Tokenized Cash Is Leaving Pilot Mode and Entering Treasury Operations
For several years, institutional tokenization has lived in a strangely theatrical zone. Banks and asset managers would announce a pilot,…
Author: Helena Markou
Markets and policy reporter covering institutional crypto strategy, exchange-traded products, and the slow-motion merger of TradFi and digital assets. Before joining CryptoSibyl News, Helena spent four years covering European fintech regulation and cross-border capital flows for a Geneva-based financial wire. Outside the terminal, she collects first-edition maps of trade routes that no longer exist and maintains that the best coffee in Europe is in Thessaloniki, not Rome.
Decentralizing Physical AI: Axis Robotics Raises $10M to Bridge Web3 and Embodied Intelligence
The intersection of artificial intelligence and Web3 has long promised a future where intelligence is decentralized, verifiable, and collectively owned.…
Verification by Default: Secret Network’s Evolution into a Confidential Computing Powerhouse
The decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) sector has long grappled with a fundamental tension: how to achieve trustless, verifiable computation…
Europe’s Digital-Dollar Problem: Tokenized Cash Is Scaling in Dollars Before Euros
Europe’s stablecoin problem is often described as a technology gap, but that is too narrow. What Europe is facing is…
The Great Convergence: Why Bitcoin Miner Braiins Just Bought a Commodity Hedge Fund
The boundary between digital assets and traditional commodities is dissolving, and a landmark acquisition this week provides the clearest evidence…
Stablecoin Issuers Are Becoming Platform Companies
Crypto markets still like to value stablecoin businesses as though they are simple wrappers around reserves: mint the token, hold…
The Clarity Act Fight Is Really About Who Gets to Monetize Digital Cash
Washington likes to narrate crypto regulation as a broad cultural clash between innovation and control. That framing is politically useful,…
Pareto, FalconX, and Sygnum Bring Onchain Credit to the Banking Sector
The convergence of traditional finance and decentralized infrastructure has long been the holy grail for institutional crypto adoption. Today, that…
The stablecoin rewards compromise shows Congress still cannot decide what counts as a deposit
The latest Senate compromise on stablecoin rewards is being described as a technical fix, but it is better understood as…