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View More NewsTokenized equities are approaching the $1 billion mark, underscoring how real-world asset (RWA) tokenization is moving beyond pilots and into a fast-developing segment of crypto market infrastructure.A new report from Sentora and DL Research found that tokenized stocks reached roughly $963 million in market value as of January 2026, representing a year-on-year increase of nearly 2,878% from just $32 million a year earlier.The rise reflects growing demand for blockchain-based access to traditional financial assets, as firms increasingly explore tokenization as a way to improve settlement efficiency, broaden market access and build always-on financial products. Tokenized equities, in particular, have become…
New York, January 30, 2026—Turkish authorities must immediately release exiled Iranian journalist Kaveh Taheri and halt all efforts to deport him to Iran, where he faces serious risks, including but not limited to imprisonment. Taheri, an independent and freelance journalist and human rights advocate recognized as a refugee by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), was detained on January 26 in the northwestern city of Sakarya while traveling by bus to Istanbul for a visa appointment at the French Consulate, his lawyer, Salih Efe, told CPJ. He is currently held at the Kocaeli Removal Center. “Deporting Kaveh Taheri to…
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Xi Jinping purges a million officials a year. China’s president finds corruption wherever he looks for it, like a Grand Inquisitor rooting out heresy. Lately, his fury has turned to members of the military command, and on 24 January, the great purge finally reached its zenith—a moment described by Dennis Wilder, former China analyst at the CIA, as “the most stunning development in Chinese politics since the early days of Xi’s rise to power.”As vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, which heads the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party (not of China, which has no army), Zhang Youxia was…
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