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Washington’s crypto pivot from enforcement to market structure

Tahlia Kraefft examines the joint framework between the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s role in Washington’s crypto supervisory shift and wider effort to integrate digital assets into the traditional financial regulatory system

The tokenisation marathon

Ziv Keinan, founder of STG Security Token Community and head of markets and partnerships at XDC Network, speaks with Asset Servicing Times about the evolving institutional adoption of tokenised real-world assets and the role of stablecoins in financial infrastructure

Bridging the trust gap in digital assets

Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss the trust gap between traditional finance and digital assets — and why verifiable identity may be the missing layer needed to scale tokenised markets

What market convergence means for digital asset trading

Ignacio Aguirre, chief marketing officer at Bitget, looks at the broadening adoption of DeFi and the company’s evolution into a universal exchange

Who wins the settlement layer race?

Tahlia Kraefft examines the race to redefine how transactions are cleared and settled, and asks who comes out on top — tokenised fiats or central bank money?

Brazil’s regulatory turn

Juan Andres Dudier Mendoza, head of product, digital asset stablecoin at Apex Group, examines how Brazil has built Latin America’s most comprehensive digital-asset regime, setting a new benchmark for operational, custody, and FX oversight in the region

Connecting thousands of stablecoins with a safe settlement anchor

Stablecoins are moving from proof of concept to financial infrastructure. Simone Cortese, head of Product at Fnality, explores what must change for them to scale safely

Bitcoin at the intersection of monetary policy and market cycles

James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, assesses why Bitcoin has underperformed traditional safe havens following the Federal Reserve’s policy shift, considering how cyclical flows, muted institutional demand, and regulatory uncertainty are weighing on near-term performance