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Quick Take BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Rob Goldstein said tokenization is entering an early-internet phase, with the potential to transform markets far faster than most expect. The executives pointed to a 300% surge in real-world asset tokenization over 20 months as evidence that the shift is already accelerating.
Quick Take Grayscale Research said bitcoin could hit new highs in 2026, countering concerns that it’s heading into a multi-year downturn. BitMine CEO Tom Lee also expects bitcoin to set a fresh all-time high by January next year.
Quick Take Bank of America will reportedly allow Merrill, Private Bank, and Merrill Edge clients to allocate 1%–4% of their portfolios to crypto. The bank will also begin CIO coverage of spot Bitcoin ETFs from BlackRock, Bitwise, Fidelity, and. Grayscale starting Jan. 5. BoA’s shift ends a long-standing policy preventing 15,000+ advisers from proactively recommending crypto products.
SEC chair Paul Atkins plans a 2026 Innovation Exemption for digital asset firms. New IPO rules extend a two year on ramp and revisit size thresholds for small issuers. The crypto exemption launches as the Fed ends QT, changing how liquidity and oversight interact.
Tether’s latest $1 billion USDT mint brings total stablecoin issuance to $20 billion since October’s market crash, suggesting significant capital inflow into crypto markets.
Quick Take Kalshi announced today that it has become CNN’s official prediction markets partner. Kalshi data will be integrated across CNN programming, and will be used by its newsroom, data and production team.
Quick Take An Aave Chan Initiative proposal suggested culling low-earning instances and instituting revenue floors for future deployments. Aave, by far the largest Ethereum-based decentralized lending protocol, has historically taken a maximalist approach towards deploying on new blockchains.
