
The Standard Chartered Effect: Is bank research becoming crypto’s new short-term catalyst?
Standard Chartered’s latest Arbitrum call adds to a growing pattern of sharp token moves following the bank’s digital asset research.

Updates and analysis on Arbitrum’s Layer-2 rollups, ecosystem growth, and DeFi integration across Ethereum.

The DRIP program paves new avenues for decentralized finance, earmarking 80 million ARB tokens for incentive distribution.

A consortium including Bank of America, Citadel Securities, and DTCC completed a weekend US Treasury repo with atomic on-chain settlement using USDC on the Canton Network.

Despite the proliferation of assets, value continues to concentrate in a few hundred coins at the top.

BNB Chain boosted significantly spot trading volumes, while Hyperliquid reigned on decentralized perpetual futures trading.

The stolen funds were withdrawn from the exchange to various networks, including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Bitcoin, and Arbitrum.

The largest tokenized stocks, TSLAx and SPYx, have less than 10% ratio of DeFi usage compared to their market caps.



