Crypto industry commentators got their coins in a bunch after Citadel Securities's cautionary letter to the SEC released to the public.

Citadel suggested that some DeFi protocols handling tokenized U.S. equities may function like exchanges or broker-dealers because they match buyers and sellers through smart contracts, particularly when they facilitate transactions in securities-linked products.

Citadel further cautioned that that inconsistent oversight across tokenized and traditional markets could lead to gaps in transparency and compliance. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/04/citadel-challenges-defi-framework-in-letter-to-sec-sparking-industry-outrage #SEC #DeFi #Crypto #DigitalTokens #DigitalAssets #Investing #Regulation #FinancialMarkets #CryptoMarkets

«A #Cryptocurrency backed by 1 of #NigelFarage’s biggest donors has been used 2 help #Russia fight its war against #Ukraine, Brit investigators say

#NationalCrimeAgency has spent 4 yrs trying 2 crack multibillion-$$ scheme that exchanges cash from #drug & #gun sales in #UK 4 #crypto, #DigitalTokens designed 2 hide their users’ identities

Scheme has enabld “sanctions evasions & highest levls of #OrganisedCrime, incl providing #MoneyLaundering services 2 Russian state”»

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/21/cryptocurrency-farage-donor-used-for-russian-war-effort

#ElectronicIntifada | Trump's Gaza plan reminiscent of Nazi Holocaust

"Those who own land would be offered a digital token by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere or eventually redeemed for an apartment in one of six to eight new “AI-powered, smart cities” to be built in Gaza."

https://asawinstanley.substack.com/p/trumps-gaza-plan-reminiscent-of-nazi

#Holocaust #Gaza #Genocide #Blockchain #DigitalTokens #TheGREATTrust #GREAT #AI

Trac Systems is promoting "Tap Protocol" (Tokenized Asset Protocol) to power a DeFi toolkit on BlockChain layer 1. Tap Protocol is a tokenized asset issuance and management platform built on Bitcoin, making use of the Ordinals system.

It enables users and developers to create, manage, leverage smart contracts, and trade digital assets and tokens directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. https://cointelegraph.com/news/smart-contracts-and-staking-arrive-on-bitcoin-s-base-layer #Crypto #CryptoCurrencies #BlockChain #TAPProtocol #Tokenization #SmartContracts #DigitalAssets #DeFi #DigitalTokens #BitCoin

Momentum shifting towards Ethereum as Wall Street leverages the Ethereum blockchain for crypto offerings.

“Ethereum is getting plugged into these core transactional systems". “A lot of institutions basically tell us to our faces that they value Ethereum because it’s stable and dependable, because it doesn’t go down,”

RobinHood, BitMine Immersion, Bit Digital, SharpLink Gaming, Deutsche Bank, CoinBase, Kraken, BlackRock and Circle all leverage Ethererum. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/the-ethcc-crypto-scene-at-cannes-shows-how-far-ethereum-has-come.html #Ethereum #BlockChain #ETH #CoinBase #RobinHood #DeutscheBank #BlackRock #Kraken #EthCC #Crypto #CryptoCurrencies #StableCoins #DigitalTokens

Interesting but risky!!!

Privately held startup investment platform Republic now offering blockchain-based digital tokens that represent fractional shares of Musk’s private space company SpaceX. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/06/26/first-ever-spacex-shares-now-available-through-blockchain/ #SpaceX #Crypto #DigitalTokens #Investing #CryptoRegulation #Investing #PrivateEquity #BlockChain