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'Green July' Opens Solidly as Crypto Steadies Into the Second Half
Bitcoin held near $60,000 and Ethereum around $1,600 to start H2 — unremarkable numbers that, after the first half crypto had, counted as a win.
State Street and Apollo Pilot Tokenized Corporate Bond Issuance on Ethereum
A $240 million private placement was issued as a native ERC-1400 security token, with settlement handled by Securitize. The pilot marks State Street's first fully on-chain corporate debt issuance.
The Layer 2 Market Is Getting Too Thin, and the Consequences Will Be Ugly
There are now 84 live Ethereum L2s. Most of them have less than $20M in TVL. The fragmentation is producing a security, liquidity, and user experience mess that no one is seriously addressing.
The Solana Maximalist Cope Is Getting Harder to Sustain
Firedancer is finally live. The fee economics are still broken. The 'ETH killer' framing was always a cope, and the newer framings are starting to look the same.
Texas Issues First U.S. Tokenized Municipal Bond in $140M Transportation Deal
The Lone Star State's transportation commission sold a tokenized general obligation bond on Ethereum on Wednesday. The pilot was structured under the state's 2024 digital asset framework.