Crypto business news — institutional moves, funding rounds, payments, partnerships, and country-level adoption.
The $47.1B AUM milestone lands just over a year after launch and cements IBIT as the dominant venue for institutional spot BTC exposure in the US.
A $1.9T legacy asset manager crossing into actively managed crypto ETFs widens the institutional funnel beyond spot BTC and ETH products.
Multicoin takes its first position in the Hyperliquid ecosystem via a sole-investor check into Trasia, a perps DEX co-founded by ex-partner Mable Jiang targeting Asian traders.
Yuliya Barabash of SBSB Fintech argues the EU's flagship crypto regime is credibility-positive but filters out early-stage firms before they prove their model, and the balance may be off.
The price is small, but the deal ships BlockFills' institutional client book, derivatives team, and CIMA + FCA licenses into Keyrock just as institutional crypto demand picks back up.
Four years after FTX, the bill would force U.S. crypto exchanges, brokers, dealers and custodians to register under federal rules covering custody, segregation and disclosure.
The world's largest payments network is building its own stablecoin rail for banks and merchants, and it is picking an open-standard rival to USDC as the anchor asset on day one.
Coinbase is restructuring Base around trading, payments and tokenized assets after losing ground to Robinhood's new layer-2, whose first $3.1B week was 80% memecoin trading.
Japan's largest online brokerage is plugging into the largest tokenized-RWA network, and the choice of JPYSC for settlement means the yen stablecoin becomes the default rail before any shares change…
The position size is unusual for a token this thin, but the leverage is modest and the liquidation price sits so low that the trade reads more like a high-conviction directional bet than a…
The two-exchange pull pattern, repeated over weeks, points to OTC-desk accumulation rather than a single trader rebalancing.
The launch comes via Bybit's majority stake in PT Enkripsi Teknologi Handal (formerly NOBI), giving the Dubai-based exchange a regulated onshore foothold in Southeast Asia's largest crypto market.
The pivot from base-layer infrastructure to payments is a survival move, not a growth one. Polygon is trading developer mindshare for a narrower bet on stablecoin rails.
Keyrock picked up BlockFills' institutional trading tech, client book, and regulatory licenses for a fraction of peak valuations, consolidating market-making depth post-crash.
The brokerage already clears or custodies about 94% of tokenized U.S. stocks, making the raise a bid to own the settlement layer before Coinbase and Kraken close in.
The pairing brings together one of DeFi's largest RWA issuers and one of Japan's deepest financial conglomerates, with the JPYSC stablecoin as the settlement rail.
CNN's review of post-purchase Truth Social activity raises the canonical insider-trading question the Constitution leaves unresolved: how much of the presidency's market-moving voice is the same…
The comment lands as BTC trades sideways and US CPI data remains the next macro catalyst the market is positioning around.
The payments network is going direct: a stablecoin rail built into the Visa stack, not a one-off bank partnership, brings digital-dollar settlement to the existing merchant base.
Bitwise's 59-point gap between listed crypto companies and the assets themselves points to an industry whose earnings no longer need a bull market to grow.
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