Binance revealed a strategic alliance with BlackRock that allows using the BUIDL fund as collateral, positively impacting the current BNB price. This integration seeks to connect traditional finance with the crypto ecosystem to facilitate institutional operations, as confirmed by official data from the Securitize platform.
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Olivia reports on regulation, compliance, and policy developments shaping the crypto industry. Her coverage examines how legal and regulatory decisions influence market structure, project development, and industry behavior. She also follows Web3 initiatives and altcoin markets when regulatory changes are a key factor.
On November 18, 2025, Tether announced a strategic investment in Ledn to expand Bitcoin-collateralized loans. The company presented the move as part of a broader plan to diversify its businesses and provide liquidity to BTC holders without forcing them to sell. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Fidelity launched FSOL, its exchange‑traded fund on Solana, listing it on NYSE Arca on November 18 or 19, 2025, a move that places a major institutional manager in the altcoin universe. FSOL combines exposure to the price of SOL with a staking mechanism that generates passive yields, a feature that could redefine institutional access to proof‑of‑stake assets.
XRP is once again staying below the critical level of $2.50, a technical and psychological resistance that has halted several breakout attempts and conditions market sentiment. In this context, the XRP price prediction faces a cross between bearish technical indicators, regulatory pressure and mixed signals of institutional adoption.
Aster stated that its tokenomics remain unchanged after an erroneous update on aggregators that caused alarm among users and operators. The clarification responds to reports that would have altered vestings and treated unvested allocations as circulating supply, an error that impacted markets and data platforms. The company addressed the confusion linked to CoinMarketCap and related postings, aiming to stabilize sentiment and data accuracy.
Figment, OpenTrade and Crypto.com announced the product “OpenTrade Stablecoin Staking Yield Powered by Figment”, which offers a target average return of 15% APR on stablecoins for institutional clients. It converts staking rewards on Solana into a stablecoin-denominated return through a hedging strategy with perpetual futures, aiming to neutralize exposure to the token price and maintain liquidity without lockup periods.
Strategy completed a purchase of 8.178 BTC for approximately $835,6 million, raising its treasury to 649.870 BTC. The operation reaffirms its Bitcoin accumulation policy within a series of systematic acquisitions during 2025. Financing decisions structured by the company combine at-the-market programs and preferred share issuances to support this strategy.
The African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat and the IOTA Foundation have introduced a digital trade initiative that places the use of stablecoins as the primary engine of financial settlement. Dominik Schiener, founder of IOTA, explains that this joint effort seeks to radically modernize how goods move across 55 African nations through a shared public infrastructure.
The altcoin market is going through a critical phase during this third week of November, where liquidation risk has skyrocketed alarmingly for three leading ecosystem projects. Analyst Nhat Hoang warns that, with the total alternative market capitalization falling below the one trillion dollar mark, current volatility threatens to violently shake leveraged positions in both directions.
The U.S. federal regulator (FDIC) is developing guidance on how to apply deposit insurance to digital representations of bank liabilities. The FDIC, according to remarks by Acting Chair Travis Hill, considers that a digitized deposit “remains a deposit” and is seeking to set technical and supervisory requirements to maintain federal coverage of up to $250,000 per depositor.