could provide further resistance between $2,000 and $2,030.
Failure to hold $1,880 would weaken the channel structure. Below that level, the daily Bollinger midpoint at $1,874 becomes the first defense, followed by $1,800 and the lower band near $1,775.
Analysts see $1,800 as the critical floor
Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe identified $1,800 as the level Ethereum must preserve for the recovery to continue.
“I’d preferably see it hold above $1,800. If that’s the case, then it’s a matter of time until we’re going to see numbers that are north of $2,000.”
Daan Crypto Trades also noted that ETH had broken above its downtrend channel, daily 200-period moving averages, and bull market support band against Bitcoin. He said the ETH/BTC structure has remained bullish since June, although further altcoin gains still depend on Bitcoin holding its support.
The immediate macro test will come from the Federal Reserve. Markets largely expect the central bank to keep its target range at 3.50%–3.75%, but uncertainty over a possible quarter-point increase has risen. Notably, policymakers remain divided as they balance elevated inflation against easing energy prices.
A hold accompanied by a less hawkish statement could support ETH’s attempt to clear $1,970. A surprise increase or firm warning about future tightening would raise the risk of another decline toward $1,880 or $1,800.
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BNY, which has more than $59tn in assets under custody and administration, is moving one of its core record-keeping businesses onto blockchain as Wall Street builds the infrastructure for tokenized funds, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
“We think of BNY as modernizing a function that sits behind every single fund transaction by bringing the books and records onchain,” Carolyn Weinberg, chief product and innovation officer at the 242-year-old financial services giant.
BNY, which services about $8.6 trillion in assets across 7.6 million accounts, said moving its transfer agency onto blockchain would create a single record of ownership, cutting out the need for multiple intermediaries.
“We fully recognize you’ve got trillions and trillions of dollars’ worth of funds that… will continue to exist on traditional rails,” said Emily Portney, BNY’s global head of asset servicing, the bank’s largest business.
BNY did not immediately respond to a CoinDesk request for further information.
Baillie Gifford, a BNY client with more than $261 billion under management, will use the service for what the companies describe as the first fully native U.K.-regulated tokenized fund, according to FT. BlackRock and Dreyfus, BNY’s money-market and cash-management business, are expected to use it for planned funds.
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) were created to replace centralized decision-making with community-driven governance. Token holders propose ideas, vote on changes, and collectively manage treasuries, protocols, and ecosystems. However, as DAOs continue to grow in size and complexity, human contributors alone may struggle to keep pace with the increasing volume of governance proposals, financial data, and ecosystem activity.
Artificial Intelligence is emerging as a powerful solution—not as a replacement for community governance, but as an intelligent contributor that enhances decision-making, automates repetitive tasks, and improves operational efficiency. The future of DAOs may include AI agents working alongside human members as active participants in decentralized organizations.
The Evolution of DAO Contributors
Traditional DAO contributors perform tasks such as:
- Writing governance proposals
- Reviewing protocol upgrades
- Managing community discussions
- Monitoring treasury health
- Researching ecosystem developments
- Organizing grants and partnerships
While these responsibilities require human judgment, many supporting activities involve collecting, analyzing, and summarizing large amounts of information. AI excels at exactly these tasks.
Instead of replacing contributors, AI can become an always-available assistant that enables communities to make faster and more informed decisions.
AI as a Governance Researcher
Governance proposals often span dozens of pages and include technical details that many token holders may not fully understand.
AI can:
- Summarize lengthy proposals
- Highlight potential risks
- Compare new proposals with historical governance decisions
- Explain technical concepts in simple language
- Generate impact analyses
This allows DAO members to spend less time reading documentation and more time evaluating strategic decisions.
Treasury Intelligence
Managing millions of dollars in digital assets is one of the biggest responsibilities within successful DAOs.
AI can continuously monitor:
- Treasury diversification
- Stablecoin exposure
- Yield performance
- Liquidity positions
- Market volatility
- Spending efficiency
Instead of waiting for monthly reports, DAO members could receive real-time recommendations whenever treasury conditions change significantly.
Proposal Drafting Assistance
Many great ideas never become governance proposals because contributors lack the time or writing experience.
AI could help contributors by:
- Structuring governance proposals
- Generating clear documentation
- Creating implementation timelines
- Estimating resource requirements
- Identifying missing information
This lowers the barrier to participation and encourages more community members to contribute.
Community Moderation at Scale
Large DAOs often have thousands of members spread across multiple platforms.
AI moderators could:
- Answer common governance questions
- Direct users to relevant documentation
- Detect spam and malicious activity
- Translate discussions into multiple languages
- Summarize community sentiment
Human moderators would remain responsible for final decisions, while AI handles repetitive support tasks around the clock.
Smarter Grant Programs
Many DAOs distribute grants to developers, researchers, and ecosystem builders.
AI can assist by:
- Reviewing applications
- Categorizing proposals
- Detecting duplicate submissions
- Scoring projects against predefined criteria
- Tracking milestone completion
This allows grant committees to focus on evaluating innovation rather than administrative work.
AI-Powered Risk Monitoring
Security remains one of the largest concerns in decentralized finance.
AI agents can monitor:
- Suspicious wallet activity
- Smart contract vulnerabilities
- Governance attacks
- Treasury anomalies
- Oracle irregularities
- Cross-chain risks
Rather than reacting after an incident occurs, DAOs can receive early warnings that help prevent losses.
Autonomous Operational Contributors
Future AI contributors may eventually perform operational work independently, including:
- Publishing governance reports
- Updating DAO dashboards
- Scheduling community meetings
- Managing documentation
- Tracking KPIs
- Coordinating contributor workflows
These AI agents would operate under permissions defined by governance rather than acting independently without oversight.
The Importance of Human Oversight
Despite rapid advances, AI should not have unrestricted authority over DAO governance.
Critical responsibilities—including treasury allocations, protocol upgrades, constitutional changes, and governance votes—should remain under community control.
AI works best as:
- An advisor
- A researcher
- A data analyst
- A workflow assistant
- A monitoring system
Human contributors continue to provide judgment, ethics, creativity, and accountability—qualities that AI cannot fully replicate.
Challenges Ahead
Before AI becomes a trusted DAO contributor, several challenges must be addressed:
- Transparency in AI-generated recommendations
- Prevention of model bias
- Protection against prompt manipulation
- On-chain verification of AI actions
- Accountability for autonomous decisions
- Privacy when processing governance data
Developing decentralized AI infrastructure alongside robust governance frameworks will be essential for building trust.
The Future of AI-Driven DAOs
The next generation of DAOs may include specialized AI agents dedicated to governance analysis, treasury optimization, community engagement, security monitoring, and operational management. Rather than replacing decentralized governance, these intelligent contributors can empower communities with faster insights, better data, and more efficient execution.
As decentralized ecosystems continue to expand, AI may become one of the most valuable contributors a DAO can have—not because it votes in place of people, but because it equips communities with the knowledge and tools to make smarter collective decisions. The future of governance is likely to be a collaboration between human wisdom and machine intelligence, creating DAOs that are more scalable, resilient, and effective than ever before.
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Russia has issued an international arrest warrant for Telegram founder Pavel Durov, charging him with facilitating terrorist activities via his platform.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claims Telegram failed to remove Telegram channels, chats, and bots “used by Ukrainian special services and by terrorist and extremist organisations to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism, mass killings, and cyber-fraud operations within the Russian Federation.”
It claims this led to “numerous human casualties” and billions in material damage.
Ukrainian forces were allegedly using a Telegram dating chatbot to recruit Russians into sabotage work while Russia has detained 46 users for criminal acts connected to the chatbot.
In response to the warrant, Telegram’s X account posted a photo of Durov with his middle finger pointed towards the camera.
Read more: Telegram CEO Durov says he was poisoned during TON fund raise
This year, Russia has reportedly fined Telegram 100 million rubles ($1.26 million) for failing to take down content that’s banned in Russia.
In 2024, Durov was arrested in France and charged with allowing criminal activity, such as fraud, child sexual abuse, and money laundering, to proliferate on his app.
One year later, authorities allowed the dual France/Dubai citizen to fly back to his home in Dubai while they continued to investigate his case.
Durov poisoned during Russia Telegram tensions
Durov claimed to have been previosuly poisoned during the spring of 2018 when he received an unknown package.
He didn’t reveal an exact timeframe of his poisoning, but in April, Telegram refused to give encryption keys to the FSB, which wanted access to messaging data. Later that month, Russia banned Telegram.
Before this, he’d just secured $1.7 billion in funding from Russian billionaires, as well as other investors, for his TON crypto project.
In September 2024, Russian president Vladimir Putin criticised Durov’s arrest by France. Putin said, “I know that many countries have raised concerns about the platform being used in certain ways by certain individuals and entities whose activities could harm the economy or security of certain countries. I think the Russian government might also have had some questions.”
Read more: Are Telegram chats actually encrypted?
He added, “All platforms of this kind are guilty of this. If this is what they’re doing to Durov, then others should probably be arrested,” before adding that the French authorities’ actions “are not entirely clear to me, as they are selective.”
Telegram has also been criticised by the UN and senior figures at crypto security firm Elliptic for its role in facilitating scams.
In 2024, the UN argued that Telegram had become a haven for criminal money launderers while Elliptic’s chief scientist said it was contributing, and not doing enough to stop, the $442 billion scam industry.
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Intense competition from traditional brokerage and decentralized exchanges is pushing crypto exchanges to expand beyond digital assets into tokenized stocks, commodities and precious metals, CoinGecko said.
A study, released by the crypto data provider on Wednesday, found that the market capitalization of tokenized traditional assets, including precious metals, US stocks, commodities, global indexes and forex, grew to $6.6 billion in June 2026 from $1.4 billion in January 2025. The analysis covers activity across Binance, OKX, Bybit, Bitget, Gate and MEXC.
The market’s initial growth was fueled largely by tokenized precious metals before expanding into US equities. By mid-2026, US stock perpetual futures had overtaken precious metals in both trading volume and open interest, driven by investor interest in semiconductor stocks and anticipated initial public offerings, the report said.
Tokenized traditional assets on crypto exchanges grew nearly fivefold over 18 months, with precious metals driving early gains. Source: CoinGecko
Perpetual futures account for the vast majority of trading activity, while spot markets remain comparatively small. According to the report, derivatives dominate because traders prefer leveraged products and exchanges can list perpetual contracts without issuing or custodying the underlying tokenized assets.
The expansion comes as centralized exchanges look beyond crypto trading to attract and retain users. CoinGecko said competition is intensifying from both decentralized exchanges, which have chipped away at market share, and traditional brokerages that are expanding their digital asset offerings.
Robinhood is among the brokerages that have significantly expanded their digital asset offerings, underscoring the growing overlap between traditional finance and digital asset platforms.
Related: Bernstein raises Robinhood price target, cites tokenization and prediction markets
Institutional demand fuels tokenization push
Institutional interest in tokenized assets continues to build. A June report by Standard Chartered projected that tokenization could help expand decentralized finance into a $2.7 trillion market by 2030 through the adoption of real-world assets. Separately, Bernstein analysts estimated the broader tokenization market could reach $4 trillion by the end of the decade as financial institutions increasingly embrace blockchain-based assets.
Like the convergence between crypto exchanges and traditional brokerages highlighted by CoinGecko, institutional adoption of tokenization underscores how fast the lines between traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure are blurring.
As Cointelegraph recently reported, BitGo and OTC Markets Group have partnered to expand access to tokenized securities for more than 150 broker-dealers. Separately, Tradable teamed with the Stellar network to bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets onchain, illustrating how banks, brokerages and crypto firms are increasingly building on the same blockchain infrastructure.
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