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“I think that the problem is that there’s too much focus on what’s good for my children and who cares about other people’s children, whether it’s in a country or around the world,” he said. “We all pay a price for that lack of finding common cause—that we all benefit from everyone in the world being healthier.”
Britto said that another challenge was trying to convince governments to invest in caring for children, and convincing them that both maternal and child health is a public sector issue, rather than just a nonprofit or private sector issue.
“The universal aspiration of every adult, which is wanting the best for their child … has not converted to a vote-getting issue,” Britto said. “It hasn’t converted into a commercial incentive, and it hasn’t converted into a way that a country can stand tall, or a nation or a district can stand tall and say, ‘We’re doing this well.’”
One way to address this is to bring the community into conversations with policymakers, she said, while explaining that UNICEF is trying to bring teachers, parents, and caregivers to the forefront to understand what they need to care for children and give them what they need.
Sometime next year, the U.S. government will hit its debt ceiling again. It’s a moment that often plays out as a high-stakes partisan battle, with lawmakers demanding concessions from the President under the threat of a U.S. default.
If Democrats win control of one or both chambers of Congress, the next debt ceiling vote could yield another standoff. Or, just maybe, it could be an unexpected moment of bipartisanship.
President Trump has repeatedly called for eliminating the debt ceiling, putting him at odds with most of his party, but in line with a significant number of Democrats in Congress. The top Democrat on the House Budget Committee sees an opportunity to finally ditch the mechanism for good.
“I will not vote to simply kick the can down the road again and just raise the debt ceiling for another 18 months,” Rep. Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania tells TIME in an interview. “My next vote on the debt ceiling will only be to permanently reform it to end the dysfunction around it once and for all.” After nearly a decade in the House, it would be the Philadelphia Democrat’s first time voting against raising the debt ceiling.
Congress last approved raising the debt ceiling in July 2025, by $5 trillion to https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-markets-financial-institutions-and-fiscal-service/debt-limit. The Treasury Department is expected to hit that limit some time in 2027, although estimates vary. One projection puts the likely window between late winter and mid-summer. Once the limit is reached, the Treasury can rely on cash reserves and “extraordinary measures” for several more months before reaching the so-called X-date, when it could no longer meet all of the government’s obligations on time.
While lawmakers often frame debt ceiling votes as tests of fiscal restraint, raising the debt ceiling doesn’t actually authorize new spending or determine how much the government borrows in the first place. The debt ceiling caps the Treasury Department’s ability to borrow the money the U.S. government needs to pay for obligations Congress has already approved.
Past debt ceiling fights have led to credit downgrades and major drops in the stock market. Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican who voted for the last increase, subsequently called the debt ceiling “a joke” and “a relic of a bygone era.” Other Republicans, including outgoing Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, continue to argue that the ceiling should be preserved as a negotiating tool.
During Biden’s presidency, Trump urged his party to preserve the debt ceiling so they could use it as leverage in negotiations. Since returning to the White House, however, he has repeatedly called for eliminating the ceiling.
“I am very pleased to announce that, after all of these years, I agree with Senator Elizabeth Warren on SOMETHING,” Trump posted on Truth Social in June. “The Debt Limit should be entirely scrapped to prevent an Economic catastrophe. It is too devastating to be put in the hands of political people that may want to use it despite the horrendous effect it could have on our Country and, indirectly, even the World.”
If Democrats win the House, Boyle is all but assured to be chairman of the House Budget Committee, which oversees the debt limit votes. He sees Trump’s willingness to act on the issue as a golden opportunity. His preferred approach would not abolish the ceiling outright, but largely transfer the responsibility of raising it to the Treasury secretary, who would be able to suspend the debt ceiling for up to two years. Congress would retain the ability to block the suspensions through a joint resolution that would have to be signed by the president.
Boyle says his solution, which he introduced as the Debt Ceiling Reform Act in 2023, has drawn support from members from both parties. “I’ve had a number of House Republicans quietly tell me that they want to see the debt ceiling finally resolved in a manner that I propose because they’re sick and tired of voting on it,” he says.
The White House declined to comment on whether Trump would be open to working with Democrats to eliminate or reform the debt ceiling.
History of debt ceiling fights
For most of its history, the U.S. did not have a debt ceiling. First adopted in 1917, raising the ceiling has become a bigger political headache in recent decades. In 2011, House Republicans used the approaching borrowing limit to force President Barack Obama into an agreement that imposed spending caps and created a bipartisan process for pursuing additional deficit reduction. But the standoff also brought the country close to default and was followed by the first downgrade of U.S. government debt.
Twelve years later, Republicans again used the debt ceiling to extract concessions from a Democratic president. The 2023 agreement negotiated by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden capped discretionary spending for two years, rescinded more than $27 billion in unspent pandemic aid and $1.4 billion in IRS funding, and tightened work requirements for certain SNAP recipients. In return, Biden secured a suspension of the debt ceiling through the end of 2024, removing the immediate threat of default. The agreement was estimated to reduce deficits by roughly $1.5 trillion over a decade, but it also temporarily spiked short-term borrowing costs and led to another credit downgrade by a different credit agency.
“It is inevitable that the next time there’s a Democrat in the White House and there’s a Republican-controlled Congress, they will do exactly what they did to Barack Obama and exactly what they did to Joe Biden,” Boyle says.
But the situation may be reversed next year, with Democrats potentially controlling one or both chambers of Congress and a Republican in the White House. Some Democrats are already discussing the prospect of extracting concessions from Trump to secure a debt ceiling hike. During a recent retreat of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Boyle was asked to give a presentation on the issue in order to encourage members to start thinking about the looming topic.
While Boyle hasn’t spoken recently with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries about the party’s strategy around the debt ceiling, he notes that Jeffries signed a 2022 letter with him and other House Democrats urging Congressional leaders to “permanently end the threat that the federal debt ceiling poses to our economy and our standing in the world.”
Preparing for a Democratic House and 2028
Boyle has already been laying the groundwork for a broader role on the House Budget Committee. During the current Congress, his office built a district-by-district database tracking the effects of Trump Administration policies on household costs and health coverage. The data played a central role in Democrats’ messaging strategy around healthcare and the 2025 government shutdown, as Democratic offices used the data to show voters in their districts how the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits could affect them.
As chairman, Boyle wants the committee to work to overhaul a congressional budget process that has turned dysfunctional. He also wants to reassert Congress’ constitutional power over federal spending, as the Trump Administration has repeatedly worked to withhold or redirect dollars lawmakers had appropriated. He intends to call Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and a central player in that Administration strategy, to a hearing on the issue. “I think he’s the most dangerous person in America that most Americans have never heard of,” Boyle says of Vought.
The potential chairmanship is also central to Boyle’s own calculation about his future in Congress. As Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has grown increasingly critical of his own party and more comfortable with Republicans, many in the party doubt he could win a Democratic primary if he were to run for another term in 2028. Several House Democrats from Pennsylvania are said to be circling the seat, including Summer Lee, Chris Deluzio, and Boyle. Boyle tells TIME he plans to make a decision after the November elections. He sees the choice partly in terms of where he believes he would have the greatest influence over legislation if Democrats control Congress and the White House—is it better to be a freshman senator or chairman of a House committee that has become a central gateway for major fiscal legislation?
“The prospect of being the chair of the budget committee, if you have a Democratic trifecta and you’re doing reconciliation, that’s the chance to be front and center,” Boyle says. “The quarterback on what could be one of the most significant pieces of legislation in our lifetime.”
For now, with a Republican in the White House, Boyle is focused on the possibility of tackling a problem he has spent years trying to change, even as he acknowledges that the debt ceiling is unlikely to be a major issue for most voters.
“Truly, you know, I leave this place and I’ve done one thing—if you can tell me I’ve left here and I was a major reason why we permanently ended this debt ceiling dysfunction and danger, I’d be very proud of that.”
Last week, Protos reported that a philanthropic organization associated with the effective altruism movement, Manifund, had hired Caroline Ellison, providing the former CEO of Alameda Research her first major job opportunity since being released from prison.
However, the hire caused catastrophic fallout for the organization, and the CEO is now openly wondering if Ellison’s hiring could force it to shut down.
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Caroline Ellison’s hiring came with a dire warning
While Manifund CEO Austin Chen took to effective altruism forums to announce the hire as a positive move for the charity, he quickly admitted on X that bringing Ellison onto the team “could blow up quite badly.”
And it has.
As previously reported, many effective altruists were already speaking out against the hire, but now an important name in the movement has made a dire and comprehensive statement about the decision by Chen.
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Manifund banned by CEA
The CEO of the Centre for Effective Altruism, Zachary Robinson, responded in an extensive post, stating that Ellison “hasn’t done the work” to earn back the trust of the community.”
He also claimed that Manifund “hasn’t earned the trust that it will be a responsible steward of the community,” and said, “CEA will be refraining from giving Manifund a platform through our programs for the foreseeable future, such as recruiting booths at our events.”
So, seemingly, with one poorly chosen hire, Manifund, a charity that explicitly focused on effective altruism causes, has been nixxed from a key community hub.
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Bitwise Asset Management has launched an exchange-traded product (ETP) in Europe tracking Lighter, giving traditional investors a way to bet on one of Hyperliquid’s emerging rivals without buying its token directly.
On Wednesday, Bitwise said its Bitwise Lighter Staking ETP (BLIT) had launched on Deutsche Börse Xetra, making it the first exchange-traded product tracking LIT, the native token of decentralized derivatives platform Lighter.
The product is fully backed by LIT held in cold storage and carries a 0.85% annual expense ratio. European investors can buy the ETP through a regular brokerage account without buying or holding LIT directly.
Despite its name, BLIT isn’t generating staking rewards yet. Bitwise said staking will begin once the product reaches enough assets under management to make the process efficient. Until then, the ETP will track LIT’s price without generating staking returns.
The Lighter product follows Bitwise’s launch of a Hyperliquid staking ETP in Europe in April, as the asset manager expands its lineup to include tokens tied to some of the largest decentralized derivatives platforms.
Lighter is an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange focused on perpetual futures, using zero-knowledge proofs to verify trades while allowing users to retain control of their assets rather than depositing them with a centralized exchange. The platform also offers zero-fee trading for retail users, part of its effort to compete with established decentralized derivatives platforms such as Hyperliquid.
Lighter recorded nearly $1.8 billion in trading volume over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data.
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Lighter takes on the perp market leader
Lighter gained a major distribution channel in July when Robinhood integrated the exchange into Robinhood Chain, its Ethereum layer-2 network. Eligible Robinhood Wallet users can trade perpetual futures through Lighter, with trades settled using Lighter smart contracts on Robinhood Chain.
Hyperliquid remains the much larger player. Unlike Lighter, which operates as an Ethereum layer-2, Hyperliquid runs on its own layer-1 blockchain. It controlled more than 61% of decentralized perpetual futures trading, according to data cited by The Motley Fool, and has continued to expand through its own partnerships.
In May, Circle announced a deal to expand USDC usage on Hyperliquid, including deeper liquidity and easier transfers of the stablecoin across blockchains. At the time, roughly $5 billion in USDC was held on Hyperliquid, according to Coinbase.
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Cardano’s 30% weekly surge stems from a single test transaction on x402 and a short squeeze, not proven real-world adoption.
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XRP already processed 1.4 million AI-agent payments via x402, holds $1.4 billion in U.S. ETFs, and lost 10 fewer percentage points in 2026.
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Cardano must launch x402 payments on mainnet with real transaction volume soon or risk retracing its entire 30% gain.
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Cardano (CRYPTO:ADA) rose 29.9% in the week ending September 23, 2026, jumping from $0.20 to $0.25. Meanwhile, XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) rose 22% to $1.58. As Cardano makes headlines with this significant jump, many investors are left wondering whether XRP or Cardano is the better buy.
Despite these gains, both cryptocurrencies are still in the red for 2026. Cardano has dropped 23.5%, while XRP has fallen by 13.9%. Therefore, while a positive week is encouraging, it hasn’t turned around their overall performance this year. Now that Cardano has experienced a 30% surge, which coin offers the better investment opportunity: XRP or Cardano, and what factors could influence this decision?
Cardano’s 30% Surge Rests on an AI Payments Test and a Short Squeeze
The primary driver behind Cardano’s impressive rally is its recent development in payment technology. Cardano has joined x402, an open standard that lets software and AI agents make payments for online services with a simple web request. The Cardano Foundation unveiled this news on September 21. This means AI agents can now pay for data requests with ADA or a Cardano stablecoin without an account or API key.
However, Cardano’s payment system has completed only one transaction on its test network, where the coins have no real value. Developers can start using the feature, but AI agents haven’t yet begun making payments with ADA.
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Cardano’s price surge was also fueled by a short squeeze. Many traders who had bet against ADA were forced to buy back their positions as the price rose, adding further upward pressure. This type of forced buying continues until all short positions are covered.
In the latest TRON news, CoinsBee, a global crypto gift card platform, said USDT on TRON was its most-used onchain payment option over the 90 days ending September 1, 2026, recording roughly 1.8 times as many completed payments as Bitcoin and 1.9 times as many as Ethereum. Meanwhile, in his latest philanthropic move, Justin Sun backed a prize offering up to $1 million for select mathematical and scientific breakthroughs. While looking East, Moscow Exchange’s launch of cash-settled TRX perpetual futures for qualified investors.
USDT on TRON Dominates CoinsBee’s Payment Mix
According to CoinsBee’s data, USDT on the TRON network (TRC-20) accounted for 16.23% of all payments on the platform in 2026 to date, up from 9.92% in 2025 – a 64% increase in share.
The analysis covers successfully paid and delivered orders from June 4 through September 1, 2026, and draws a clear distinction between payment count and turnover: TRC-20 made up 44.6% of USDT payment transactions but generated 64.5% of USDT turnover, implying a higher average purchase value than other USDT networks on the platform.
CoinsBee operates in more than 180 countries, supports over 200 cryptocurrencies and lists products from more than 5,000 brands, serving over 500,000 customers.
It’s worth being precise about scope here: this is platform-specific payment data from a single gift-card marketplace, not an independently audited ranking of global crypto payment volume.
The relevance for TRON is real regardless – stablecoin payment rails increasingly compete on fee and settlement speed, and TRC-20’s low-cost structure is the mechanism behind both the payment count and the turnover skew.
CoinsBee and TRON DAO are running a joint campaign from September 21 through October 5, 2026, offering eligible app users a 2% discount on purchases paid with USDT on TRON via the code USDT-TRC, capped at one use per user and subject to stated terms.
Crypto’s Biggest Philanthropist Justin Sun Backed a New Mathematics and Science Prize
(Source – The Block)
The Block reported that Justin Sun has established a prize offering up to $1 million for selected mathematical and scientific breakthroughs in Geneva.
The so-called ‘Justin Sun Prize’ aims to incentivize work on successful proofs of 66 mathematical problems, with the research team behind OpenAI awarded the first-ever prize of $ 1M, using mathematical work produced by GPT-6 Astra.
MOEX Opens TRX Crypto Exposure to Qualified Investors
The firmer institutional signal comes from Moscow Exchange, which launched cash-settled perpetual futures on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRX, including a contract designated TRXUSDF..
The contracts reference USD-denominated MOEX crypto indexes, settle profit and loss in Russian rubles, roll daily and do not deliver the underlying tokens – standard structure for regulated crypto perpetual futures aimed at institutional rather than retail flow. Access is restricted to qualified investors only.
First-tier margin requirements vary meaningfully by asset:
- BTC: 22%
- ETH: 35%
- SOL: 38%
- XRP: 43%
- TRX: 30%
MOEX cited more than 72,000 qualified investors and cumulative turnover exceeding 600 billion rubles across its existing digital-asset futures business, framing the new perpetuals as an extension of demand already validated in its dated-futures product rather than an opening of spot access.
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BNB price has fallen 3.3% to about $761 as Binance has announced that it will start moving crypto balances from Funding Accounts to Spot Accounts on Sep. 29, ahead of a Stocks Account rename in January 2027.
Summary
- BNB price traded near $761 on Sep. 23, while remaining up 7.4% over seven days.
- Binance will begin moving non-stock assets from Funding Accounts to Spot Accounts on Sep. 29.
- The future Stocks Account will support equities, options, and six settlement assets, including BNB.
- Users can move assets with a new button or wait for automatic transfers starting in January.
Binance said in its Sep. 23 announcement that the migration will run from Sep. 29 into January 2027, with dates for individual stages to follow. The exchange will rename the Funding Account after the migration period and reserve it for stock and stock-options settlement.
The price decline and announcement occurred on the same day, but the available data does not establish that the account change drove BNB lower. CoinGecko put BNB’s 24-hour trading volume at about $1.34 billion when checked. Despite the daily fall, the token was still up 7.4% over the previous week.
BNB remains a stock settlement asset
From Sep. 29, Funding Accounts will stop accepting on-chain crypto deposits, according to Binance. Customers will instead use Spot Accounts for regular crypto deposits and withdrawals, while the account being renamed will continue to serve eligible stock and options traders during the transition.
BNB is one of six assets Binance says customers will be able to use for stock and stock-options settlement in the future Stocks Account. The others are USD, USDC, USDT, USD1 and U. Its inclusion means BNB remains part of the exchange’s funding choices for those products, even as other crypto balances move to Spot.
For customers who want to move funds sooner, Binance plans to add a One-Click Migration button to the Funding Account. The feature requires the latest version of its iOS or Android app. Customers who take no action will have remaining eligible assets transferred to Spot automatically in batches beginning in January 2027, the exchange said.
Binance says the transfers will leave users’ total asset balances unchanged and preserve historical transaction records under their original Funding Account labels. The company has yet to give an exact date for the January rename.
Stock trading explains the dedicated account
Binance’s securities service gives eligible users outside the United States access to more than 7,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs, including fractional purchases starting at $5. In June, crypto.news covered Binance’s Alpaca arrangement: Nest Trading acts as introducing broker, while Alpaca Securities handles execution, clearing, settlement and custody. Binance also disclosed a minority stake in Alpaca.
Direct stock positions have since been joined by options. On Sep. 1, Binance introduced physically settled options on selected U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs for eligible users. Customers can buy calls and puts under the initial offering, and exercised contracts settle into shares held through Alpaca Securities. The product follows U.S. market hours for most supported contracts.
The U.S. connection is therefore the underlying securities and brokerage infrastructure, rather than a new offer of Binance stock trading to American customers. Binance says access to its securities products depends on a user’s location. The account rename does not itself change the eligibility rules stated for those products.
Binance also offers bStocks, which follow the prices of U.S. shares but are blockchain-based tokens. Its June bStocks launch covered names including Nvidia, Tesla and Circle. Binance said eligible customers could convert supported direct stock positions into bStocks and trade the tokens on its spot market around the clock. Unlike direct shares, the tokens do not grant ownership of the listed companies’ stock.
Under the migration plan, bStocks held in Funding Accounts will move to Spot, while direct stocks and options remain in the account that becomes the Stocks Account. Newly converted bStocks will also go directly to Spot, according to Binance’s account guidance.
USDC keeps a role after Binance’s Circle deal
USDC’s place among the six settlement assets follows an expansion of Binance’s relationship with its issuer, Circle. On Sep. 22, Binance disclosed a $100 million Circle stake and a five-year commercial agreement concerning USDC use across its platform. The equity purchase involved about 1.24 million Circle shares issued through a private placement.
The settlement list also includes USDT, USD1 and U alongside BNB and U.S. dollars. Binance’s earlier stock-service information identified USDC as a main stablecoin funding choice while allowing eligible users to fund purchases with other supported assets. The future Stocks Account keeps those named assets available for securities transactions, while regular crypto activity moves through Spot.
Pay, Convert and P2P routes change from Sep. 29
Several services will begin sending funds to Spot as the migration starts. Binance says assets received through Pay, Card and Gift Card will be credited to Spot Accounts from Sep. 29. Funding can temporarily remain a Binance Pay payment source, but scheduled sends relying only on it will stop when the exchange removes that option; affected users will need to choose another source.
For Convert, existing unfilled limit orders that lock funds in Funding can remain open. Orders settled or expired after Sep. 29 will return assets to Spot, while new limit orders will lock and settle funds there. Binance advises customers with recurring Convert plans to update any Funding Account selection to Spot. API users referencing Funding have also been advised to change that account reference.
P2P advertisers will continue using Funding for listings and related deposits until Binance introduces a dedicated P2P account in December. Advertisers will then need to move assets tied to their listings; Binance says advertisements left unmigrated after January 2027 will close automatically.
The 10-year Treasury yield hit a 19-year high on Wednesday on strong economic data that has Wall Street betting on two more Fed rate hikes in 2026. Despite the jump in interest rates, the Treasury Department kept a $6 billion ceiling for buybacks of long-term Treasury bonds, signaling no appetite to fight market pressures. The preliminary S&P Global purchasing managers’…
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The Sam Altman-led OpenAI ChatGPT AI predicts that in a blow-off top bull market, XRP could reach $8+ by January 1, 2027. It puts the plausible bull-market range at $4.50–$7.00, with $8+ possible in an extreme altcoin blow-off.
At roughly $1.57 today, $5.50 would represent an approximately +240% gain from current levels. The setup has changed considerably over the past week.
XRP rallied from roughly $1.25 on September 16 to around $1.65 on September 23, posting weekly gains of +22%. Daily trading volume is sitting at $7.2Bn.
More importantly, XRP has moved back above the $1.6–$1.62 resistance area that capped the market in August. Recent technical analysis identified $1.59 as the key breakout level, with the 200-day EMA around $1.57.
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The first major test is around $1.65–$1.80. XRP has just reached $1.65 this week, while $1.81 represents a significant previous price level identified by prior technical analysis.
If XRP can establish itself above $1.80, the psychological $2.00 level becomes the next obvious target. Above $2, the chart opens up considerably.
The next major historical resistance is around $3.10, corresponding to the 2025 cycle’s closing-high area. XRP’s ultimate 2025 all-time high was approximately $3.65, reached in July 2025.
And $3.65 is the critical level. A decisive break above it would put XRP into a phase of genuine price discovery. At that point, $4, $4.50, $5, and eventually $5.50 become psychological rather than historically established resistance levels.
Historical Price Action Makes that $5.50 Target Interesting
XRP’s history is characterized by extremely large percentage moves during crypto bull markets. The most recent cycle provides the clearest example.
XRP rose from below $1 to a $3.65 peak in July 2025, then fell by almost -73%, reaching about $0.99 in August 2026. That means the current market has already demonstrated both sides of XRP’s characteristic volatility, going from $0.99 to an all-time high of $3.65 and back to $0.99.
The important thing is that the latest recovery has already taken XRP back above $1.50. There is also an interesting historical pattern: analysis of previous XRP crashes found that major drawdowns were followed by very large subsequent rallies.
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Bitcoin Hyper Targets Early Mover Upside as XRP Tests Key Levels
A 45-week-overdue moving average flip is exactly the kind of headline that gets long-term holders nodding along, but at an $81,000 handle, Bitcoin’s percentage upside from here is a different animal than it was at $16,000. Doubling from here adds $1.6 trillion to market cap.
That math is why traders chasing asymmetric returns are increasingly looking one layer down, toward infrastructure being built directly on top of Bitcoin’s network.
Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) is positioning itself as the first Bitcoin Layer 2 with full SVM integration. Hyper runs smart contracts at speeds it claims outpace Solana, while settling back to Bitcoin’s base chain for security.
The presale has raised $33M at a current token price of just $0.0136865, with staking rewards offered at a high 30% APY.
Its Decentralized Canonical Bridge aims to solve BTC’s two biggest structural gaps: near-zero programmability and sluggish, expensive transaction throughput.
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Blockchain.com and NYSE Group have signed an agreement to explore giving eligible users access to tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs through the exchange’s planned 24/7 digital trading venue.
Summary
- The proposed access would use NYSE’s planned platform and requires regulatory approval.
- NYSE says the venue is designed for continuous trading, fractional shares, and onchain settlement.
- The agreement also covers crypto data for ICE clients and stock data for Blockchain.com users.
- Blockchain.com already offers Ondo-linked tokenized U.S. stocks to eligible users in Europe.
According to Blockchain.com’s Sep. 23 announcement, the companies signed a memorandum of understanding covering distribution of tokenized U.S. exchange-listed shares and exchange-traded funds. Eligible Blockchain.com customers would access the products through a digital alternative trading system, or ATS, that NYSE has yet to launch. The arrangement remains subject to required regulatory approvals.
The companies did not identify the countries where access would be offered or set a launch date. Blockchain.com operates in more than 70 jurisdictions, according to its announcement, but eligibility would depend on the rules governing the products and the markets where they are offered. Its agreement with NYSE outlines a proposed distribution route rather than an available trading service.
Blockchain.com could connect users to NYSE’s planned venue
NYSE first outlined its digital platform in January and said it was still developing onchain settlement infrastructure in August. The exchange plans to support trading at any hour, orders for fractions of a share and settlement using blockchain-based systems. It has also described stablecoin-based funding and orders placed in dollar amounts.
Under the proposed agreement, Blockchain.com would provide a route for its customers to reach the NYSE venue once it is operating and the necessary approvals are in place. NYSE’s January plan calls for a separate digital market that combines its Pillar matching engine with blockchain-based systems used after a trade. The exchange said its design can support multiple networks for settlement and custody.
NYSE also said the venue could handle both tokenized versions of traditionally issued securities and securities issued in tokenized form from the start. Its plan calls for tokenized shareholders to retain conventional dividend and governance rights. Access to the venue would run through qualified broker-dealers under the model described by the exchange.
Blockchain.com Executive Chairman and CEO Peter Smith said a connection to the venue could extend tokenized stock access to users across the company’s international network. NYSE Group President Lynn Martin described Blockchain.com’s customer reach and digital asset operations as a fit for the exchange’s planned platform. Neither executive announced that trading had begun.
US stock tokens bring shareholder rights into focus
For U.S. readers, the proposal concerns shares and ETFs listed on American exchanges, even though the companies have framed Blockchain.com’s customer network as international. A token tied to a U.S. stock does not necessarily carry the same legal rights as the share itself. The product’s structure determines what its holder owns and whether the holder can receive dividends, vote, or claim an interest in the underlying shares.
In September, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission set out conditions for tokenized stocks traded by qualifying venues under a five-year exemption. The SEC said eligible tokenized National Market System stocks must preserve the rights attached to the corresponding conventional shares. Products that only track a stock’s price do not qualify under that exemption. The agency’s action provides context for U.S. tokenized stock trading, but Blockchain.com and NYSE have not said that their proposed arrangement has received approval under it.
NYSE has taken another, separate step involving its existing exchange. An April SEC filing on tokenized trading established rules for eligible securities to trade in tokenized form alongside conventional shares during a Depository Trust Company pilot. Coverage of the filing noted that trades under that arrangement continue to settle on the usual next-business-day schedule. NYSE’s proposed 24/7 venue is a different project, designed for immediate settlement and still awaiting regulatory approvals.
Existing Ondo products show a different route to access
Blockchain.com already offers stock-linked tokens in some markets through Ondo Finance. In February, the companies expanded tokenized stock access to eligible users in 30 European Economic Area countries, with more than 200 U.S. stocks and ETFs available through the Blockchain.com DeFi wallet. Blockchain.com said it had previously introduced Ondo products to users in parts of Africa and South America.
According to Blockchain.com, its Ondo-linked tokens track the returns of the underlying assets, including price moves and reinvested dividends after applicable taxes. The structure of an existing Ondo product should therefore be considered separately from NYSE’s plan for a regulated digital venue. Blockchain.com’s Sep. 23 announcement describes a potential connection to that future venue; it does not say that the two sets of products would have identical ownership terms.
Blockchain.com’s geographic expansion has also included a regulatory step in Nigeria. The company announced its admission to the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission’s Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme, a supervised route for eligible digital asset businesses. Its Sep. 23 agreement with NYSE does not name Nigeria, Europe or any other region as a confirmed market for the proposed service.
ICE and Blockchain.com also plan to exchange market data
Beyond trading access, the memorandum covers distribution of data in both directions. ICE Data Services, part of NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange, plans to provide Blockchain.com’s crypto market data and analytics to its subscribing clients. Blockchain.com, in turn, plans to add selected ICE and NYSE exchange data feeds to its app.
Blockchain.com said the app integration would give its more than 44 million confirmed accounts access to real-time stock information. The announcement also listed more than 95 million wallets created since the company’s founding; that figure is distinct from its count of confirmed accounts.
Blockchain.com and the New York Stock Exchange have signed a memorandum of understanding to give Blockchain.com users access to tokenized US-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds through NYSE’s planned digital trading platform.
Under the proposed arrangement, Blockchain.com would distribute tokenized US equities and ETFs traded on NYSE’s digital alternative trading system (ATS), subject to regulatory approval. The deal would extend NYSE’s planned tokenized securities offering to Blockchain.com’s global customer base.
The agreement also covers an exchange of market data. NYSE affiliate ICE Data Services plans to distribute Blockchain.com’s crypto market data and analytics to its clients, while Blockchain.com would add certain ICE and NYSE market data feeds to its platform.
Reid Noch, vice president of US equity market structure at TD Securities, told Cointelegraph that NYSE’s planned tokenized ATS appears “primarily like a play for retail flow,” pointing to its planned 24/7 trading and request-for-quote functionality. Because retail trades are already pre-funded, Noch said the shift to instant settlement would require little change to existing retail workflows.
“The bigger differentiator is true weekend trading,” Noch said. “This could be impactful for retail heavy names or around episodic news events, similar to what we saw with tokenized oil PERPs during the start of the Iran conflict that started over the weekend.”
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Exchanges race into tokenized stocks
“Crypto venues are becoming multi-asset platforms, and traditional assets are adopting the 24/7, programmable structure crypto pioneered,” Tanay Ved, senior research associate at institutional digital asset technology firm Talos, said in comments shared with Cointelegraph.
That shift is playing out across major exchanges. Kraken offers xStocks and has partnered with Nasdaq on a separate tokenized equity model, while Binance, Coinbase and Robinhood have rolled out their own approaches to bringing equities onchain.
However, Ved said the different approaches involve trade-offs between ownership and accessibility:
The models of tokenization sit across a spectrum, from issuer-native equity to custodial exposure to pure derivatives. Each trades ownership for accessibility. Which model wins out is yet to be seen, as we sit in the early innings of adoption. For exchanges, the opportunity is a more diversified revenue base and for the market, the line between crypto and traditional assets continues to blur.
Meanwhile, the tokenized stock market has been expanding rapidly. Distributed value reached $3.14 billion as of Wednesday, up more than 18% over the past 30 days, while the number of holders climbed nearly 72% to 3.87 million, according to RWA.xyz data.
Tokenized stocks. Source: RWA.xyz
SEC opens path for tokenized stocks
The partnership also comes less than a week after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) introduced a five-year “Innovation Exemption” for certain tokenized securities venues.
Under the exemption, eligible tokenized securities venues can use permissioned automated market maker liquidity pools to facilitate trading without being treated as exchanges under the Exchange Act. Among the conditions, venues must ensure that tokenized stocks carry the same rights and privileges as equivalent traditional shares.
Those requirements exclude some existing products from the exemption in their current form, including Kraken’s xStocks and Robinhood’s Stock Tokens, which provide exposure to underlying equities but do not give holders the same rights as conventional shareholders.
However, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has said that while the exemption covers one specific model for tokenized securities, it leaves open the possibility of other approaches outside the framework.
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