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In crypto, Binance confirmed a breach totaling six point three billion dollars in customer assets, sending shockwaves through the industry. Coinbase moved quickly to reassure its own users, disclosing that ninety-nine percent of customer holdings sit in cold storage and that it was entirely unaffected by the incident.
That breach lands against an already strained mining environment. Bitcoin miners are watching revenue per unit of computing power drop eight point seven percent, with network hash rate growth offering almost no cushion. When hedges don't fully cover operating costs and delivery obligations, that margin compression hits the bottom line hard and fast.
Shifting to traditional finance, Schroders, the London-based asset manager overseeing more than one trillion dollars, has launched a tokenized emerging markets debt fund on the Solana blockchain in partnership with Centrifuge. It's a meaningful signal that institutional money is moving beyond pilot programs and treating onchain infrastructure as a legitimate distribution channel for actively managed strategies.
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