BNY Launches USDC Custody for Institutional Clients
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…
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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.
The headline is 'monetization,' but the structural read is a leverage decision: MSTR now treats part of its BTC stack as a funding source, with no fixed sales cap.
The integration hands Aladdin banks, insurers and pensions direct access to Ethena's synthetic dollar, while BUIDL becomes the reserve asset for a new white-label product, deepening BlackRock's…
Kyiv just executed its first-ever seizure-to-state handoff of crypto, and the route the funds took into ARMA mirrors how Washington funds its own strategic reserve: criminal cases, not market buys.
Spot ETFs erased the scarcity premium that once made a leveraged Bitcoin wrapper worth holding, and shareholders are now rejecting dilution that used to get a free pass.
DraftKings' DKeX launch is the latest sign of trading and betting platforms taking exchange infrastructure in-house, and Bernstein now calls industry consolidation tangible rather than hypothetical.
The framework lets MicroStrategy actually sell Bitcoin to fund dividends and repurchases, a structural break from the old 'never sell' reflex and a sign the preferred-share flywheel is now the…
The accumulation isn't slowing: a single-week 27K add brings Bitmine within striking distance of its 5% "alchemy" target just 11 months in, with $211M in projected staking revenue.
The Aladdin endorsement slots Ethena into the operating layer US asset managers already use to move trillions, not just onto their watchlist.
Bernstein says every major prediction platform now owns both consumer distribution and exchange infrastructure, and the two venues still missing that pairing sit squarely in the crosshairs.
The largest Ether treasury now holds 5.7M ETH, almost 5% of supply, even as quarterly losses stack up for both BTC and ETH.
Wall Street's biggest dealer is telling clients the perps market is a retail and momentum-trader venue, not an institutional hedging primitive, and that concentration in offshore books makes depth…
The pause marks a tactical pivot: with $1.15B raised but no fresh coins added, Strategy is signaling capital flexibility over accumulation, even as its 847,363 BTC stack sits untouched.
The program converts a portion of Strategy's $BTC stack into working capital, putting the issuer that turned a balance sheet into a benchmark back in the supply market for the first time.
Two-thirds of winner-market volume sits on teams with a 1% or lower chance of winning, a legacy of trades that never unwound rather than fresh conviction.
The new Digital Credit Capital Framework is the first time Strategy has formally authorized BTC monetization, with proceeds earmarked for the USD reserve, dividends and buybacks while preserving…
Former Zodia Custody CEO John Cronin takes the helm as IRACE adds Cayman-regulated banking and a roster of ex-Zodia execs, joining SoFi, BitGo and others building one-stop fiat-and-digital-asset…
Deribit is the largest crypto derivatives venue by options volume, and a six-figure USDC prize pool with a referral track signals it is using a SignalPlus-built funnel to widen the active-trader base…