Frank Chaparro

Personal news: I’m joining @GSR_io as Head of Content and Special Projects. I’ve covered crypto since 2017, always drawn to market structure and how institutions shape this space. What started with bitcoin futures has evolved into a truly institutional market with real liquidity, access, and regulatory clarity. Now I get to help tell that story from the inside.

Bullish long-term call from S&P Global: Today, blockchain vaults are dominated by crypto-backed lending, staking, and leverage. But S&P expects real-world assets to ultimately become the dominant use case as tokenized finance expands into traditional markets.

Tokenized sticks you say?

Adoption of tokenized sticks has completely decoupled from Bitcoin. BTC is down from nearly $120k to $64k. Tokenized stocks, meanwhile, have reached a record $2.26B in onchain market cap.

@Genia_XBT We love the sticks

@fintechfrank Love me some tokenized sticks

@j0hnwang @CryptoDeFiGuy 😂😂😂

@fintechfrank @CryptoDeFiGuy when did we start tokenizing sticks??

@blknoiz06 From your lips to gods ears

@fintechfrank bottom

Crypto spot trading volumes remain stuck in the doldrums. The 7-day moving average has fallen to $21.4B, down nearly 80% from the $104.3B peak in October 2025. Ambivalence is the most dangerous thing in crypto rn.

New York getting credit for the World Cup Final being in New Jersey:

“Of the $1.85B tokenized stocks on the market, @AlpacaHQ is responsible for providing the clearings, connectivity and custody services for $1.5B or 81% of the entire market.”

"There is some fatigue in onchain markets." "But there will always be a market there." FOMO's co-founder Paul (@paulerlanger) shares his thoughts on the current and future state of "the trenches" and what he's doing about it.

@perkinscr97 More work ahead of us

@fintechfrank Exciting but tiny…equities have a $127 trillion market cap.

The Wall Street Journal just profiled Strategy investors who kept buying through the selloff. One investor: “Buy when there’s blood in the streets. Even when it’s your own.” lol

Hyperliquid’s monthly perpetual volume reached $266B last month, lifting its volume ratio versus Binance to a record 16.52%. Month after month, the trend is moving in one direction: higher. Source: The Block

@finnstr Lmao I’m here when you need me

@fintechfrank Remind me to hire you when I need a job but how can a company pay 400k for a sr director and be an ongoing entity.

NEW: Visa is hiring a Senior Director, Stablecoin Labs in New York with a salary of up to $400,900 (plus bonus and equity). The role will own Visa’s Web3/stablecoin product roadmap, explore new commercial use cases, and help shape the company’s next generation of stablecoin-enabled payment products. Another sign stablecoins are becoming a core priority for global payments.

made me chuckle lol

The share of U.S. households paying for AI has climbed from virtually zero in early 2023 to 2.2% by April 2026 Still early.

@LowBeta Indeed!

@fintechfrank Big job

Big tokenization push from Bank of America. BofA has appointed Sonali Theisen to lead its global digital assets platform, overseeing the design, development, scaling, and governance of the bank’s blockchain infrastructure. Her remit includes tokenized deposits, stablecoins, digital collateral mobility, crypto settlement, and custody. The bank also named Kevin Milsom to lead AI transformation across its global markets business.

@DeadCaitBounce Lmao

When you post a tweet that only gets a few likes