Bitcoin lending hits $67B as SVB declares new institutional era
SVB says BTC credit has emerged from the 2022 collapse with overcollateralization, transparency and bank capital behind it, with $67B in crypto-backed loans and a path to lower rates.
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SVB says BTC credit has emerged from the 2022 collapse with overcollateralization, transparency and bank capital behind it, with $67B in crypto-backed loans and a path to lower rates.
The endorsement from the largest US bank by assets narrows the political path for a digital-asset framework, while CEO Jamie Dimon's vow to fight yield provisions down to the wire keeps the fight…
Binance's founder frames the withdrawn Greek MiCA application as regulator-ready and blocked by unnamed political forces, while speculating, without evidence, that ECB chief Lagarde may have been…
The world's largest custodian now lets institutions convert dollars into USDC and back from inside BNY wallets, a structural on-ramp for the same pension and treasury desks that already park cash at…
A 12% monthly dividend and a path back to par are Saylor's answer to a brutal week that exposed the cost of pausing BTC buys.
The transfer is small in market terms, but the signal is large: a sovereign nation converting seized stablecoins into a managed reserve is the kind of precedent other capitals will be asked to…
The FCA registration turns Aave into the rare DeFi protocol with a compliant on-ramp from UK bank accounts, but Push will live or die on whether the rails retain users after the deposit.
The exchange's EU passport bid died days before it could be tested, leaving Binance serving the bloc through a patchwork of national registrations rather than the unified MiCA license it had targeted.
Eight currencies and 24/7 settlement put tokenized bank deposits in the operating stack of multinationals from Payoneer to JERA, and pull Asia-Pacific deeper into JPMorgan's on-chain settlement…
A Monday sit-down with sheriffs and other law enforcement groups is the clearest signal yet that the administration wants the crypto market structure bill across the Senate floor before the August…
The wind-down is gradual and the custody floor is preserved, but the signal is structural: any venue that wants European retail flow from here has to carry a MiCAR-authorized entity, not a…
The spend figure lands as Binance pushes to reposition itself as the compliance-first centralized exchange, with the fraud-interception tally doubling as both a deterrent pitch and a regulatory…
Strategy stayed on the sidelines last week while two ETH-focused treasuries added 66,280 ETH between them, a signal that the institutional bid is rotating, not retreating, with stablecoin supply…
Up to 80% of Europe's 3,000 pre-MiCA VASPs may not survive the cutover, and the EBA is pairing the licensing cliff with a 12.5% turnover fine regime aimed squarely at major stablecoin issuers.
Seventeen deals in six months matches Tether's entire 2025 tally, with $750M concentrated in three bets: Replit, Whop, and Gold.com.
The proposal splits credit decisions (off-chain, with human underwriters) from loan mechanics (on-chain, fixed at the base layer), betting that predictable, governance-free rules are what…
Tom Lee's Bitmine now holds 94% of its 5%-of-Ethereum-supply target after another 27K-ETH weekly buy, and its Russell 1000 inclusion could pull passive flows from a far larger investor base.
The world's largest custody bank now lets institutions hold, mint and redeem Circle's USDC through a single regulated platform, formalising the bridge between Wall Street balance sheets and…
Headlines called it a liquidation. The mechanism is the opposite: a 26-month runway for digital credit, dividends, and buybacks, with no forced BTC sales and Bitcoin still the primary treasury asset.
The chairman-led ETH treasury vehicle kept adding during a quiet tape, the kind of patient accumulation that does more for sector sentiment than the headline number suggests.