“With crypto prices and crypto-related stocks in the midst of a major selloff today, Securitize SPAC merger partner Cantor Equity Partners II is higher by 4.4% on the news.”, — write: www.coindesk.com
In the Wednesday filingthe company reported $55.6 million in revenue for the first nine months of 2025, an 841% increase from the same period in 2024. Full-year 2024 revenue came in at $18.8 million, more than double that of the year before.
While most crypto-linked stocks were seeing steep 5%-10% drawdowns as bitcoin and tech stocks sold off Thursday, CEPT was 4.4% higher late in the session.
Securitize provides infrastructure to turn traditional assets — like US Treasuries, funds or equity — into tokens on blockchain rails that can be issued, traded or managed more efficiently. The merger deal with CEPT still needs shareholder and regulatory approval. If cleared, Securitize would begin trading on Nasdaq as a public company under the SECZ ticker.
The deal comes as tokenization is gaining traction across traditional finance. Global banks and asset managers like JPMorgan and BlackRock increasingly include tokenized assets in their offerings, and a report by Boston Consulting Group and Ripple estimated the market could grow to $18.9 trillion by 2033.
Pudgy Penguins is building a multi-vertical consumer IP platform — combining phygital products, games, NFTs and PENGU to monetize culture at scale.
The ecosystem now spans phygital products (> $13M retail sales and >1M units sold), games and experiences (Pudgy Party surpassed 500k downloads in two weeks), and a widely distributed token (airdropped to 6M+ wallets). While the market is currently pricing Pudgy at a premium relative to traditional IP peers, sustained success depends on execution across retail expansion, gaming adoption and deeper token utility.
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The rollout of Aero, targeted for the second quarter of 2026, will take direct aim at incumbents like Uniswap and Curve, the team told CoinDesk.
- While much of the industry’s attention over the past year has gravitated toward stablecoins, tokenized treasuries and institutional onramps, the team behind Velodrome and Aerodrome says the real power struggle in crypto is unfolding elsewhere: in decentralized exchanges (DEXs).
- The team is getting ready to unveil Aero, a unified DEX that will merge its existing Aerodrome and Velodrome protocols under a single operating system, hoping to take direct aim at incumbents like Uniswap and Curve.
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