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The pledge puts the SEC at the center of the US policy timetable, a key signal for institutions assessing digital-asset products and exposure.
Germany's largest lender entering digital asset storage puts BTC, ETH and stablecoins inside a major TradFi custody stack, pending regulatory approval later this year.
Ten billion ARC tokens were minted as a technical milestone, but the real story is the validator bench: BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Mastercard, and Visa anchoring a Layer 1 where gas is paid in USDC and…
Several historical markers of the transition from crypto winter to crypto spring are already present, with the 17-month pre-halving window and Bitcoin difficulty among those flashing now.
Germany's largest bank joins Standard Chartered and BBVA in regulated digital asset custody, with bitcoin, ether, USDC and EURC supported at debut as institutional demand accelerates.
Three weeks of ETF inflows that helped fuel the August rally have reversed; the dip is being met with selling, not buying, and that is the bearish read for BTC's near-term floor.
Founding validators span the TradFi core: BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard, Standard Chartered and Visa are securing the USDC-gas Layer 1 from day one, alongside a 10 billion ARC genesis mint Circle says…
The move puts Musk's private-space giant at fresh highs on secondary markets, a signal of how institutional appetite for pre-IPO equity keeps tightening.
The carrier is settling transactions and holding dollar reserves in the USDi stablecoin, a test of whether telecoms can turn their customer rails into financial services in volatile-currency markets.
The real signal is the lease rate, not spot: with London's lendable silver pool near record lows and a sixth straight supply deficit projected, Theo is moving bullion-bank lending economics onchain…
By moving through executive rulemaking rather than statute, the CFTC can draw the crypto perimeter in months, but the next administration can redraw it just as fast.
The project would extend Apple's custom-silicon strategy into data-center infrastructure, opening a new front in competition for enterprise compute.
For years the market has waited on Washington to settle the digital asset perimeter. The CFTC signals it will draw those lines itself under existing authority, faster than any bill could land.
The draft exemptions kick in from October 2027 and cover transfers, exchange and repos, but lending-style transfers and swaps into assets like Bitcoin stay regulated.
With the CLARITY bill stalled, Bernstein argues regulators will fill the vacuum themselves, and that faster agency action could be a net positive for institutional crypto adoption.
Fund/SERV processes over 85% of US mutual fund transactions, so the integration plugs Ondo's tokenized funds directly into the plumbing TradFi already uses for daily settlement.
If approved, Payward would become the first CFTC-registered US exchange to deploy perp markets on Hyperliquid, pulling an $85 trillion offshore product into regulated US territory.
The Strategy chairman's read: regulatory momentum is now coming from the banking side, not Congress, and custody plus credit against Bitcoin holdings is the next institutional front.
Payward opening Hyperliquid perpetual futures to American traders marks one of the first times a major US-licensed exchange has given onshore clients direct access to the fastest-growing perp DEX's…
The bankruptcy estate's fraud and manipulation claims target the exchange's liquidation engine from the March 2020 crash, landing 11 days before BitMEX shuts down trading on Sept. 23.
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