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According to Bitcoin Magazine, Wall Street financial giant Cantor Fitzgerald is helping the Bitcoin sidechain and open-source decentralized network VerifiedX complete a $15 million financing round. The VerifiedX Foundation announced on Wednesday that it has raised this funding, which will be used to expand its custodial partnership with the NYSE-listed custodian BitGo and to promote the launch of its wrapped token product vBTC on centralized exchanges.Cantor Fitzgerald serves as the banking partner for this financing round, and the announcement did not disclose specific investors. VerifiedX is a Bitcoin financial operating system that offers products such as self-custody, instant settlement, programmable finance, and native Bitcoin utility. Unlike traditional wrapped tokens, when holders create vBTC, the network generates a unique native Bitcoin address within the token, allowing holders to deposit Bitcoin into that self-custody address. The tokens always remain on the Bitcoin ledger and do not leave the Bitcoin ecosystem.Cantor Fitzgerald is one of the earliest institutions on Wall Street to support Bitcoin and currently holds reserve assets for the stablecoin giant Tether's USDT product. Its former chairman and CEO Howard Lutnick served as an advisor to Trump's 2024 campaign and is currently the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

World Liberty Financial announced that its USD stablecoin USD1 has been natively issued on the Canton Network, allowing institutions to use the stablecoin for settling transactions involving tokenized real-world assets (RWA). According to the announcement, USD1 can serve as the cash leg for transactions such as derivatives collateral, institutional lending, and asset issuance and redemption. The native issuance enables it to settle in sync with tokenized assets within the same transaction, while maintaining Canton’s privacy and permission control mechanisms.According to DeFiLlama data, USD1 has a market capitalization of approximately $4.05 billion, making it the sixth-largest stablecoin, issued and managed by BitGo Bank & Trust for its reserves and minting redemption processes. USD1 was launched in March 2025, with reserves including short-term U.S. Treasury bills, government money market funds, and dollar deposits. World Liberty Financial is a crypto project supported by the Trump family, founded in 2024.Canton is a public blockchain aimed at institutional finance, issuing or processing over $90 trillion in tokenized assets monthly, with over $350 billion in on-chain U.S. Treasuries flowing through its network daily. Zak Folkman, co-founder and COO of World Liberty Financial, stated that institutions have put trillions of dollars in U.S. Treasuries and government debt on-chain, but the dollar settlement still relies on outdated infrastructure. The combination of Canton and the native USD1 allows real-world assets to complete dollar settlements with greater speed and privacy.

According to businesswire, Bitcoin treasury company BSTR Holdings announced that it has reached an agreement with Cantor Equity Partners to terminate the business combination agreement signed by both parties on July 16, 2025.The reason for termination is that under the current market environment, the valuation of Bitcoin and publicly listed Bitcoin treasury companies continues to be under pressure, leading to a mismatch in the capital market, which restricts the amplifying effect of financing tools such as convertible bonds and perpetual preferred stocks in Bitcoin treasury strategies.BSTR stated that it will continue to promote institutional-level Bitcoin asset management business once the market environment stabilizes.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Cantor Fitzgerald plans to open the Kalshi prediction market to its approximately 3,000 institutional clients, including family offices and hedge funds, allowing them to trade event contracts related to weather, commodities, and corporate performance. Susquehanna International Group will provide quotes and liquidity for the related trades.Cantor will act as a broker, buying and selling large event contracts for clients and may distribute related positions to other investors through private negotiations. Cantor Co-CEO Pascal Bandelier stated that hedge funds have expressed interest in trading event contracts linked to iPhone sales, rather than indirectly betting on volume changes through Apple's stock price; family offices are focused on using contracts related to weather, crop yields, and oil prices for risk hedging.Joe Grubb, Head of Business Development at Susquehanna Predictions, mentioned that AI supply chain risks and computing power prices could also become application scenarios for the prediction market. Institutional clients can also propose new market themes based on their needs, and the relevant companies have discussed the types of contracts they hope to launch with investors.Kalshi has been intensifying its efforts to expand institutional clients in recent months, having completed its first large transaction this year and reached a partnership with Interactive Brokers. Max Crowley, Vice President of Business Development at Kalshi, stated that there is already a demand from institutions for hedging specific event risks.

Interstice Digital, a U.S. digital asset infrastructure company, announced a partnership with digital asset prime broker FalconX to launch a non-custodial cross-chain exchange engine, the Cross-Chain Swap Engine, connecting Solana, Robinhood Chain, and Ethereum to the public permissionless blockchain Canton Network built for capital markets, and listed as a Canton selected application. The engine aims to bridge the Canton institutional-grade market infrastructure with major liquidity pools on the retail side.Interstice Digital CEO Janine Yorio stated that the creation of this engine is to help connect Solana, Ethereum, and Robinhood Chain with the growing Canton ecosystem, mentioning that the ecosystem has over $90 trillion in tokenized RWA liquidity each month. FalconX's head of trading strategies, Hassan Bassiri, said that as institutional demand for digital assets rises, infrastructure that allows for frictionless capital movement across ecosystems is crucial. The engine is supported by compliance and infrastructure partners such as Trulioo, TRM Labs, CertiK, Canton Strategic Holdings, and MPCH. Interstice Digital is a subsidiary of Everyrealm Inc.

According to CoinDesk, Swiss crypto bank AMINA is collaborating with Wall Street firm Cantor to evaluate pathways to enter the capital markets. AMINA had considered a SPAC merger but is now more inclined to achieve a reverse merger through the acquisition of a Digital Asset Treasury company, although no final decision has been made.A company spokesperson stated that the current priority is to bring in strategic growth capital, with an IPO as a subsequent option, and that there are currently no discussions with any SPACs or DATs. AMINA, formerly known as SEBA Bank, is regulated by Swiss FINMA and offers crypto trading, custody, staking, and lending services. Its operations have expanded to Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and India, with a Tier 1 capital of 74.6 million Swiss francs by the end of 2025 and total financing of approximately 245 million dollars.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, global companies listed on the US stock market have disclosed the latest real announcements regarding digital asset transformation and ecological strategic investments. The core dynamics are as follows:Canton sells traditional business to fully transition to blockchain clearing: Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: $ CNTN) officially announced that it has sold its biotechnology R&D department Gravitas Life Sciences, LLC to Gravitas Collective Corp. The transaction was completed on July 17, 2026. The company clearly stated that this divestiture is an important milestone in its transformation into an operating company, and in the future, it will support the Canton Network through Canton Coin and promote the on-chain digital transformation of traditional financial markets as a strategic investor.Empery Digital invests $20 million in cross-industry computing power electricity park: The US-listed company Empery Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: $ EMPD), which adopts a Bitcoin fund management strategy, announced that it has completed a $20 million preferred stock investment (holding approximately 8%) in Cardinal Data Power, Inc. (CDP) on July 20, 2026. CDP focuses on building electricity-driven data center parks, and this round of financing will support its construction of the first gigawatt-level data center park covering over 3,000 acres in West Texas (Phase I is planned to be operational in 2027, with a long-term plan exceeding 5GW) to meet the next generation of AI and computing power energy demands.

According to PRNewswire, Nasdaq-listed company Canton Strategic Holdings announced that it has completed the sale of its biotechnology research and development department, Gravitas Life Sciences, to Gravitas Collective Corp. The transaction was unanimously approved by the company's board of directors and was officially completed on July 17, 2026.This sale marks the company's further transformation into an operational enterprise focused on driving the digitization of traditional financial markets around the Canton Network, promoting asset tokenization and the digitization process of financial markets, as well as financial infrastructure business.

Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas posted on the X platform that DTCC's digital conversion is taking place on HyperLedger Besu, which is DTCC's private network, as well as on the Canton public blockchain. This is part of DTCC's multi-chain strategy aimed at ensuring resilience, scalability, and selectivity.Additionally, DTCC currently holds over $114 trillion in securities, and its subsidiaries processed approximately $47 trillion in securities transactions last year.

According to Bloomberg, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) supported by Cantor Fitzgerald and Adam Back's Bitcoin reserve company BSTR announced that they have abandoned the original terms of the proposed merger and will renegotiate a revised agreement.In the context of a tightening cryptocurrency market and challenges faced by Bitcoin reserve companies, both parties decided to adjust the transaction arrangements. Cantor Equity Partners I Inc. and BSTR Holdings stated that they will no longer proceed with the transaction under the merger agreement signed last year, but will seek to establish revised transaction terms that better reflect the current market conditions. However, the two companies did not disclose the specific financial terms of the new transaction, nor did they indicate when a new agreement could be reached.

According to CoinDesk, Wall Street investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald has released a report stating that the cryptocurrency market is entering the final stage of the current bear market cycle. Analysts pointed out that as of June 10, Bitcoin has been 252 days since its peak in 2025, with a decline of about 51%. In the previous three market cycles, Bitcoin typically reached its bottom 384 days after peaking; if history repeats itself, this round of decline may bottom out around the end of October. The report cautions that this model is not an accurate timing tool, and macroeconomic, regulatory, and geopolitical risks still exist, but the reflexive nature of the cryptocurrency market suggests that historical cycles may self-reinforce.Cantor suggests that investors shift their focus from speculative activities to networks with the ability to accumulate lasting value, identifying Hyperliquid as a typical case of fee-driven token economics. Bitcoin remains the benchmark currency asset, Ethereum is the dominant collateral layer for on-chain finance, and Solana, Sui, XRP, and Zcash each have differentiated advantages but still need to prove sustainable value. Cantor has also included digital asset treasury companies Forward Industries and Cypherpunk Technologies in its research coverage, giving them a buy rating, with target prices of $7.9 and $0.9, respectively.

According to monitoring by Bitcoin Treasuries.NET, the shareholder vote for the merger between Adam Back's Bitcoin Standard Treasury (BSTR) and Cantor Equity Partners I has been postponed again to July 10. If the merger is completed, BSTR may purchase over 25,500 bitcoins.

According to Bloomberg, the merger vote between Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate Cantor Equity Partners I Inc. and Adam Back's digital asset treasury company BSTR Holdings Inc. has been postponed from June 26 to July 2. The statement indicated that the delay is related to the private placement matters previously disclosed by Cantor Equity Partners.The transaction has attracted significant attention due to the decline in cryptocurrency prices, which has led to a substantial shrinkage in the public market valuation of the digital asset treasury company, raising concerns about shareholder dilution. Cantor Equity Partners is a special purpose acquisition company that announced its merger with BSTR last July.

According to The Block, Canton developer Digital Asset has completed a $355 million financing round, led by a16z crypto, with participation from subsidiaries of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Apollo Global Management, BNP Paribas, Bodhi, Castle Securities, CME Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Greenwulf Asset Management, Hanwha Investment & Securities, HSBC, Liberty City Ventures, Optiver, Polychain, S&P Global, SBI Group, SoFi, Tradeweb, and William Blair.The company stated that after this financing round, Digital Asset has entered a profitable state. Its CEO Yuval Rooz pointed out that the financing expansion of the balance sheet not only enhances the company's financial flexibility but also allows it to more freely pursue mergers and acquisitions, engage in emerging projects, and assist partners in building on-chain financial business systems.

On June 5, Grayscale submitted an S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), planning to launch the Grayscale Canton ETF.According to disclosures, the Grayscale Canton ETF is a spot ETF, with specific product details yet to be announced.

Insiders revealed that the cryptocurrency trading and brokerage firm FalconX has secretly submitted an S-1 registration draft to the U.S. SEC and has hired investment firms such as Cantor Fitzgerald to provide advisory services for its IPO. However, due to market volatility, FalconX expects to advance its listing no earlier than later this year. Founded in 2018, FalconX primarily provides digital asset trading, liquidity, clearing, and credit services to hedge funds, asset management firms, and market makers. The company completed a $150 million Series D funding round in 2022, with a valuation of $8 billion at that time.Reports indicate that as market sentiment cools, trading volumes decline, and the performance of some cryptocurrency IPOs post-listing has been weak, several cryptocurrency companies, including Kraken's parent company Payward, Consensys, Ledger, and Grayscale, have postponed their listing plans. Meanwhile, Blockchain.com also secretly submitted its IPO application to the U.S. last week.

The cryptocurrency trading platform SuperEx announced that it will soon launch Canton (CANTON) in the innovation zone and open the CANTON/USDT spot trading pair. Trading will officially start on April 24, 2026, at 11:00 Beijing time (03:00 UTC), and the deposit and withdrawal channels will soon be opened.The official stated that with the launch of spot trading, CANTON will also be included in the margin support range for all-currency contracts, allowing users to use it directly as margin assets for contract trading.It is reported that the Canton Network is a public, permissionless blockchain network designed specifically for institutional finance, aiming to integrate privacy, compliance, and scalability. The network is managed by the Canton Foundation and supported by several leading global financial institutions, enabling instant, secure synchronization and settlement of various asset classes on its shared infrastructure powered by its native token, Canton Coin.

According to BBX data, yesterday Cantor Fitzgerald raised the target prices for multiple cryptocurrency concept stocks on the same day, but stock prices remained generally under pressure. The core dynamics are as follows:Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Ramsey El-Assal released a research report on April 21, maintaining an "Overweight" rating for Strategy, Inc. (NASDAQ: $MSTR), Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: $HOOD), and Block, Inc. (NYSE: $XYZ), and raised the target prices to $212 (from $192), $110 (from $95), and $88 (from $78), respectively. El-Assal stated that the market is viewing the Q1 earnings report as "rearview mirror data" and is shifting attention to forward-looking growth drivers such as market predictions and tokenization. Despite the collective increase in target prices, the three stocks closed down approximately 2.78%, 4%, and 2% yesterday, reflecting the dual impact of macro sentiment suppression and geopolitical uncertainty.Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: $CRCL) closed yesterday (April 21) at about $97, with a decline of approximately 4.6% on the day, corresponding to a market capitalization of about $24 billion; the stock's 52-week low was $49.90 (on February 5), and it has rebounded approximately 95% from that low; Q1 2026 earnings report is expected to be released on May 11, with consensus revenue expectations for Q2 at about $718 million.

Cantor Fitzgerald donated $10 million to the political action committee Fellowship PAC, which is chaired by Tether's U.S. executive Jesse Spiro.Fellowship PAC was established in 2025 and has received over $100 million in committed funding, aimed at supporting candidates who promote friendly regulation of digital assets. The organization has previously invested over $1 million in advertising support for multiple elections. Cantor has a close relationship with Tether, having provided custodial services for its stablecoin reserves since 2021, and this donation further strengthens their collaboration on policy matters. In addition to Cantor, institutions like Anchorage Digital have also participated in donations. Industry insiders believe that as the regulatory battle intensifies, the crypto industry is continuously increasing its political investments in Washington to seek a clearer and more enforceable regulatory framework.