Kraken Parent Payward Files for OCC Charter to Become a Federally Regulated Crypto Bank!
Kraken's parent company Payward has filed an application for a national bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller…
Institutional crypto activity — corporate treasuries, custody mandates, pension and endowment moves, and bank involvement.
Kraken's parent company Payward has filed an application for a national bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller…
The OCC bid stacks on top of Kraken's Wyoming SPDI and Fed master account, signalling a deliberate multi-charter push to court institutional capital ahead of a likely IPO.
Banks are hiring into Bitcoin desks and a landmark market-structure bill could land on Trump's desk this summer — a setup the channel maps against the summer 2020 cycle that launched the last bull…
A large Ethereum holder identified as Garrett Jin moved 78,077 ETH — worth approximately $178 million — into Binance…
The world's largest wealth manager, sitting on $5.7T in assets, just added XRP to its disclosed book — the signal is less the size than who's holding it.
The thesis isn't the quarter — it's the build-out. Retail and institutional derivatives, prediction markets, and a USDC / Base stack are starting to contribute real revenue, and Bernstein is willing…
Six positions, $16.7M deployed across trending perps — the breadth across AI-adjacent L1s, privacy, and an L2 bet is what stands out, not any single leg.
Anthropic's deal to take the full 220,000-GPU, 300 MW Colossus 1 cluster puts SpaceX directly in the path of Bitcoin miners pitching themselves as AI infrastructure plays — and resets the bar on…
A large wallet linked to crypto veteran Erik Voorhees has added 2,920 ETH for $6.67 million at an average price of…
A crypto whale identified by the address 0xAFa5 deployed $7.15 million in USDC to acquire 1,515.5 XAUT tokens at $4,720…
On-chain data shows wallet 0xee25 opened a 3x leveraged long position on 1.97 million TON — worth approximately $5.39…
Coinbase recorded nearly $400 million in net losses in the first quarter as revenue fell 31% year-over-year to $1.41…
Coinbase made a significant balance sheet move in Q1 2026, purchasing $88 million worth of Bitcoin — a direct signal…
The headline loss is large, but the structural read is the strategic pivot away from spot trading toward derivatives, prediction markets, and stablecoin rails — revenue lines that are less correlated…
The non-cash remeasurement loss on Block's 28,355 BTC treasury is a footnote next to a 27% gross-profit beat, a 25% margin record, and a guidance raise that puts 2026 EPS growth at 62%.
The world's largest custodian — $59.4T under custody and 90% of the Fortune 100 on its books — putting a regulated crypto rail into ADGM is the legitimising signal Gulf capital has been waiting for.
Trading revenue and subscription income both undershot — but record 8.6% market share, 169% YoY derivatives volume growth, and a $200M retail-derivatives run rate show the diversification thesis is…
Three straight months of bitcoin ETF inflows against gold ETF outflows since the Iran conflict marks a regime shift in how investors price fiat debasement — and CME futures positioning says the bid…
The bank oversees $59T in client assets and was the first major US G-SIB to launch digital-asset custody — its UAE entry with Finstreet and ADI Foundation is the legitimizing vote the Gulf's…
Three of Wall Street's most powerful institutions — BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley — are simultaneously…