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China launches new amphibious assault ship in a race to rival US military China has launched its first next-generation amphibious assault ship, adding a powerful cutting-edge warship to the country’s fast-expanding navy as it races to rival the military power of the United States. The Type 076 amphibious assault ship entered the water on Friday at a launch ceremony at a shipyard in Shanghai, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) said in a statement. Named Sichuan after a southwestern Chinese province, the independently developed ship is hailed as a “key asset” for advancing the Navy’s transformation and enhancing its long-range operational capabilities, according to the statement.

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Beyond Crypto - Traditional Markets Meet Digital Infrastructure The more consequential development in crypto market structure is not the scale of any single exchange, but the convergence of traditional and digital asset markets on shared infrastructure. For most of the past decade, crypto centralized exchanges and the traditional financial system operated as separate worlds, linked only at the fiat on-ramp. That separation is now dissolving from both directions: traditional assets are moving onto crypto-native rails, and crypto platforms are absorbing the product range of banks, brokerages, and payment networks. The shift is visible along two distinct fronts. The first is the trading layer, where centralized exchanges are extending continuous, 24/7 trading to asset classes that have been bound by market hours - commodities, equities, and ETFs through perpetuals, direct spot-equity brokerage and synthetic wrappers.

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Many people invest in cryptocurrencies as a speculative asset, hoping for price appreciation. Cryptocurrency markets operate 24/7, unlike traditional stock markets.

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The Rise of Real-World Assets Trading on CEXs Real-World Assets are becoming an increasingly contested frontier across the centralized and decentralized venue landscape, and the competitive question is increasingly which platform can build the deepest liquidity in tokenized traditional assets fastest. The major venues have approached the RWA opportunity from different angles. Hyperliquid moved early through its HIP-3 builder framework, which allowed third parties to deploy commodity and equity perpetuals. Coinbase has pursued tokenized assets through its regulated US footprint and its Base network. Others including OKX, Bybit and Bitget have all added access to traditional financial products to their users in different mechanisms. Binance too has extended 24/7 trading to traditionally market-hour-bound assets through tokenized real-world asset perpetuals and its newly launched spot-equity brokerage. Together, these initiatives reposition these crypto exchanges into a broader financial marketplace

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