Crypto Activity Consolidates Into Trading and Stablecoin Payments
Romero framed the industry as a barbell — speculation and stablecoin rails carrying real flows, with most other verticals still searching for fit.
Crypto business news — institutional moves, funding rounds, payments, partnerships, and country-level adoption.
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…
The 4.36M ETH staked through MAVAN turns BitMine into a public-market proxy for Ethereum's proof-of-stake economy — a recurring-revenue test, not a balance-sheet trade.
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…
Centrifuge becomes the default issuance layer for tokenized ETFs, credit, and structured products across Coinbase and Base — the most concrete infrastructure play yet in the $27B RWA race.
Brad Garlinghouse pushed back on the narrative that AI is a cost-cutting tool, telling an audience that Ripple is…
The departure lands as Crypto.com's six-year brand-build arc — capped by the $700M arena naming-rights deal and a $100M Matt Damon campaign — closes its first chapter.
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.
The pivot lands as a referendum on the treasury-trade thesis itself: bitcoin miners are bleeding BTC to fund AI pivots, and a Nasdaq-listed firm just pulled $485M out of the trade to chase the same…