Twelve years after launching as a cryptocurrency exchange, Mercado Bitcoin aims to be something entirely different. Less focused on price charts and trading pairs, the São Paulo-based company now talks more about Brazil’s central bank’s PIX payments, digital fixed income, and streamlined remittances. Mercado Bitcoin’s head of corporate development, Daniel Cunha, told CoinDesk in an interview on the sidelines of the exchange’s DAC 2025 conference that the firm wants to become the app where Brazilians ma ...

Ondo Finance hires ex-SEC official Peter Curley to lead global regulatory strategy. | Credit: Getty Images. Key Takeaways Ondo Finance hires Peter Curley, a former SEC, U.S. Treasury, and Coinbase executive, to lead global regulatory affairs. RWA tokenization has surged to over $28 billion but still lacks uniform regulatory clarity. Governments worldwide are accelerating efforts to release explicit frameworks for tokenized assets. Ondo Finance, one of the leading players in the real-world asset (R ...