Institutional
Institutional

Kraken Parent Payward Files for OCC National Trust Bank Charter

Payward’s OCC application would give the Kraken parent a federal custody franchise as it races toward an IPO and stacks…
May 11, 2026
DeFi

Senate Banking Committee Sets May 14 CLARITY Act Markup as Bank Lobby Mounts Last-Ditch Push

The Senate Banking Committee will mark up the CLARITY Act Thursday after the largest U.S. banking trade groups formally rejected…
May 11, 2026
Infrastructure

Morgan Stanley’s MSBT ends first trading month with 0 outflows amid Bitcoin ETFs 6-week inflow streak

The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust completed its first month of trading without a single day of net outflows, providing an…
May 10, 2026
Institutional

Has Donald Trump been a net positive for Bitcoin or created an unbreakable partisan divide?

Has Donald Trump been net positive for Bitcoin? It is an uncomfortable question for many Bitcoin supporters, including me. My…
May 10, 2026
Infrastructure

Agentic commerce will run on crypto rails, PayPal and Google reps tell Consensus Miami

Senior figures from PayPal and Google Cloud said open payment protocols, machine-readable merchant catalogs and multi-party crypto custody are needed…
May 10, 2026
DeFi

BlackRock looks to sidestep Clarity yield issues, filing for two new tokenized money market funds

BlackRock is accelerating its push to bring Wall Street yields to the blockchain, filing paperwork with US regulators to introduce…
May 10, 2026
Infrastructure

JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ripple complete cross-border XRP tokenized Treasury settlement

Ondo Finance said Ripple has redeemed OUSG on XRP Ledger and received a USD payout in Singapore through Mastercard and…
May 10, 2026
Institutional

Bank of Canada to bring stablecoin rules in 2027 with US Clarity Act on the brink of stalling

Bank of Canada stablecoin regulations could arrive in mid or late 2027, pushing the detailed rulebook later into the same…
May 9, 2026
Institutional

Swiss Bitcoin reserve campaign set to lapse after failing to gather signatures

Organizers failed to collect enough signatures to trigger a referendum that would have required the Swiss National Bank to hold…
May 8, 2026
Institutional

ONDO Surges 68% in a Week amid US Tokenization Push

A four-firm pilot settling the first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenized U.S. Treasuries on the XRP Ledger extended a rally…
May 8, 2026