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View More NewsThere is already money on the chain for the feature to serve. Onchain data aggregator RWA.xyz tracks about $1.38 billion of distributed real-world assets on XRPL, including $845.7 million of RLUSD. Ondo accounts for another $212.6 million, followed by VERT Capital at $116.1 million and Archax at $55.4 million. Societe Generale sits further down the table at $11.6 million.Tokenized real-world assets issued on the XRP Ledger. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)That leaves more than $530 million of tracked tokenized assets outside RLUSD, though the market remains concentrated in a handful of issuers.Confidential Transfers stays narrow in its first version. Holders have to opt…
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In what we know as the Middle East, a dramatic jump in the emerging pattern of human violence took place around 5500 BCE, the primary evidence being circumvallation, the construction of walled fortifications around population centres.Circumvallation was not unprecedented. The massive and fabled walls of Jericho appeared around 8000 BCE. Twelve feet high and six feet thick, an estimated 1,800 feet in circumference, the walls were a mute indicator of both the place’s unprecedented wealth—perhaps derived from trading Dead Sea salt—and the need to protect it. But these fortifications stood alone for 2,500 years; and then, rather suddenly, equivalents began…
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At first glance, this week’s biggest business stories could have come straight from Wall Street. BlackRock launched tokenized money market funds for stablecoin reserves.…
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from the what-third-branch? dept There are many ways to describe the Trump Era, but the executive branch’s conviction that it can simply ignore the…
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The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has joined a growing number of conflicts where drones are being used to target journalists, as two…
Bitcoin BTC$77,389.41 was slightly higher on Monday as a sharp decline in oil prices helped lift Asian stock markets.At 6:35 UTC, the leading cryptocurrency…
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