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Paxos Labs, Theo and Energy Substantiation execs see growth coming from putting physical assets to work, with precious metals leading and energy presenting a tougher test. Tokenized commodities could grow from a market dominated by gold into a broader system for financing metals, trading energy and borrowing against physical assets, according to executives at Paxos Labs, Theo and Energy Substantiation. Putting commodities on blockchain networks should do more than make.

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One year after a flash crash wiped out billions in leveraged crypto bets, traders have better tools to spot risks. But the forces behind the selloff remain. The October 2025 crypto crash exposed the dangers of leverage and crowded bets. A year later, analysts say those risks remain. Nearly a year after one of crypto's most violent selloffs, the question hanging over the market is whether traders have learned enough.

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CoinDesk analysis finds 10 unusually large trading days in 2026, raising questions about how investors measure risk in an increasingly institutional crypto market. Bitcoin BTC$82,486.39 is experiencing more unusually large price swings this year than during the 2018 bear market, even as its overall volatility has fallen sharply, and that's a challenge for anyone relying on standard risk models. The largest cryptocurrency has recorded 10 days in 2026 when its.

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Daily activity has dropped from 10.8 million transactions to 6.2 million since mid-September even as Robinhood keeps paying network fees on customer swaps. The slowdown on Robinhood’s blockchain has spread from fees to trading itself, with daily transactions down 42% from mid-September even as the brokerage keeps paying the network fees on token swaps worth more than 50 cents that customers make through its Robinhood Wallet app. The network averaged.

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Researchers demonstrated how a payment could create spendable XRP without the sender funding it, prompting an emergency software release. A flaw in the XRP Ledger’s payment system could have let an attacker create large amounts of new XRP without paying for it, breaking the token’s fixed-supply rule, according to a security report published Friday. The bug, believed to date to 2015, was found by researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI.

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Visa’s survey of 14,250 people found interest in stablecoin payments is growing, though only 6% of respondents correctly understood how they work. There is growing consumer interest in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region in using stablecoins for everyday spending, travel and cross-border transfers, according to a new survey conducted by Visa (V). The payments giant said it found that nearly half of APAC’s 2.5 billion consumers are open to start using.