Token Tales 📖

📊 CoinDesk Research reports that Binance’s daily trading volume for U.S. stocks averaged around **$143 million during the first nine days**, exceeding the peak weekday spot trading volume of tokenized stock markets (RWA), which reached **$35–40 million**.

🇺🇸 **The world’s largest futures exchange is suing the U.S. regulator over perpetual futures** CME Group, the operator of the world’s largest futures exchange, is set to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over its decision to allow perpetual futures in the U.S. market. CME CEO Terry Duffy stated that these contracts should be regulated as swaps rather than traditional futures. This will be the main argument behind the lawsuit. Duffy called “perps” a pro

🇯🇵 **Twitter (X) is once again spreading fears about the “carry trade” - a scenario that triggered a crash in both crypto and stock markets in 2024** The theory: Japan’s central bank raised interest rates to 1% — the highest level in 31 years - while USD/JPY is once again trading near the 160 level. This is considered a critical zone by the market, as Japan has previously intervened at these levels to strengthen the yen. If Japan starts intervening again, the yen could strengthen sharply. Invest

🇸🇻 **El Salvador bought 8 more BTC over the past 7 days, bringing its total holdings to 7,689 BTC ($492.2M).**

**MSUSD stablecoin lost its peg amid panic over its reserves — the company responsible for verifying the stablecoin’s backing has refused to continue working with the project. 📉** Project representatives claim that the funds are still in place and the stablecoin remains fully backed, saying the issue is only the loss of external verification.