Russia Taps State-Owned Bank to Run Legal Crypto On-Ramp
The chokepoint isn't the ban, it's the single state-owned bank that now decides which flows stay in the regulated perimeter and which get pushed offshore to evade rising costs.
Institutional crypto activity — corporate treasuries, custody mandates, pension and endowment moves, and bank involvement.
The chokepoint isn't the ban, it's the single state-owned bank that now decides which flows stay in the regulated perimeter and which get pushed offshore to evade rising costs.
The drop is mechanical, not fundamental, Arca's Jeff Dorman argues. The bigger read is that 2025's crypto IPO class is now uniformly underwater, and SECZ is the latest casualty.
If granted, Kraken would be the only crypto-native exchange with a European banking charter, a structural edge that lets it offer current accounts and lending across the EEA.
The 20-year anchor lease at the Justified Data Campus reframes TeraWulf from a leveraged Bitcoin miner into a long-duration AI hosting landlord, with the Abernathy stake sale clearing the runway.
A single Japanese strategic backer writing the whole round is unusual for an institutional venue that counts Schwab, Citadel and Fidelity on the cap table, and it lands as SBI doubles down on…
Vanguard has been publicly skeptical of crypto since 2022; a dedicated crypto lead signals the world's second-largest asset manager is ready to engage the sector directly.
A $900 share price would value SpaceX above current private-market marks, with Citi's bull case leaning on Starlink scaling and the launch cadence.
The first major crypto-specific rulemaking under Chairman Atkins would exempt developers from registration during fundraising, cap exempt raise sizes, and create a safe harbor for issuers stepping…
Alexandre Laizet's worst-case framing matters because it divorces the drawdown from a V-shaped recovery, the assumption baked into most long-horizon Bitcoin theses.
A nine-figure ETH transfer to a US venue is the kind of flow that reads as positioning rather than arbitrage, and CoinShares' ETP book gives the deposit a plausible desk read.
The investment turns Tether into a strategic backer of Brazil's largest regulated on-chain financial services platform, with 4.5M users and over R$2B in tokenized assets already issued.
The world's second-largest asset manager has spent years on the sidelines of crypto. Hiring a digital-assets lead for its wealth book is the first signal it is done watching.
Every major underwriter opened SpaceX with a buy-equivalent rating, but the spread from Goldman's $205 to Raymond James's $800 is the real story for investors pricing the post-IPO range.
A $10T asset manager that called Bitcoin inconsistent with its philosophy is now hiring a senior executive to build a multi-year roadmap across tokenization, stablecoins, and custody.
The lead investor is one of Japan's most active crypto builders, and EDX is pairing the fresh capital with a U.S. national trust bank charter bid and a push into crypto-as-a-service.
SBI VC Trade's registered accounts have crossed 2 million, doubling since 2025, as a weak yen pushes corporate Japan to spread reserves beyond cash and into crypto.
The price target is unchanged because the deal was already modeled in, but the 20-year tenor and $27B contracted backlog reset the floor on what crypto-miner-to-AI pivots can underwrite.
The raise lands as EDX pushes its OCC application to spin up a national trust bank, betting Wall Street wants one regulated venue for trading, clearing, and custody rather than another fragmented…
The dismissal closes the highest-profile attempt by the prior SEC to drag MetaMask and Ethereum wallet software into securities enforcement, and hands ConsenSys its first clean win over the agency.
The license lets Coinbase layer regulated derivatives and equities onto its UK book, a step beyond the crypto-only footprint that has defined its European business until now.