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Wall Street behemoth Morgan Stanley has launched its long-awaited crypto trading pilot on its E*Trade platform, aiming to challenge major established players with competitive pricing. Morgan Stanley D

Wall Street behemoth Morgan Stanley has launched its long-awaited crypto trading pilot on its E*Trade platform, aiming to challenge major established players with competitive pricing.

Morgan Stanley Debuts Crypto Trading Pilot
Baking giant Morgan Stanley has rolled out a pilot to offer direct crypto trading on its E*Trade platform, with cheaper pricing than its competition, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, the bank is charging E*Trade users a 50-basis-point fee on the transaction value, placing its prices below those of other major players. For instance, Robinhood’s fees start at 95 basis points, while Coinbase and Charles Schwab’s fees start at 60 and 75 basis points, respectively.

Morgan Stanley is currently offering its crypto trading pilot to a limited number of users, but expects to give access to all of E*Trade’s 8.6 million clients later this year. Jed Finn, Morgan Stanley’s head of wealth management, said in an interview that the launch is “much bigger than trading crypto at a cheaper rate,” adding that “the strategy is disintermediating the disintermediators.”

The banking giant bought E*Trade in 2020 for $13 billion. In May 2025, it introduced plans to allow crypto trading on the platform, following the Trump administration’s efforts to make the US “the crypto capital of the world.”

People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that executives are preparing an offering to directly convert cryptocurrencies into shares of exchange-traded products (ETPs) without selling the assets. In addition, the bank reportedly plans to add the ability to trade tokenized equities in the second half of 2026.

Morgan Stanley’s Strategic Digital Assets Push
The launch is part of Morgan Stanley’s broader push to expand in the digital assets space, an industry that until recently was off-limits to banks. Over t

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Solv Protocol Will Dump LayerZero, Migrate $700M Tokenized Bitcoin Tech to Chainlink
Solv Protocol will move its tokenized Bitcoin infrastructure to Chainlink, following Kelp DAO's lead after it blamed LayerZero for a hackAnother crypto project is leaving blockchain interoperability protocol LayerZero after the fallout from the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit intensified scrutiny around cross-chain bridge security.

In an announcement Thursday, Solv Protocol said it is migrating the infrastructure that powers more than $700 million in tokenized Bitcoin from LayerZero to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), following what it described as a broader security review of cross-chain systems.

The protocol said it is deprecating LayerZero bridge support for Corn, Berachain, Rootstock, and TAC while standardizing its infrastructure around Chainlink’s CCIP.Security is the foundation of everything we build at Solv, and our migration to Chainlink CCIP reinforces that commitment at the highest level,” Solv Protocol Chief Technology Officer Will Wang said in a statement. “By fully securing SolvBTC and xSolvBTC cross-chain transfers with CCIP, we are providing users the highest assurance that proven, defense-in-depth infrastructure secures all cross-chain transfers.”According to Wang, the migration positions Solv to scale with “the reliability and institutional-grade security assurance the market demands.”

Launched in 2021 on the Ethereum network, Solv Protocol is a DeFi platform built around SolvBTC—a token tied to the value of Bitcoin—that lets users deploy wrapped BTC and other Bitcoin-based assets across multiple blockchains to earn yield.

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The exploit of Polkadot's bridge protocol Hyperbridge last month is a symbol of deeper dysfunction within one of crypto's most ambitious ecosystems, a former insider says.

Jaskirat Singh, co-founder and former CEO of Polkassembly, which served as the primary governance interface for Polkadot and Kusama for over five years before quietly shutting down last month, told The Defiant the exploit reflects a pattern of costly missteps at Polkadot.

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Block Inc rises 8% as Q1 gives ‘earnings surprise’ despite Bitcoin dipJack Dorsey’s payments firm Block rose 7.9% in after-hours trading as its Q1 earnings surpassed analyst estimates, despite posting its first loss in three years.

Block’s Q1 earnings came in at 85 cents per share, beating the Zacks consensus estimate of 68 cents per share. Investors responded positively, driving Block shares to $75.70 after hours, Google Finance data shows.

“This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of +25.68%,” said Zacks Equity Research on Thursday. “Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates two times.”

Expanding Bitcoin’s use into the payments space has been a key area of focus for Dorsey, who previously argued that widespread payment adoption is needed to fulfill Satoshi Nakamoto’s original vision of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. In late April, Block noted that over 800,000 US-based merchants have enabled Bitcoin transactions for everyday purchases.

Block reports first quarterly loss in three years

The earnings beat came despite Block reporting its first quarterly loss since 2023, driven by a 23.8% drop in the price of Bitcoin over the three-month period.

Q1 net loss was $309 million, which included a $172.8 million bitcoin remeasurement loss on the 8,883 Bitcoin it held as of March 31.

Bitcoin revenue from Cash App and other Block products fell to $1.8 billion from $2.33 billion a year ago.

Block attributed the fall to “Bitcoin trading dynamics” and a “strategic decision to reduce the fee” charged on certain Bitcoin transactions on Cash App





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Ethereum DeFi Dominance Slips: TVL Share Drops Below 54%


Ethereum’s (ETH) share of the total value locked (TVL) across decentralized finance protocols has dipped below 54%, according to data from Unfolded. This marks the lowest level for the leading smart contract platform since May 2025, signaling a notable shift in capital allocation within the DeFi ecosystem.

A Gradual Decline in Market Share

The decline in Ethereum’s DeFi TVL share has been a gradual trend over recent months. While Ethereum remains the dominant chain by a significant margin, its relative position is eroding as capital flows into alternative layer-1 blockchains and layer-2 scaling solutions. Competitors like Solana, Arbitrum, and Base have seen their TVL shares increase, attracting liquidity with lower transaction fees and faster finality.

According to DeFiLlama, Ethereum’s TVL currently stands at approximately $48 billion, a figure that has remained relatively stable in absolute terms. The drop in percentage share is therefore more a reflection of the growth occurring on other networks rather than a net outflow from Ethereum itself.

Why This Matters for the Crypto Market

Ethereum’s TVL share is a key metric for assessing the network’s competitive position in the DeFi space. A declining share does not necessarily indicate weakness, but it does highlight the increasing fragmentation of the DeFi landscape. For investors and developers, this shift underscores the importance of a multi-chain strategy.

Implications for Ethereum’s Long-Term Position

The trend raises questions about Ethereum’s ability to retain its status as the default settlement layer for DeFi. While the network benefits from deep liquidity, established infrastructure, and a robust developer community, the rise of high-throughput alternatives is providing genuine competition. The successful implementation of E

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Trump Sons Haven't Abandoned World Liberty Financial, Crypto Firm Insists


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Donald Trump Jr. said the Trump family has not abandoned World Liberty Financial, dispelling online rumors.

Co-founder Zach Witkoff said the firm is close to conditional approval for a national bank charter.

The company also defended its lawsuit against Tron founder Justin Sun amid their escalating feud.

Donald Trump Jr. addressed rumors Thursday that he and his family have quietly exited World Liberty Financial, insisting he and his siblings remain part of the crypto firm as it ramps up a high-profile legal skirmish.

“I think I saw on Twitter at one point that Don and Eric had abandoned the project,” Zach Witkoff, another World Liberty co-founder, said during a Thursday afternoon appearance at Consensus, a Miami crypto conference.

“It was news to me too,” Trump Jr. chimed in, chalking the rumors up to misinformation spread online after World Liberty took a list of company co-founders, including President Donald Trump and his three sons, off the company website.

“You get enough people who blindly follow what someone’s feeding them, you get bots pushing it… I don’t think I’d be on this stage here if that was the case,” Trump Jr. continued.

“As far as I’m aware, Don and Eric are still very much co-founders of the project,” Witkoff added.

The co-founders were prompted to respond to the rumors by the panel’s moderator, David Wachsman—an independent crypto PR executive who runs public relations for the Trump family’s crypto firm.

During the panel, Wachsman also asked Trump Jr. and Witkoff to address a lawsuit filed this week by World Liberty against crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun. Sun, the founder of the Tron network and one of World Liberty’s top financial backers, sued the company last month, alleging rampant misconduct by its leadership.

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Ripple CEO Slams Outdated Bond Settlement System, Positions XRP Ledger as the FutureInstant Settlement: The $XRP Ledger has demonstrated the capacity to process bond redemptions in less than five seconds, compared to the two days required by the traditional system.
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RWA Growth: The total value of real-world assets (RWA) in the XRPL ecosystem surpassed $3 billion in May 2026.
During his appearance on the program Crypto in America, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse described the current bond settlement system as an obsolete and fragmented infrastructure. The executive noted that the $XRP Ledger presents itself as the technical solution to transform these markets toward real-time execution.

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Garlinghouse characterized the conventional bond transfer process as a “slow and arcane” scheme. He added that reliance on multiple intermediaries—including custodians, clearinghouses, and settlement agents—entails unnecessary costs and increases the risk of corporate errors. In the current model, a transaction can take between 24 and 48 hours to complete due to manual reconciliations.

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