Coinbase began offering US perpetual-style futures on its CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, starting with nano Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts that track spot prices, carry embedded leverage, and trade around the clock. This is a financial product that's responsible for most of the crypto leverage in the world, and it's now crossed into the US market. Aside […]
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Two Wall Street trading desks can hold economically similar exposure to Bitcoin and still pay materially different amounts to keep that exposure open. That's not because one desk made a better market call, but because the regulated products carrying the positions are inside collateral systems that don't always recognize them as parts of the same […]
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Stablecoin supply has roughly doubled since January 2024, while entity-adjusted transaction volume has grown fourfold to fivefold, according to Coinbase Institutional, opening a wide gap between the amount of dollar liquidity held onchain and the volume of activity that liquidity supports. Market capitalization records the stock of stablecoins in circulation, which captures available liquidity, reserve […]
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Washington just gave one of the world's largest digital currencies a more official place in the US financial system. On July 10, Circle won final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open a national trust bank under federal supervision. Circle called it a major step for USDC, as the approval […]
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T. Rowe Price manages roughly $1.89 trillion, with about 66% of that money tied to retirement accounts, advisers, and institutional relationships that the crypto industry has spent years trying to reach. Its first crypto product, a spot ETP called TKNZ that began trading on NYSE Arca on July 16, walked straight into the diversified multi-token […]
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The chain reports 16% July sales growth, but without BTC payment share its merchant model cannot be measured.
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Both resolutions need 75% of votes cast, and failure of either keeps the sale and delisting off the table.
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Preliminary OCC approval outlines a bank that could consolidate key crypto functions, while outside venues and infrastructure remain essential.
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Bolivia's government is evaluating whether to include USDT in its regulated payment system alongside the boliviano and the US dollar, according to local media. Cryptoassets are authorized in the country with no legal-tender status attached. The country's finance minister described the current state as a prohibition lifted without a clear regulatory framework, with the technical […]
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Strategy's new Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index gives 25 major banks and financial institutions an overall 32% score based on activity across custody, trading, investment products, lending, and leadership support. The figure is a depth score, measuring how far banks have built out Bitcoin-related services across the institutions Strategy tracked. Bitwise's Q3 2026 Crypto Market Review […]
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Crypto exchanges are increasingly becoming distribution platforms for Wall Street exposure as trading in tokenized stocks and real-world asset derivatives accelerates across crypto markets. Tokenized assets became the most-listed category across major centralized exchanges in the first half of 2026, accounting for nearly one in every five new listings, CryptoRank data shows. The category represented […]
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Tether is already the world's largest stablecoin issuer, with approximately $141 billion in direct and indirect exposure to US Treasuries. It reported $15 billion in revenue in 2025 and $1.04 billion in net profit for the first quarter of 2026, mostly from that yield alone, making it one of the more unusual companies in global […]
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Tokenized sovereign debt spent years sounding like a conference phrase in search of a market. But now, the category has enough working components to deserve serious attention: tokenized government money funds, onchain ownership records, programmable transfer rails, and a growing effort to turn government paper into collateral that digital markets can actually use. While this […]
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Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure showed how closely digital-asset policy, personal financial interests, branded tokens, and presidential power now sit together. His highly scrutinized recent filing points to a governance problem that extends well beyond any one politician, because crypto can convert access, symbolism, and regulatory attitudes into value faster than older business interests ever […]
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Stablecoins won over users by making money easier to move, long before the financial world agreed on what they meant. That helps explain the scale of USDT and USDC: they never had to replace the global reserve system to become powerful. They simply made dollars easier to move online, and crypto markets made the network effect impossible to […]
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Circle National Trust starts with custody for Circle and affiliates, while outside institutional custody and USDC reserve management remain future possibilities.
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The July 8 council hearing will show whether BTC collateral can move from credit design into a government approval process.
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The EU’s post-transition crypto regime is deciding who controls the compliant rails for stablecoins, wallets and retail access.
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Stablecoin supply on the XRP Ledger has climbed to nearly $890 million, up 20.56% over the past 30 days. Ripple's RLUSD explains almost all of that size, and a second dollar token is reshaping who issues XRPL's dollars: Valtorum's USDV, now at $39.3 million. RLUSD accounts for $844.58 million of that total (94.9%), USDV holds […]
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The next leg of crypto adoption may already be taking shape in estate planning offices instead of on trading floors or in congressional hearing rooms. Analysts have spent a decade modeling adoption through ETF approvals, halving cycles, interest rates, and regulatory milestones. But one of the most powerful forces reshaping demand for digital assets is […]
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With Wall Street and ETF rails shut, BTC keeps trading, proving that always-on access can also mean thinner liquidity.
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Crypto was founded on a simple premise: people should be able to send, hold, and manage money without going through a bank. Fifteen years later, some of the industry's most significant developments involve banks doing that, on blockchains, for their own institutional clients. JPMorgan now settles payments in its own deposit token on a public […]
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The Ethereum Foundation published a guide aimed at government and institutional use of Ethereum infrastructure.
Allaire says the stablecoin fight will hinge on liquidity, integrations and regulated usage once OUSD goes live.
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The rules do not hand issuance to banks, but reserves, custody, audits and no-yield limits put financial infrastructure first.
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Large channels still look big by audience size, but recent view velocity shows a thinner and more selective market.
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The EU deadline is not a direct UK cutoff, but account entity and platform notices still matter.
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The Brazil integration tests whether stablecoins work best when users spend through a rail they already trust.
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BAGEY turns tokenization into a legal-record test, but transfer, collateral, and custody mechanics still have to prove the model.
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The framework targets T+0 payment-versus-payment settlement while keeping banks on familiar Swift and ISO 20022 workflows.
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