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Gate Research: Solana Futures Volume Reaches All-Time High|BIS Questions Stablecoins’ Monetary Qualities
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Gate Research: Solana Futures Volume Reaches All-Time High|BIS Questions Stablecoins’ Monetary Qualities

Gate Research Daily Report: On June 25, the crypto market continued its recovery as BTC rebounded from 98,000 USDT, forming a V-shaped structure, while ETH remained in a consolidation pattern. Market sentiment has shifted toward greed. Among top-performing tokens, CFG surged 16.8% as renewed attention focused on its tokenized U.S. Treasury fund JRTSY. APT rose over 12% driven by the launch of its new project “Shelby,” and VELO gained nearly 9% following its cross-border product expansion with Solana. Solana’s CME futures volume hit a record high, signaling increased institutional activity. Meanwhile, the BIS criticized stablecoins for lacking core monetary attributes and advocated for a unified ledger and tokenized central bank assets. Ethereum developers proposed reducing block time to 6 seconds to enhance performance and lower costs.
6/25/2025, 7:28:55 AM
Why Everyone Is Wrong About Stablecoins
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Why Everyone Is Wrong About Stablecoins

The future is bright for leading payments, fintech, and neobank players, who can leverage stablecoins to streamline operations and accelerate global expansion. It also opens new opportunities for domestic stablecoin issuers to position themselves and ready their payment systems for global interoperability—an area where stablecoins are poised to succeed where the bureaucratic BIS’s ‘Finternet’ vision will quickly fall short.
11/25/2024, 3:26:41 AM
The Edges of Finance
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The Edges of Finance

Using bank lending as a starting point for analyzing DeFi lending ignores the unique characteristics of each form of lending. It also suggests that banks have an impenetrable moat around credit intermediation without acknowledging the broader backdrop of technical and social change at the edges of the global financial architecture.
9/18/2024, 3:01:46 PM
Is the Web3 industry entering a "new era of compliance"? Are we pursuing the wrong kind of "mass adoption"?
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Is the Web3 industry entering a "new era of compliance"? Are we pursuing the wrong kind of "mass adoption"?

Looking at the Web3 industry, while slogans of "Mass Adoption" are shouted every day, the reality is a fascination with hyping meme coins and indulging in the short-term attention economy. This stark contrast raises the question: as traditional financial institutions actively work to scale the application of blockchain technology, should the Web3 industry also reconsider its development direction?
12/2/2024, 4:43:59 AM
From digitization to tokenization, the unified ledger is building a grand blueprint for future currency
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From digitization to tokenization, the unified ledger is building a grand blueprint for future currency

This article explores all the advantages of tokenization enabled by "Unified Ledger" and how it can improve the old system and build a new one.
1/7/2024, 4:17:31 PM
Unpacking Blackrock's Tokenized Fund BUIDL: Unlocking a Beautiful New World for RWA Assets in DeFi
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Unpacking Blackrock's Tokenized Fund BUIDL: Unlocking a Beautiful New World for RWA Assets in DeFi

This article provides an in-depth analysis of Blackrock's tokenized fundThe BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund( BUIDL), examining how it operates and how it connects traditional finance to the crypto world through USDC bridging in DeFi."
5/11/2024, 6:14:45 PM
Tokenization and Unified Ledger - Architecting the Blueprint for the Future Monetary System
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Tokenization and Unified Ledger - Architecting the Blueprint for the Future Monetary System

This article outlines a blueprint for a future monetary system that harnesses the transformative potential of tokenization to improve existing structures and open up new possibilities.
12/27/2023, 9:12:58 AM
Differences and Connections Between Cryptocurrencies and CBDC
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Differences and Connections Between Cryptocurrencies and CBDC

Cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have attracted global attention, as they are both innovative forms of digital currency. While they are interconnected, they also exhibit differences.
3/5/2024, 5:56:17 AM
Technology vs. Sovereignty: Cosmos Quietly Adopted by Central Bank Digital Currencies
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Technology vs. Sovereignty: Cosmos Quietly Adopted by Central Bank Digital Currencies

The article provides a detailed analysis of the technical characteristics of Cosmos, including how it supports the customized needs of sovereign blockchains and compares it with other technological routes such as mBridge.
6/3/2025, 3:41:21 AM
Cryptocurrency Wars: BTC’s Pizza, Cryptodollar’s ​​Ambitions
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Cryptocurrency Wars: BTC’s Pizza, Cryptodollar’s ​​Ambitions

This article delves into the status of Bitcoin (BTC) in the cryptocurrency field and the challenges it faces, especially from the competition with dollar stablecoins. The article reviews Bitcoin's early use as a currency and its innovations in the financial sector, while also pointing out the limitations of Bitcoin in practical applications. It analyzes how dollar stablecoins are gradually replacing BTC and ETH as the main trading mediums and discusses how the United States is expanding its monetary dominance through the digital cryptocurrency market. Additionally, the article explores the future of blockchain technology, the potential of crypto assets, and how the integration of decentralized finance (DeFi) and real-world assets (RWA) can benefit the US. Finally, the author holds an optimistic view of the future of cryptocurrencies, believing that the new generation of cryptographic technologies will drive the progress of decentralization.
6/3/2024, 10:51:09 AM
A History Primer on Tokenization: Why Assets Will Move to Public Blockchains
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A History Primer on Tokenization: Why Assets Will Move to Public Blockchains

This article delves into the potential and challenges of tokenizing financial assets on public blockchains. Although billions of dollars of real financial assets have been tokenized and deployed on public blockchains, there is still a lot of work to be done at the intersection of law and technology to re-infrastructure the financial system.
7/25/2024, 1:46:34 AM
Overview of USCC - Superstate Crypto Carry Fund
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Overview of USCC - Superstate Crypto Carry Fund

The Fund’s investment objective is to generate yield from digital asset basis trading, primarily by executing a “cash and carry” trade investing in the differential between the spot and future price of certain digital asset commodities.
2/10/2025, 2:47:15 AM
What You Should Know About ALEX Lab?
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What You Should Know About ALEX Lab?

if you have ever wondered how people build things on Bitcoin, this article is for you. Here, we talk about ALEX Lab and how it is improving the world of the Bitcoin Ecosystem.
7/8/2024, 9:54:44 AM
Analysis of Potential RWA Projects and Future Challenges
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Analysis of Potential RWA Projects and Future Challenges

RWA real-world assets, by combining them with blockchain technology, tokenize physical assets, hoping that traditional finance can also enjoy the advantages of blockchain being more open, transparent and conducive to transactions. This article will give you an in-depth understanding of what RWA is? How does it work? Future potential and challenges.
6/13/2024, 8:38:44 AM
Issues with Existing Stablecoin Models
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Issues with Existing Stablecoin Models

It’s been a decade since Tether launched the first USD-backed, crypto-enabled digital currency. Since then, stablecoins have become one of the most widely adopted products in crypto, with a market cap of nearly $180 billion. Despite this remarkable growth, stablecoins continue to face significant challenges and limitations.
11/26/2024, 2:26:57 AM

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