Colombia Proposes Caribbean Bitcoin Mining Hubs in Petro Plan
Petro's proposal hands Colombia a seat at the table Paraguay carved out with Itaipu hydro — and lands as US miners reallocate gigawatts toward AI compute.
Country and city adoption — BTC as legal tender, sovereign Bitcoin reserves, and big-corp first-time crypto moves.
Petro's proposal hands Colombia a seat at the table Paraguay carved out with Itaipu hydro — and lands as US miners reallocate gigawatts toward AI compute.
Morgan Stanley has launched cryptocurrency trading on its E*Trade platform, opening direct crypto access to the client…
The 50-basis-point pilot undercuts Coinbase, Robinhood, and Schwab at 60–95 bps, and lands alongside a national trust bank charter bid for direct custody — a structural bid to own the retail crypto…
Clear Street sees a sharp earnings-quality upgrade as Bullish inherits Equiniti's book of 3,000 public companies — but Compass Point argues the rerating is already in the price.
Ondo, Robinhood's Bitstamp and Babylon Labs told Consensus Miami 2026 that the institutional crypto conversation has flipped from exploration to execution — though adoption still splits along…
With Western Union and Meta now on the network, the Solana Foundation president framed stablecoin payments as the on-ramp to agentic commerce — and pitched 'internet capital markets' as the longer…
Petro cited Venezuela and Paraguay as models and named three Caribbean-coast cities — Santa Marta, Riohacha, Barranquilla — but the proposal still depends on talks with the indigenous Wayúu community…
The headline-grabbing number is the unrealized loss on 818,334 BTC, but the broader tape tells a different story — five straight weeks of digital asset inflows, Morgan Stanley rolling out spot…
The president frames the pitch around clean-energy resources and indigenous co-ownership, not a policy shift — but it puts a second South American head of state on record welcoming BTC mining.
Speakers from Circle, U.S. Bank and ChangeNOW told Consensus Miami 2026 that complexity, jargon and broken trust — not the underlying rails — keep mainstream users on the sidelines.
The bottleneck for crypto and AI retail uptake isn't the tech — it's whether users can see what the system is doing, then control it.
Romero framed the industry as a barbell — speculation and stablecoin rails carrying real flows, with most other verticals still searching for fit.
The fragmentation problem is the same one blockchain was supposed to solve — and large corporate clients running thousands of bank accounts are the ones who feel it first.
Citi, JPMorgan and DTCC all reported production-scale tokenization milestones at Consensus 2026 — a quiet signal that blockchain is being stitched into incumbent plumbing rather than replacing it.
Morgan Stanley is preparing to roll out spot crypto trading directly on its wealth management platform before year-end…
Brad Garlinghouse revealed that Ripple processed roughly $13 trillion in payments over the past year, a figure that…
The American Innovation Project is placing a bitcoin-mining and DeFi-policy veteran inside Ritchie Torres' office — part of a coordinated industry push to seed Hill staff with digital-asset expertise…
Day one pairs macro, regulation, and TradFi-onchain themes in a single tent: DOJ enforcement, a tax-reform bill, and a CFTC chair publicly outlining his agency's crypto remit.
State Street's $5T asset-management arm teams with Galaxy to bring institutional cash sweeps onchain — SWEEP starts on Solana before expanding to Ethereum and Stellar, signalling Wall Street's…
Integration brings UTXO-native risk scoring, entity attribution and transaction monitoring to $ADA, giving multi-chain compliance teams a single pane of glass across chains.