Institutional
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 political criticisms of Trump are…
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 to scale agentic commerce. Read…
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 a pair of tokenized money…
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 Kinexys by J.P. Morgan. The…
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 year that Canada’s government has…
Institutional

Swiss central bank bitcoin reserve push fails over signature shortfall

The initiative sought to amend Switzerland’s constitution, requiring the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to hold BTC alongside gold and foreign-currency reserves. Read Full Story at…
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 Bitcoin in its reserves. Read…
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 sparked by Ondo’s seat at…
Infrastructure

ECB's Lagarde: Euro Stablecoins Aren't the Answer, Build Public Infrastructure Instead

The President of the European Central Bank spoke against EUR-pegged stablecoins at the inaugural Banco de España LatAm Economic Forum today. Read Full Story at…
Institutional

Kraken parent goes for the OCC charter in bid to become a federal crypto bank

Payward’s application would add a federally regulated trust company to the Kraken group’s existing Wyoming bank charter and Fed master account. Read Full Story at…