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Standard Chartered is a London-headquartered bank focused on corporate, commercial and institutional banking across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
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Standard Chartered has placed a dedicated DeFi research desk beside its ETF and stablecoin access, citing DeFi value locked that reached $114bn in 2025. The move makes on-chain research part of the access layer the bank sells, grouped with the custody and trading it already offers.
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Standard Chartered has initiated coverage on seven DeFi and onchain infrastructure projects since mid-June, with Ethena the latest. Each has its own revenue and token model, so clients still need a single yardstick to weigh the seven against each other.
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Tokenized equities now count 1.4 million holders, up 447.5% in six months. The growth is a distribution story, and the average position is still very small.
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Ant International says its upgraded forecasting model is in production at Citi, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered and Barclays, with a claim of 60% lower hedging costs attached.
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Geoff Kendrick's note puts ARB at $10 by 2030 from about $0.15, and the Expansion Program revenue behind that call splits 8% to the Arbitrum DAO treasury and 2% to a developer guild. A holder's claim on it runs through what the DAO spends.
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Arc's mainnet went live Wednesday with BlackRock, DTCC, Visa and Mastercard among its founding validators, and the 10 billion ARC tokens Circle minted this week sit behind a presale that valued the network at $3 billion.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $998.95 million on September 21, the year's biggest single day, and another $648 million of buying came from short sellers being liquidated in a market still about 30% below its October 2025 high.
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Leaked internal files from the Promsvyazbank-backed payments group describe roughly 100 front companies in four jurisdictions opening accounts at banks still on the network, with counterfeit invoices produced whenever compliance teams asked questions.
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The Securities and Futures Commission is drafting a digital-asset licensing regime alongside the upgrade, and the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin already in circulation totalled 522,000 tokens on August 19.
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Arc's founding validator set has twelve members, drawn from card networks, clearing houses and asset managers. The company that issues the chain's fee asset is also the company that can freeze it.
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Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi and Uniswap's Hayden Adams say cheaper blockspace explains the falling fee line, and on the day's DefiLlama figures the chain took $403,000 while its traders paid Uniswap roughly twenty times that.
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Artemis put outstanding loans on Coinbase's Layer 2 at a record $2.75bn on September 10, and roughly $1.92bn of that sits in Morpho vaults reachable through Coinbase's own borrowing screen at advertised rates from 5%.
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LONG's own figures put more than $425 million of stock-paired volume against almost $12 million of locked liquidity. Angelo Aspris blames thin reserves for a tokenized HIMS price that came apart from the real one.
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The currency leg of the Treasury Secretary's intervention worked and the yen is at a near seven-month high, while the 10-year note ran to its highest level since 2023 with Brent above $100 and the debt stock at $40 trillion.
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The sector's own figures put genuine stablecoin payments near $390 billion a year against $208 trillion of cross-border flow, and the ceiling on that ratio sits in bank licensing and local rails rather than in the chains.
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American Banker's survey counts banks that have built a token rather than payments that have moved through one, and the deals it names so far reach one Thai bank and a loan network of 600 members.
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A three-year floating-rate note created natively on distributed ledger moves tokenized issuance from client pilots into a bank's own treasury program. The plumbing matters more than the first.
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The exchange took an ADGM permission to arrange deals and custody tokenized securities. That is real plumbing, but the case for the UAE as the default institutional base still rests on licence counts.
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Binance's bStocks passed xStocks in under two months to become the second-largest issuer. The category grew roughly 34x in a year, and the leaderboard now rewards whoever already owns the order flow.
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Data-centre cancellations have risen since late 2025 and several AI firms missed revenue targets before planned IPOs. The wealth industry's answer is to stop picking winners.
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Invest · August 14, 2026 · 1 publisher