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In today’s newsletter, Nick Ducoff, head of institutional growth at the Solana Foundation, draws a parallel between tokenization’s ability to democratize investment access and how the Internet facilitated access to banking over fifteen years ago.Then, in Ask an Expert, the CoinDesk Research Team answers questions about stablecoin and tokenization trends from their February 2026 Stablecoins & Tokenization Assets Report. Read the full report here.- Sarah MortonInternet capital markets: from the “unbrokeraged” to the universally investedFifteen years ago, over 60 million Americans were “unbanked,” shut out of basic financial services because traditional banks found them unprofitable. Then Chime, Revolut, and other…

LangChain has released a new CLI and skills system that boosted Claude Code’s performance on LangSmith-related tasks from 17% to 92%, according to internal benchmarks shared March 4, 2026. The tools aim to create what the company calls a “virtuous cycle” where AI agents can debug, test, and improve other AI agents.The release builds on LangSmith Fetch, the CLI tool LangChain launched in December 2025 that brought trace access directly into terminals and IDEs. That earlier tool already demonstrated significant efficiency gains—up to 96% context savings compared to traditional debugging methods for large traces.What Skills Actually DoSkills are essentially instruction…

Oracle provider RedStone has launched its price feed infrastructure on the Stellar network, introducing a new data layer for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on a blockchain historically focused on payments and stablecoin transfers. The deployment makes price feeds for major crypto assets and stablecoins available on the Stellar mainnet, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), USD Coin (USDC) and PayPal USD (PYUSD). The rollout also includes pricing data for the Franklin Templeton BENJI tokenized money market fund. RedStone said the feeds are designed to support financial applications like lending markets, decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and tokenized real-world asset (RWA) platforms building on Stellar. The launch…

The world’s largest market infrastructure operators are warning that tokenized securities will struggle to scale unless the industry agrees on how blockchains and traditional finance systems connect.In a joint white paper, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Euroclear and Clearstream, working with Boston Consulting Group, argued that “interoperability is a prerequisite for digital asset security (DAS) adoption at scale.” Without it, they wrote, assets risk being trapped on isolated networks, leaving “operational costs high” and liquidity fragmented as trading volumes grow.The group stopped short of endorsing any single technology. Instead, it framed the problem as structural. Dozens of public…

OpenAI’s Economic Research Team has released GABRIEL, an open-source Python toolkit that transforms qualitative data—text, images, interviews, social media posts—into measurable numbers that researchers can actually analyze. The toolkit, announced February 13, 2026, targets economists, social scientists, and data scientists who’ve long struggled with the impossible task of manually processing massive qualitative datasets.Here’s the core problem GABRIEL solves: qualitative data contains some of the richest insights about human behavior, but converting it into rigorous evidence has traditionally required armies of research assistants or simply gets abandoned as unfeasible. GABRIEL lets researchers describe what they want to measure in plain English—something…

Bitcoin (BTC) is flashing a fresh “death cross” on its three-day chart, marking the bearish signal’s first appearance since June 2022.Key takeaways: BTC/USD three-day price chart. Source: TradingViewPast BTC death crosses preceded 35% dropsA death cross pattern appears when the short-term 50-period moving average crosses below the longer-term 200-period moving average, and it has at times presaged further near-term weakness.In 2022, for example, Bitcoin’s 50–200 MA crossover on the three-day chart came before a steep slide of about 50%, with BTC eventually bottoming near $15,480. BTC/USD three-day price chart. Source: TradingViewIn total, BTC has formed a death cross three times…

Leading stablecoin issuer Tether has secured a sign-off from Deloitte for the first reserve report tied to its new U.S.-regulated stablecoin, after years struggling in its relationships with major accounting firms.Deloitte reviewed a report prepared by Anchorage Digital Bank, which issued the company’s new USAT token. In a letter released Monday, the accounting firm said Anchorage reported $17.6 million in reserve assets backing 17.5 million USAT tokens in circulation. The token’s market cap has, since the report, risen to nearly $20 million as its growth accelerates.The total market capitalization of the stablecoin sector has, in fact, been growing rapidly. It’s…

Aave (AAVE) continues to show resilience in the current market cycle, trading at $114.77 as of March 2, 2026, with a modest 1.39% daily gain. Recent analyst projections suggest significant upside potential, with multiple price targets converging around the $135-140 range for mid-March 2026. AAVE Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $120-125 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $135-140 range• Bullish breakout level: $119.97 • Critical support: $108.03 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Aave Recent analyst coverage has been notably bullish on AAVE’s prospects. Aishwarya Shashikumar provided an AAVE price prediction on February 27, projecting a 19.95% increase…

The U.S.-listed spot bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have seen record outflows over the past four months, confirming that a full-blown crypto market is underway.Investors have pulled $6.39 billion from bitcoin ETFs over four straight months of outflows, the longest monthly losing streak since the funds launched in January 2024, according to data source SoSoValue data.Ether ETFs have also fallen out of favor, bleeding $2.76 billion over the past 4 months.These huge outflows indicate that institutional appetite for digital assets has collapsed, which explains the price losses in the two tokens. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, peaked…

Bitcoin could benefit if artificial intelligence disrupts labor markets or creates volatility that prompts central banks to ease monetary policy, according to Greg Cipolaro, research lead at crypto services firm NYDIG.Cipolaro said in a research note on Friday that AI may prove to be a “general-purpose technology” such as electricity, and the macroeconomic effects it would have on employment, economic growth and risk appetite will affect Bitcoin (BTC).“If AI-driven growth occurs alongside expanding liquidity and contained real rates, that backdrop can be supportive for Bitcoin,” Cipolaro said. “But if stronger growth lifts real yields, tightens policy, and reduces the need…