Crypto business news — institutional moves, funding rounds, payments, partnerships, and country-level adoption.
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 paper loss reflects the GAAP accounting on a 22% larger BTC stack, not a sale — but it lands as Strategy's equity trades far below its bitcoin holdings' market value.
DFlow routes 5-10% of Solana trading volume and processed $12B in Q1 2026 — the deal makes MoonPay a liquidity-layer incumbent on one of crypto's busiest chains.
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.
The seed is small and the open-ended LLM-trading architecture is still untested, but the tranche-based rollout gives Prophet a clean baseline to scale from as user volume lands.
The IPO disclosure is the headline, but the MoneyGram tie-up — folding 500,000 retail cash locations into Kraken's rails — is the structural move that could pull stablecoins into the underbanked…
Self-directed investors are routing around the wealth giant's 16,000-advisor network to buy MSBT, suggesting the retail bid for spot bitcoin exposure now runs wider than any single gatekeeper.
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.
The $12.54B loss is a paper mark on 818,334 BTC, and Saylor kept buying through it — the Q1 print is largely priced in, the earnings call is the real catalyst.
The headline number is the headcount, but the framing matters: Coinbase is rewriting its own operating model around AI leverage, not just trimming for the cycle.
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…
DATs have absorbed a larger float-adjusted share of HYPE than comparable vehicles hold in BTC, ETH, SOL, or BNB — and HYPE is the only one trading at a positive mNAV, which keeps the buy-side…
Issued by Anchorage Digital Bank on Solana, the token replaces SWIFT-based interbank settlement with Western Union's agents — the first major remittance operator to wire a public chain into its core…
A 91% origination-cost gap and a pivot to a marketplace model with 80–85% EBITDA targets — but the onchain footprint is contested, with DeFiLlama pegging real tokenized assets near $140M, not the…
The Binance SAFU Fund wallet accumulated 15,000 BTC — roughly $1.22 billion — in February at an average price of…
HYPE is the only DAT-tracked asset trading at a positive mNAV, meaning treasury vehicles can raise capital and keep absorbing supply without the dilution drag plaguing peers.
The collaboration pairs a top crypto market-maker with a regulated tokenization stack — a credible path for Wall Street to settle real equity exposure onchain without re-engineering compliance.
Brad Garlinghouse revealed that Ripple processed roughly $13 trillion in payments over the past year, a figure that…
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