Bitcoin Magazine Jack Dorsey’s Block Becomes Latest Bitcoin-Focused Company To Apply for Banking Charter Block wants the banking license so it can open Builders Bank,…

The restructuring will separate MetaMask’s consumer business from Consensys’ Ethereum protocols and institutional blockchain infrastructure operations. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →

Blockchain sleuths at Elliptic traced the money, Treasury sanctioned the marketplace, and Xinbi—which ran $24 billion through a Telegram scam bazaar—called the freeze unfair. Read…

Builders Bank would operate under direct federal supervision without taking deposits or making loans, but the application still requires OCC approval. Read Full Story at…

The pilot moved USBDC between the bank’s North American and European entities on the public Stellar blockchain. Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →

Bitcoin trended lower with US stocks on Iran escalation while US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent contributed to fears of a yen carry-trade unwind. Read Full…

Lido captured just 5.7% of H1 staking growth, while a negative NEST budget shows why deposits alone cannot fund purchases. The post Ethereum’s institutional staking…

Chinese-language platform Xinbi is accused of operating on crypto transactions as it offered services to other criminal networks. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →

The USDT issuer will help source lending opportunities and provide stablecoin payment infrastructure for Fasanara’s private credit network. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →

Bitcoin Magazine VerifiedX Launches $15 Million Financing Round to Deploy Institutional Bitcoin Infrastructure Cantor Fitzgerald is the investment banker on the round. The funding facilitates…