OCC clears Sony Bank to issue dollar-backed stablecoin in US
Conditional approval for Sony Bank's Connectia Trust subsidiary puts a first-tier consumer brand on the regulated US dollar stablecoin issuance rail.
Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
Conditional approval for Sony Bank's Connectia Trust subsidiary puts a first-tier consumer brand on the regulated US dollar stablecoin issuance rail.
The pitch is geopolitical, not financial: framing US crypto leadership as a sovereignty race against China and other rivals hands the White House a cover story for sustained pro-industry policy.
The split is the story: BTC ETF flows just snapped a three-day $509M run while ether funds booked a fifth straight positive session, with ETH outperforming on the tape.
The carry-trade unwind risk that haunted global markets last August is back on the table: faster BOJ tightening could lift the yen and force a reset across stocks, bonds, and crypto funded by cheap…
The $20,000 pilot with Tether and Avalanche is small in dollar terms, but it is one of the first live corporate uses of stablecoin rails inside a major Korean financial brand, with Visa and Circle…
The nBASIS vault routes Binance Wallet users into Bitwise's USCC carry fund and Invesco's USTB, pairing two of the largest tokenized Treasury products under one institutional wrapper.
The divergence is the story: BTC vehicles shed capital on July 8 while ETH ETFs extended a five-day inflow streak to $70.48M, a split posture that says more about positioning than about crypto…
The presidential framing shifts the post-strike narrative from escalation to negotiation, and risk markets are reading it as permission to breathe.
With oil up and gold sliding for a fourth day, bitcoin is increasingly trading like a rates asset rather than a risk one, and holding $60K through the next escalation would confirm the rotation.
The exchange blamed a failed strategic transaction and MiCA pressure for the July 1 shutter, but the more dangerous signal is the empty hot wallets ZachXBT flagged weeks earlier.
The Robinhood Chain launch on Arbitrum's stack routes 8% of fees to a tokenholder-controlled treasury and 2% to Offchain Labs development, formalising the revenue share that ties every Orbit L2 to…
If the memo holds, US prosecutors lose their most informative eye inside the world's largest crypto exchange, and an already-cordial regulatory relationship gets colder at exactly the wrong moment…
The country's largest private bank plans to become a regulated digital-asset custodian once Russia's new crypto law takes effect, with Sberbank and T-Bank signaling they will follow.
The bill's path hinges on Democrats' ethics amendments tied to the Trump family's crypto ventures, with the Senate facing roughly 20 working days before recess.
The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act survived a year of standalone scrutiny; whether Section 604 survives the broader market-structure bill decides if US non-custodial builders get a legal floor…
The addition shrinks the fund's effective concentration in BTC and ETH and marks one of the first times a hyperliquid-native token lands in a US-listed index product.
The integration lets Binance Wallet users tap two institutional-grade tokenized funds with combined AUM above $1B, and signals Plume’s distribution-first push into the world’s largest exchange user…
Bitcoin has traded under both the True Market Mean and the short-term holder cost basis for five months, with long-term holder losses hitting a December 2022 high and ETF outflows still negative.
Institutions walked away from $BTC and $ETH funds but kept adding to XRP and HYPE wrappers, a split that says more about how the next allocation wave is being built than last week's headline outflow…
The minutes are the most hawkish read on Fed thinking in months, and they land as markets were pricing a near-certain June cut.