Binance Research sees $2T equity wave from crypto exchanges

BitGo's Jody Mettler says the stablecoin debate is moving beyond crypto rules and becoming a battle over who sets the standards for the future global payment infrastructure.

Crypto exchanges could channel as much as $5 trillion in fresh equity capital into global markets over the next five years, according to Binance Research, which found nearly 93% of Binance’s stock-trading users come from emerging markets. Exchanges as the New Gateway to Stocks In much of the developing world, opening a conventional brokerage account […]

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Demand for peptides fueled by the "looksmaxxing" trend has spawned a $100 million gray market paid for primarily with crypto.

Crypto has become a key payment rail for a fast-growing gray-market peptide trade, according to a new Chainalysis report. Chainalysis said Thursday that off-label peptide sales have climbed past a $100 million annual run rate, as online wellness trends and…

Economist and macro trader Alex Krüger has argued that “crypto” has largely failed as an asset class, even as blockchain-based adoption accelerates across stablecoins, tokenization, prediction markets, perps, AI and privacy-focused assets. In a post on X, Krüger drew a sharp distinction between the speculative crypto market of recent cycles and the parts of the industry he believes are still showing meaningful traction. His central claim was blunt: most crypto tokens have failed to produce durable value for holders, while founders and insiders have repeatedly used the sector’s weak guardrails to extract liquidity from retail investors. “I largely think of ‘crypto’ as a failed asset class at this point,” Krüger wrote. “I’ve written about the causes multiple times. Mainly, most crypto assets are worthless, or have dreadful value accrual, and most founders have abused the lack of guardrails and dumped on people indiscriminately, or are outright scammers.” Krüger said the damage was compou

Paybis says 22.5% of businesses use or plan stablecoins for cross-border payments as B2B volume reaches 97.8% in early 2026, new data shows.