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View More NewsBut familiar forms of market exposure, including brokerage-held securities, ETFs, depository receipts, structured notes, and other equity-linked instruments, are well-established parts of the market today. Tokenization alone does not make them more or less legitimate. Their economic and legal structures should dictate their regulatory treatment.The third model is issuer-sponsored tokenization. A company and its transfer agent support tokenized ownership directly. This may be the right model for many issuers. It can connect tokenized records to shareholder systems and support familiar processes for corporate actions, recordkeeping and communications.Brokerage held securities, depository receipts, structured notes, and direct registration all coexist in today’s…
Iran really wants that maritime traffic: “Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied Monday that its negotiators would be meeting with U.S. officials in Qatar on Tuesday after President Trump announced the talks would resume at Tehran’s request,” reports CBS News. “Both sides exchanged strikes over the weekend, testing the fragile ceasefire.” Meanwhile, Iranian official Kazem Gharibabadi told state TV that the regime really wants to work out a deal with Oman (which borders the south of the strait) to oversee ships passing through Hormuz, but that “if for any reason Oman is not interested in doing so,” Iran will move forward, doing its…
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A review of Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by JD Vance; 288 pages; HarperCollins: New York (June 2026)The novelist Evelyn Waugh was once asked how he reconciled his lousy personal behaviour—which included drunkenness, antisemitism, and cruelty to friends and foes alike—with his Catholic faith. No one could imagine, Waugh replied, how vile he would have been were he not a Catholic. That retort came to mind as I read US vice president JD Vance’s new book, Communion, about his conversion to Catholicism. Since joining the Church of Rome in 2019, Vance has not exactly been a paragon of virtue. Once…
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A federal judge in New York entered a $5.5 million default judgment against NanoBit Limited and five related defendants over an alleged relationship-investment scam…
A Michigan judge temporarily blocked prediction market Kalshi from allowing residents to place bets on sporting events, after the state’s attorney general accused the…
In brief Director Carl Rinsch was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison for defrauding Netflix of $11 million meant to finish a sci-fi…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $231 million on Monday, with BlackRock’s IBIT accounting for $300 million of outflows that other funds partly…
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from the golden-age-of-corruption dept Last week Elon Musk successfully conned America and U.S. regulators into signing off on his preposterous SpaceX IPO, which immediately…
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The new fund offering comes as bitcoin struggles to break out of a bear market, trading around $67,000, down about 23% year to date.…
Stock and crypto trading platform Robinhood is cutting 10% of its workforce as it restructures its organization, a move the company says will improve…
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Sometime in the next two or three weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case about the president’s authority to fire independent federal…
In BITA’s case, if bitcoin rallies, the ETF benefits from its IBIT holdings, but the gains are capped by having to pay out on…