Google Play has blocked 29 offshore crypto exchange apps in Korea, but the FIU formally referred only 14 - the app store is now the market-access gate.
Circle named 11 founding Arc validators including DTCC, ICE, Visa and BlackRock. A permissioned set of incumbents is not a decentralised network at all.
OFAC sanctioned Shelbit and Aban Tether on August 7, blocking 14 wallets across five chains and closing the gap that June's Iran exchange sweep left open.
SC Ventures led Yellow Card's $40m round. Its CEO says the endgame is banks settling onchain with no payments companies in the flow — including his own.
Tether's Hadron enters Saudi real-estate tokenisation with First Data and BKN301 — but REGA's sandbox closed in April and nine platforms are already live.
BNY adds staking to its digital asset custody platform with Galaxy running validators. The open question is who absorbs slashing loss on a bank balance sheet.
Robinhood's agentic trading hit nearly 100,000 accounts and $100m in assets in one quarter. Crypto support is next - and it changes the order-flow race.
Partior and OpenAssets prove atomic DvP with tokenised bank deposits as the settlement asset — an inversion of the stablecoin narrative, on rails JP Morgan already uses.