Crypto business news — institutional moves, funding rounds, payments, partnerships, and country-level adoption.
The $300B+ Nasdaq-100 ETF becomes the largest TradFi fund to issue a tokenized share class, deepening Wall Street's conviction that onchain rails belong in mainstream portfolio plumbing.
Wall Street's largest wealth manager bringing digital-asset rails in-house reframes the institutional custody race, and tightens the gap between TradFi balance sheets and on-chain credit markets.
Jesse Pollak admits the social-and-content-coins bet was a detour. The 2026 priorities (perpetuals, tokenized stocks, stablecoin rails, AI-agent payments) put Base back in the L2 infrastructure race.
The leadership swap is a quiet admission that Base's socialfi experiments never found product-market fit, with the L2 now doubling down on trading, stablecoin payments, and AI agents.
Direct executive-branch engagement with the bill's drafters signals the administration is treating crypto market-structure legislation as a near-term priority, not a talking point.
The private-market selloff is testing the post-IPO bid just weeks after the listing, with the price now below the level insiders were paying on the secondary.
A sit-down between the White House and a bipartisan Senate group turns the long-stalled market-structure bill into an active 2026 legislative priority for crypto.
DTCC processes real equity, ETF and Treasury trades as blockchain tokens on its production rails, with JPMorgan, Goldman, BlackRock and Vanguard among two dozen participants, ahead of an October…
The lease matches CleanSpark's current market capitalization, so the buildout hinges on debt, equity, or a counterparty retreat.
The partnership targets primary issuance rather than wrapped exposure, putting tokenization inside the IPO process itself as DTCC, JPMorgan, Goldman and BlackRock push the same direction.
Tokenization is "pure organic growth," and the roadmap points to tokenized Treasuries, iShares ETFs, and private markets sitting inside investor wallets alongside crypto and stablecoins.
Lightspeed Faction led a round that drew Franklin Templeton and Coinbase Ventures, backing Glacis's push beyond stablecoins into tokenized securities and FX on a single clearing layer.
Maclear's Vibroedil default settled at full principal recovery via Italian pledge law, the first real-world stress test of whether an on-chain credit claim is still enforceable off-chain.
Seamus Rocca argues that custody consolidation has left BTC exposed to a perception shock as much as an actual one, with a handful of institutions now sitting on a share of supply large enough to…
Dedicated, strategy-specific vaults for BTC, ETH and stablecoins target the structural gap that stopped pensions and funds from parking idle crypto on institutional desks.
The Claude developer is starting the formal courtship of public-market investors, a step that frames 2026 as the year AI labs graduate from private rounds to the open auction.
The milestone cements BlackRock's place as the world's largest asset manager by a widening margin, with crypto exposure through IBIT now a structural line in the mix.
The ETH-treasury model turned $45.7M of staking revenue into an $83.6M quarterly loss, with 149% share dilution and an $8.2B unrealized gap weighing on existing BMNR holders.
Bitwise flags the widest gap this cycle between the 36% drawdown in crypto assets and the 23% return in crypto equities, with tokenized RWAs already at a record $33B in Q2.
The framing ties energy access to diplomacy: more U.S. corporate involvement in Iraqi oil fields means more long-term American leverage in Baghdad and more supply on the global market.
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