Trump Floats US Equity Stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic
The Intel precedent turned equity into industrial policy. Putting the government inside frontier AI labs would make the US the most hands-on AI backer of any major economy.
Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
The Intel precedent turned equity into industrial policy. Putting the government inside frontier AI labs would make the US the most hands-on AI backer of any major economy.
Evernorth packages XRP exposure into a publicly traded balance-sheet product, letting institutions underwrite the asset through normal equity channels instead of self-custody or OTC desks.
A short squeeze of this speed and scale signals forced buying across leveraged positions, a dynamic that historically amplifies upside momentum well beyond the initial catalyst.
Two straight months above $2.5B shows the institutional bid is structural, with October already extending the streak and ether ETFs adding $832M of their own.
Roughrider Coin is the entry point. Fiserv's Commercial Center puts stablecoin rails in front of 90+ US banks and credit unions, the kind of distribution a standalone crypto issuer never reaches.
Fiserv is one of the largest US bank-tech vendors, processing payments for thousands of institutions. 90+ banks and credit unions opting in is the actual signal here, not the chain choice.
The $388M draw on Bitget's self-managed backstop is one of the larger disclosed exchange losses, and the real test is whether the 131% reserve snapshot holds through the Oct 2 withdrawal restart.
A handful of mega-breaches now define the industry's annual security tally, and a state-sponsored adversary sits behind 37% of the bill, raising the stakes for every exchange and protocol custody…
Buterin's co-authorship of zkAPI and the dAI team's earlier ERC-8004 standard position it as Ethereum's bid for the privacy and settlement layer of an AI economy where agents transact anonymously.
Coming from the agency's top official, the language marks a stark departure from the prior enforcement-first posture and validates institutional capital that built around years of regulatory…
The Swift announcement pairs with Atkins' on-chain trading sandbox to convert the tokenization thesis from offshore synthetic exposure into a regulated US venue, with the actual plumbing now spanning…
The proposal opens a compliant pathway for asset managers and hedge funds to hold crypto directly, bypassing ETF wrappers, and arrives as regulators race to fill the gap left by the stalled Clarity…
Completing Atkins' full crypto agenda, the rule closes a custody grey zone that kept investment advisers on the sidelines, and opens new self-custody and state-trust pathways for institutional desks.
A formal custody framework would remove one of the last structural barriers keeping registered investment advisers and regulated funds on the sidelines of crypto allocation.
The proposal would let registered advisers hold client crypto directly under defined conditions, a structural shift that widens the institutional on-ramp beyond the narrow qualified-custodian set.
The proposal would extend banks' and credit unions' role in digital assets, but the rules remain under consideration.
Expensive sovereign borrowing strengthens Bitcoin’s monetary case, but higher bond returns and competing payment rails complicate the path to adoption.
His two-year thesis rests on US policy opening more room for digital assets, while Solana and Chainlink advance network infrastructure.
An analyst argues that business-cycle expansion, rather than a fixed four-year calendar, is the stronger guide to crypto's next move.
A February filing determines whether an existing provider can keep taking new UK business while the FCA decides its application in October.