The SEC withdrew its qualified custodian overhaul in 2025. Institutional crypto custody now rests on 13 New York trust charters and a staff no-action letter.
Coinbase's ADGM permission covers arranging deals and custody, but not operating a trading venue. What the Abu Dhabi tokenisation hub can and cannot do.
Cecabank's crypto custody runs on Bit2Me's engine, and Cecabank owns equity in its own vendor. Why Europe's banks now rent the digital-asset stack, not build it.
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.
BitMart will end trading on August 26 and cease operations by January 31, 2027 — reporting $1.6bn daily volume as it dies, with BMX down 58% and its CEO cut out of the decision.
33.33% of ETH supply is now staked and the exit queue is empty - but 12% of the staked base sits with one leveraged treasury. The risk inside the record.
Revolut closed new USDT deposits July 30 ahead of its August 31 delisting. Why Tether's MiCA exit is a shelf change, not a retreat, and what moves next.
Vanguard is hiring its first head of digital assets. The role sits in Personal Wealth, not asset management - which tells you it is building rails, not a bitcoin ETF.
Bitcoin's reverse kimchi premium hit -1.79% as the KOSPI fell 23% in July. Korean crypto volume is down 88% - but Upbit spiked 1,400% on a 4% equity dip.