🔎 RESEARCH: What if crypto’s yield edge vanishes just as small businesses need funding?

After 7 Fed hikes in 2022, the 10-year Treasury yield (3.9%) surpassed conservative DeFi returns (2.4%). Onchain capital lost appeal.

Meanwhile, EU SMEs faced tighter credit. Lending dropped 12% in 2023. Funding shortfall: €39B in one year, €211B unmet since 2017. By 2024, nearly 8% of SMEs were credit-constrained.

A convergence emerged: yield-seeking onchain capital meets real-world funding need.

Cointelegraph Research x 8lends explores how RWA-backed private credit can close the gap, linking digital assets to real economic demand.

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https://s3.cointelegraph.com/reports/8lends_report.pdf

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🇺🇸 UPDATE: Circle has acquired close to 1,000 blockchain-related patents from IBM, making it the largest U.S.-based owner of blockchain intellectual property.

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🇨🇳 JUST IN: China has reportedly started manufacturing its own domestic DUV chipmaking equipment, marking a significant challenge to ASML's global dominance, according to Reuters.

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🇺🇸 UPDATE: America’s top companies are ramping up hiring as demand for workers rises—even amid rapid AI adoption—challenging fears of widespread job displacement.

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🇺🇸 UPDATE: Markets are now factoring in a 38% probability of a Federal Reserve rate hike this week.

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🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarifies that the company has never supported a ban on open-weight models.

Instead, he’s advocating for tighter controls on semiconductor exports to China, stronger measures against model distillation, and mandatory safety testing for all frontier AI systems.

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🇺🇸 TODAY: New York Attorney General Letitia James warns the CLARITY Act could weaken state-level cryptocurrency enforcement, calling on Congress to include stronger consumer safeguards instead.

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🇵🇭 BREAKING NEWS: Binance founder CZ makes his first public appearance in the Philippines at the ASEAN Tech Summit Manila 2026.

Read more: https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-co-founder-cz-backs-crypto-license-passporting-across-asean

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🚨 UPDATE: Galaxy Research has revised the likelihood of the CLARITY Act becoming law by 2026—from 50% down to 30%—pointing to the Senate’s 60-vote hurdle as a key factor.

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🔥 BREAKING: Zcash has activated the Ironwood upgrade, introducing a new shielded pool to enhance network security and privacy.

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🇦🇪 NEW: Emirates now supports Cryptocom Pay, enabling eligible UAE customers to book flights using crypto directly via the airline’s website and app.

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🇺🇸 BIG: All eyes turn to tomorrow’s Fed decision, with markets now pricing in about a 1-in-3 chance of a surprise rate hike—one of the most uncertain FOMC meetings in years.

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🚨 BREAKING: Claude, Anthropic’s most powerful AI model to date, has assisted researchers in uncovering critical security flaws in a major digital signature protocol and a widely adopted symmetric encryption algorithm.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: SEC Chair Paul Atkins declares, “We’re ready, willing, and able to issue rules addressing the same issues in the Clarity Act and other key aspects of the crypto market.”

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🚨 BREAKING: Over 1,100 AI professionals from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and other leading labs have signed "Pacing the Frontier", a public statement calling on the U.S. to help slow the breakneck speed of AI development and align it with long-term safety.

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🇺🇸 UPDATE: Senators Ruben Gallego and Thom Tillis are finalizing a bipartisan ethics proposal under the Clarity Act, aiming to send it to the White House in the coming days, according to POLITICO.

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🇷🇺 BREAKING: Russia's FSB has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with allegedly aiding terrorism and issued an international arrest warrant.

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